2024-2025 Undergraduate Bulletin

POL 328 Global Challenges and Threats

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.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

ENG 201, and POL 257 or POL 260 or permission of the instructor.