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Challenges and opportunities to boost peace and security
This seminar offers a comprehensive examination of selected theories that shape international relations. Through joint readings and discussions of key research, we will systematically examine IR theories and illustrate them with current global political examples:
- (Neo-)realism
- (Neo-)liberalism
- (Social-)constructivism
- Institutionalism
- Critical security studies
In addition to the classics of the discipline, the focus will be on actors and forms of international conflict, covering a range of key topics such as peace and war, terrorism, the military, pirates and rebels, and the role of gender and pop culture in international security policy. Students will reflect on and apply the competencies they have previously acquired and will further develop and expand fundamental academic skills (especially comprehension and discussion of texts, as well as basic methodological knowledge) in a friendly seminar environment.
Lecturer: Djamila Jabra, M.A.
Djamila Jabra, M.A. has been working as a research assistant at the Chair of Political Science with a focus on European Integration and International Relations in the Department of European Studies at Saarland University since December 2022. Previously, she worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Political Science, Georg-August-University, Göttingen. She studied Social Sciences (Bachelor of Arts) and Peace and Conflict Studies (Master of Arts) at Otto von Guericke University in Magdeburg and completed an Erasmus scholarship at Karlstad University in Sweden. Her research interests are foreign and security policy, (violent) climate/resource conflicts, theories of international relations, as well as terrorism research and counter-terrorism.