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 has a limited number of places (it is capped).
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 has a limited number of places (it is capped).
This course is delivered through a combination of classes and lectures totaling a minimum of 40 hours across Michaelmas and 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. The course also features film showings linked to some of the lecture themes, followed by a discussion session. These are normally delivered in-person but may occasionally involve online screening and discussion sessions.
Students will be expected to produce 1 essay in the MT and 1 essay in the LT. Formative essays 1,500 words.
Jacob Bercovitch, Victor Kremenyuk and William Zartman (eds.) The Sage Handbook of Conflict Resolution (Sage Publications, 2009) Mark Duffield Global Governance and the New Wars (Zed Books 2014). Sinisa Malesevic The Sociology of War and Violence (Cambridge University Press 2010). Edward Newman and Karl DeRouen (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Civil Wars (Routledge, 2016). Roland Paris and Timothy Sisk (eds.), The Dilemmas of Statebuilding (Routledge 2008). Oliver Richmond (ed.) Palgrave Advances in Peacebuilding: Critical Developments and Approaches (Palgrave MacMillan UK 2010). Hugh Miall, Oliver Ramsbotham, and Tom Woodhouse, Contemporary Conflict Resolution: The Prevention, Management and Transformation of Deadly Conflicts, 3rd ed (Polity, 2011).
Essay (40%, 2000 words) in the LT. Essay (60%, 3000 words) in the ST.