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in which the Gulf Cooperation in five main regions: America, Asia, knowledge. In the final semester,
Council states tackle regional and Europe, Africa and the Middle East. students will select and finalize a
international political, economic and MIR 509 - Regional and thesis topic and in consultation with
security challenges both individually International Security their supervisors, submit the thesis
and collectively. proposal. The thesis maybe on the
Credit Hours: 3 wide-ranging topic, empirical or
MIR 507 - International Nuclear Prerequisite: MIR 502, MIR 503, theoretical, reflecting the breadth of
Politics MIR 504 International Relations. Research can
Credit Hours: 3 This course provides the foundations be wholly or largely library-based or
can involve empirical data collection,
Prerequisite: MIR 501, MIR 502, MIR for analyzing the enduring questions and culminate in the submission of a
504, MIR 505 of regional and international 20,000-word thesis.
security. The course develops the
This course will introduce students analytic tools that are useful for
to the politics and history of understanding how the regional or
nuclear weapons, its significance, international environments generate
the strategies developed for their threats and opportunities for states.
use, the consequences of their The course covers a broad spectrum ARABIC COURSE
development, and the efforts of traditional and non- traditional
to control and reverse their security issues (non-military and
proliferation. In addressing these human security) examined from a
issues, the students will study a regional and global context. The DESCRIPTIONS
variety of case studies, including field of security issues is no longer
the 5 formal nuclear weapon limited to traditional security threats
states as well as key regional such as military threats, terrorism,
players. Ultimately, the course law enforcement and critical
raises questions about the nuclear infrastructure protection; it also COLLEGE OF ARTS, EDUCATION, AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
strategies that have been pursued includes non-traditional security
by different states. Given the current threats such as humanitarian
security threat landscape facing the intervention, economic security, Master of Arts in Digital and Strategic Communication
Gulf today, it is pertinent for the and environmental security. This
students to familiarize themselves postgraduate program, also,
with the major players and concepts examines the theoretical and COLLEGE OF LAW
within the subject. conceptual frameworks that tend to
explain geopolitical security issues Master of Public Law
MIR 508 - International and interests.
Terrorism Master of Private Law
Credit Hours: 3 MIR 599 - Thesis
Prerequisite: MIR 502, MIR 503 Credit Hours: 6
Prerequisite: Reg. in Last Semester MILITARY PROGRAMS
This course emphasizes the
international dimensions of terrorism All students in the M.A. program
and its associated transnational should complete a Thesis on a Master of Human Resources Management
patterns and problems. The course subject of their choice as part of (In Arabic For Military)
examines the evolution of the their postgraduate degree. The
phenomenon of terrorism, which Thesis is worth 6 credit hours, and
has reemerged as a lead feature is compulsory for students taking
of contemporary international the Master of International Relations
relations. It addresses the questions degree. The thesis offers students
of definition of terrorism, history the opportunity to develop, organize
of the concept, perspectives on and carry out a research that will
causes, and the emergence of New further develop their research and
Terrorism after September 11, written skills; it is the culmination of
2001. The course will also deal with studies in International Relations.
several terrorism-related issues such The thesis will provide students
as cyber terrorism, international with an opportunity to integrate
counter-terrorism, and weapons of and hone a variety of skills acquired
mass destruction. And the final part and extended during their studies,
of the course will focus on terrorism and to significantly deepen their

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