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Challenges in Australian Foreign Policy (POLS90059)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Not available in 2019
Overview
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This subject explores important contemporary challenges facing Australian foreign policy makers. Topics will include: the influence of settler-colonial origins on contemporary foreign policy/conflict over Australian identity and the “moral backwardness of international society”; the principal Australian foreign policy currents; the risks, constraints, and opportunities of the current phase of the Australia-United States alliance; the consequences for Australia of China’s re-emergence as a major Asia Pacific power; the role of Australia in global norm formation; regional security; Australia’s “liminality” in the Asia Pacific; relations with global and regional multilateral organisations; and the salience of theoretical debates (constructivism, realism, feminism, etc.) for Australian foreign policy formation.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject students should:
- Gain thorough knowledge of major aspects of contemporary Australian foreign policy;
- Strengthen analytical capacity about the complexities of the global and regional environment of Australian foreign policy;
- Increase understanding of choices and constraints in foreign policy;
- Review requirements and possibilities of new directions in Australian foreign policy.
Generic skills
- A strong capacity for contemporary historical analysis of international relations.
- Highly developed analytical capacity capacity for national and international political and strategic review.
- Advanced scholarly capacity to to identify crucial factors influencing issues, analyse them logically and develop persuasive arguments about them.
- Advanced capacity to write analytical policy papers papers and policy briefings.
Last updated: 3 November 2022