https://at-ceu.studyguide.timeedit.net/modules/INTR5782?type=COREThe course examines the evolving practice structures and relations of international security and strategic competition in the turbulent global order within which great powers and lower-tier states formulate and pursue their strategies to survive; prosper; shape their habitat; gain, defend or lose status; and enter into relations of cooperation or contestation with other actors. The course is anchored by a concern with how primarily state governments, and those forces and actors that shape them and act through them, navigate diplomatic-strategic relations in a world of renewed power competition, normative contestation and increasing turbulence at a time when governing globalist elites face strong headwinds by right and left populist forces operating within states and across them. The empirical-analytical focus of the course is on how, and in what directions, international security structures, relations and policies are changing and on the risks, dangers and opportunities these changes open up. International security will be approached from the perspective of states' strategic posturing, bilateral strategic competition and regional security complexes, by which the course understands disjunctive, internally related orders of security entangled in political, economic and cultural relations and practices. The course will tease out the implications for the EU of changes in international politics, but it will not foreground a Eurocentric perspective that prioritises European interests, values and knowledges over those of other global actors and world regions. The main heuristic device, or epistemic wager, through which the course approaches its topic is the notion of critical juncture. The course explores to what extent the current turbulences across and between security complexes constitute a world order transformation that sets states (and other global actors) on new security pathways, where "self-reinforcing processes make reversals very difficult' (Paul Pierson).Aimsprovide students with empirical knowledge of, and sensitise them to, the variegated modes of production of global and regional in/security by great powers and secondary states and to explore their ripple effects on European security;equip them with the conceptual tools to examine the contexts, sources, processes and impacts of the production of in/security and how, when and by whom international security relations are made, reproduced, modified, challenged or disrupted;equip them with the cognitive skills to critically engage with security practice structures, policies and politics in an age of militarisation and strategic competition;equip them with the conceptual tools to examine the material, ideational and institutional continuities and discontinuities of security relations among great powers and secondary states in key security complexes;enable them to develop their own standpoints with regard to the pros and cons of different security practices and policies pursued by state in international security.