COURSE OUTLINE INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: UN, EU, NATO : CHALLENGES AND EVOLUTION Teachers(s): Admiral (retired) Giampaolo DI PAOLA Academic year 2017/2018: Paris School of International Affairs – Spring Semester BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION Admiral (retired) Giampaolo DI PAOLA : Head of Pol-mil department at MOD Italy(1994-1998); Chief Cabinet of italian Ministers of Defence (1998-2001);National Armament Director/Scretary General of defence at Mod Italy (2001-2004) Italian Chief of Defence(2004-2008); Chairman Nato Military Committee(2008-2011); Minister of Defence of Italy (2011-2013) COURSE OUTLINE Session 1: The security landscape and the megatrends shaping its evolution Case study: traditional and new security players. Recommended readings: Contemporary Security Studies by Allan Collins (CSSAC) Introduction(pages 1-9) ; Security Studies,an Introduction by Paul Williams (SSPW) introduction (pages 1-10) Session 2: Contemporary security challenges: War, proliferation, terrorism, migration and human trafficking, transnational crime, climate change, energy security, environment and health security, Cyber threat: the new Frontier; the Global Commons Case study : mass migration from Africa to Europe Recommended readings: RHSS(pages159-167) ; RHSS (ch 17); SSPW(ch13); SSPW (ch29); COURSE OUTLINE RHSS(ch29); RHSS (cp12); CSSAC (cp19); CSSAC(ch 30); RHSS(ch15); SSPW(ch34); SSPW(ch31); RHSS(ch11); RHSS(cch19); CSSAC(ch24); CSSAC(ch15); SSPW(ch13); SSPW(ch20); CSSAC(ch23); SSPW(ch21); RHSS(ch25); Conflict and cooperation in the Global Commons by Scott Jasper (CCGC) (chs 11,13). Session 3: Regional security challenges: Asia Pacific region: the rise of China. The USA pivot to Asia Pacific. The North Korea case. China –USA relationship: what future? Recommended readings: The Routledge Hanbook of Security Studies by Miriam Dunn Cavelty and Victor Mauer (RHSS) chapter 23 ; CSSAC: realism and the rise of China (pages 27-30); Is the american century over? by Joseph S. Nye Jr (ch 4); The contest of the century by Geoffry Dyer ; The mith of the American decline by Joseph Joff (ch 5) Session 4: Regional security Challenges: Russia and her neighbourhoods: Eastern Europe, Caucasus, central-East Asia A case study Georgia and Ukraine crises. Recommended readings : RHSS(chs 25,27,32) . COURSE OUTLINE Session 5: Regional Security Challenges: The Wider Mediterranean and the MENA Region Case study : the Syrian crise Confronting security challenges. Recommended readings: RHSS(cp28). Assignements for this session : Homework paper: Regional security crises : commonalities and differences among russian neigbourhoods’ crises and crises in the Mena region. Session 6: Confronting security challenges: the international Organization: UN structure and multilateral decision making process Case study: UN from preventive to assertive diplomacy and peace operations : two cases: the Balkans in mid 90s and Lebanon in mid 2000. Recommended readings: SSPW(ch24 and 26); CSSAC(ch20). Session 7: Confronting security challenges: the International Organization: Nato: Past, present and Future. Nato multilateral Political and Military decision Making process Recommended readings: Nato Treaty Washington 4 april 1949 founding document; Nato Strategic Concept Lisbon 2010. Session 8: Confronting security challenges: Nato –Russia relationship: past, present and Future Case study : What after Crimea and Ukraine? Recommended readings: Nato –Russia founding Act 1997; COURSE OUTLINE Nato-Russiarelations: a new quality, Rome declaration 2002; Nato Wales Summit declaration 2014, Nato Warsaw summit declaration 2016. Session 9: Confronting security challenges: Multilateral Diplomacy: The Nuclear issue and NPT future; Nato nuclear debate; the international debate on the new weapons: WMDs, drones, cyber, hybrid warfare Case study: Nato –Russia : nuclear deterrence and missile defence. Recommended readings: Nato deterrence and Defence posture review.20may 2012; Joint coprehensive plan of Action (JCPOA) 14 july 2015; CSSAC(ch 25); CCGC (chs 11 and 13) Session 10: Confronting security challenges: Negociations in International organizations: Nato and the Libyan case: how the decision was eventually taken? Séance 11: Confronting Security challenges: International Organization: EU, past present and Future Case study the EU multilateral complex decision making process. Recommended readings: RHSS(ch34). Macron speech on Europe future Séance 12: Confronting security challenges: EUCSDP in the making. The burden sharing issue Case study: The future of Nato-EU Transatlantic relations. Recommended readings: EU global strategy 2016; COURSE OUTLINE Nato-EU Joint declaration Warsaw Summit july 2016 , Jolyon Howorth :the future of EU-US cooperation in Yale Journal of International affairs (winter 2013 pp 30-39). Assigment for this session : Nato –EU: which way forward? .