733A46 · 7.5 credits · Advanced level (A1N) · Statsvetenskap

International and European Security

Active · next start VT 2027

97%

passed the latest ordinary exam

TENT · 28 Mar 2026 · 38 students

95%

passed the ordinary exams, all sittings over the last 5 years

TENT · 148 students

28%

Harder than 28% of courses at advanced level

Compared with 285 courses at the same level, ordinary exams over the last three academic years. 72 students.

Part of 1 programme

Exam

95% passed · 148 students

100% passed · 14 students

Pass the re-exam: 100% (14 students), compared with 95% (148 students) on the ordinary exam
Get B or A: 48% (162 students)

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100% passed · 157 students

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After completion of the course the student should be able to:

understand and discuss different theories and conceptualizations of security;
analyze contemporary security issues, in a global, regional, and specifically European context;
recognize and critically discuss patterns of security relations in the world;
analyze and discuss the development and possible futures of the European Union in a security perspective.

The main themes of the course are:

theoretical approaches to security;
the deepening and broadening scope of security studies;
international and European structures and institutions for security;
the security policy process at different levels of the international and European system;
the Common Security and Foreign Policy of the European Union.