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This is a guest course taught by Dr. Patrick A Mello of the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy. This course will introduce participants to current topics surrounding the politics of international security, and specifically political debates surrounding countries’ participation in multinational military operations, taking a comparative perspective. The three-day course will be split into six sessions, starting with (1) a general introduction to gain an overview over recent political and academic debates surrounding these topics. Individual sessions will focus on (2) party politics and security policy, (3) parliamentary involvement in decision-making on the use of military force, (4) the British parliament and war involvement, (5) coalition and alliance dynamics, including coalition formation, burden-sharing, and coalition withdrawal, and (6) national restrictions in multinational military operations. Full course syllabus is available as a pdf attachment.