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This course explores salient concepts of security and conflict, focusing on contemporary issues and problems. It examines traditional, state-centred topics i.e. interstate and intrastate war, as well as the ‘new security agenda’ involving issues like terrorism, organized crime, environmental security, health security and population trends. Students will gain knowledge of international security and its role in contemporary International Relations through analysis of conceptual factors and case studies. In addition, students will develop critical thinking skills, communication skills and analytical skills, including being able to formulate lucid, concise and rigorous accounts of international security affairs.
| Study Type | Undergraduate | Level | 3 |
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| Term | First Term | Credit Points | 30 credits (15 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Offshore | Sustained Study | No |
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The course looks at the idea of international security from a wide range of perspectives. It considers the debates over the continuing dominance of military and state-based approaches to security, examining the arguments for the widening of the security agenda. In addition to this conceptual approach, the course looks at specific case-studies of security issues in the modern world in order to illustrate the implications of widening the security agenda.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 30 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 15 | Feedback Weeks | 18 | |
| Feedback |
Written feedback will be provided for continuous assessment work. This will normally be provided within three weeks of the submission date. Email feedback on class presentations will also be provided where appropriate. |
Word Count | 3000 | |
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Evaluate | Understand the historical evolution of international security as the primary sub-field of International Relations, particularly since the end of the Cold War. |
| Procedural | Analyse | Analyse the specific ways governments and international organisation manage, or fail to manage, contemporary international security problems. |
| Procedural | Evaluate | Evaluate the main causes of, and potential solutions, to major international security threats, in terms of traditional and new (or human security) challenges. |
| Reflection | Evaluate | Critically evaluate the work of leading experts in the field of international security, and apply that evaluation to one’s own research agenda. |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 50 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 19,20 | Feedback Weeks | 25 | |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Evaluate | Understand the historical evolution of international security as the primary sub-field of International Relations, particularly since the end of the Cold War. |
| Procedural | Analyse | Analyse the specific ways governments and international organisation manage, or fail to manage, contemporary international security problems. |
| Procedural | Evaluate | Evaluate the main causes of, and potential solutions, to major international security threats, in terms of traditional and new (or human security) challenges. |
| Reflection | Evaluate | Critically evaluate the work of leading experts in the field of international security, and apply that evaluation to one’s own research agenda. |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 20 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17 | Feedback Weeks | 10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17 | |
| Feedback |
Written feedback will be provided for continuous assessment work. This will normally be provided within three weeks of the submission date. Email feedback on class presentations will also be provided where appropriate. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Evaluate | Understand the historical evolution of international security as the primary sub-field of International Relations, particularly since the end of the Cold War. |
| Procedural | Analyse | Analyse the specific ways governments and international organisation manage, or fail to manage, contemporary international security problems. |
| Procedural | Evaluate | Evaluate the main causes of, and potential solutions, to major international security threats, in terms of traditional and new (or human security) challenges. |
| Reflection | Evaluate | Critically evaluate the work of leading experts in the field of international security, and apply that evaluation to one’s own research agenda. |
There are no assessments for this course.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 60 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 50,51,52,53 | Feedback Weeks | 4 | |
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| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 40 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 50,51,52,53 | Feedback Weeks | 4 | |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Reflection | Evaluate | Critically evaluate the work of leading experts in the field of international security, and apply that evaluation to one’s own research agenda. |
| Conceptual | Evaluate | Understand the historical evolution of international security as the primary sub-field of International Relations, particularly since the end of the Cold War. |
| Procedural | Evaluate | Evaluate the main causes of, and potential solutions, to major international security threats, in terms of traditional and new (or human security) challenges. |
| Procedural | Analyse | Analyse the specific ways governments and international organisation manage, or fail to manage, contemporary international security problems. |
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