Cursos / 1º Ciclo / Faculty of Law :: International Relations

POLÍTICA DE SEGURANÇA E DEFESA - 2016/2017

3º curricular year
Semestralidade: 1st semester
ECTS: 6

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutor João Amorim Esteves
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutor João Amorim Esteves

Class type and School hours

Orientação Tutorial : 1 Horas
Teórico-prática : 2 Horas

Teaching Language

Portuguese

Main Aims/Objectives

Acquisition of structural knowledge in this area; - Identify Security and Defence Policy as method and analytical and interpretative instrument of the Political Science and International Relations, through the International Security Studies; - Reflection on the most important issues of contemporary security and defense, at national, regional and global level.

Specific Aims/Objectives

Of conceptual and operational framework, from the Defense to the Security; Of the international framework in terms of units and the main political groupings, and of the IO; Of the conflictual factors and of the sensitive borders, while ´Tension and Conflictive Zones´ (TCZ), which may put in danger the Common and Global Security; Of Security and Defense in Portugal (the Military Components and Non Military of the Defense); Of the culture of National Defense.

Skills to be acquired

To develop the ability of searching and selection of relevant information on issues of Security and Defense; - Of critical analysis about political phenomena owen of the disciplines that contribute to their reading and interpretation; - Of consolidation of structural concepts and others, relating to the discussion of key issues about the global geopolitical reality and of the national Security and Defense.

Teaching Procedures

Expository Method: presentation and discussion of the program´s themes. Active method: critical analysis of texts; internet searches, oral and written presentation of thematic works, appealling to audio-visual media. In the tutorials sessions will be done, always it is possible, the monitoring of each student, guiding their study and research for the development of the respective IT.

Programme

1. Introdution of the Professor and of the Discipline:
1.1.Justification of the importance of the discipline in the IR degree
1.2. Nature, object and methodology
1.3. The Bibliography
2. Conceptual framework:
2.1. Power and Sovereignty
2.2. The State; Aspirations and interests of the States
2.3. Goals - political objectives
2.4. The Strategic Area of National Interest
2.5. The symbols of the States.
2.6. Of the International Organizations (IO)
2.7. The Crisis
2.8. The War
2.9. Operational Policy definition - Of Strategy - Of geopolitics and Geostrategy
2.10. Factors of the Strategic Potential
3. Conceptual framework (Cont):
3.1. Threat and Risk, Security and Defence - restricted and expanded concepts (relationship in strategic terms)
3.2. Factors of instability (national, regional and global vision)
3.3. The concepts in Portugal
3.4. Strategic Functions
4. International Environment:
4.1. The United Nations and Global Security
4.2. The NATO and the Collective Security
4.3. Geopolitical and geostrategic characterization of Europe - Common Security
5. The European Construction:
5.1. Origin and development of the EU (security aspects)
5.2. The European Defence - The Treaties, the CFSP and ESDP
6. The Lisbon Treaty:
6.1. Challenges of the CSDP (general advances - essential innovations - adjustments at various levels)
6.2. The European defense and the transatlantic relationship
6.3. The present crisis (Daesh - Refugies - Brexit)
6.4. Prospects for the XXI Century
7. Mini - Test
8. The OSCE - Portugal and the OSCE
8.1. The CPLP
9. The European Security boundaries: - The Baltic States, the Ukraine, the Balkans - the Maghreb - the Middle East and the Caucasus - The role of the Regional Powers and the Alliances
10. Security and Defence in Portugal:
10.1. The Defence Policy
10.2. The Strategic Concept of the National Defence (2013)
10.3. The Strategic Planning of the National Defence
10.4. The superior structure of the National Defence
11. Aspects of the Military Component of the National Defence.
11.1. Non-Military Defence Components:
11.2. The National Emergency Planning System
11.3. The National Civil Protection System
11.4. The National Crisis Management System
11.5. The National Fire and Civil Protection Service
12. Security Policy in Portugal:
12.1. The Homeland Security
12.2. The Information System
13. Mini-Test
14. The Economic Component of the Defense
15. The Defense Culture

Evaluation Type

The evaluation system is carried out according to the rules defined in the General Regulation of Knowledge Assessment of the Lusíada Universities. It will therefore be taken into account, in addition to the final evaluation, the importance of the ´contínuous avaliation´ considering, the interest and the attendance, the degree of participation in class, conducting works, mini-tests, among other elements.

Teaching Resources

Overhead projector (OHP) - acetates; - Computer and data projector; - Maps; - Specific documentation.

Sustainability Objectives

Keywords

Threat - Risk - Crisis - War - Strategy -Geopolítics - Geostrategy - Security - Defence

Main Bibliography

Complementary Bibliography