Disruptive and Emerging Technologies

Level: Undergraduate

Policy and Practice: Artificial Intelligence (AI), autonomous systems, robotics, and quantum technologies (to name but a few) present novel, disruptive, and often unforeseen challenges for policymakers globally. This course provides an overview of critical technology policy challenges, with a focus on 4th Industrial Revolution technologies and their impact on international peace and security.

Global Policy Challenges

Level: Postgraduate

This full-semester course provides students with the tools needed to analyze critical global policy challenges, with a focus on their implications for international relations, international security, and the creation of policy. Students explore the complexities of international relations, global climate change, conflict trends, disruptive technologies, nuclear proliferation, the space race, the great power implications of a new Cold War, and emerging global policy challenges.

Contemporary Security Policy & Country Risk Analysis

This course provides an introduction to the diverse and contested field of security studies. Alongside the study of theory, the course covers a wide range of contemporary security policy issues – from the ‘return’ of inter-state conflict, to geopolitics, terrorism, pacifist approaches, and new technologies– and applies the theories and concepts of security studies and International Relations Theory to real-world examples.

Country Risk Analysis (Online)

In today’s volatile world, analyzing and anticipating geopolitical risks is critical for professionals who operate multinational businesses, assess global investments, or do work related to foreign policy. This certificate program helps you hone your analytical skills so that you can more easily navigate the complex dynamics of the current international landscape. Find our more about this course through eCornell.