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European Security: Beyond Guns and Soldiers

European Security: Beyond Guns and Soldiers
Credits 1-3 (variable)

Spring 2019

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Instructors

Instructor

Prof. David J. Galbreath – University of Bath

Instructor of record

Prof. Zachary Selden – UF, Dept. of Political Science

Course Description

This course is designed to make students familiar with a range of security issues confronting Europe and the transatlantic alliance.  In addition to more traditional concerns, the course will focus on an expanded definition of security as it applies to Europe and the wider region.  This will include an examination of energy security, the role of information systems in security, as well as migration, health and food security.

Students may take this course for variable credit.  For 1 credit, students are expected to do the required reading and take a test at the end of the course.  For 2 credits, students take the same test and write a short 5 page literature review. For 3 credits, students will take the test and write a 15-20 page research paper.

All students are expected to do all of the required reading in advance and participate in class discussions.  This is a small seminar, not a lecture course.  As such, it will be driven by class discussion of the reading.  The course will meet ten times.  The first nine will be class discussion sessions as listed below.  The last session will be the workshop on Friday April 12 which will bring together academics and policy professionals from Europe and the United States.  Students should be at all ten meetings to receive credit for participation.  If you know that you will not be able to attend one session, please let the instructor know in advance.

Course Schedule

Day 1 – Monday, April 1 – Introduction: Traditional Concepts of Security
Topics: Realism, Liberalism, constructivism, gender theory
Readings:

  • Chapter 3 in Galbreath, David J., Jocelyn Mawdsley, and Laura Chappell, Forthcoming 2019. Contemporary European Security, Routledge: London.
  • Chapters 2, 3, in Biscop, Sven, and Richard G. Whitman, eds. 2013. The Routledge Handbook of European Security. London; New York: Routledge.
  • Jenichen, Anne, Jutta Joachim, and Andrea Schneiker. 2018. “‘Gendering’ European Security: Policy Changes, Reform Coalitions and Opposition in the OSCE.” European Security 27(1): 1–19.

Day 2 – Tuesday, April 2 – European Security in the Post-WWII Era
Topics: Origins of NATO, nuclear deterrence,
Readings:

  • James Blackwell, “In the Laps of the Gods: The Origins of NATO Forward Defense,” Parameters(1985).
  • Lawrence Kaplan, “The United States and the Origins of NATO 1946-1949,” The Review of Politics, 31:2 (April 1969) 210-222.
  • Yost, David S. 2011. “The US Debate on NATO Nuclear Deterrence.” International Affairs 87(6): 1401–38.
  • McNamara, Robert S. 1983. “The Military Role of Nuclear Weapons: Perceptions and Misperceptions: Foreign Affairs, Fall 1983.” Survival 25(6): 261–71.

Day 3 – Wednesday, April 3 – European Security after the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Topics: Evolution of NATO, the EU as an emerging security actor, relations with Russia
Readings:

  • Kroenig, Matthew. 2015. “Facing Reality: Getting NATO Ready for a New Cold War.” Survival 57(1): 49–70.
  • Stefanova, Boyka. 2005. “The European Union as a Security Actor: Security Provision through Enlargement.” World Affairs 168(2): 51–66.
  • Sperling, James, and Mark Webber. 2009. “NATO: From Kosovo to Kabul.” International Affairs 85: 491–511.
  • Kropatcheva, Elena. 2012. “Russia and the Role of the OSCE in European Security: A ‘Forum’ for Dialog or a ‘Battlefield’ of Interests?” European Security 21(3): 370–94.

Day 4 – Thursday, April 4 – New Concepts of Security
Topics: Human security, broader definitions of security
Readings:

  • David Campbell, Writing Security(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992). 1-15
  • Smith, Steve. 1999. “The Increasing Insecurity of Security Studies: Conceptualizing Security in the Last Twenty Years.” Contemporary Security Policy 20(3): 72–101.
  • Guerrina, Roberta, Laura Chappell, and Katharine A.M. Wright. 2018. “Transforming CSDP? Feminist Triangles and Gender Regimes: CSDP and Gender Regimes.” JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies 56(5): 1036–52.
  • Martin, Mary, and Mary Kaldor, eds. 2009. Eu and Human Security : European External Interventions and Missions. [S.l.]: Routledge.

Day 5 – Friday, April 5 – European Defense and the Revolution in Military Affairs
Topics: What is an RMA, the RMA in historical context, RMA in European context
Readings:

  • Andrew Krepinevitch, “From Calvary to Computer: The Pattern of Military Revolutions,” The National Interest, Fall 1994.
  • Cohen, Eliot, ‘Change and Transformation in Military Affairs’, Journal of Strategic Studies, 27:3 (2004), pp. 395-407.
  • Galbreath, David J. 2015. “RMA, European Militaries, and the Limits of Modernization.” In Reassessing the Revolution in Military Affairs: Transformation, Evolution, and Lessons Learned, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 156–74.
  • Galbreath, David J., and Simon J. Smith. 2016. “Military Capabilities and Force Transformation.” In The EU, Strategy and Security Policy: Regional and Strategic Challenges, London: Routledge, 186–201.

Day 6 – Monday, April 8 – European Issues in Energy Security
Topics: Energy as a security, EU-Russian relations
Readings:

  • Goldthau, Andreas, and Nick Sitter. 2015. “Soft Power with a Hard Edge: EU Policy Tools and Energy Security.” Review of International Political Economy 22(5): 941–65.
  • Neuman, Marek. 2010. “EU–Russian Energy Relations after the 2004/2007 EU – Enlargement: An EU – Perspective.” Journal of Contemporary European Studies 18(3): 341.
  • Kirchner, Emil, and Berk, Can. 2010. “European Energy Security Co-Operation: Between Amity and Enmity.” Journal of Common Market Studies 48: 859–80.
  • Proedrou, Filippos. 2007. “The EU-Russia Energy Approach under the Prism of Interdependence.” European Security 16: 329–55.

Day 7 – Tuesday, April 9 – Europe and Cyber-Security
Topics: Cyber security and governance
Readings:

  • Cavaiola, Lawrence J., David C. Gompert, and Martin Libicki. 2015. “Cyber House Rules: On War, Retaliation and Escalation.” Survival57(1): 81–104.
  • Junio, Timothy J. 2013. “How Probable Is Cyber War? Bringing IR Theory Back In to the Cyber Conflict Debate.” Journal of Strategic Studies 36(1): 125–33.
  • Galinec, Darko, Darko Možnik, and Boris Guberina. 2017. “Cybersecurity and Cyber Defence: National Level Strategic Approach.” Automatika 58(3): 273–86.
  • Renard, Thomas. 2018. “EU Cyber Partnerships: Assessing the EU Strategic Partnerships with Third Countries in the Cyber Domain.” European Politics and Society 19(3): 321–37
  • Mumford et. al. “The Need for International Perspectives to Solve Global Biosecurity
  • Challenges” Chapter 18 in Practical Tools for Plant and Food Biosecurity, 2017.

Day 8 – Wednesday, April 10 – The Health of the EU: Migration, Disease and Agricultural Security
Topics: Migration, Food Security,
Readings:

  • Huysmans, Jeff. 2000. “The European Union and the Securitization of Migration.” Journal of Common Market Studies 38: 751–77.
  • Galbreath, David, and Joanne McEvoy. 2012. “European Organizations and Minority Rights in Europe: On Transforming the Securitization Dynamic.” Security Dialogue 43(3): 267–84.
  • Schumacher, Tobias. 2015. “Uncertainty at the EU’s Borders: Narratives of EU External Relations in the Revised European Neighbourhood Policy towards the Southern Borderlands.” European Security 24(3): 381–401.
  • Perkowski, Nina. 2018. “Frontex and the Convergence of Humanitarianism, Human Rights and Security.” Security Dialogue: 096701061879667.
  • Bureau, Jean-Christophe and Johan Swinnen. 2018. “EU Policies and global food security.” Global Food Security 16: 106-115.
  • European Commission, 2017. A European One Health Action Plan against Antimicrobial Resistance.

Day 9 – Thursday, April 11 – Balancing Security and Democracy in the European Context
Topics: Security, democracy, rights,
Readings:

  • Huysmans, Jef. 2016. “Democratic Curiosity in Times of Surveillance.” European Journal of International Security1(1): 73–93.
  • Aradau, Claudia. 2004. “Security and the Democratic Scene: Desecuritization and Emancipation.” Journal of International Relations and Development 7: 388–413.
  • Aradau, Claudia, and Tobias Blanke. 2018. “Governing Others: Anomaly and the Algorithmic Subject of Security.” European Journal of International Security 3(1): 1–21.
  • Fabbrini, Federico. 2018. “Courts and the Politics of Secrecy: National Security, Human Rights and the Importance of Supranational Oversight.” West European Politics 41(4): 869–89.

Friday, April 12 Workshop in Dauer 215 from 8:15 am – 5:00pm