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Alyson Bailes

Þriðja árið í röð stendur Alyson Bailes, gestakennari við stjórnmálafræðideild Háskóla Íslands, fyrir opnu námskeiði sem ber heitið 'Non-State Actors and Non-Military Security'. Ekki þarf að skrá sig í námskeiðið eða greiða fyrir þátttöku. Ekki er um skyldumætingu að ræða, áhugasamir eru hvattir til að mæta á þá fyrirlestra sem þeir komast á yfir önnina.

Námskeiðið er hluti af meistaranámi Háskóla Íslands í alþjóðasamskiptum og samanstendur af 13 fyrirlestrum sem standa frá klukkan 13.20 til klukkan 15.40 á föstudögum í stofu 311 í Árnagarði. Tímarnir eru vikulega og hefjast þann 22. janúar. Í páskavikunni verður enginn tími.

Þessi síða heldur utan um námsefni fyrir námskeiðið. Þau sem ekki eru skráð í áfangann en sækja fyrirlestra geta sótt gögn hingað.

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General Information and Course Objective

Traditional security analysis was often limited to military transactions and power-play between nation-states and their agents (including armies). The late 20th-early 21st century has seen a broadening-out of the concept of ‘security’, and a new understanding of how actors of many different kinds can affect it for good or ill. Non-state insurgents in weak states, and terrorists, are now commonly classed as threats: but other non-state players such as NGOs, business, civil society and the media can play positive as well as negative roles. This course provides an introduction to the (fast evolving) ways that analysts and policy-makers now look at non-state actors, and the range of principles and practical solutions put forward for dealing with them. It starts from a developed-world viewpoint but also notes the importance of these challenges for the Southern hemisphere. The course moves on to explore the main non-military, or ‘functional’, dimensions of security that preoccupy Western policy-makers today - such as infrastructure, environment and energy security - and to discuss ways of handling them both severally and in their multiple interconnections. To close the circle, it offers tools for tackling the question of how non-state actors impact upon security in its non-military forms, and vice versa.

The planned course outcome is that course participants should acquire an up-to-date and comprehensive understanding of:
Definitions and main concepts relating to non-state actors in the security context

Main roles played by such actors for good or ill, and options/instruments for policy response

Current definitions and concepts in the field of non-military security: ‘package’ definitions and individual dimensions

Practical manifestations of policy challenges in the most prominent non-military dimensions including those that are important for Iceland

Aspects of interplay and cooperation between official and non-state actors in Iceland in at least some of these fields

The general range of possibilities for non-state actors playing a role in non-military security fields and the merits of different options for official control of, or engagement with, them.

University participants will be expected to demonstrate these understandings, and a grasp of relevant facts and examples, in the final examination.

Kennsluáætlun - uppfærð 24. febrúar

Ítarefni

Ferilskrá kennara, Alyson J.K. Bailes

Vika 1/ Week 1

Welcome

Non-State Actors

Individual Security and National Security (Buzan)

The Security Spectrum

Vika 2/ Week 2

A World at Risk

Something Security (PPT)