This course is available on the BSc in Government, BSc in Government and Economics, BSc in Government and History, BSc in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, BSc in Politics, BSc in Politics and Economics, BSc in Politics and History, BSc in Politics and International Relations and BSc in Politics and Philosophy. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students. This course is capped at two groups.
This course is available on the BSc in Government, BSc in Government and Economics, BSc in Government and History, BSc in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, BSc in Politics, BSc in Politics and Economics, BSc in Politics and History, BSc in Politics and International Relations and BSc in Politics and Philosophy. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students. This course is capped at two groups.
This course is delivered through 20 hours of seminars in the Michaelmas Term. This year, teaching may be?delivered through a combination of online and on-campus seminars to allow maximum flexibility. Students will also be encouraged to participate in smaller, peer group-only meetings in advance of the seminars to discuss and prepare the week?s topic. This course includes a reading week in Week 6 of the MT.
Students will be expected to produce 1 piece of coursework in the MT. Students will submit a 1500 word annotated bibliography, in which they summarize between 3 and 6 scholarly writings (articles or books) that they have carefully chosen themselves after conducting a comprehensive literature search on a course topic and research question approved by the course instructor.
A statement from Al Qaeda regarding the mandates of the heroes and the legality of the?operations in New York and Washington - Al Qaeda, 2002 The Lesser Evil - Michael Ignatieff, 2004 E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the Twenty-first Century The 2006 Johan Skytte Prize Lecture - Robert D. Putnam, 2007-06 Are There Any Cultural Rights? - Kukathas, Chandran Dying to win: the strategic logic of suicide terrorism - Robert Anthony Pape, 2005 Aliens and Citizens: The Case for Open Borders - Joseph Carens Beyond greed and grievance: feasibility and civil war - P. Collier, A. Hoeffler, D. Rohner Climate Change and Conflict: The Migration Link - Nils Petter Gleditsch, Ragnhild Nordås Killing by remote control: the ethics of an unmanned military - Jeff McMahan, 2013 The ?Responsibility to Protect? and the Structural Problems of Preventive Humanitarian Intervention - Roland Paris, 2014-10-20
Essay (80%, 3000 words) in the LT. Class participation (20%) in the MT. The annotated bibliography will inform the final 3000 word summative long essay on the student's chosen course topic.