AIR242 - Key Concepts in International Relations
Unit details
Year: | 2019 unit information |
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Enrolment modes: | Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Online |
Credit point(s): | 1 |
EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
Trimester 2 Unit Chair: | Sally Totman Marshall |
Prerequisite: | Nil |
Corequisite: | Nil |
Incompatible with: | AIR342 |
Scheduled learning activities - campus: | 1 x 1 hour class per week, 1 x 1 hour seminar per week |
Scheduled learning activities - cloud (online): | 1 x 1 hour class per week (recordings provided) and 1 x 1 hour online seminar per week |
Content
The nature and purpose of the study of international relations is now widely contested. This is reflected in the diversification of theoretical approaches in the field. Conventional perspectives (realism, neorealism), once largely unchallenged, now face both reformist (liberalism, rationalism) and critical (Marxism, postmodernism) rivals. This unit focuses on the evolution of international thought last century by concentrating on the debates and disputes between competing intellectual perspectives. The approaches of various theoretical traditions to the central actors and issues in global politics-such as human rights, war, sovereignty, markets and the environment are a central focus of the unit.
Assessment
Assessment 1 - Essay - 60%
Assessment 2 - Exam - 40%
Unit Fee Information
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