166-243 Australian Foreign Relations

Note

Available as 166-343 at 3rd-year level.

Availability

Credit Points

Coordinator

Prerequisites

Normally 25 points of first-year Politics; students with only 12.5 points in Politics may apply to the 2nd/3rd-year coordinator.

Contact

Subject Description

An introduction to Australian foreign relations, with reference to both global and regional issues affecting Australia. Topics will normally include: the domestic politics of Australian foreign relations; Australia and the Western world (US, UK, Europe); Australia and the Asia-Pacific (including relations with key countries such as Japan, China and Indonesia); Australia and the South Pacific. More general issues (normally with both a regional and global dimension) will be selected from defence and peace-keeping issues, disarmament and arms control, human rights, trade and environmental issues. Students should gain a better understanding of the way in which Australia's place in the world has changed in recent times. Students who complete this subject should: have an understanding of the domestic and international content of Australian foreign relations; have an understanding of the implications of a range of global and regional issues for Australia; have developed their skills of political analysis in relation to the above.

Assessment

Essay work or equivalent totalling 5000 words.