Section Info: POLIT-385-01

Course Title: Global Security
Start Date: 09/03/2025 End Date: 12/16/2025
Term: Fall Semester 2025
Description: This course explores different conceptions of security, its study and practice. Incorporating diverse approaches, particularly from the global south, we will consider sources of global insecurity, ethics of "securitization" and the prospects for equitable and sustainable solutions to issues of common concern. Topics include "hard" security issues, namely, geopolitical competition, interstate conflicts, civil wars, and weapons of mass destruction, as well as security issues defined more broadly, for example: climate change, migration and displacement, pandemics, and hybrid warfare. We conclude by looking at the role of international and regional institutions in global governance.
Distribution(s): III - Social Sciences , SI - Speaking-Intensive , WI - Writing-Intensive
Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate     Credits:4.00    

Faculty         Phone         Email address        
Kavita Khory             kkhory@mtholyoke.edu  

Meeting Dates         Method         Meeting days         Meeting times         Building name         Room     Frequency    
09/03/2025 - 12/16/2025   Seminar   Wednesday   01:30PM - 04:20PM   TBA   TBA   Weekly

REGISTRATION DETAILS

Requisite Courses        
Prereq: 8 credits in the department. Take previously   Required  

Comments        
Additional Comments        
Course Tags        
NXLAR0001   NXLAR: Nexus in Law, Public Policy, and Human Rights   This course is approved for the Law, Public Policy, and Human Rights Nexus track.  
IR0001   INTREL: International Relations major   This course has been approved to count towards the International Relations major.  
POLIT-INTL   POLIT-INTL: Politics - International subfield   This course has been approved to count towards the International Politics subfield of the Politics major (100-200-level courses only) and minor (all courses).  
IR0004   INTREL-PS: International Peace & Security   This course has been approved to count towards the International Relations major's International Peace and Security focus.  

Cross-listed Sections        
None  

Course Availability
Section status: Waitlisted     Capacity: 018     Enrollment: 17     Available: 0     Waitlist: 9
Please note: The "Available" count will equal 0 in a Waitlisted course where spaces in the course have recently opened and students have not yet been moved into them from the waitlist.

BOOK INFORMATION

Book List         Required         Publisher Full Price        
To be determined.                    

Additional Book Comments        
This is NOT the complete book list for this class.