DWA 254 Transnational Security: Understanding Gray Area Phenomena
The course will provide a conceptual framework for understanding the evolving scope and dimension of transnational security in the contemporary era. The unit will include an examination of the principal features of the current international system that are serving to foster gray area phenomenon; an analysis of five specific threats that have received particular attention in terms of their destabilizing potential (terrorism drug smuggling weapons trafficking maritime piracy the spread of disease pandemics environmental degradation/change); and an assessment of how these challenges can best be mitigated at both the domestic and global level.