Pathway 11: Global Order, Violence & Security Practice (COVS)

The Global Order, Violence & Security thematic pathway incorporates expertise across King’s and Queen Mary and its training and research is concerned with theorising the global order, understanding the political and structural status of violence in and outside that order, and the transformations of security discourses and practices underpinning it. Using interdisciplinary theoretical and methodological resources drawn from International Relations (IR), War Studies, State Crime scholarship and International Law, the training combines conventional and critical perspectives on the post-Westphalian international order, its governance and subversion through the rise of various state and non-state forms of violent conflict. There is a particular focus on: the changing processes, structures and institutions of governance; the political, economic and sociological parameters of political violence and the resistance to it posed by subversive discourses, actors and practices; the transformations of security practices; and the ethics and justice of global order.

The four sub-pathways constituting this thematic pathway are: