PLSC 405: National Security Policy

(1 Unit)
Prerequisites: PLSC 100 and one of either PLSC 102 or PLSC 103.
Student must be a political science major or minor with junior or senior standing, or permission of instructor. Explores the new security challenges facing the United States and other nations in the post-Cold War period. Introduces security studies, looking at the issue of nuclear weapons and its integration into strategic policy planning. Considers alternative ways to comprehend the concept of security and security studies in light of economic globalization, asymmetrical warfare, terrorism, democratization, the changing character of sovereignty, and the problem of weapons (conventional and non-conventional) proliferation. Grossman, Walling.