Global Security Concentration
GLOBAL SECURITY
Intersections between science, technology and international conflict are essential to understanding our world. This concentration examines how scientific discoveries and transnational infrastructures can help pave the roads to both war and peace. In a variety of technological sectors ranging from nuclear energy to information technology, many of the same infrastructures that connect states can also be weaponized to fuel instability and state violence. Students will investigate how shared infrastructures, energy generation, material resources and international transit shape the relationships between actors in the global arena and can be used as tools of peace and conflict.
Faculty: Christopher Lawrence, Jeremy Mathis, Marcus King
Science Path: Physics, computer science, environmental science, biology
Methods: Policy analysis, statistics