Sec Clim ChangeMigration

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Juris Doctor, Undergraduate

The purpose of this class is for students to examine a pressing and important global security crisis, propose conceptual management options, and derive potential future individual action participation paths for later exploration. The pressing global security crisis issue that the class will examine is developing policy for managing future climate change mass migration into Europe. More specifically, this course will examine the security crisis implications of future climate change migrations. Challenges to institutions, resource scarcity, urbanization, and sources and characteristics of conflicts will be surveyed. Theoretical and practical considerations regarding the re-shaping of the international order under these stresses will be analyzed. The goal of the course will be to understand key indicators of impending climate change migration crises, and postulate potential mitigation policies. That goal will be accomplished by establishing a solid foundation in climate change trends developments, surveying notable refugee and migration studies, examining EU immigration and security policy choices of recent years, and applying a theoretical model of successful crisis management practices.