--- title: International Security description: This area investigates threats to global stability, including war, terrorism, nuclear proliferation, and cybersecurity. Learners will analyze security strategies, alliance systems, and the conditions necessary for maintaining international order. category: social-sciences subcategory: international-relations difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced url: /subject/international-security --- # International Security This area investigates threats to global stability, including war, terrorism, nuclear proliferation, and cybersecurity. Learners will analyze security strategies, alliance systems, and the conditions necessary for maintaining international order. ## Available Resources 4 Books • 3 Courses • 3 Websites ## Courses ### 1. Global Diplomacy – Diplomacy in the Modern World The Global Diplomacy course is a unique offering to the MOOC environment. Bringing together cutting edge research in the broad fields of Diplomatic and International Studies, award winning distance learning delivery and the instructors previous experience of delivering a successful MOOC. Please see the volume Global Diplomacy: Theories, Types and Models authored with Dr Alison Holmes, (Westview, 2016), and the Understanding Research Methods MOOC from Coursera. The Global Diplomacy MOOC has a direct heritage in the University of London International Academy/SOAS Global Diplomacy MA Programme launched in April 2013 which have attracted hundreds of students from around the world. The Global Diplomacy MA Programme is provided by the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy which has been teaching postgraduate courses in Diplomacy for over twenty five years. After completing the 'Global Diplomacy' MOOC, learners will have: 1. The ability to demonstrate a critical understanding of the nature and development of global diplomacy, drawing on a variety of relevant contributing disciplines in the broad field of International Studies. 2. An understanding of changes in diplomatic practices and procedures and the relationship of those changes to contemporary politics. 3. A sound grounding in both theoretical and empirical approaches to debates in diplomacy so that students have been exposed to the and skills needed to analyse global diplomacy. 4. knowledge of issues in global diplomacy in historical and contemporary contexts. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/global-diplomacy **Tags:** diplomacy, international-relations, global-governance, foreign-policy ### 2. Reducing the Danger of Nuclear Weapons and Proliferation (MIT RES.8-004) **Author:** Aron M. Bernstein, Vipin Narang A two-lecture series on the history and current state of nuclear weapons and non-proliferation policy, covering a likely regional nuclear flash point, the dangers of present weapons policies, and prospects for further reductions. Includes 2 lecture videos (3 hours) and slides. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/res-8-004-reducing-the-danger-of-nuclear-weapons-and-proliferation-january-iap-2015/ **Tags:** nuclear-weapons, nonproliferation, arms-control, nuclear-policy ### 3. International Security Erasmus University Rotterdam's seven-module course on the international security landscape, risk assessment, open-source intelligence, organized crime, terrorism, illicit trade and border management. Finishing it, you can frame a security threat assessment and identify the organizations that respond. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/international-security-management **Tags:** courses, humanities-social-sciences, international-relations ## Podcasts ### 1. The Security Dilemma **Author:** The John Quincy Adams Society U.S. foreign policy for the future. Security Dilemma brings you conversations with the experts, policymakers, and thinkers charting new paths forward from the wreckage of recent decades and toward a national security and defense policy guided by prudence and restraint. Cohosts John Allen Gay and A.J. Manuzzi bring you the information you need to shape a wiser approach. Security Dilemma is a podcast of the John Quincy Adams Society, an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing a new generation of foreign policy leaders. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en-us | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://jqas.org **Tags:** us-foreign-policy, national-security, grand-strategy, restraint, defense-policy ### 2. Bombshell **Author:** Loren DeJonge Schulman, Radha Iyengar Plumb, Erin Simpson Sirens, a new podcast from the ladies of Bombshell, dissects the institutions of American power. With their trademark wit and charm, join Loren DeJonge Schulman, Radha Iyengar Plumb, and Erin Simpson as they sound the alarm on technology, governance, and national security issues. (And maybe lure men to their deaths.) **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://bombshell.libsyn.com/podcast **Tags:** national-security, defense-policy, us-foreign-policy, civil-military-relations ### 3. War on the Rocks **Author:** Ryan Evans Discussions over drinks with security, defense, and foreign policy insiders and experts. The original War on the Rocks podcast series. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://warontherocks.com **Tags:** national-security, defense-policy, military-strategy, foreign-policy, podcast ### 4. Power Problems **Author:** Cato Institute Cato Institute podcast offering a skeptical, restraint-oriented take on U.S. foreign policy. Hosts and guests from across the political spectrum debate alliances, military intervention, great-power competition and defense spending, helping listeners weigh arguments about American grand strategy. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** en | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.cato.org/rss/multimedia/power-problems **Tags:** us-foreign-policy, international-security, grand-strategy, restraint ## Books ### 1. The Evolution of Cooperation **Author:** Robert Axelrod Axelrod's account of iterated prisoner's dilemma tournaments, where TIT FOR TAT prevailed. Readers come away able to explain how cooperation emerges among self-interested actors without central authority, and why reciprocity stabilizes it. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0465021212?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** game-theory, prisoners-dilemma, cooperation, tit-for-tat, reciprocity ### 2. Essence of Decision **Author:** Graham T. Allison Allison reexamines the Cuban Missile Crisis three times, through rational-actor, organizational-process, and governmental-politics models. You finish able to apply each lens to a foreign policy decision and see how the chosen frame changes the explanation. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0673394123?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, humanities-social-sciences, international-relations ### 3. LikeWar **Author:** P. W. Singer, Emerson T. Brooking A researched account of how social media became a battlefield, drawing on cases from ISIS recruitment to Russian influence operations and viral misinformation. Readers learn how attention, virality and platform design are exploited to manipulate opinion, and why their own online activity is a target. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0358108470?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** information-warfare, social-media, disinformation, propaganda, influence-operations ### 4. The Tragedy of Great Power Politics **Author:** John J. Mearsheimer Mearsheimer's statement of offensive realism, arguing that anarchy pushes great powers toward regional hegemony. Historical cases from 1792 onward let readers reconstruct the theory's predictions and weigh them against liberal and defensive-realist accounts of state behavior. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/039332396X?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, humanities-social-sciences, international-relations ## Websites ### 1. cfr.org cfr.org is the online home of the Council on Foreign Relations, a leading nonprofit think tank focused on U.S. foreign policy and global affairs. It provides expert analysis, policy briefs, reports, backgrounders, data, and multimedia on geopolitics, along with events and interactive features. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://cfr.org **Tags:** websites, humanities-social-sciences, geography ### 2. sipri.org SIPRI is an independent international think tank focused on global security, arms control, and disarmament. The site provides data, analysis, and publications on military spending, arms transfers, weapons of mass destruction, and related policy issues. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://sipri.org **Tags:** websites, humanities-social-sciences, international-relations ### 3. iiss.org The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) is a premier think tank on global security and defense. Its website provides in-depth analysis, data, and publications (e.g., The Military Balance and Strategic Survey), along with news, events, and briefings on international security and geopolitics. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://iiss.org **Tags:** websites, humanities-social-sciences, international-relations --- *This content is part of Dantes.io - Your Treasure Map to Knowledge* *Curated by humans at Dantes.io. Personal study use welcome; republishing this curation requires permission (team@dantes.io).* View this page online: https://dantes.io/subject/international-security