POL 328 International Security
3 hours
This course explores challenges to international security and their sources and consequences. Topics covered in the course include “traditional” security concerns, such as wars, peacekeeping, nuclear proliferation, and new security threats posed by migration, climate change, natural disasters and hazards, food and water shortages, and other issues. Students will gain insight into the complex interplay of factors that shape contemporary international security politics and will examine the role of national governments, international organizations, and non-state actors in the global security architecture.