Science, Technology, and Security

STIA’s concentration in Science, Technology and Security focuses on the role of science and technology in international security issues. This includes conventional and non-conventional weapons (military weapons of all types, including nuclear weapons, drones, chemical weapons, emerging technologies); biosecurity (biological weapons, infectious diseases, agricultural security); natural resource security (energy security, water security, security issues arising from climate change); and cybersecurity (cyber intelligence, cyber warfare, security of the international cyber economy), and their connections to international affairs.

Concentration Chair: Christopher Lawrence 

Courses:

Fall  

• STIA 3294 – Global Health Security and Diplomacy
• STIA 3334 – Emerging Tech Policy
• STIA 3491 – Cybersecurity: Policy/Technology/Operations
• STIA 3493 – Introduction to Nuclear Security
• STIA 3501 – Science and Finance in Global INnovation
• STIA 4119 – Energy & Environment in Eurasia
• STIA 4119 – Senior Seminar: Energy and Environ in Eurasia
• STIA 4159 – Environmental Security
• STIA 4416 – Spaceflight and Globalization
• STIA 4432 – Technology and Intelligence
• ANSP 3360 – Smaller States and Peacemaking
• ARST 5648 – Environmental & Human Security
• INAF 3247 – Currency Policy and Technology
• IPOL 332 – Counterintelligence and National Security
• PHIL 2102 – Ethical Challenges of AI
• REES 4454 – Information Wars

Spring  

• STIA 3486 – Defense Technology
• STIA 4164 – Environmental Security in the Arctic
• STIA 4172 – Water, Conflict, and Peace
• STIA 4371 – AI Governance and National Policy
• STIA 4375 – Financial Markets and International Security
• STIA 4406 – Space Security & Exploration
• STIA 4420 – Cybersecurity Conflict, and Policy
• STIA 4434 – Artificial Intelligence: Policy Problems
• STIA 4440 – Nuclear Science & Technology
• STIA 4554 – Remote Sensing
• STIA 4935 – Data and Democracies
• STIA 4935 – Technology and Futures of Work
• STIA 4965 – Senior Seminar: Nuclear Proliferation Crisis
• STIA 4965 – The Nuclear Proliferation Crisis
• STIA 4966 – Energy & Environment in China
• STIA 4967 – Surveillance, Governance and IT
• COSC 4710 – Privacy and Surveillance Technologies
• INAF 3228 – Nuclear Weapons & International Security

*Exact course offerings may vary each semester. Please refer to the schedule of classes for the latest STIA course schedules and search by the concentration attribute (SFS/STIA Science/Tech/Security).