The purpose of the second semester is to extend understanding of the different dimensions of security in the Asia-Pacific region, nuclear biological and chemical weapons proliferation; economic and energy security; issues such as terrorism and counter-terrorism and trans-national crime as a security challenge; environmental pressures and resource competition; and ethnic conflict and separatism. The course will also look at different approaches to promoting security, and will consider the issues of regional order, alliances, international law, NGOs and civil society, intervention and peace operations as examples of the range of approaches. By the end of this two semester course, students should have a clear understanding of the nature of the major powers in Asia, the key issues that drive their security policies in this region, the most serious points of pressure and international tension and the forms of international tension and conflict that are most likely to characterise this region in the coming quarter of a century.

Tutorial attendance and participation (10%), Tutorial presentation (10%), Rapid Response Papers 25%, Essay 1 (30%), Exam or Review Essay 2 (25%).

32 contact hours per semester
One 2-hour session per week for twelve weeks, and a 1-hour tutorial per week for ten weeks of the semester. The formal teaching sessions will involve leading specialist deliverers, videos, debates and some hypothetical and other decision games.

ASIA2028.

Ken Booth (ed), Critical Security Studies and World Politics, New York: Lynne Rienner, 2005

Students are also encouraged to read selectively from: The Far Eastern Economic Review; Jane's Defence Weekly; The Guardian; The Economist.