POLS 2010: Human Security and World Disorder
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Module 1: Living in an insecure world

• 1. Glover, D. (2001). Humanity: A moral history of the 20th century (pp. 1-7). New Haven: Yale University Press.
• 2. Library link: Brill, S. (2016, Sept). Are we any safer?. The Atlantic Monthly. 318(2), 60-68,70,72-78,80-82,84-87.

Module 2: Moral insecurity and contemporary conflict: Historical and philosophical perspectives

• 1. Glover, D. (2001). Humanity: A moral history of the 20th century (pp. 11-17). New Haven: Yale University Press.
• 2. Nietzsche, F. (1998). Twilight of the idols (Large, D. Trans.) (pp 26-32). OUP Oxford. (Original work published 1889).
• 3. Taylor, C. (2007). A secular age (pp. 1-22). Harvard University Press.

• Library link: Huntington, S. P. (1993). The clash of civilizations. Foreign Affairs, 72(3), 22–49.

Module 3: Moral beyond cultural resources: biology, psychology and the critical power of thought

• 1. Glover, D. (2001). Humanity: A moral history of the 20th century (pp. 18-25). New Haven: Yale University Press.
• 2. De Waal, F. B. M. (2014). Natural normativity: The ‘is’ and ‘ought’ of animal behavior. In F.B.M. de Waal (Ed.), Evolved morality: The Biology and philosophy of human conscience (pp 49-69). Brill.
• 3. Arendt, H. (2003). Responsibility and judgment (pp. 17-48). Schocken.
  • PDF file available in course.

• Thucydides, P War, 378-386. Thucydides, (2013). Thucydides: The war of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians (Mynott, J. Trans.) (pp. 378-386). Cambridge University Press. (Original work published ca. 431 BCE).
• Pinker, S (2018). Is the world getting better or worse? A look at the numbers [Video]. TED Conferences.

Module 4: The security of nations: perspectives on the International political environment

• 1. Hanhimaki, J. M. (2008). United nations: A very short introduction (pp. 21-32). Proquest Ebook Central.
• 2. Kaufman, J. P. (2018). Introduction to international relations: Theory and practice (pp. 31-80). Proquest Ebook Central.

• Ikenberry, G. J. (2020). The next liberal order. Foreign Affairs 99(4), 133–142.
• Brown, G. W., McLean, I., & McMillan, A. (2018). The concise Oxford dictionary of politics and international relations. Globalization entry (page 428). Proquest Ebook Central.
• Ritzer, G., & Dean, P. (2019). Globalization: The essentials. Proquest Ebook Central.

Module 5: Colonialism, Imperialism and the Contemporary Political World

• 1. Loomba, A. (1998). Colonialism-postcolonialism (pp. 1-20). Taylor & Francis Routledge.
*Please note: the third edition of this book has been requested as an e-book. It wasn’t in the collection at the time I made this page.

• 2. Other required and additional resources will be made available on a separate reading list in the course website. These resources will all be accessible through either the Humber library or other websites.

Module 6: The Human Security Approach

• 1. Adelman, J. (2016). Pariah: Can Hannah Arendt help us rethink our global refugee crisis?. Wilson Quarterly 40(2), 1.
• 2. United Nations Trust Fund for Human security (n.d.). What is human security?.
• 3. UNHCR: The UN Refugee Agency (n.d.). Ending statelessness.
• 4. BBC. (2016, March 4). Migrant crisis: Migration to Europe explained in seven charts

• United Nations Trust Fund for Human security (2016, January). UN Human Security Handbook.
Note: a list of documentary films that are available through the Humber library will be provided for you by your instructor that you can use for the Module 6 discussion assignment.

Module 7: Human Security and Economic Security

• 1. Sachs, J. D. The age of sustainable development (pp. 45-69) Columbia University Press, 2015.
• 2. United Nations. (2015, July1). The millennium development goals report 2015.
• 3. United Nations. (n.d.). The sustainable development agenda.

• Ritzer, G., & Dean, P. (2019). Globalization: The essentials. Proquest Ebook Central.
• Brown, G. W., McLean, I., & McMillan, A. (2018). The concise Oxford dictionary of politics and international relations. Globalization entry (page 428). Proquest Ebook Central.

Module 8: Economic Insecurity and Social Instability

Required Resources


• 1.Brown, G. W., McLean, I., & McMillan, A. (2018). The concise Oxford dictionary of politics and international relations John Maynard Keynes entry. (pp. 526-528).
• 2. Klein, E. (Host). (2020, August 13). What would Keynes do? [Audio podcast transcript]. The Ezra Klein Show. Vox.
• 3. Marx, K., & Engels, F. (2020). The communist manifesto (pp. 16-22). ProQuest Ebook Central.

• Krugman, P. (2018).  Introduction. In Keynes, John Maynard. The general theory of employment, interest, and money (pp. xxv-xxxix). Springer International Publishing AG. ProQuest Ebook Central.
• Smith, A., & Wight, J. B. (2007). An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (pp. 291-303). Harriman House.

Module 9: The Insecurity of Democracy? Contemporary Perspectives on Democracy and Economic Crises

• 1. Brown, Wendy (2015). Undoing the demos: Neoliberalism's stealth revolution (pp. 17-45). Brooklyn: Zone Books, 2015.
• 2. Zakaria, F. (1997). The rise of illiberal democracy. Foreign Affairs ,76(6), 22–43.
• 3. Varoufakis, Y. (2016, June). Capitalism will eat democracy-- unless we speak up. [Video]. TED Conferences.

• Fahnbulleh, M. (2020). The neoliberal collapse: Markets are not the answer. Foreign Affairs, 99(1), 38–43.
• Snyder, J. (2019). The broken bargain: How nationalism came back. Foreign Affairs, 98(2), 54–60.

Module 10: Unprecedented Threats of a Digital World

• Wheeler, T. (2018). In cyberwar, there are no rules. Foreign Policy, 230, 34-41.

• Director of national intelligence, United States Government. (2017, January 6). Background to “Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections”: The analytic process and cyber incident attribution.

• Government of Canada, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. (n.d.). Broadband fund: Closing the digital divide in Canada.

• Camillo, C, and Longo, J. (2020, September 8). A Tectonic Shift in the Digital Divide: It’s now deeper than a technological gap. The Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy.

• Anderson, M., Toor, S., Rainie, L., & Smith, A., (2018, Jul 11). Activism in the social media age. Pew Research Center, Internet & Technology.

• Urman, A. (2020). Context matters: political polarization on Twitter from a comparative perspective. Media, Culture & Society, 42(6), 857–879.

• Zuboff, S. (2019). The age of surveillance capitalism: the fight for a human future at the new frontier of power (pp 197-231). Hachette Group.
• PDF file available in course.

"Big Brother” Goes Online: Government Surveillance

• Poitras, L. (2014). Citizenfour / Citizenfour: L histoire d Edward Snowden [Video]. eOne Films.

Module 11: Security and the Environment: Living in a Time of Climate Emergency

• Turner, C. We're doomed. Now what?. In J. Krieger (Ed.), Walrus, 16(9), 36-43.

• United Nations Trust Fund for Human Security. (n.d.). Climate change.

• Lustgarten, A. (26 July, 2020). Refugees from the earth. The New York Times Magazine, 8L.
• Thomas, K., Hardy, R. D., Lazarus, H., Mendez, M., Orlove, B., Rivera-Collazo, I., Roberts, J.T., Rockman, M., Warner, B.P., & Winthrop, R. (2018). Explaining differential vulnerability to climate change: A social science review. WIREs Climate Change, 10(2).

• United Nations Climate Change. (n.d.). Adapting to a changing climate [Video].

Module 12: A Crisis in Real Time: The COVID 19 Pandemic

• Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. (n.d.). Coronavirus ethics and policy insights and resources.
• University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics. (n.d.). COVID-19 bioethics resource.

• CBC News. (n.d.). Tracking the Coronavirus.

• APTN national News. (n.d.). COVID-19.
• Public Health Ontario. (n.d.). Health Equity and COVID-19.
• City of Toronto. (n.d.). COVID-19: Status of Cases in Toronto: COVID-19 infection in Toronto: Ethno-racial identity and income.

• World Health Organization. (2020, October 28). Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): Vaccine access and allocation.
• Johns Hopkins University and Medicine: Coronavirus Research Center. (n.d.). COVID-19 Dashboard by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU).