POLI 260 Lecture Notes - Critical Security Studies, Non-State Actor, Security Studies
Document Summary
Learning objectives: critically evaluate concept of security, understand how the study of international security has evolved, be familiar with central issues in contemporary international security studies. The role of intent: security can be divorced" from intent (eg. global warming) Securitization : process by which something becomes a threat; how something becomes a security issue. Traditional dominance of realism in international security studies and strategic studies. Terrorist groups (44 groups identified by can gov"t) Private security companies (provide logistics, training, security services. 20k psc personnel from 28 companies in iraq in 2006. Military spending: us 1. 63tril in 2010, 2. 6% of world gdp, us for each of world"s inhabitants. Weapons proliferations: conventional weapons, small arms and light weapons (us m in 2010, missile technology. Drug trafficking (coke + dope trafficking in 2010 = us 105bn) Trafficking in persons: 600k-800-2,5m people trafficking across international borders annually (ussd 2005, Unodoc 2008: valued at us 10bil in 2010.
