Module 1:
- Allen, Robert C. (2011). Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press.
- Frowe, Helen (2016). The Ethics of War and Peace, An Introduction. London: Routledge.
- Galtung, Johan (1969). Violence, Peace, and Peace Research, Journal of Peace Research 6(3).
- Kant, Emmanuel (1795). Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch.
- Kende, Istvan (1989). The History of Peace: Concepts and Organizations from the Late Middle Ages to the 1870s. Journal of Peace Research 26(3).
- Ledgwidge, Frank (2020). Aerial Warfare: A very short Introduction, Oxford: Oxford University Press
- Nye, Joseph S., Jr. and Welch, David A. 2014. Understanding Global Conflict and Cooperation: An Introduction to Theory and History, 10th Edition. Boston: Pearson.
- Mitchell, Jolyon and Rey, Joshua (2011). War and religion: A very short introduction. Oxford University Press
- Roland, Alex (2016). War and technology, A very short introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press
- Sidebottom, Harry (2004). Ancient warfare: A very short introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press
- Skinner, Quentin (2019). Modern war: A very short introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press
- Wallerstein, Immanuel (1974). Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System, Comparative Studies in Society and History 16(4).
- Paul D. Williams (ed.) (2018). Security Studies: An Introduction. Routledge.
Additional book chapters and journal articles, maximum 100 pages.
Module 2:
- Galtung, Johan, 1969. Violence, Peace and Peace Research. Journal of Peace Research 21(3): 167-191.
- Goldstein, Joshua, 2001. War and Gender: How Gender Shapes the War System and Vice Versa. Cambridge University Press
- Kaldor, Mary, 2012. New and Old Wars (third edition). Cambridge: Polity Press
- Scheper-Hughes, Nancy and Philip Bourgois, 2003. Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology, London: Blackwell Publishers.
- Williams, Paul D. (ed.), 2013 (or later). Security Studies, An Introduction. Routledge (selected parts).
Additional book chapters and journal articles, maximum 250 pages.
Module 3:
- Chesterman, Simon, Franck, Thomas M., & Malone, David M., 2016, Law and Practice of the United Nations, Oxford University Press
- Frowe, Helen (2016). The Ethics of War and Peace, An Introduction. London: Routledge (selected parts)
- Henriksen, Anders, International Law, 2017, Oxford University Press
- Weiss, Thomas G., Forthsythe, David P., Coate, Roger A & Pease, Kelly-Kate, The United Nations and Changing World Politics, 2017, 8th edition, Westview Press.
- Williams, Paul D (ed.) (2013) (or later). Security Studies, An Introduction, Abingdon, Routledge (selected parts).
Legal instruments and documents, 200 pages.
Module 4:
- Balzacq, Thierry. 2011. A theory of securitization, Origins, core assumptions, and variants. Balzacq, Thierry (ed.), Securitization Theory; How Security Problems Emerge and Dissolve. London and New York: Routledge.
- Bandura, Albert. 2016. Moral Disengagement, How People Do Harm and Live With Them-selves. New York: Worth Publishers (selected parts).
- Brewer, Marilynn B. (1996) When Contact is not Enough: Social Identity and Intergroup Cooperation. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 20(3-4): 291-303.
- Dodge, Toby. 2012. Enemy Images, Coercive Socio-Engineering and Civil War in Iraq. International Peacekeeping, 19(4). (461-477)
- Entman, Robert M. (1993) Framing: Toward Clarification of a Fractured Paradigm. Journal of Communication 43(4): 51-58
- Entman Robert M. (1994) Representation and Reality in the Portrayal of Blacks on Network Television News. Journalism Quarterly 71(3): 509-520.
- Fiske, Susan T., Cuddy, Amy J. C., Glick, Peter, Xu, Jun. 2002. A Model of (Often Mixed) Stereotype Content: Competence and Warmth Respectively Follow From Perceived Status and Competition. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82(6):878-902.
- Galtung, Johan (1990) Cultural Violence. Journal of Peace Research 27(3): 291–305.
- Harle, Vilho (2000) The Enemy with a Thousand Faces. Westport: Praeger (selected parts).
- Luostarinen, Heikki. 1989. Finnish Russophobia: The Story of an Enemy Image. Journal of Peace Research 26(2).
- Mania, Eric W. et al. 2010. Intergroup Contact: Implications for Peace Education. Handbook of Peace Education. New York: Psychology Press.
- McDonald, Matt. 2018. Constructivism. Security Studies, An Introduction. London: Routledge
- Oppenheimer, Louis (2006). The Development of Enemy Images: A Theoretical Contribution. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 12(3) 269–292
- Petersson, Bo (2009). ”Hot Conflict and Everyday Banality: Enemy images, scapegoats and stereotypes”. Development, 2009, 52(4), (460–465)
- Pettigrew, Thomas F. (1998) Intergroup Contact Theory. Annual Review of Psychology 49:1: 65-85.
- Pettigrew, Thomas F. et al. (2011). “Recent advances in intergroup contact theory”. International Journal of Intercultural Relations 35 (2011) 271–280
- Post, Jerrold M (1999). “The Psychopolitics of Hatred: Commentary on Ervin Staub’s Article” in Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Journalism 5(4)
- Ramasubramian, Srividya (2007). Media-Based Strategies to Reduce Racial Stereotypes Activated by News Stories. Journalism and Mass Communication Quaterly 84(2): 249-264.
- Reyes, Antonio (2011) Strategies of legitimization in political discourse: From words to actions. Discourse & Society. 22(6) 781–807
- The SAGE Handbook of Prejudice, Stereotyping and Discrimination (c2010). Ed. John Dovidio (London: SAGE) Chapter: 1, 4-15, 30-35
- The SAGE Handbook of Propaganda (2019). Ed. Paul Baines, Nicholas O’Shaughnessy, and Nancy Snow (London: SAGE) (selected parts).
- Silverstein, Brett (1989). Biases in the Perception and Cognition of the Actions of Enemies. Journal of Social Issues 45(2). 51-72
- Silverstein, Brett (1989) Enemy Images,The Psychology of US. Attitudes and Cognitions Regarding the Soviet Union. American Psychologist, 44(6) 903-913 903-91
- Snyder, Mark; Tanke, Elizabeth Decker; Berscheid, Ellen (1977) Social Perception and Interpersonal Behavior: On the Self-Fulfilling Nature of Social Stereotypes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 35(9): 656-666.
- Steuter, Erin; Wills, Deborah (2008) At War with Metaphor: Media, Propaganda, and Racism in the War on Terror, Lanham: Lexington Books. Available as e-book through the Malmö University library.
- Worchel, Stephen (1978) Facilitation of Social Interaction Through Deindividuation of the Target. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 36(5): 549-556.
Additional book chapters and journal articles, maximum 250 pages.