Stream Director

Kyung-Ae Park

Overview

A defining aspect of the international relations of Asia has been a security order that is increasingly complex and contested. In a post-Cold War setting, its architecture and institutional foundation changed substantially on a regional, national and sub-national basis. The security stream in the MAAPPS program encourages research and analysis centred on three different aspects of the regional security order: national security, with a focus on great power strategic interactions; cooperative and comprehensive security, with a focus on multilateral institution building at both governmental and non-governmental levels; and human security, with a focus on a range of threats including physical violence in situations of armed conflict and a variety of "non-traditional" security issues including environmental degradation, communicable disease, migration, trans-national crime etc.

Courses

IAR 500 (MAAPPS Core Course):

Security Module

Other Courses

Some of the courses students have found useful in the recent past are:

• PS 563/461, "Human Security"
• PS 580/INDS 502S, "Human Security: the Freedom From Fear Agenda"
• GEOG 539A 201 "Environment, Development and Human Security"
• PS 564, "Issues in Asia Pacific Security"
• IAR 515I, "East Asian Diplomacy"