國立中興大學教學大綱
課程名稱 (中) 亞洲非傳統安全研究與永續發展(6087)
(Eng.) Non-Traditional Security and Sustainable Development of Asia
開課單位 國政所
課程類別 選修 學分 3 授課教師 辛妮娜
選課單位 亞洲中國學程 / 碩士班 授課使用語言 英文 開課學期 1142
課程簡述 Security studies have long been associated with military threats, state survival, and strategic competition among great powers. However, in the absence of large-scale wars, the meaning and practice of security have expanded significantly. This course introduces students to this shift and explains the core idea that security today extends beyond armies and borders to include a range of non-traditional sectors. With the primary focus on the Asian context, the course dissects the eurocentrism of the security paradigm and highlights how dense populations, deep social inequalities, lack of basic infrastructure, diversity and limited resources have been at center of Asian “insecurities”. The course is structured to first ground students in key theoretical debates within security studies.

By engaging with approaches such as traditional realism, broadened and deepened security frameworks, human security, and critical security perspectives, students will develop the analytical tools needed to question what counts as a “security threat,” whose security matters, and how security is produced and governed. This theoretical foundation equips students to better understand and critically assess real-world practices, policies, and how these responses reshape regional cooperation, state sovereignty, and everyday life. By the end of the course, students will be able to connect abstract debates to concrete security issues shaping Asia today.
先修課程名稱
課程與核心能力關聯配比(%) 課程目標之教學方法與評量方法
課程目標 核心能力 配比(%) 教學方法 評量方法
1) Develop a clear understanding of the origins and evolution of Security Studies as a sub-discipline of International Relations

2) Acquire a holistic grasp of the conceptual and empirical landscape of Critical Security Studies by engaging with contemporary theoretical debates that challenge traditional notions of threat, referent objects, and security practices.

3)Apply critical thinking skills to examine linkage among different layers and versions of security
專題探討/製作
參訪
討論
講授
出席狀況
口頭報告
作業
授課內容(單元名稱與內容、習作/每週授課、考試進度-共16週加自主學習)
週次 授課內容
第1週 Introducing Security

Baldwin, David A. “The Concept of Security.” Review of International Studies 23, no. 1 (1997): 5–26. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20097464.

Walker, R. B. J. ”Security: When? Where? From what? Of what? For whom?.” In Security Studies: An Applied Introduction , Chapter 2
第2週 Transformations within Security Studies

Smith, Steve. ”The increasing insecurity of security studies: Conceptualizing security in the last twenty years.” In Critical Reflections on Security and Change, pp. 72-101. Routledge, 2013.

Bellanova, R., Jacobsen, K. L., & Monsees, L. (2020). Taking the trouble: science, technology and security studies. Critical Studies on Security, 8(2), 87–100. https://doi.org/10.1080/21624887.2020.1839852
第3週 The Copenhagen School of Security Studies

Buzan, Barry, Ole Wæver, and Jaap De Wilde. Security: A new framework for analysis. Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1998.

Chapter 1: (Page 1-10)
Chapter 2: (Page 20-45)
Chapter 8: (Page 163-190)
第4週 Aberystwyth School of Security Studies

Booth, Ken. “Security and Emancipation.” Review of International Studies 17, no. 4 (1991): 313–26. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20097269.

Bajpai, K. (2003). The Idea of Human Security. International Studies, 40(3), 195-228. https://doi.org/10.1177/002088170304000301 (Original work published 2003)

United Nations Development Programme. Human Development Report 1994: New Dimensions of Human Security. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
第5週 Postcolonial Perspective on Security

Bilgin, Pinar. ”Securing the postcolonial.” In Routledge handbook of postcolonial politics, pp. 48-57. Routledge, 2018.

Persaud, Randolph B. ”Security studies, postcolonialism and the Third World.” In Race, Gender, and Culture in International Relations, pp. 155-179. Routledge, 2018.
第6週 Paris School and Security Studies

Bigo, Didier. ”International political sociology.” In Security Studies, pp. 140-154. Routledge, 2008.

Gricius, G. Whose anxiety? What practices? The Paris School and ontological security studies. Int Polit 61, 322–342 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41311-023-00543-8

Security Research Database: https://security-research-map.eu/
第7週 (mid-term assignment) Choose a sample of people around (8-10). Ask them following questions:
1) “What threatens them most”?
2) “Why this is the immediate threat for them?
3) “Do they think it can be addressed? And who they want to address it”?

選擇周圍約8至10人作為樣本,向他們提出以下問題:
1) 「什麼對他們構成最大威脅?」
2) 「為何此威脅對他們具有迫切性?」
3) 「他們認為此威脅能否被解決?若能,希望由誰來解決?」

Use this new data and the discussed frameworks in the class to prepare a reflection PPT. (運用這些新資料與課堂中討論的框架,準備一份反思簡報。)
第8週 Guest Lecture Sahand Faez “Iran Sanctions Debate: Whose security is at the center here?”
第9週 Environment Security: Climate Change and Southeast Asia

Elliott, Lorraine. Climate change and migration in Southeast Asia: Responding to a new human security challenge. S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies., 2022.

Howe, B. (2019). Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar: The Perfect Storm? In: Hernandez, C., Kim, E., Mine, Y., Xiao, R. (eds) Human Security and Cross-Border Cooperation in East Asia. Security, Development and Human Rights in East Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95240-6_6

Caballero-Anthony, Mely, Paul Teng, Goh Tian, Maxim Shrestha, and Jonatan Lassa. ”Linking climate change adaptation and food security in ASEAN.” Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) (2015).
第10週 Terrorism and Indian State Security

Ogden, C. (2013). Tracing the Pakistan–Terrorism Nexus in Indian Security Perspectives: From 1947 to 26/11. India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs, 69(1), 35-50. https://doi.org/10.1177/0974928412472102

Chandra, V. (2020). India’s Counter-Terrorism Diplomacy at the United Nations: Progress and Problems. India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs, 76(1), 40

Feyyaz, M., & Husnain Bari, S. (2024). A critical analysis of India and Pakistan’s terrorism discourse in the context of geopolitics and imperialism. Critical Studies on Terrorism, 17(3), 606–630. https://doi.org/10.1080/17539153.2024.2360274
第11週 Illicit Drugs and Insecurities

Thoson, Nicholas, and Patrick Meehan. ”Understanding the drugs policy landscape in Myanmar.” (2021).

Meehan, Patrick, Mandy Sadan, Sai Aung Hla, Sai Kham Phu, and Nang Muai Oo. ”Young people’s everyday pathways into drug harms in Shan State, Myanmar.” Third World Quarterly 43, no. 11 (2022): 2712-2730.

Banerjee, Sreeparna. ”From poppy fields to black markets: Understanding the drug trade across India and Myanmar.” In From poppy fields to black markets: understanding the drug trade across India and Myanmar: Banerjee, Sreeparna. New Delhi, India: ORF, Observer Research Foundation, 2024.
第12週 Misgovernance and Security

Hassan, Ahmed Mohamed. ”The impact of corruption on the human security of societies in transition (Iraq case study since 2003).” Review of Economics and Political Science 9, no. 3 (2024): 212-232.

Barthwal-Datta, Monika. Understanding security practices in south asia. Taylor & Francis, 2012. Chapter 3

Nundy, Samiran, Keshav Desiraju, and Sanjay Nagral. Healers or predators?: Healthcare corruption in India. Oxford University Press, 2018. Chapter 4
第13週 Borders, Mobility and Security Narratives

Part I
Plümmer, Franziska. ”Chinese border security: historical and contemporary threat perceptions at China’s borders.” In Handbook on Migration to China, pp. 307-321. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025.

Elena Barabantseva, When Borders Lie Within: Ethnic Marriages and Illegality on the Sino-Vietnamese Border, International Political Sociology, Volume 9, Issue 4, December 2015, Pages 352–368

Part II
Sarkar, Swagato. ”The illicit economy of power: smuggling, trafficking and the securitization of the Indo-Bangladesh borderland.” Dialectical Anthropology 41, no. 2 (2017): 185-199.

Liang, Xiaochen. ”Marriage trafficking: Demand, exploitation, and conducive contexts—A study in China–Vietnam border areas.” Violence against women 29, no. 3-4 (2023): 548-579.
第14週 Networks Society and Security Threats

Arquilla, John. Bitskrieg: the new challenge of cyberwarfare. John Wiley & Sons, 2021. Chapter 1

Ad’ha Aljunied, Syed Mohammed. ”The securitization of cyberspace governance in Singapore.” Asian Security 16, no. 3 (2020): 343-362.

Slupska, Julia. ”Safe at home: Towards a feminist critique of cybersecurity.” St Antony’s International Review 15, no. 1 (2019): 83-100.
第15週 Critical Security Studies and Methods

Salter, Mark B., and Can E. Mutlu. ”Research methods in critical security studies.” New York, NY (2013).
Chapter 10: Listening to Migrants Stories
Chapter 33: Pictoral texts
第16週 Final Assignment
自主學習
內容
   01.參與專業論壇、講座、企業分享等產官學研相關交流活動
   03.製作專題報告

學習評量方式
Attendance 10%
Mid-term Reflection PPT 20%
Class Discussion/Presentation 30%
Final Written Assignment 40%
教科書&參考書目(書名、作者、書局、代理商、說明)

課程教材(教師個人網址請列在本校內之網址)
Fakhri Abdurrahman Muhammad
Email ID: fakhrirosadi@gmail.com
課程輔導時間
Tuesday 14:00-17:00
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