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Master of International Law units offered by other departments

MIL candidates must complete 42 credit points of units of study offered by Sydney Law School with the remaining 6 credit point unit to be chosen from the following list of approved units offered by other departments. CODE* UNIT OF STUDY NAME Summer School^ CISS6020-43 Geopolitics of Energy Security in Asia Semester 1 CISS6016-1 Chinese Foreign and Security Policy GOVT6111-1 Chinese Politics GOVT6358-1 Comparative Migration Policy GOVT6108-1 Democracy and Development in SE Asia CISS6004-1 Disease and Security GOVT6147-1 Foundations of International Relations GOVT6319-8 Governance and Public Policy Making GOVT6116-7 International Organisations GOVT6119-1 International Security GOVT6121-1 Northeast Asian Politics GOVT6316-1 Policy Making, Power and Politics CISS6008-1 Population and Security GOVT6331-1 Public Management and Government CISS6002-1 Strategy and Security in the Asia-Pacific CISS6017-1 Transnational Threats & Organised Crime CODE* UNIT OF STUDY NAME Winter School^ Semester 2 CISS6015-2 CISS6003-2 CISS6012-2 GOVT6304-2 GOVT6137-2 GOVT6135-2 GOVT6123-2 GOVT6119-2 GOVT6311-2 GOVT6313-2 GOVT6336-2 CISS6013-111 CISS6001-2 CISS6018-2 GOVT6316-2 GOVT6301-2 CISS6006-2 GOVT6220-2 GOVT6223-2 CISS6019-2

Alliances and Coalition Warfare Business and Security Civil-Military Relations Development and World Politics Forces of Change in International Relations Global Environmental Politics Globalisation and Governance International Security Issues in Public Policy Leadership in Theory and Practice Media Politics Middle East Conflict and Security New Security Challenges Nuclear Arms Control & Non-proliferation Policy Making, Power and Politics Public Sector Ethics and Corruption Statebuilding and Fragile States The State, Secession and Civil War Topics in Environmental Politics War and Strategy

* Department codes: CISS: Centre for International Security Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences GOVT: Department of Government & International Relations, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

^ Sydney Summer and Winter School Candidates wishing to enrol in units of study offered through the Sydney Summer and Winter School must first seek approval in writing from the Postgraduate Team, Sydney Law School (E law.postgraduate@sydney.edu.au | F 9351 0200) prior to making a separate application to the Sydney Summer and Winter School. This approval will ensure that credit is granted towards your degree upon successful completion of the unit(s). For application and fee information, please contact the Sydney Summer and Winter School (http://sydney.edu.au/summer) on 9351 5542 or summer.school@sydney.edu.au. The information contained in this timetable should be used as a guide only. For up-to-date information on unit offerings, times and locations, please contact the relevant department.

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GOVT6111 Chinese Politics 6 Credit Points Dr Minglu Chen Offered: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2hr seminar/week Assessment: 1x1500wd literature review (30%); 1x3000wd essay (50%); 1x500wd (equivalent) in-class presentation (10%); and participation (10%) This unit will examine the internal governance of the People's Republic of China and aspects of its external relations. It begins by tracing the emergence of the PRC's political system after 1949, focusing on key features of Maoism and the rationale of Post-Mao reforms. It then considers the remarkable economic, demographic and social changes that have occurred in recent years and how China's government has responded to a range of crucial challenges. In particular the unit will provide critical insights into how concepts like democracy, human rights, civil society and 'rule of law' have developed within the Chinese context. Finally the unit will analyse the impact of 'globalization' on China's political system. GOVT6358 Comparative Migration Policy 6 Credit Points Dr Anna Boucher Offered: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week and 1x1-hr seminar/week Assessment: 1x1500wd exercise (30%), 1x3500wd research paper (55%) and participation (15%) This unit of study covers immigration policy debates in the world's three largest immigrant selecting nations - Australia, Canada and the United States - with additional reference to developments across the European Union. Students will analyse the regulation of skilled, family, asylum and illegal immigration and the determination of the size and composition of immigration programmes. Integration and citizenship policies are also considered. In all of these debates, the role of policy instruments, institutions and actors in the policy process are considered. GOVT6108 Democracy and Development in SE Asia 6 Credit Points Assoc Prof Lily Rahim Offered: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week Assessment: 1x2000wd oral presentation and written assessment (30%), 1x2500wd analytical essay/report (30%), 1x1500wd exam (30%) and seminar participation (10%) Southeast Asia's economic experiences and socio-political challenges will be examined within an historical and comparative context in order to better appreciate the economic continuities, understand the major socio-political dilemmas and changing patterns of development. Themes such as the significance of colonialism on post-colonial economies and polities, role of the state in the national and global economy, causes of the region's high-speed growth in the 1980s and 1990s, subsequent economic downturn and future prospects, changing complexion of foreign investment, significance and operational dynamics of the Overseas Chinese Business Networks, salience of socio-economic and ethnic tensions, contradictions associated with the promotion of open economies within authoritarian political structures, the relationship between economic and political corruption, prominence of political Islam, rise of civil society actors, implications of the national and regional reserve army of labour, efficacy of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the region's economic and security links with Northeast Asia will be analysed. GOVT6304 Development and World Politics 6 Credit Points Dr Megan Mackenzie Offered: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2hr seminar/week Assessment: 1x1000wd book review (20%), 1x3000wd essay (50%), 1x800wd class presentation (20%), participation (10%) This unit will examine critical perspectives on international development. It will explore key questions concerning development, including: Have efforts to 'reduce poverty' been effective? What are the various meanings associated with development concepts like 'building capacity' and 'empowerment'? Is there any consensus about what development is and how to 'do' it? The unit will include an analysis of how much has been learned about development over the last fifty years. Finally, the unit will consider what role might individuals take. GOVT6137 Forces of Change in Int Relations 6 Credit Points

Prof Colin Wight Offered: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week Assessment: 1x3000wd essay (40%), 1x1000wd paper (10%), 1x1500wd takehome exam (30%), participation (20%) This unit introduces students to some of the most important contemporary structural changes in the global political economy and power structure with special attention to non-state actors (including corporate ones) and global civil society. The unit begins with an outline of the dominant modes of thinking about international political and economic relations, surveys some of the main theoretical schools and then examines global politics and political economy in terms of those events and forces that have been or are capable of precipitating major change. The historical focus will be principally on the role of war (including the so-called War on Terror), globalisation, power shifts and ideological innovation (including American unilateralism and Islamic fundamentalism) in the post Cold War period. The new agenda of international politics will be explored in a theoretical perspective - including the climate change emergency and the issue of effective global governance; the struggle for global social and economic justice, and the global prospects of democracy. The unit is designed as an advanced introduction to international relations for students pursuing postgraduate studies. GOVT6147 Foundations of International Relations 6 Credit Points Dr Charlotte Epstein Offered: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week Assessment: 2x2000wd essays (60%), 1x2hr exam (30%), tutorial participation (10%) Why do states behave the way they do? Using a historical perspective, this unit explores the ways in which the different theories of international relations account for what shapes the international system - who are its main actors, what are its determining forces and structures. It examines both how these theories have vied with one another within inter-paradigm debates and how they developed in relation to specific historical events. These theories include realism, idealism, neorealism, neoliberal institutionalism, Marxism, the English school, constructivism, poststructuralism, feminism, post-colonial approaches. While no prior study of international relations is required, a willingness to engage with theoretical thinking and grapple with complex questions of ontology and epistemology is essential. GOVT6135 Global Environmental Politics 6 Credit Points Dr Robert MacNeil Offered: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week Assessment: 1x2000wd essay (30%), 1x4000wd essay (50%) and participation (20%) This unit examines the environment as a political and policy issue. Although relatively recent, the environment has become a fullfledged public policy issue exerting influence in local, national and international arenas. The unit will first focus on the specific features of the policy that influences the capability of contemporary societies to enhance the management of environmental resources and of public goods in general. Second, it discusses the development of environmental policy in Western countries, with a particular emphasis on the European Union. Third, a grid for the analysis of environmental policy will be presented, with a discussion of the main actors (political, institutional and socio-economic) involved in it and of the factors (interests and ideas) influencing their positions. Fourth, the unit briefly discusses environmental conflicts and consensual approaches used for tackling them. GOVT6123 Globalisation and Governance 6 Credit Points Dr John Mikler Offered: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Assessment: 1x2000wd research essay (40%), 3x500wd tutorial papers (30%), 1x2hr mid-semester test (20%), tutorial participation (10%) It is widely believed that we are entering a new era in which the transborder flows of capital, goods, ideas, and people are rapidly transforming human society. 'Globalisation', many claim, threatens the autonomy of nation-states and erodes the power of national governments to provide social protection and promote the nation's economic prosperity. This unit examines not only the causes and mechanisms of this process, but also assesses its social, economic, and political impacts. The views of radicals, transformationalists, skeptics, and institutionalists are compared and criticised. While

globalisation is often viewed as a singular process, trending towards a global society, this unit offers a distinctive approach. Globalisation has uneven and highly differentiated impacts, whether harmful or beneficial, and this unevenness is closely associated with the nature of institutions of governance, at both the domestic and international levels. GOVT6319 Governance and Public Policy Making 6 Credit Points Dr Paul Fawcett Offered: Semester 1a Classes: 6x3-hr lectures-tutorials/weeks 16, 1x7-hr weekend class, 1x4-hr weekend class Assessment: 1x3000wd case study (40%), group presentation (25%), 1x1hr take home exam (25%), group work participation (10%) The course is focused on two major concepts which are mobilised in the explanation of the way we are governed: 'public policy' and 'governance'. It aims to clarify what is meant by these constructs, and how they can be used in the analysis of governing. It examines the argument that 'governance' denotes a change in the way we are governed, and works through a combination of analytic development and detailed empirical cases to establish the significance of these concepts in both the analysis and the practice of governing. GOVT6116 International Organisations 6 Credit Points Dr Susan Park Offered: Semester 1a Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week or equivalent in intensive session Assessment: 1x4000wd essay (50%); 1x2hr exam (30%) and participation (20%) This unit aims to introduce students to how states and other actors in the international arena cooperate to build institutions as a response to common problems. After completing the unit students should be able to analyse contemporary international organisations to see how they work, whose interests they serve, and to what degree they attenuate or enhance the power of sovereign states. GOVT6119 International Security 6 Credit Points Dr Ryan Griffiths (S1); Assoc Prof Ben Goldsmith (S2) Offered: Semester 1 & Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lectureseminar/week Assessment: 3000wd essays (2x45%), 3x30wd quizzes (10%) This unit reviews developments in international security since before World War l, to recent events like September 11 and its aftermath. The principal focus is on developments since the end of the Cold War and the collapse of Communism. The unit takes account of traditional notions about the causes of war and the conditions of peace, as well as changes in the structure and process of contemporary international relations. GOVT6311 Issues in Public Policy 6 Credit Points Dr Betsi Beem Offered: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week or equivalent intensive Assessment: 1x1800wd essay (30%), 1x4000wd essay (50%), and participation (20%) This unit of study will examine a current national or international public policy process, issue or sector. It will deal with contemporary themes and issues in terms of ground level policies, as well as wider conceptual frameworks to help explain them. GOVT6313 Leadership in Theory and Practice 6 Credit Points Offered: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week Assessment: 1x500wd leader profile (10%), 1x2500wd leader study (40%), 1x2000wd reflective journal (35%), participation (15%) 'The leader points the way.' Eleanor Roosevelt. Leadership is a story that resolves these questions: What is a leader? What kinds of leaders are there? Is democratic leadership different from other kinds? Is leadership in a local community similar to that in national politics or international politics? Are leaders made or born? Is leadership generic? Is it the same in Europe and Asia? What is the difference between a leader and a manager? This unit reviews and evaluates theories of leadership. Participants' experiences and perceptions of leadership are an important part of the unit. GOVT6336 Media Politics 6 Credit Points Dr Peter Chen Offered: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week Assessment: 3000wd essays (2x50%)

This unit will examine the politics of news, the institutional basis and processes of its production and how this influences its content. It will analyse the news media as an area of political conflicts and the consequent interests and strategies of various groups in affecting news content. It will examine the way in which news coverage impacts upon political processes and relationships. It will especially examine the role of the news media in election campaigns, policy formation and scandals. Our primary focus is Australia, but there are some comparisons with other affluent liberal democracies. GOVT6121 Northeast Asian Politics 6 Credit Points Dr Justin Hastings Offered: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week Assessment: 1x4000wd essay (50%), 1x2hr exam (40%), tutorial participation (10%) This unit explores the strategic relationship between the great powers in Northeast Asia, potential arenas of conflict, China and India's rise, Sino-Japanese tensions, North Korea as a potential nuclear weapon's state, inter-Korean relations and the US alliance system. Are we seeing the beginnings of a new security dilemma as Asia's rising powers extend their political and economic influence upsetting the established order? Will they challenge US strategic pre-eminence in the region ushering in a new age of super power competition, or can the region work together towards common security objectives? GOVT6316 Policy Making, Power and Politics 6 Credit Points Dr Betsi Beem Offered: Semester 1 & Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week Assessment: 1x1800wd essay (30%), 1x4000wd essay (50%), participation (20%) This unit focuses on the nature of public policy and the processes by which it is produced. Relevant issues are common to all nation states, although they take specific forms in each individual country. First, the unit takes an overview of public policy - dealing with basic themes such as 'What is policy?' through to different approaches to understanding the policy process. These include policy cycles, rationality, interest groups, institutions, and socio-economic interests. Second, it maps out and examines the main components of public policy making: actors, institutions and policy instruments. Third, it focuses on aspects of policy-making processes which often attract a high level of attention from analysts. These include problem definition, agenda setting, decision-taking, policy implementation, policy evaluation and crisis policy-making. Fourth, it examines wider issues in terms of the state and who ultimately holds power over the making and shaping of public policy. Finally, it examines the 'bigger pictures' of long term policy trends, and the extent to which national policy making capacities and processes have been affected by globalisation. Assessments offer a large element of flexibility, allowing students to concentrate on areas of particular interest. GOVT6331 Public Management and Governance 6 Credit Points Dr Paul Fawcett Offered: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr in-class group work/week Assessment: 1x3500wd case study (45%), 1x500wd case study outline (15%), 1x1.5hr exam (30%), 1x group work participation (10%) This unit outlines some of the most important developments in contemporary public management and governance and how these relate to the everyday practices of those working in the public sector. It uses examples drawn from a number of OECD countries to: critically analyse the forces that have driven the move towards 'public management'; examine the theory and practice of 'public governance'; evaluate the merits of these developments; and apply this knowledge to better understand specific developments across different contexts. GOVT6301 Public Sector Ethics and Corruption 6 Credit Points Associate Professor Rodney Smith Offered: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1hr lecture/week and 1x1hr tutorial/week or equivalent intensive Assessment: 1x800wd short paper (15%), 1x3000wd long essay (60%) and 1x1200wd reflective journal (25%) Much recent attention has focused on preventing corruption and improving ethics in public sector organisations around the world. This unit equips students to identify and analyse different forms of

corruption and ethical failure, and to reflect critically on the best ways of combatting corruption and enhancing ethics in the public sector. The unit takes a comparative approach to these issues. GOVT6220 The State, Secession, and Civil War 6 Credit Points Dr Ryan Griffiths Offered: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1hr lecture/week and 1x1hr tutorial/week. Assessment: 3x200wd reading quizzes (10%); 2x2000wd essays (2x45%) Secession represents one of the most definitive challenges to the legitimacy and authority of the sovereign state. This course will examine explanations for the causes of secessionism, why it has become more common over the last 60 years, and when it results in civil war. Consideration will also be given to normative questions such as: when do a people have the right to secede? These topics will be discussed in the context of a number of real world cases. GOVT6223 Topics in Environmental Politics 6 Credit Points Prof David Schlosberg Offered: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week Assessment: 2x1000wd seminar papers (2x15%); 1x3000wd research paper (50%); seminar preparation and participation (20%) This unit will offer a broad overview of a key contemporary issue in environmental politics. Topics could include climate change policy, environmental justice, food security and politics, sustainable cities, or timely issues in the Australian or global context. The goal will be to ground these issues in the relevant literatures of politics and environmental studies. Check with the unit coordinator or Department for the particular topic to be addressed in any given semester.

CISS6016 Chinese Foreign and Security Policy 6 Credit Points Assoc Prof Jingdong Yuan Offered: Semester 1 Classes: 1x3-hr seminar/week Assessment: 1x4500wd research paper (60%) 1x1000wd book report (20%), class presentation (10%) and participation (10%) China's rise to regional and global prominence has attracted growing attention in recent years. Scholars as well as policymakers debate and assess the implications of rising Chinese power for regional security and the international system. This seminar introduces students to Chinese foreign and security policy, including its handling of major-power relations, its active pursuit of multilateral diplomacy in regional organizations and participation in international peacekeeping operations, and its changing perspectives on arms control, disarmament, and non-proliferation. It begins with a brief history of phases in Chinese foreign and security policy and then gives an overview of major theoretical approaches to the subject. These theoretical perspectives are useful in examining a wide range of policy issues, ranging from Chinese strategic modernization, security trends in the Taiwan Strait, civil-military relations, the Chinese foreign policy process, and the domestic sources of Chinese foreign and security policy. The unit is taught as a seminar, with students expected to write a book review, a research design and bibliography, and a final research paper. Students will be required to do assigned reading, participate actively in class discussions, make oral presentations of their book review and research paper, and serve as a discussant for one of their classmates' papers. CISS6012 Civil-Military Relations 6 Credit Points Assoc Prof Jingdong Yuan Offered: Semester 2 Classes: 1x3-hr seminar/week Assessment: 1x4000wd essay (60%), seminar presentation (30%) and participation (10%) This unit assesses the nature and effectiveness of civil-military cooperation and coordination in preparing for, responding to, and averting the impact of natural disasters (such as the 2004 tsunami) and conflict, particularly in Australia's nearer region. The new realities of intra-state conflict and support to fragile states have seen Australia commit increased resources to enhance prospects for stability and reduce population displacement, while promoting economic development and achievement of the Millennium Development Goals to reduce poverty. Students in this unit will examine the nexus between state-centric and human security, as well as the difficulties for military forces and humanitarian actors in navigating the 'space' in which they are co-located. Policies, principles and practices of the Australian Government, the United Nations, and other key international actors and non-government organisations are considered. Attention is also given to disaster risk reduction and peace-building strategies to help minimise the severity of natural disasters and the reversion of fragile states into conflict. Focus is given to the problems and severity of population displacement, and to the civil-military requirements to implement population protection, particularly under the Responsibility to Protect framework. The overall aim of the unit is for students to gain a better understanding of the boundaries and complexities of civilmilitary relations in disaster and conflict situations, and to consider initiatives relevant to Australia. NB: Students must not undertake this unit if they took CISS6011 (Special Topic in International Security) when the special topic was Civil-Military Relations CISS6004 Disease and Security 6 Credit Points Dr Adam Kamradt-Scott Offered: Semester 1 Classes: 1x3-hr seminar/week Assessment: 1x2500wd research essay (40%), 1x2400wd take-home exam (40%), 1x1000wd issue brief (20%) This unit assesses the political and security significance of infectious diseases. Whether one contemplates historical experiences with smallpox, plague and cholera, or the contemporary challenges posed by new diseases like HIV/AIDS and SARS, it is clear that pathogenic micro-organisms exercise a powerful influence over civilized humankind. The unit concentrates on areas in which human health and security concerns intersect most closely, including: biological weapons proliferation; responses to fast-moving disease outbreaks of natural origin; safety and security in microbiology laboratories; and the relationships between infectious disease patterns, public health capacity, state functioning and violent conflict. The overall aim of the unit is to provide students with a stronger understanding of the scientific and political nature of these problems, why and how they might threaten security, and the conceptual and empirical

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CISS6015 Alliances and Coalition Warfare 6 Credit Points Dr Tom Wilkins Offered: Semester 2 Classes: 1x3-hr seminar/week Assessment: 1x3000wd essay (80%), oral presentation (10%), participation (10%) Alliances and coalitions are pivotal features of International Security. This unit interrogates these closely-related phenomena using a combination of conceptual frameworks to analyse them, and empirical case studies to illustrate them. The unit starts with an investigation in the thorny definitional issues that surround the distinctions between 'alliance' and 'coalition', then outlines the major conceptual theoretical works pertinent to examining these phenomena, such as 'balance of power', 'intra-alliance politics', and 'multinational operations'. Equipped with these analytical tools the students will apply these concepts to a series of major cases studies of alliance management and coalition warfare operations. Case studies include World War I and II, The Cold War (NATO/Warsaw Pact), The Gulf War (1991), the Balkan Wars (Bosnia 1992-5, Kosovo 1999) and the current 'global war on terror' (i.e. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan). Through this process students will gain both a conceptual and practical understanding of peacetime alliance behaviour and the principles of conducting military operations alongside allies. Student presentations will include an emphasis upon Australia's role as an alliance/coalition partner in historical and contemporary conflicts. CISS6003 Business and Security 6 Credit Points Dr Adam Kamradt-Scott Offered: Semester 2 Classes: 1x3-hr seminar/week Assessment: 1x3000wd essay (50%), PowerPoint briefing of 20 slides (25%), 1x2500wd take-home assignment (25%) This unit examines the importance of security in business through assessing contemporary security challenges and what 'security' comprises in a business context. Topics include: fraud and corruption, cybercrime, industrial espionage, corporate liability, business and organised crime links, preparedness for terrorism, business continuity during infectious disease outbreaks, the international arms trade, and private military corporations. The unit includes management sessions which focus on risk and crisis management, and planning for effective security. Teaching and learning take place via a combination of lectures, student-led seminars, case studies and crisis simulations.

connections between them. CISS6020 Geopolitics of Energy Security in Asia 6 Credit Points Dr John Lee Offered: Summer Early Classes: 1x1hr lecture/day 1x1hr tutorial/day 2x1hr seminar/day 2x1hr workshop/day The unit is taught over a 10-day period of 6 hrs each day Assessment: 1x500wd research outline [15%], 1x4000wd research paper [60%], 500wd equivalent seminar presentation [15%], seminar participation [10%] Focusing on China and India, this unit of study examines why energy security is a critical security issue in the Indo-Pacific, and in international relations. The unit has two principle objectives: (1) developing an understanding of the domestic priorities, politics and economics of China and India, and examining how these factors play an important role in shaping energy security and foreign policy; (2) analysing the geostrategic implications of China and India's energy security policies on other key regional players. CISS6013 Middle East Conflict and Security 6 Credit Points Dr Sarah Phillips Prohibition: GOVT6154 Offered: Int November Classes: 1x3-hr seminar/week or equivalent intensive Assessment: 1x3500wd essay (55%), 1x2500wd policy brief (45%) The Middle East has been plagued for more than a century by a series of national, ethnic and religious conflicts, reflecting shifting regional alliances, the unresolved legacy of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the end of colonial rule. This unit examines the causes and manifestation of intra and inter-state state conflict in the region today by starting with a theoretical framework for examining the process of state-formation in the region and the particularities of the Middle East as a region of developing states. The unit will focus first on some of the specific challenges to the state across the region (such as tribalism, political Islam, and the "oil curse") before examining several inter-state conflicts, with a view of considering the probability of the region becoming more peaceful in the foreseeable future. CISS6001 New Security Challenges 6 Credit Points Dr Adam Kamradt-Scott Offered: Semester 2 Classes: 1x3-hr seminar/week Assessment: 1x2500wd essay (30%), 1x3500wd essay (60%) and participation (10%) This unit considers the evolving nature of security in the context of global politics. It focuses on non-military challenges to security while acknowledging the relationships between these and traditional security concerns. Among the topics considered are: international law and security; the privatisation of security; economics and security; energy resources; environmental degradation; the burden of infectious diseases; population dynamics; gender and age perspectives on security; the dilemmas of fragile and failing states; transnational organised crime; and new modes of warfare. The overall objective of the unit is to engage with issues and arguments that challenge how security is traditionally understood. Teaching and learning take place via a combination of lectures, student-led seminars, independent research, debates and case studies. CISS6018 Nuclear Arms Control & Non-proliferation 6 Credit Points Assoc Prof Jingdong Yuan Offered: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week Assessment: 1x1000wd take-home exam (30%), 1x3500wd research essay (50%); 1x500wd equivalent 20-30min group presentation (10%) and participation (10%) This unit introduces students to the basic knowledge of the issues, challenges, and policies related to nuclear arms control and nonproliferation. The principal objective is to give students a better understanding of the politics of arms control and non-proliferation and help them develop the analytical skills for undertaking policyrelevant research and the ability to develop policy recommendations. The unit is also designed to examine proliferation problems and the ways that arms control can contribute to national and regional security. CISS6008 Population and Security 6 Credit Points Prof Peter Curson Offered: Semester 1 Classes: 1x3-hr seminar/week Assessment:

1x1000wd demographic security review (20%), 1x2000wd briefing paper (30%), 1x3000wd seminar paper (40%) and oral presentation (10%) This unit considers the importance of demographic factors in international security. It attempts to provide answers to the complex questions regarding how population changes affect security concerns. In particular it examines how population dynamics and characteristics such as growth rates, fertility, mortality, age and ethnic structure might be linked to national and international security. Among topics covered will be key global population trends, differing world population transitions, the significance of resource scarcity and environmental degradation, the role of natural disasters, and the significance of ethnic and religious divisions. Case studies will be presented with respect to how demographics may contribute to undermining the viability of modern states and the importance of population to security considerations in the AsiaPacific region. CISS6006 Statebuilding and Fragile States 6 Credit Points Dr Sarah Phillips Offered: Semester 2 Classes: 1x3hr seminar/week Assessment: 1x2500wd essay (45%), 1x2500wd intelligence briefing paper (45%), 1x500wd actor profile (10%) This unit examines the characteristics of fragile and failed states, and the nature of donor and international community engagement with these states. It will explore the international community's gradual acceptance of the norms of humanitarian intervention and post-conflict reconstruction to assist civilians affected by civil war, insurgencies, state repression, profound state weakness and state collapse. The unit will expand upon the theoretical literature with evidence from case studies on Africa, the Middle East, South/Central Asia and the Asia-Pacific. CISS6002 Strategy & Security in the Asia-Pacific 6 Credit Points Dr Thomas Wilkins Offered: Semester 1 Classes: 1x3-hr seminar/week Assessment: 3000wd essays (2x40%), oral presentation (10%) and participation (10%) This unit focuses on the strategic dynamics of the Asia-Pacific region and the security challenges it faces. It combines a grounding in International Relations theory, and concepts of strategy and security, with a series of dedicated country profiles. Issues such as great power rivalry, nuclear proliferation, terrorism, piracy, and environmental degradation are all considered. The overall objective of the unit is to engage with issues and arguments about strategy and security that relate specifically to the Asia-Pacific region. Teaching and learning take place via a combination of lectures, student-led seminars, and independent research. CISS6017 Transnational Threats & Organised Crime 6 Credit Points Dr Justin Hastings Offered: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week Assessment: 1x2hr in-class exam (30%), 1x4000wd essay (70%) The unit provides a conceptual framework for understanding the evolving scope and dimension of transnational security in the contemporary era. It includes an examination of the principal features of the current global system that are serving to foster "grey area phenomena", five specific threats that have received particular attention in terms of their destabilizing potential (terrorism, weapons trafficking, drug smuggling, piracy and organized crime) and domestic and international policy challenges associated with responding to transnational challenges. CISS6019 War and Strategy 6 Credit Points Dr Thomas Wilkins Offered: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2hr seminar/week Assessment: 2x2000wd essays (40% each), 1x500wd seminar presentation (10%); and seminar participation (10%) This unit aims to supply students with an introduction to military affairs and the conduct of war. It considers the complex relationship between politics and strategy and examines strategic thought, the application of land/air/space/naval power and military technologies. It applies this knowledge to interactive case studies before proceeding to investigate more contemporary strategic problems such as the 'revolution in military affairs', 'new' wars, and counterterrorism and counter-insurgency.