Library Course Assessment
International Studies 816-4: Security Studies: Concepts, Theories and Issues
September 3, 2008
Introduction
This is the Library's course assessment for IS 816: Security Studies: Concepts, Theories and Issues. This elective course will be offered at the Harbour Centre campus with an expected enrolment of 10 to 20 students.
Serials
The Library's collection of serials is sufficient to support this course and includes the following titles:
International Security
Journal of Conflict and Security Law
Conflict, Security and Development: CSD
Comparative Strategy
Bibliographic Tools
Students in this course have access to such general International Studies bibliographic tools (provided by Library license) as International Political Science Abstracts and PAIS International. With an increased emphasis on security studies (not just in this course but in other International Studies current course offerings as well), the Library recommends the purchase of a ongoing subsciption to the Armed Conflict Database, produced by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)/Taylor and Francis. The cost of an annual subscription is approximately $936.
Total: $936/year
Monographs
The SFU Belzberg Library has some collections to support this course, but monograph collecting is currently inadequate. Of 20 books listed on the course reading list, only five are now in the Belzberg Library collection (or available online in e-book format):
Kolodziej, Edward A., Security and International Relations, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press , 2005. $74
Krausse, Keith and Michael C. Williams (eds.), Critical Security Studies, London: UCL Press, 1997. $47
Terriff, Terry, Stuart Croft, et al., Security Studies Today: Polity, 1999. $37
Baylis, John, Strategy in the Contemporary World: Introduction to Strategic Studies, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002. $39
Wæver, Ole, de Wilde Jaap, et al., Security: A New Framework for Analysis, Boulder, Colo. ; London: Lynne Rienner, 1998. $15
Caldwell, Dan and Robert E Williams, Seeking Security in an Insecure World, Oxford, Roman and Littlefield, 2006. $28
Chen, Lincoln et.al, Human Insecurity in a Global World, Global Equity Initiative, Harvard University Press, 2003. $23
Global Issues; Selections from the CQ Researcher, CQ Press, 2005 and 2006. $32 + $32 = $64
Kegley, Charles W. Jr (ed), The New Global Terrorism: Characteristics, Causes, Controls ; New Jersey, Pearson Education, 2003. $50
Kennedy-Pipe, Caroline and Clive Jones, International Security in a Global Age: Securing the Twenty-First , London: Frank Cass, 2000. $48
Pettiford, Lloyd and Melissa Curley, Changing Security Agendas and the Third World , London ; New York: Pinter, 1999. $160
Snarr, Michael T and D Neil Snarr, Introducing Global Issues, Second Edition, London , Lynne Rienner publishers, 2002. $27
Snyder, Craig, A., Contemporary Security and Strategy, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999. $102
Jessica Stern, Terror in the Name of God, Why Religious Militants Kill; New York, Harper Collins Publishers, 2003. $11
Total = $725 one-time purchase
In addition to acquiring a copy of each of the books on the reading list, the Library will need to purchase and keep current a core collection of material on this topic. We will need to purchase an average of 10 books per year for this course at an average book price of $70.
Total = $700/year (10 books/year @ $70 each)
One-time monograph purchase costs: $725 (note: to be covered from existing Library funds, no costs to International Studies)
Ongoing monograph purchasing costs: $700/year (note: to be covered form existing Library funds, no costs to International Studies)
**Ongoing bibliographic tools subscription costs: $936/year (note: to be covered by International Studies)**