Strategic and Security Studies - 2nd semester
Code
722071086
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Estudos Políticos
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
António Horta Fernandes
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
To know the strategic discipline because when technical literature falls upon this area international conflits regardless of the theoric and empirical observed positions, the object upon which it falls is strategy itself. Therefore we express ourselves in terms of strategic terminology. So, the student must know the subject area of strategy. To perceive the evolution of strategic thinking. And equationate the concepts of security and defense in the light of strategy.
Prerequisites
None
Subject matter
The aim of Strategy
Strategy, Geopolitics and Geostrategy
Strategy between politics and tactics
Strategy and war
The birth of strategy
The thinking of Clausewitz
The concept of nation at war in earl XX century
Strategy and total war
Strategy at a nuclear and subversive era
The most important of strategic studies today: French and Portuguese schools
Strategy, peace studies and security studies
Strategy and terrorism, an impossible relation
Bibliography
Fernandes, António Horta, acolher ou Vencer? A estratégia e a guerra na actualidade, Lisboa, Esfera do Caos , 2011.
ABREU, Francisco, FERNANDES, António Horta, Pensar a Estratégia. Do político-militar ao empresarial, Lisboa, Sílabo, 2004.
COUTAU-BÉGARIE, Hervé, Traité de Stratégie, Paris, Economica, 1999.
COUTO, Abel Cabral, Elementos de Estratégia. Apontamentos para um curso, 2 vols., Lisboa, IAEM, [s.d.].
Teaching method
Classical magistral display followed by the debate of the theme in analysis, often with the discussion of texts previously released to the learners.
Evaluation method
Examination (80%) and Critical Recension (20%).