https://at-ceu.studyguide.timeedit.net/modules/INTR5036?type=COREDepartment of International Relations'International Security and Contemporary Warfare' MA: Fall Semester, 2025(Tuesdays 10.50-12.30; Fridays 10.50-12.30)Paul RoeAnna Valentinyi In its more'traditional' (often Realist/neo-Realist) form, Security Studies has beenprimarily concerned with the threats and uses of force in the internationalsystem; what is usually referred to as 'Strategic Studies'. This course isfocused mainly on Strategic Studies; on the discipline's major assumptionsabout the military sector of international security, from both traditional andmore non-traditional ('Critical') perspectives. In doing so, the course willengage both IR (war as a generic phenomenon) and Foreign Policy (war as a policy-specificoutcome) perspectives in analyzing the nature of contemporary warfare. Set against the so-called 'Revolution inMilitary Affairs' (RMA); in particular, against the 'Contemporary RMA',changes in warfare, be they technological, organisational, or political, haveraised fundamental questions about the strategy and ethics of the use of forcein world politics, as well as challenge some of the core assumptions of theSecurity Studies discipline. In this course, the aim is to explore both theform of the Contemporary RMA as well as the attempts of Security Studiesscholars to justify the continuing relevance of existing conceptual approaches.It does so by focusing on a number of prominent shifts: the first, in theincreased technologicalisation of organized militaries; the second, in theappearance of new modes of warfare (cyber- and non-linear, to name but a few);and the third in the increasing plurality of actors (from organized non-statethrough to terrorism and other forms of political violence.