The session is focused on military threats in contemporary world. First part deals with conceptualization of contemporary military threats, mostly with various forms of armed conflicts. The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and issues of insurgency and counterinsurgency are analysed as specific military threats in 21^st century. Second part is based on research of interactions between military sphere and extremism. General relations between extremism and military are conceptualized. Special attention will be paid to two challenges of contemporary Europe – foreign fighters and paramilitarism in extremist milieu. 

I. Overview of Military Threats

1. General Conceptualization of Contemporary Military Threats;

2. Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction

3. Insurgency and Counterinsurgency

II. Extremist threats and Military Sphere

1. Conceptualization of Relations between Extremism and Military Sphere

2. Foreign Fighters and Extremism 

Compulsory reading:

Kristensen, H. M. – Norris, R. S. (2017): Worldwide Deployments of Nuclear Weapons, 2017. Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Vol. 73, Issue 6, 289-297. Available from: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00963402.2017.1363995 (14 pages)

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