The research paper is based on rigorous academic research on a topic assigned in session
5. The assigned topic will be broadly formulated and there will be space for narrowing it down to suit your
specific interests. The paper is to be 3000-4000 words long (excluding literature and references). Typically, it
will be structured as academic papers usually are: introduction outlining the research question, relevance and
approach; theory \/ literature review and methodology section; empirical section; conclusion; references.
Harvard style of referencing is fine. Excellent papers will include both a strong theory section and a strong
empirical section. I will also accept theoretical \/ conceptual papers without extensive empirical sections but
empirical illustrations of theoretical arguments are welcome”Is the state still the dominant actor in international security? If so, how does it maintain its dominance? If not, who are the successful competitors of the state?”
Please include at least 10 references in your reference list – of these, at least 5 should be from the reading list.Modern society of sovereign states and its alternatives
Ruggie, J.G. (1993): \u201cTerritoriality and Beyond: Problematizing Modernity in
International Relations\u201d in International Organization, 47(1): 139-174
Wendt, A (1992): \u201cAnarchy is What States Make of It: The Social Construction of
Power Politics\u201d in International Organization, 46(2): 391-425
Optional: Spruyt, H. (1994): \u201cInstitutional Selection in International Relations:
State Anarchy as Order\u201d in International Organization, 48(4): 527-557
Week 3 (Feb 17) Security and alliances: a neorealist perspective
Walt, S. M. (1987): The Origins of Alliances. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, chs 1, 2, 8
Mearsheimer, J. (1994): \u201cThe False Promise of International Institutions\u201d in
International Security 19(3): 5-49
Week 4 (Feb 24) Securitization and security communities: a constructivist perspective
Buzan, B., Waever,O. and de Wilde, J. (1998): Security: A new framework for
analysis. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, pp. 1-49
Adler, E. and Barnett, M. (1998, eds.): Security Communities. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, chs 1 and 2
Week 5 (Mar 3) Security and actorness
Allison, G. T. (1969): \u201cConceptual Models and the Cuban Missile Crisis\u201d in American
Political Science Review, 63 (3), pp. 689-718
Putnam, R. (1998): \u201dDiplomacy and Domestic Politics: The Logic of Two-Level
Games\u201d, International Organization, 42, pp. 427-460
Vershinin, A. (2021): \u201cFeeding the bear: A closer look at Russian army logistics and
the fait accompli\u201d in War on the Rocks, Nov 23, 2021
(https:\/\/warontherocks.com\/2021\/11\/feeding-the-bear-a-closer-look-at-russian-
army-logistics\/)
Optional:
Yarhi-Milo, K. (2023): \u201cWhy Smart Leaders Do Stupid Things: Is Foreign Policy
Rational?\u201d, Foreign Affairs, Nov\/Dec 2023
Week 6 (Mar 10) Identities, images and international security
Ringmar, E. (1996): Identity, Interest and Action: A Cultural Explanation of
Sweden\u2019s Intervention in the Thirty Years War. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, pp. 1-91
B\u00e1tora, J. (2006): \u201cPublic Diplomacy Between Home and Abroad: Norway and
Canada\u201d in The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, 1(1): 53-80
Week 7 (Mar 17) The US and global security: Four approaches to great power competition
Mead, W. R. (2002): Special Providence. American Foreign Policy and How it Changed
the World. New York: Routledge, chs 2-8
Fukuyama, F. (2022): \u201cA Country of Their Own: Liberalism Needs the Nation\u201d in
Foreign Affairs, May \u2013 June 2022
Sullivan, J. (2023): \u201cThe Sources of American Power: A Foreign Policy for a
Changed World\u201d, Foreign Affairs, Nov\/Dec 2023
Week 8 (Mar 24) The EU and global security: Between liberal practices and geopolitics
Garton Ash, T. (2023): \u201cPostimperial Empire: How the War in Ukraine Is
Transforming Europe\u201d in Foreign Affairs, May\/June 2023
B\u00e1tora, J., Osland, K., Qehaja, F. and Stojanovic, S. (2021): \u201cSpaces and Institutional
Logics in Post-Conflict Settings of Mitrovica\u201d, Journal of Intervention and
Statebuilding, 15(1): 114-131
Borrell, J. (2023): \u201cEurope In The Interregnum: Our Geopolitical Awakening After
Ukraine\u201d, Geopolitique, 2023 (https:\/\/geopolitique.eu\/en\/articles\/europe-in-the-
interregnum-our-geopolitical-awakening-after-ukraine\/)
Optional:
Leonard, M. and Shapiro, J. (2020): \u201cSovereign Europe, dangerous world: Five
agendas to protect Europe\u2019s capacity to act\u201d European Council on Foreign
Relations, December 2020 (https:\/\/ecfr.eu\/publication\/sovereign-europe-
dangerous-world-five-agendas-to-protect-europes-capacity-to-act\/)
Week 9 (Mar 31) Post-Westphalian security dynamics 1: The age of unpeace
Leonard, M. (2021): The Age of Unpeace: How Connectivity Causes Conflict. London:
Penguin
Week 10 (Apr 7) Post-Westphalian security dynamics 2: Private military companies
Singer, P. (2001): Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry
and Its Ramifications for International Security\u201d in International Security, 26(3):
186-220
Jones, S.G. et al (2021): Russia\u2019s Corporate Soldiers: The Global Expansion of
Russia\u2019s Private Military Companies. Washington, DC: CSIS (108 pages)
Optional:
B\u00e1tora, J. (2024): \u201cInterstitial emergence of national defence entrepreneurial firms
and re-configuration of the state as a defence actor: the case of Sweden\u2019s Vesper
Group\u201d, European Security, 33 (1)
Week 11 (Apr 14) Post-Westphalian security dynamics 3: Cybersecurity and cyber-war
Maurer, T. (2018): Cyber Mercenaries: The State, Hackers and Power. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-68, 123-137
Greenberg, A. (2017): \u201cHow an entire nation became Russia\u2019s test lab for
cyberwar\u201c, Wired, June 20, 2017 (https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/russian-hackers-
attack-ukraine)
Williams, N. (2022): \u201cInsights for marine (and beyond) force design from the Russo
\u2013 Ukrainian War\u201d in War on the Rocks, March 31, 2022
(https:\/\/warontherocks.com\/2022\/03\/insights-for-marine-and-beyond-force-
design-from-the-russo-ukrainian-war\/)
Week 12 (Apr 25 \u2013
make up class)
Post-Westphalian security dynamics 4: Regional defense integration clusters
Iso-Markku, T. et al (2018): A Stronger North? Nordic cooperation in foreign and
security policy in a new security environment. Helsinki: FIIA
B\u00e1tora, J. (2021): \u201cDynamics of Differentiated Integration in EU Defense:
Organizational Field Formation and Segmentation\u201d, European Foreign Affairs
Review, Vol. 26(3): 63-86
Bildt, C. (2022): \u201cNATO\u2019s Nordic Expansion: Adding Finland and Sweden Will
Transform European Security\u201d, Foreign Affairs, April 26, 2022
\u00c5lander, M. (2023): \u201cIncomplete Without Sweden: Finland\u2019s NATO Accession and
the Future of \u2018Nord-NATO\u2019\u201d, Lawfare, April 3, 2023
(https:\/\/www.lawfaremedia.org\/article\/incomplete-without-sweden-finlands-
nato-accession-and-future-nord-nato)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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