Module: INT5000-20 International Conflict, Security and Development

Level: 5

Credit Value: 20

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1. Brief description and aims of module:

This module will enable you to critically evaluate major aspects of post-war foreign and  security policy, looking both nationally and internationally to explore the pressures,  priorities and responses adopted by different countries at different times. It considers  the major players and the emerging ones and the shifting balances of power at critical  moments in post-war foreign policy, diplomacy and politics: Cold War brinkmanship;  the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union; 9/11 and the ‘War on  Terror’; democratic and anti-democratic movements in the Middle East; the rise of  populism and the far right; the emergence of China as a dominant economic power.

2. Outline syllabus: 

The module investigates a series of crises in world affairs and uses them to analyse:

 ● The ideological or pragmatic positions underpinning different responses to  major events, challenges or perceived challenges

• The resources available in planning and implementing possible responses to crisis, and the domestic and international pressures which also helped to shape them

• The role of the intelligence services and intelligence gathering

• The role of international agencies, brokers and negotiators

• The role of economic and corporate interests in helping to set or inform foreign policy decisions

• ● Scenario planning and what if: how it might have happened

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3. Teaching and learning activities: 

This module is taught through seminars and discussion groups

Assessment Item 1:

• Assessment Type: Course Work

• Description: Foreign policy or security briefing for a defined audience (2000  words)

• % Weighting: 40%

Assessment Item 2:

• Assessment Type: Course Work

• Description: Research paper (3000 words)

• % Weighting: 60%