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Pursuing Security
- Identify and explain the defining features of security in the traditional (realist) view, including the concept of anarchy.
- Explain the basis for and main examples of efforts to “broaden” and “deepen” the concept of security over the past quarter-century.
- Compare, contrast, and assess different approaches to the provision of security, especially those concerned with limiting arms races and international conflict.
- Discuss how broader transformations in the structure of the global political system have revealed a “new” security environment featuring different rules, actors, and threats.
- Describe the different types of weapons of mass destruction, the global security threats they pose, and efforts to limit and contain those threats.