Overview | Summary of Courses

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ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences

This specialisation is available only to students undertaking the Bachelor of International Relations degree program.

The search for security drives many of the actors in the international system.  This minor examines the breadth of the international politics of security by looking at how we determine and respond to threats, and how we pursue security in international relations today.  It will engage with the traditional security agendas of the nation-state, and also examine how climate change, human development, transnational terrorism, the global economy, energy resources and other issues affect our capacity to be secure.

 

Learning outcomes

Students who complete this minor will have the skills and knowledge to:

• Identify and understand the different theories of international security
• Understand the historical development of dominant ideas of security and the challenges to them
• Have a thorough understanding of the major threats facing the international system and the different approaches to addressing them
• Demonstrate a capacity to identify, and critically reflect upon, contemporary policies of security

Requirements

This specialisation may only be undertaken in conjunction with the International Relations major.

This specialisation requires the completion of 24 units, which must include:

24 units from completion of courses from the following list:

HIST2141 – The Cold War: 1945-1989 (6 units)

INTR2012 – China’s New Approaches to Asia-Pacific Security (6 units)

INTR2014 – Indian Foreign and Security Policy (6 units)

INTR2016 – US Security Policy in Asia (6 units)

POLS2085 – Gendered Politics of War (6 units)      

POLS2097 – Strategy I: Grand Strategy, Peace and Security through War, Power, Force and Fraud (6 units)

POLS2098 – Strategy II: Revolution, Terror, Resistance, Rebellion and Death (6 units)

POLS2099 – Cartographies of Security: Critical Security Studies and International Politics (6 units)

POLS2101 - Refugee Politics (6 units)

POLS2113 – Human Rights in International Relations (6 units)

POLS2XXX – Theories of International Security and Conflict (6 units)

POLS2XXX – Theories of Nuclear Proliferation, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (6 units)

POLS2XXX – International Security and Conflict (6 units)

POLS2XXX – Security Communities (6 units)

POLS2XXX – Peace and Conflict Studies (6 units)

STST2001 – International Security Issues in the Asia-Pacific (6 units)

STST3001 – Australia’s Security in the Asian Century (6 units)

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