Florida International University

Department of International Relations

Fall 2005

INR 3081-51

Contemporary International Problems:

Non-traditional Security Issues

Instructor: Professor Shlomi Dinar

Phone: 305-919-4839

E-mail: dinars@fiu.edu

Office: Academic 1, 323A

Class Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12:30-1:45pm

Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2:00-3:00pm

Course Overview and Objectives

Since the end of the Cold War non-traditional security issues have become an important area of concern in academic and policy arenas. Often juxtaposed with traditional security issues such as deterrence, war and nuclear proliferation, non-traditional security issues can also directly or indirectly affect the security of a specific country or region; though they are not necessarily associated with militarized notions.

This course will address several non-traditional security issues including, migration, poverty, state collapse, intrastate conflict, humanitarian intervention, disease, terrorism, population, and environment.

The course will begin with a review of the contemporary debate between the traditional and non-traditional schools of security studies. It will follow with a discussion on how each of the aforementioned topics is related to security studies and use case studies to illustrate the point.

Course Requirements

Midterm Exam 45 %

Final Exam 50 %

Class Participation 5 %

Midterm and Final Exam

Both exams are in-class exams and are short answer essay. You will have the entire class period to complete the exams.

I DO NOT MAKE ANY EXCEPTIONS FOR STUDENTS WHO HAVE NEGLECTED TO TAKE AN EXAM ON THE SCHEDULED DAY. IF YOU ANTICIPATE A PROBLEM YOU SHOULD SEE ME AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

You are expected to perform in line with the university’s standards of student conduct, especially on the issue of academic honesty. “The use of literature, notes, aids, or assistance from other sources should be clearly identified with respect to all course assignments and examinations.” Any evidence of academic dishonesty or plagiarism will be reported to university administration, and the student will get an F.

Class Participation

In this course the emphasis will be on the readings and discussion of theoretical concepts and practical cases. Class discussion will be more interesting and stimulating if you come to class prepared. Students are always encouraged to participate and ask questions.

Office Hours

Please note that I will be available during my office hours for any questions or concerns students wish to discuss. If you cannot make it to office hours, please make an appointment via e-mail.

Reading Assignments

There is a course reader for you to purchase at Panther Print and Mail. It is the only required text for this course and contains all the readings in the syllabus.

This syllabus is provisional, and therefore, a change in its content is solely under the discretion of the instructor. In case of a change, students will be notified in advance.

CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL PROBLEMS: NON-TRADITIOANL SECURITY ISSUES
Tues, Aug 30	Introduction
Thurs, Sep 1	What is Non-Traditional Security All About?
	Robert Kaplan, “The Coming Anarchy,” The Atlantic Monthly, V 273, N 2, (February 1994).
	Julian Simon, The Ultimate Resource, (Oxford: Martin Robertson, 1981): pgs. 3-11, 345-348.
Tues, Sep 6	The Debate Ensues
	Richard Ullman "Redefining Security" International Security, V 8, N1, (Summer 1983), pgs. 129-153.
	Steven Walt, “The Renaissance of Security Studies,” International Studies Quarterly, V 35, (1991), pgs. 212-213.
Thurs, Sep 8	The Debate Continued
	Paris Roland, “Human Security: Paradigm Shift or Hot Air?” International Security, V 26, N 2, (Fall 2002), pgs. 87-102.
Tues, Sep 13	Environment and Security
	Thomas Homer-Dixon, "On the Threshold: Environmental Changes as Causes of Acute Conflict," International Security, V 16, N 2, (Autumn 1991), pgs. 76-116.
Thurs, Sep 15	Environment and Security Continued
	Daniel Deudney, “Environmental Security: A Critique,” in Daniel Deudney and Richard Matthew (Eds.) Contested Grounds: Security and Conflict in the New Environmental Politics, (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999), pgs. 187-223.
Tues, Sep 20	Environment and Security Continued
	Peter H. Gleick, “Water and Conflict: Fresh Water Resources and International Security,” International Security, V 18, N 1, (Summer 1993), pgs. 79-112.
Thurs, Sep 22	Migration and Refugees
	Myron Weiner, “Security, Stability, and International Migration,” International Security, V 17, N 3, (Winter 1992-1993), pgs. 91-126.
Tues, Sep 27	Migration and Refugees Continued
	Julian Simon, Population Matters: People, Resources, Environment and Immigration, (Transaction Publishers: New Brunswick, USA and London, UK, 1990), pgs. 263-267.
	George Fidas et. al. “National Intelligence Estimate: Growing Global Migration and its Implications for the United States,” National Intelligence Council, March 2001, pgs. 1-42
Thurs, Sep 29	Migration and Refugees Continued
	Myron Weiner, “Bad Neighbors, Bad Neighborhoods: An Inquiry into the Cause of Refugee Flows, International Security, V 21, N 1, (Summer 1996), pgs. 5-42.
	Barry Posen, “Military Responses to Refugee Disasters,” International Security, V 21, N 1, (Summer 1996), pgs. 72-111.
Tues, Oct 4	NO CLASS
Thurs, Oct 6	Population
	Peter Peterson, “Gray Dawn: The Global Aging Crisis,” Foreign Affairs, V 78, N 1, (January/February 1999), pgs. 42-55.
Tues, Oct 11	Population Continued
	Esther, Boserup, Population and Technological Change: A Study of Long-Term Trends, (Chicago, Chicago University Press, 1981), pgs. 3-28, 93-111.
	Julian Simon, Population Matters: People, Resources, Environment, and Immigration, (Transaction Publishers: New Brunswick, USA and London, UK, 1990), pgs. 39-54, 161-198.
Thurs, Oct 13	NO CLASS
Tues, Oct 18	Population Continued
	Brian Nickiporuk, “The Security Dynamics of Demographic Factors,” RAND Study, (Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2000), pgs. 1-47 (Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4);

	Alex De Serbinin, "World Population Growth and U.S. Security," Environmental Change and Security Project Report, N 1, (Spring 1995), pgs. 24-39;
Thurs, Oct 20	Midterm
Tues, Oct 25	Disease
	“Contagion and Conflict: Health as a Global Security Challenge,” A Report of the Chemical and Biological Arms Control Institute and CSIS International Security Program, (Washington, D.C.: CSIS, January 2000), pgs. 1-27.
	P.W. Singer “AIDS and International Security,” Survival, V 44, N 1, (Spring 2002), pgs. 145-158.
Thurs, Oct 27	Disease Continued
	Jordan Kassalow, “Why Health is Important to US Foreign Policy?” CFR Paper, Council on Foreign Relations, April 19, 2001, pgs. 1-14
	Chris Beyrer, “Accelerating and Disseminating Across Asia,” The Washington Quarterly, V 24, N 1, (Winter 2001), pgs. 197-209
	Peggy McEvoy, “Caribbean Crossroads,” The Washington Quarterly, V 24, N 1 (Winter 2001), pgs. 227-235
Tues, Nov 1	Disease Continued
	Carina Dennis, “The Bugs of War,” Nature, V 411, (May 2001), pgs. 232-235.
	Christopher Chyba “Biological Terrorism, Emerging Diseases, and National Security,” Project on World Security, (New York, NY: Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc., 1998), pgs. 1-28;
Thurs, Nov 3	Ethnic and Intrastate Conflict, Nationalism, State Collapse and Humanitarian Intervention
	Ted Robert Gurr, “Minorities, Nationalists, and Ethnopolitical Conflicts,” in Chester Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson and Pamela Aall, Managing Global Chaos: Sources of and Responses to International Conflict, (Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace, 1996), pgs. 53-78.
Tues, Nov 8	Ethnic and Intrastate Conflict, Nationalism, State Collapse and Humanitarian Intervention Continued
	Paul Collier, “Doing Well Out of War: An Economic Perspective,” and Indra de Soysa, “The Resource Course: Are Civil Wars Driven by Rapacity or Paucity?” in Mats Berdal and David Malone (Eds.) Greed and Grievance: Economic Agendas in Civil Wars, (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2000), pgs. 91-128.
Thurs, Nov 10	Ethnic and Intrastate Conflict, Nationalism, State Collapse and Humanitarian Intervention Continued
	Michael O’Hanlon and P.W. Singer, “The Humanitarian Transformation: Expanding Global Intervention Capacity,” Survival, V 46, N 1, (Spring 2004), pgs. 77-100.
	Carl Kaysen and George Rathjens, “The Case for a Volunteer UN Military Force,” Daedalus, V; 132, N 1, (2003), pgs. 91-103
Tues, Nov 15	Terrorism
	John Lewis Gaddis, “And Now This: Lessons from the Old Era to the New Era,” in Strobe Talbott and Nayan Chanda (Eds.), The Age of Terror: America and the World After September 11, (New York, NY: Basic Books, 2001) pgs. 1-22.
	Fouad Ajami, “The Sentry’s Solitude,” Foreign Affairs, November/December 2001.
Thurs, Nov 17	Terrorism Continued
	William Wechsler, “Strangling The Hydra: Targeting Al-Qaeda’s Finances,” in James Hoge Jr. and Gideon Rose (Eds.) How Did This Happen? Terrorism and the New War (New York: Public Affairs, 2001), pgs. 129-143.
Tues, Nov 22	Terrorism Continued
	Gregg Easterbrook, “The All-Too Friendly Skies: Security as an Afterthought,” in James Hoge Jr. and Gideon Rose (Eds.) How Did This Happen? Terrorism and the New War (New York: Public Affairs, 2001), pgs. 129-143.
	Stephen Flynn, “The Unguarded Homeland: A Study in Malign Neglect,” in James Hoge Jr. and Gideon Rose (Eds.) How Did This Happen? Terrorism and the New War (New York: Public Affairs, 2001), pgs. 183-197.

Thurs, Nov 24	NO CLASS
Tues, Nov 29	Poverty
	Jonathan Goodhand, “Violent Conflict, Poverty, and Chronic Poverty,” Chronic Poverty Research Centre, Working Paper 6, (CPRC: UK, May 2001), pgs. 1-49
Thurs, Dec 1	Poverty Continued
	Vincent Ferraro, “Globalizing Weakness: Is Global Poverty a Threat to the Interests of States?” Should Global Poverty be Considered a U.S. National Security Issue, Environmental Change and Security Project, Commentaries, August 8, 2003 Washington D.C.: Woordrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2003), pgs. 1-8
	Per Pinstrup-Andersen and Rajul Pandya-Lorch, “Poverty, Food Security, and the Environment,” International Food Policy Research Institute, 2020 Vision, Brief 29, (1995)
Tues, Dec 6	Poverty Continued
	Nana Poku, “Poverty, Debt and Africa's HIV/AIDS Crisis,” International Affairs, V 78, N 3, (July 2002), pgs. 531-546.
Thurs, Dec 8	Final