Jean Monnet Center of Excellence

European Security: Beyond Guns and Soldiers

1-3 Credits (variable), Spring 2019

View the syllabus here

 

Instructors

Instructor

Prof. David J. Galbreath – University of Bath

Instructor of record

Prof. Zachary Selden – UF, Dept. of Political Science

 

Course Description

This course is designed to make students familiar with a range of security
issues confronting Europe and the transatlantic alliance.  In addition to
more traditional concerns, the course will focus on an expanded definition
of security as it applies to Europe and the wider region.  This will include
an examination of energy security, the role of information systems in
security, as well as migration, health and food security. Students may take
this course for variable credit.  For 1 credit, students are expected to do
the required reading and take a test at the end of the course.  For 2
credits, students take the same test and write a short 5 page literature
review. For 3 credits, students will take the test and write a 15-20 page
research paper. All students are expected to do all of the required reading
in advance and participate in class discussions.  This is a small seminar,
not a lecture course.  As such, it will be driven by class discussion of the
reading.  The course will meet ten times.  The first nine will be class
discussion sessions as listed below.  The last session will be the workshop
on Friday April 12 which will bring together academics and policy
professionals from Europe and the United States.  Students should be at all
ten meetings to receive credit for participation.  If you know that you will
not be able to attend one session, please let the instructor know in
advance.
 

Course Schedule

Day 1 – Monday, April 1 – Introduction: Traditional Concepts of Security

Topics: Realism, Liberalism, constructivism, gender theory
 
Readings:

• Chapter 3 in Galbreath, David J., Jocelyn Mawdsley, and Laura Chappell,
  Forthcoming 2019. Contemporary European Security, Routledge:
  London.
• Chapters 2, 3, in Biscop, Sven, and Richard G. Whitman, eds. 2013. The Routledge Handbook of European Security. London; New York: Routledge.
• Jenichen, Anne, Jutta Joachim, and Andrea Schneiker. 2018. “‘Gendering’
  European Security: Policy Changes, Reform Coalitions and Opposition in
  the OSCE.” European Security 27(1): 1–19.

 

Day 2 – Tuesday, April 2 – European Security in the Post-WWII Era

Topics: Origins of NATO, nuclear deterrence
 
Readings:

• James Blackwell, “In the Laps of the Gods: The Origins of NATO Forward
  Defense,” Parameters(1985).
• Lawrence Kaplan, “The United States and the Origins of NATO
  1946-1949,” The Review of Politics, 31:2 (April 1969) 210-222.
• Yost, David S. 2011. “The US Debate on NATO Nuclear Deterrence.” International Affairs
  87(6): 1401–38.
• McNamara, Robert S. 1983. “The Military Role of Nuclear Weapons:
  Perceptions and Misperceptions: Foreign Affairs, Fall 1983.” Survival
  25(6): 261–71.

 

Day 3 – Wednesday, April 3 – European Security after the Fall of the
Berlin Wall

Topics: Evolution of NATO, the EU as an emerging security actor,
relations with Russia
 
Readings:

• Kroenig, Matthew. 2015. “Facing Reality: Getting NATO Ready for a New
  Cold War.” Survival 57(1): 49–70.
• Stefanova, Boyka. 2005. “The European Union as a Security Actor:
  Security Provision through Enlargement.” World Affairs 168(2):
  51–66.
• Sperling, James, and Mark Webber. 2009. “NATO: From Kosovo to
  Kabul.” International Affairs 85: 491–511.
• Kropatcheva, Elena. 2012. “Russia and the Role of the OSCE in European
  Security: A ‘Forum’ for Dialog or a ‘Battlefield’ of Interests?” European Security
  21(3): 370–94.

 

Day 4 – Thursday, April 4 – New Concepts of Security

Topics: Human security, broader definitions of security
 
Readings:

• David Campbell, Writing Security(Minneapolis: University of
  Minnesota Press, 1992). 1-15
• Smith, Steve. 1999. “The Increasing Insecurity of Security Studies:
  Conceptualizing Security in the Last Twenty Years.” Contemporary Security Policy
  20(3): 72–101.
• Guerrina, Roberta, Laura Chappell, and Katharine A.M. Wright. 2018.
  “Transforming CSDP? Feminist Triangles and Gender Regimes: CSDP and
  Gender Regimes.” JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies 56(5):
  1036–52.
• Martin, Mary, and Mary Kaldor, eds. 2009. Eu and Human Security : European External Interventions and
  Missions. [S.l.]: Routledge.

 

Day 5 – Friday, April 5 – European Defense and the Revolution in Military
Affairs

Topics: What is an RMA, the RMA in historical context, RMA in European
context
 
Readings:

• Andrew Krepinevitch, “From Calvary to Computer: The Pattern of Military
  Revolutions,” The National Interest, Fall 1994.
• Cohen, Eliot, ‘Change and Transformation in Military Affairs’, Journal of Strategic Studies, 27:3 (2004), pp. 395-407.
• Galbreath, David J. 2015. “RMA, European Militaries, and the Limits of
  Modernization.” In Reassessing the Revolution in Military Affairs: Transformation,
  Evolution, and Lessons Learned, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 156–74.
• Galbreath, David J., and Simon J. Smith. 2016. “Military Capabilities
  and Force Transformation.” In The EU, Strategy and Security Policy: Regional and Strategic
  Challenges, London: Routledge, 186–201.

 

Day 6 – Monday, April 8 – European Issues in Energy Security

Topics: Energy as a security, EU-Russian relations
 
Readings:

• Goldthau, Andreas, and Nick Sitter. 2015. “Soft Power with a Hard Edge:
  EU Policy Tools and Energy Security.” Review of International Political Economy
  22(5): 941–65.
• Neuman, Marek. 2010. “EU–Russian Energy Relations after the 2004/2007 EU
  – Enlargement: An EU – Perspective.” Journal of Contemporary European Studies
  18(3): 341.
• Kirchner, Emil, and Berk, Can. 2010. “European Energy Security
  Co-Operation: Between Amity and Enmity.” Journal of Common Market Studies
  48: 859–80.
• Proedrou, Filippos. 2007. “The EU-Russia Energy Approach under the Prism
  of Interdependence.” European Security 16: 329–55.

 

Day 7 – Tuesday, April 9 – Europe and Cyber-Security

Topics: Cyber security and governance
 
Readings:

• Cavaiola, Lawrence J., David C. Gompert, and Martin Libicki. 2015.
  “Cyber House Rules: On War, Retaliation and
  Escalation.” Survival57(1): 81–104.
• Junio, Timothy J. 2013. “How Probable Is Cyber War? Bringing IR Theory
  Back In to the Cyber Conflict Debate.” Journal of Strategic Studies
  36(1): 125–33.
• Galinec, Darko, Darko Možnik, and Boris Guberina. 2017. “Cybersecurity
  and Cyber Defence: National Level Strategic Approach.” Automatika
  58(3): 273–86.
• Renard, Thomas. 2018. “EU Cyber Partnerships: Assessing the EU Strategic
  Partnerships with Third Countries in the Cyber Domain.” European Politics and Society
  19(3): 321–37
• Mumford et. al. “The Need for International Perspectives to Solve Global
  Biosecurity
• Challenges” Chapter 18 in Practical Tools for Plant and Food
  Biosecurity, 2017.

 

Day 8 – Wednesday, April 10 – The Health of the EU: Migration, Disease and
Agricultural Security

Topics: Migration, Food Security
 
Readings:

• Huysmans, Jeff. 2000. “The European Union and the Securitization of
  Migration.” Journal of Common Market Studies 38: 751–77.
• Galbreath, David, and Joanne McEvoy. 2012. “European Organizations and
  Minority Rights in Europe: On Transforming the Securitization
  Dynamic.” Security Dialogue 43(3): 267–84.
• Schumacher, Tobias. 2015. “Uncertainty at the EU’s Borders: Narratives
  of EU External Relations in the Revised European Neighbourhood Policy
  towards the Southern Borderlands.” European Security 24(3):
  381–401.
• Perkowski, Nina. 2018. “Frontex and the Convergence of Humanitarianism,
  Human Rights and Security.” Security Dialogue: 096701061879667.
• Bureau, Jean-Christophe and Johan Swinnen. 2018. “EU Policies and global
  food security.” Global Food Security 16: 106-115.
• European Commission, 2017. A European One Health Action Plan against Antimicrobial
  Resistance.

 

Day 9 – Thursday, April 11 – Balancing Security and Democracy in the
European Context

Topics: Security, democracy, rights
 
Readings:

• Huysmans, Jef. 2016. “Democratic Curiosity in Times of
  Surveillance.” European Journal of International Security1(1):
  73–93.
• Aradau, Claudia. 2004. “Security and the Democratic Scene:
  Desecuritization and Emancipation.” Journal of International Relations and Development
  7: 388–413.
• Aradau, Claudia, and Tobias Blanke. 2018. “Governing Others: Anomaly and
  the Algorithmic Subject of Security.” European Journal of International Security
  3(1): 1–21.
• Fabbrini, Federico. 2018. “Courts and the Politics of Secrecy: National
  Security, Human Rights and the Importance of Supranational
  Oversight.” West European Politics 41(4): 869–89.

 

Friday, April 12 – Workshop in Dauer 215 from 8:15 am – 5:00pm