Science, Technology, and Security: New Institutions to Manage Global Security in the 21st Century
An interdisciplinary graduate student & faculty initiative supported by the University of Illinois Graduate College Focal Point Program
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Graduate Seminar, Fall 2009 semester
Course Details
Course: PS 590
ACD (CRN: 54910)
Course
Director: Colin Flint
Location: 356
Armory Building
Time: Thursdays 12:00 - 1:00pm
Course Background
This is an interdisciplinary, seminar-based course designed to provide graduate students with broad coverage of the various intersections between science, technology, and the management of international security. The course will feature lectures by University of Illinois faculty and others from diverse disciplines, cutting across the social sciences, humanities, natural sciences, and engineering and integrating knowledge of international relations, biosecurity, nuclear weapons proliferation, terrorism, and so forth. The common theme across the lectures/discussions will be existing and emerging institutions necessary to manage present-day problems in global security.
For more information or to see a copy of the syllabus, interested students should contact the ACDIS office or the course director.
Many of the lectures are being video recorded and will be available as a streaming file through the ACDIS website. Click on the appropriate links in the schedule below to view a given video.
Course Schedule
August 27 – Colin Flint
– Introduction to Seminar and What Can Geopolitics Offer a Study of Science,
Technology, and Security? (VIEW VIDEO)
September 3 – Myongsob Kim - Nuclear North Korea (no video available)
September 10 – Cliff Singer – Energy and Security (VIEW VIDEO)
September 17 – John Vasquez – Nuclear Deterrence Theory and Nuclear Deterrence Myth: Cold War Lessons and Nuclear Proliferation (VIEW VIDEO)
September 24 – Andrew Kydd – Strategies of Terrorism (VIEW VIDEO)
October 1 – Jeremiah Sullivan – Nonproliferation Treaty and Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (VIEW VIDEO)
October 8 – Ryan Hendrickson – The Obama Administration and Constitutional War Powers (VIEW VIDEO)
October 15 – Stephen Cohen - The Irrelevance of India's Rise as a Military Power (VIEW VIDEO)
October 22 – Paul Diehl
- Evaluating Peace Operations (VIEW VIDEO)
October 29 – Ed Kolodziej - Innovations in Nuclear Weapons Systems and Cold War Deterrence Policy (no video available)
November 5 – Arctic Security Symposium – special time and location: 3:00 – 5:00pm, 314A
Illini Union. (VIEW SYMPOSIUM DETAILS)
November 12 – Brenda Wilson - Genomics and the Global Challenge of Persisting and Emerging Infectious Diseases
November 19 – Steve Blanke – Synthetic Biology
November 26 – Thanksgiving break – no class
December 3 - Hadi Esfahani - Energy, Trade, and International Security
Note: this course is part of the ACDIS Interdisciplinary Focal Point project, supported by the Graduate College at the University of Illinois (for more information about the project, read this press release).