SSP Wednesday seminar with speaker Bridget Coggins, University of California, Santa Barbara

Abstract: We believe that international threats emanate from failed states. The American government, major foreign powers, and prominent international organizations agree that many states’ weakness, not only a few states’ strength, pose pressing international security problems. Traditional threats generated by governments and their militaries persist, but non-traditional threats - those generated by non-state actors and disproportionately affecting civilians - are believed to have proliferated alongside recent globalization and the faltering of sovereignty. In this talk, I ask, “First, is this true? And further, why do so many people, in so many parts of the world, think that it is?”