This course is available on the BSc in International Relations, BSc in International Relations and Chinese, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and International Relations. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
This course is available on the BSc in International Relations, BSc in International Relations and Chinese, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and International Relations. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
This course is delivered through a combination of classes and lectures totaling a minimum of 20 hours across Lent Term. This year, some or all of this teaching will be delivered through a combination of online lectures and in-person classes/classes delivered online. Students on this course will have a reading week in Week 6, in line with departmental policy. Lectures 1) Introduction: Empire and International Relations2) Empire/History/Globalization3) Empire, the Regions, and World Politics4) Politics/Strategy/War5) Decolonising War6) Orientalism and ?Small war?7) Revolutionary Guerrilla War8) Counterinsurgency9) Empire after 194510) The War on Terror and the Colonial Present Undergraduate Class Topics 1) Empire and History2) Orientalism3) The Politics of Imperial War4) War and Society5) The Global Colour Line6) Empire and the United Nations7) Counterinsurgency8) Case Study: The Wars in Vietnam9) Empire and the War on Terror
Students will be expected to produce 1 essay in the LT.
Note: Required texts for this course change every year? Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (London: Penguin, 2001 [1961]). Tzvetan Todorov, The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999 [1984]) Doty, Roxanne Lynn. (1996) Imperial Encounters: The Politics of Representation in North-South Relations. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. Richard Drinnon, Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire-Building (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997). Michel Rolph-Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (Boston: Beacon, 2015 [1995]) Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism (New York: Vintage, 1994 [1993]).7. Mark Mazower, No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009) Wolf, Eric R. (1997[1982]) Europe and the People Without History. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Essay (100%, 4000 words) in the ST.