Institutions and Security Policy in European Space
Semester: 1st | Optional | ECTS: 7.5
Course: Natural Hazards - European Policies
Module leader: Kritikos Ι. Georgios
(The module is not available for the current Academic Year)
Module Objectives
– To give students a grounding in the theory and practice of international security in the contemporary era
– To develop in students the ability to think critically and constructively about the key debates in international security studies
– To train students to evaluate constructively and analytically the real challenges or policy-choices confronting policymakers
Course Contents
This module examines the various concepts of order and disorder in the pre-Cold War and post-Cold War periods by providing a coherent mixture of theoretical and empirical study-cases in European as well as in international space. The early seminars go through the major theoretical perspectives on security and later seminars discuss some of the key problems those theories try to address.
The following seminars critically evaluate the ability of the main theories of Security Studies to analyze international security focusing on different study cases such as diplomacy and foreign policy, humanitarian intervention and the role of NGOs in humanitarian crises, terrorism and other forms of insecurity (i.e. environmental, societal, etc.), migration policy and refugees, borders in a geographical perspective and the ‘fortress’ of Europe, nationalisms and ethnic conflicts or wars, etc.
Teaching and Assessment
E-class exercises and participation to the lesson (based on the study of the suggested bibliography) can contribute up to 20% of final module mark.
Final exam contributes up to 80% of final module mark.
Postgraduate Programme “Applied Geography and Spatial Planning”
Stream Α’
MANAGEMENT OF NATURAL AND HUMAN INDUCED RISKS AND DISASTERS
1st Semester | Winter
- Environmental Risks and Security | C | 7,5
- Natural Processes, Hazards, and Disasters | C | 7,5
- Vulnerability and Risk: Prevention and Preparedness | C | 7,5
- Social and economic impacts of disasters | Ε | 7,5
- Scientific Research Methods in Geography | Ε | 7,5
- Institutions and Security Policy in European Space | Ε | 7,5
2nd Semester | Spring
- Emergency Planning | C | 7,5
- Disaster Recovery and Reconstruction Planning | C | 7,5
- Coastal Zones Natural Hazards | Ε | 7,5
- Local Sustainable Development: Programmes and Social Resistance | Ε | 7,5
- Geoinformatics for Disaster Management | Ε | 7,5
- Applied Spatial Analysis | Ε | 7,5
- Governance of Environmental Risk | Ε | 7,5
3rd Semester | Winter
- Postgraduate Thesis | C | 30
Stream B’
SPATIAL POLICIES AND DEVELOPMENT IN EUROPE
1st Semester | Winter
- Scientific Research Methods in Geography | C | 7,5
- Planning and Spatial Development: Theories and Practices | C | 7,5
- Geographies of Globalization | C | 7,5
- Migration Policy and Migratory Flows | Ε | 7,5
- Institutions and Security Policy in European Space | Ε | 7,5
- Inequality and Segregation Issues in European Cities | Ε | 7,5
2nd Semester | Spring
- Urban Development and Redevelopment Policies | C | 7,5
- Regional Development and Policy | C | 7,5
- Development and Restructuring of Rural Europe | Ε | 7,5
- Local Sustainable Development: Programmes and Social Resistance | Ε | 7,5
- Applied Spatial Analysis | Ε | 7,5
- The Demographic Factor in the EU Economic and Social Policy | Ε | 7,5
- Methods of Regional Analysis with Emphasis on Spatial Econometrics | Ε | 7,5
- Transnationalism and Human Geography | Ε | 7,5
3rd Semester | Winter
- Postgraduate Thesis | C | 30
Stream C’
GEOINFORMATICS
1st Semester | Winter
- Scientific Research Methods in Geography | C | 7,5
- Applied GIS Based Geographical Analysis | C | 7,5
- Advanced Topics of Remote Sensing | C | 7,5
- Spatial Databases | C | 7,5
2nd Semester | Spring
- Research Themes in Geoinformatics | C | 7,5
- Programming for spatial data analysis | E | 7,5
- Geomodeling | E | 7,5
- Geoinformatics for Disaster Management | E | 7,5
- Applied Spatial Analysis | E | 7,5
- Methods of Regional Analysis with Emphasis on Spatial Econometrics | E | 7,5
- Advanced Topics of Applied Geoinformation for the Environment | E | 7,5
3rd Semester | Winter
- Postgraduate Thesis | C | 30
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