Showing 42 courses for the subject Strategic Studies
This course examines war and its aftermath in global politics. It explores different forms of conflict in the international system as well as the changing nature of political violence. It then explores the ways in which actors in the international sy...
This course explores when and why states cooperate with each other, how they structure their cooperation (through informal arrangements, laws, and organisations), and what role(s) various domestic and international actors play in these processes. We ...
The aim of this module is to examine and evaluate the central issues, ideas and concepts that form the foundation for an understanding of the conduct of war in its various forms and in its different operating environments.
This course is a comparative study of Japan’s borders and territorial issues. It includes participation in Border Studies Summer School at Japan’s Hokkaido University. The Summer School will take place between Victoria’s Trimesters 1 and 2.
This course explores the ways in which political ideas and political action shape political outcomes in a variety of situations. The precise content varies year to year, driven by the interests of the students enrolled in the course but a significant...
Special Topic: The Politics of Nuclear Weapons: Disarmament, Arms Control, and Non-Proliferation
INTP451
This course analyses the role of nuclear weapons in international politics. It addresses the origins of the atomic bomb project, early efforts to control nuclear materials, deterrence theory, nuclear strategy and force posture, and considers contempo...
Approaches to Migration Studies
POLS488
This course will introduce students to the study of migration from a range of disciplinary perspectives. Students will examine core issues, concepts, theories and debates in the analysis of migration and how key disciplines (international relations, ...
China and the World
INTP444
This course examines the ongoing international political change as a consequence of the recent ascendance of China in power and influence in the international system. We take China's evolving relations with the liberal international order as a case s...
Media, Politics and Campaigns
POLS404
This course looks at the interrelations of media, communication and politics, especially as they interact in political campaigns and elections. As well as exploring modern campaigns the course covers several related topics and themes, each of which i...
This course examines the politics of the Pacific Island states, and New Zealand’s role in the Oceania region. The first part looks at country-specific issues, including the drivers of the coup cycle in Fiji and sovereignty debates in New Caledonia. T...
Comparative Regional Integration
INTP417
Is the structure of political economy in the contemporary world national, regional or global? This course investigates this question by addressing one of the central issues of comparative politics and international relations: the politics of creating...
This course explores how state and non-state actors are responding to the multiple challenges raised by international migration. With a focus on the cross-border movement of people displaced by climate change, conflict, disasters, and human right abu...
International Political Economy
INTP441
In this course we examine issues in international political economy (IPE). We begin by focusing on the main theoretical perspectives in IPE, before moving to specific issue-areas such as international trade, finance, international investment, globali...
Asian Security
INTP442
This course introduces theoretical approaches to the study of conflict and regional order and applies them to the contemporary Asia-Pacific region. Specific topics covered may include great power rivalry in Asia; real and potential inter-state and in...
Global Civil Society
INTP445
This course explores the relationship of civil society (including NGOs and social movements) to aspects of development both within countries and at the global level. It considers contrasting theoretical views, examines case studies, and stresses the ...
War and its Aftermath
INTP446
This course examines war and its aftermath in global politics. It explores political violence and its fallout in global politics, with a particular emphasis on the experience of war and the way it shapes bodies, lives and societies. Topics include th...
Identity and World Politics
INTP448
The main purpose of this course is to explore the role of national identity in international relations. It will introduce concepts, theories and empirical research on the role of collective identities in shaping states' policies. The first part of th...
This course advances students' understanding of positivist and post-positivist approaches to the study of Political Science and International Relations, as well as providing practical experience in a range of research methods. Students will analyse t...
Pluralism is often said to constitute a basic ‘fact’ of contemporary politics, and contemporary political theory has increasingly shifted away from political goals of unity, purity and a common good to models that take social difference as both inesc...
Some argue that we are in the midst of a crisis of democracy with a decreasing number of people involved in politics. Others claim that the democratic process is actually improving with more people becoming politically engaged. We study different typ...
Borders, Migrants and States
POLS416
This course will investigate the causes and consequences of contemporary human mobility from a political perspective. Topics will include: different modes of contemporary transnational migration, including refugee flows, temporary foreign workers, an...
Aotearoa New Zealand’s unique political system is the subject of significant domestic and international interest. In the first half of the course, we consider events and ideas that have influenced Aotearoa’s political institutions, processes, and act...
Parliamentary Internship
POLS428
This course provides a limited number of selected students with the opportunity of gaining insights into parliamentary processes, the roles and responsibilities of members of Parliament, the functions and activities of the research units, the conduct...
This course advances students' understanding of positivist and post-positivist approaches to the study of Political Science and International Relations, as well as providing practical experience in a range of research methods. Students will analyse t...
This course explores New Zealand's foreign and security policy. Topics covered include NZ's approach to regional issues in Asia and the Pacific, trade, security and defence policy, multilateralism and the UN, key bilateral relationships and cultural ...
Research Essay
STRA519
A research paper on a topic of significance to the field of strategic and security studies.
Dissertation
STRA526
The dissertation allows students to undertake a detailed examination of a strategic studies research topic as a piece of independent research with academic supervision. Trimester 3: Withdrawal with refund by 1/12/2017; withdrawal without refund by 26...
Project
STRA527
This course provides an opportunity for students to examine the development of government policy and practice in an area relevant to strategic studies, or to participate in a larger project in the Centre for Strategic Studies. Students will be superv...
Strategic Studies
STRA531
This course covers strategic thinking from Clausewitz to the 21st century. Emphasis will be placed on the relationship between force and international politics including the role of strategy in limiting international competition and attempts to restr...
This course provides a comprehensive account of leading strategic and security issues in the Asia-Pacific region. Themes include strategic relations between the region's major powers, small state security in the South Pacific and the security role of...
This course will investigate the evolution of New Zealand's recent defence policy, its relationship to New Zealand's overall interests in both the wider world and closer to home, and the place of defence in New Zealand's national security agenda.
This course examines themes in contemporary strategic issues, with a particular focus on the politics of nuclear weapons. The war in Ukraine is not just about European security but it has also raised the much broader issue of great power wars. In tur...
This course introduces students to the strategist’s "toolkit"- qualitative approaches to designing strategy for high-stakes decisions, primarily in a national security context. It explains the uses and abuses of different forms of strategic analysis,...
Special Topic: Future of War
STRA536
This course explores the changing features of war and warfare in the early decades of the 21st century. The course addresses questions such as: what new ways of war could evolve? Is war on the decline or transforming as the domains of cyberspace and ...
Approved course of study
STRA537
A course of study in an approved area of strategic studies led by a member of the academic staff.
Strategic Asia
STRA538
The threat and use of force have come to figure prominently in Asian international politics. This course explores the rationale, concepts, and military doctrines pertaining to the role of force as an instrument of state policy in postwar Asia in gene...
The aim of this course is threefold. First is to ensure a robust understanding of the concept of command and its application in the context of NZDF. Second is to enhance understanding of theories of leadership and its practice. Third is to develop un...
Thesis
STRA595
The Politics of Statebuilding
INTP416
This course examines contemporary state-building missions, such as those to Solomon Islands, East Timor, Bosnia and Kosovo, but is particularly concerned with how foreign-orchestrated interventions interact with local state formation processes. It lo...
This course will focus on fundamental questions such as what political leadership is, and when and why it matters. Classical leadership theories are canvassed, normative questions about leadership addressed, and the relationship between individual le...
Special Topic: China Field Study
INTP452
This course is a study of Chinese politics with special emphasis on how government and politics function in China and China's international relations and includes a field trip to Beijing, China.
This course explores contemporary attempts to deal with the interrelated questions of power, freedom, and justice in modern society. Topics include the nature of power in general and the forms power takes in modern states; the nature of freedom and i...
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