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ATS3974

Faculty of Arts

18 September 2017 22 December 2024

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This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

Monash University

6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Arts

Organisational Unit

Politics and International Relations

Coordinator(s)

Dr Ben Wellings

Offered

Clayton

  • Second semester 2016 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit commences with a detailed examination of key elements in the European Union's regional and global security architecture. The unit studies the origins of European security after 1945, including the establishment of NATO; the development of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) under the Maastricht Treaty; the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP); the European Security Strategy (ESS); and ESDP-NATO cooperation and collaboration. The unit includes case study materials, including the transatlantic security relationship; the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE); and 'Global NATO'.

Outcomes

  1. Students who complete this unit successfully will be able to distinguish between the concepts of traditional and non-traditional security and have a familiarity with the competing paradigms in the security studies literature.
  2. Students will comprehend the complexity of security policy decision-making within plurilateral defence agreement and alliance frameworks.
  3. Students will develop an understanding of the institutional and procedural aspects of European security policy.
  4. Students will gain exposure to the financial, legal and political aspects of security policy implementation.
  5. Students will gain an understanding of the concepts, parameters and architecture of European Security.
  6. Students will be able to recognize the challenges, limitations and utility of various security strategies.
  7. Students will acquire research skills by undertaking a research analysis of a major security policy area, utilizing primary and secondary-source materials.
  8. Students will develop skills in critical oral and written assessment of the academic scholarship, including methods, assumptions and uses of evidence, and in organising and defending a verbal and written argument based upon these assessments.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 60%
Exam: 40%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

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Chief examiner(s)

Dr Ben Wellings

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

International relations

Prerequisites

Twelve credit points of second-year Arts units. It is highly recommended that students only take this unit after they have completed two cornerstone units in Politics or International relations.