Undergraduate Module Descriptor

POC2087: Security Studies

This module descriptor refers to the 2023/4 academic year.

Please note that this module is only delivered on the Penryn Campus.

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Peoples, C. and Vaughan-Williams, N., Critical Security Studies: An Introduction (London, Routledge, 2010)

Grovogui, Siba N. "Looking Beyond Spring for the Season: An African perspective on the world order after the Arab Revolt." Globalizations 8, no. 5 (2011): 567-572.

Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. New York: Grove Press, 1963.

Baldwin, D. ‘The Concept of Security’, Review of International Studies, 23(1), (1997), pp. 5-26.

Annick. T.R. Wibben. 'Feminist Security Studies'. In The Routledge Handbook of Security Studies (Abingdon, Routledge, 2012)

Walt, S.'The Renaissance of Security Studies,' International Studies Quarterly, 35(2), (1991), pp. 211-239

Shilliam, Robbie, ed. International Relations and non-Western Thought: Imperialism, Colonialism and Investigations of Global Modernity. Routledge, 2010.

Enloe, Cynthia. Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics. Univ of California Press, 2014.

Sabaratnam, Meera. "Avatars of Eurocentrism in the Critique of the Liberal Peace." Security Dialogue 44, no. 3 (2013): 259-278.

Pasha, Mustapha Kamal. "Security as hegemony." Alternatives 21, no. 3 (1996): 283-302.