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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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Introduction of lecture: Definition of Nuclear Security Nuclear Safety, Security and Safeguards The Cold War and Nuclear proliferation Preventing proliferation of Soviet nuclear weapons after the collapse of USSR Pakistan, DPRK, Iran and nuclear proliferation network Nuclear disarmament and control regime in the world Control regimes of nuclear materials & technologies proliferation Bush's PSI, Obama's NSS, Trump's America first, and Biden's new approach Case study of radiation tragedy 1: Hibakusha in Hiroshima and Nagasaki Case study of radiation tragedy 2: Chernobyl accident Case study of radiation tragedy 3: Fukushima Daiichi accident Future of Nuclear Security and new nuclear arms race including proliferation of WMD and ASAT technologies
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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- Presentation preparation (report) (1-10)
- 10 hours per semester
- Preparation for an examination (30-60)
- 50 hours per semester
- Contact hours
- 52 hours per semester
- Graduate study programme term essay (40-50)
- 44 hours per semester
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| Knowledge |
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| to explain changes in the definition of security in relation to changes in the international system |
| to evaluate the concepts of national security, international security and human security |
| to characterize different types of conflicts |
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| to classify different types of international organizations according to the approach to ensuring international security |
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| learning outcomes |
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| Knowledge |
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| to characterize the development of the concept of nuclear security in connection with the transformation of the international system |
| to differentiate and define different concepts linked to nuclear safety |
| to explain the complex problems of international and regional nuclear security of the 20th and 21st centuries from the theoretical and empirical point of view |
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| to independently interpret the successes or failures of concrete conflict resolution |
| to qualify and define the causes of nuclear threats using an appropriate theoretical framework |
| to identify the different types of major nuclear security threats in the current international system |
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| teaching methods |
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| Lecture supplemented with a discussion |
| Self-study of literature |
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| Textual studies |
| Seminar |
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| Textual studies |
| Seminar |
| assessment methods |
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| Combined exam |
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| Seminar work |
| Individual presentation at a seminar |
| Skills demonstration during practicum |
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| Individual presentation at a seminar |
| Seminar work |
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Recommended literature
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Alagappa, Muthiah. Asia's Security Environment: From Subordinate to Region Dominant System. Stanford UP, 2008.
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Boot, Max. The Evolution of Irregular War.. Foreign Affairs, Vol. 92, No. 2., 2013.
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Buzan, B. - de Wilde, J. - Waver, O. Security. A new framework for analysis. Boulder: London, 1995.
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Buzan, Barry; Waever, Ole. Regions and powers : the structure of international security. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003. ISBN 978-0-521-89111-0.
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Crocker, Chester A.,; Hampson, Fen Osler,; Aall, Pamela R. Rewiring regional security in a fragmented world. 1st pub. Washington : United States Institute of Peace Press, 2011. ISBN 978-1-60127-070-2.
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