70087 Geography of the Greater Middle East: Disarmament and Security II
Konstantinos Grivas
Teaching Staff, PD 407/8
3 hours per week
Course Objectives
The aim of the course is to familiarise students with issues of disarmament and peace establishment in the geo-complex of the Greater Middle East. This course forms part of the wider field of Peace Studies. The methodology of systemic geopolitical analysis is applied, which brings in a dynamic-interactional relationship a number of factors, such as geography, technology, politics, etc.
Applying this method, we utilise the principle of unity to the global system, which is considered as having a spatio-temporal continuity. The utilisation of this principal enables the study of the dangers that violent interventions imply for international peace, even if they have a peacekeeping or humanitarian aim.
Course Structure
- The unity of the international system and the possibility of regional disarmament efforts on a global scale.
- The possibility to denuclearise the Greater Middle East.
- Threats emerging from the development of anti-ballistic/missile defense networks in the WME.
- Possibilities of a global nuclear weapons disarmament.
- Substitutes of nuclear weapons.
- Possibilities of a conventional weapons disarmament.
- Definition and study of the threats for international peace that emerge from violent interventions aiming to peace keeping, peace enforcement and nation-building operations.
- Definition and study of the threats for international peace that emerge from the intention to address security issues.
- Definition and study of the threats for international peace that emerge from new types of armaments (such as cyber-warfare systems).
Assessment
Written final examination.
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