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2476

POLITICS 356

: Ethno-Political Violence: Hate Crimes to Genocide
2025 Semester Two (1255)
Examines the causes and prevention of ethno-political violence. Forms of violence examined include: hate crimes; ethnic and religious conflict; revolution, insurgency and civil war; mass killings and genocide. Students will become familiar with the main theories and explanations of this violence, numerous case studies and policies for their prevention.
Subject: Politics & International Rels
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Politics and International Relations, or POLITICS 106 and 30 points at Stage II in Global Politics and Human Rights
2477

POLITICS 356

: Ethno-Political Violence: Hate Crimes to Genocide
2024 Semester Two (1245)
Examines the causes and prevention of ethno-political violence. Forms of violence examined include: hate crimes; ethnic and religious conflict; revolution, insurgency and civil war; mass killings and genocide. Students will become familiar with the main theories and explanations of this violence, numerous case studies and policies for their prevention.
Subject: Politics & International Rels
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Politics and International Relations, or POLITICS 106 and 30 points at Stage II in Global Politics and Human Rights
2478

POLITICS 356

: Ethno-Political Violence: Hate Crimes to Genocide
2023 Semester One (1233)
Examines the causes and prevention of ethno-political violence. Forms of violence examined include: hate crimes; ethnic and religious conflict; revolution, insurgency and civil war; mass killings and genocide. Students will become familiar with the main theories and explanations of this violence, numerous case studies and policies for their prevention.
Subject: Politics & International Rels
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Politics and International Relations, or POLITICS 106 and 30 points at Stage II in Global Politics and Human Rights
2479

POLITICS 356

: Ethno-Political Violence: Hate Crimes to Genocide
2022 Semester One (1223)
Examines the causes and prevention of ethno-political violence. Forms of violence examined include: hate crimes; ethnic and religious conflict; revolution, insurgency and civil war; mass killings and genocide. Students will become familiar with the main theories and explanations of this violence, numerous case studies and policies for their prevention.
Subject: Politics & International Rels
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Politics and International Relations, or POLITICS 106 and 30 points at Stage II in Global Politics and Human Rights
2480

POLITICS 701

: Research Design in Empirical Political Inquiry
2025 Semester Two (1255)
Explores a range of tools and approaches commonly used by political and other social scientists in the course of conducting empirical research. The course is designed to assist postgraduate students in Politics and International Relations, as well as cognate disciplines, in developing their own research projects.
Subject: Politics & International Rels
No pre-requisites or restrictions
2481

POLITICS 701

: Research Design in Empirical Political Inquiry
2024 Semester Two (1245)
Explores a range of tools and approaches commonly used by political and other social scientists in the course of conducting empirical research. The course is designed to assist postgraduate students in Politics and International Relations, as well as cognate disciplines, in developing their own research projects.
Subject: Politics & International Rels
No pre-requisites or restrictions
2482

POLITICS 701

: Research Design in Empirical Political Inquiry
2023 Semester One (1233)
Explores a range of tools and approaches commonly used by political and other social scientists in the course of conducting empirical research. The course is designed to assist postgraduate students in Politics and International Relations, as well as cognate disciplines, in developing their own research projects.
Subject: Politics & International Rels
No pre-requisites or restrictions
2483

POLITICS 701

: Research Design in Empirical Political Inquiry
2022 Semester One (1223)
Explores a range of tools and approaches commonly used by political and other social scientists in the course of conducting empirical research. The course is designed to assist postgraduate students in Politics and International Relations, as well as cognate disciplines, in developing their own research projects.
Subject: Politics & International Rels
No pre-requisites or restrictions
2484

POLITICS 701

: Research Design in Empirical Political Inquiry
2021 Semester Two (1215)
Explores a range of tools and approaches commonly used by political and other social scientists in the course of conducting empirical research. The course is designed to assist postgraduate students in Politics and International Relations, as well as cognate disciplines, in developing their own research projects.
Subject: Politics & International Rels
No pre-requisites or restrictions
2485

POLITICS 701

: Research Design in Empirical Political Inquiry
2020 Semester One (1203)
Explores a range of tools and approaches commonly used by political and other social scientists in the course of conducting empirical research. The course is designed to assist postgraduate students in Politics and International Relations, as well as cognate disciplines, in developing their own research projects.
Subject: Politics & International Rels
No pre-requisites or restrictions
2486

POLITICS 702

: Transitional Justice: From Retribution to Reconciliation
2024 Semester One (1243)
Explores the politics of transitional justice in post-war, post-conflict, and post-colonial states. Students examine political responses to atrocity in the context of conflicting demands that include the rule of law, peace, retribution, and human rights. Specific topics include trials, truth commissions and hybrid courts, the use of amnesty and the practice of apology, democratisation, development and reconciliation.
Subject: Politics & International Rels
No pre-requisites or restrictions
2487

POLITICS 702

: Transitional Justice: From Retribution to Reconciliation
2023 Semester Two (1235)
Explores the politics of transitional justice in post-war, post-conflict, and post-colonial states. Students examine political responses to atrocity in the context of conflicting demands that include the rule of law, peace, retribution, and human rights. Specific topics include trials, truth commissions and hybrid courts, the use of amnesty and the practice of apology, democratisation, development and reconciliation.
Subject: Politics & International Rels
No pre-requisites or restrictions
2488

POLITICS 702

: Transitional Justice: From Retribution to Reconciliation
2022 Semester Two (1225)
Explores the politics of transitional justice in post-war, post-conflict, and post-colonial states. Students examine political responses to atrocity in the context of conflicting demands that include the rule of law, peace, retribution, and human rights. Specific topics include trials, truth commissions and hybrid courts, the use of amnesty and the practice of apology, democratisation, development and reconciliation.
Subject: Politics & International Rels
No pre-requisites or restrictions
2489

POLITICS 702

: Transitional Justice: From Retribution to Reconciliation
2020 Semester Two (1205)
Explores the politics of transitional justice in post-war, post-conflict, and post-colonial states. Students examine political responses to atrocity in the context of conflicting demands that include the rule of law, peace, retribution, and human rights. Specific topics include trials, truth commissions and hybrid courts, the use of amnesty and the practice of apology, democratisation, development and reconciliation.
Subject: Politics & International Rels
No pre-requisites or restrictions
2490

POLITICS 704

: Political Management in Government
2023 Semester Two (1235)
Explores how politicians and their staff use management tools to help them achieve their goals within the constraints and challenges of the governing environment. It explores the nature of government, and the potential and limitations of branding, PR, market research, public engagement, strategy, government advertising, crisis management, media management and delivery management within the political environment.
Subject: Politics & International Rels
No pre-requisites or restrictions
2491

POLITICS 704

: Political Management in Government
2022 Semester One (1223)
Explores how politicians and their staff use management tools to help them achieve their goals within the constraints and challenges of the governing environment. It explores the nature of government, and the potential and limitations of branding, PR, market research, public engagement, strategy, government advertising, crisis management, media management and delivery management within the political environment.
Subject: Politics & International Rels
No pre-requisites or restrictions
2492

POLITICS 704

: Political Management in Government
2021 Semester Two (1215)
Explores how politicians and their staff use management tools to help them achieve their goals within the constraints and challenges of the governing environment. It explores the nature of government, and the potential and limitations of branding, PR, market research, public engagement, strategy, government advertising, crisis management, media management and delivery management within the political environment.
Subject: Politics & International Rels
No pre-requisites or restrictions
2493

POLITICS 704

: Political Management in Government
2020 Semester Two (1205)
Explores how politicians and their staff use management tools to help them achieve their goals within the constraints and challenges of the governing environment. It explores the nature of government, and the potential and limitations of branding, PR, market research, public engagement, strategy, government advertising, crisis management, media management and delivery management within the political environment.
Subject: Politics & International Rels
No pre-requisites or restrictions
2494

POLITICS 706

: International Relations in Asia
2021 Semester Two (1215)
A theoretical perspective based on empirical analyses that draws on Western theories to examine burgeoning perspectives from the rising East. The empirical analyses cover North Korea's nuclear crisis, territorial disputes in the South China Sea, relations across the Taiwan Strait, as well as regional trade, investment, and finance.
Subject: Politics & International Rels
No pre-requisites or restrictions
2495

POLITICS 706

: International Relations in Asia
2020 Semester One (1203)
A theoretical perspective based on empirical analyses that draws on Western theories to examine burgeoning perspectives from the rising East. The empirical analyses cover North Korea's nuclear crisis, territorial disputes in the South China Sea, relations across the Taiwan Strait, as well as regional trade, investment, and finance.
Subject: Politics & International Rels
No pre-requisites or restrictions
2496

POLITICS 708

: Theorising International Relations
2024 Semester Two (1245)
An advanced examination of contemporary international relations theory. Students will explore key concepts, such as war, anarchy and the state, along with a range of different theoretical perspectives, from realism and liberalism through to feminism, poststructuralism and postcolonialism.
Subject: Politics & International Rels
Restriction: POLITICS 318
2497

POLITICS 709

: Political Extremism
2025 Semester One (1253)
Considers the political context behind a range of forms of modern extremism, including fascism and other forms of dictatorship, genocide, the persecution of minorities, far-right white nationalism, and religious and political terrorism. Investigate cases such as the Nazi regime; Stalin’s Soviet Union; the Cambodian, Indonesian and other genocides; al Qaeda; Islamic State / ISIS; and neo-Nazis so as to identify common pathways to extremism.
Subject: Politics & International Rels
No pre-requisites or restrictions
2498

POLITICS 709

: Political Extremism
2023 Semester Two (1235)
Considers the political context behind a range of forms of modern extremism, including fascism and other forms of dictatorship, genocide, the persecution of minorities, far-right white nationalism, and religious and political terrorism. Investigate cases such as the Nazi regime; Stalin’s Soviet Union; the Cambodian, Indonesian and other genocides; al Qaeda; Islamic State / ISIS; and neo-Nazis so as to identify common pathways to extremism.
Subject: Politics & International Rels
No pre-requisites or restrictions
2499

POLITICS 709

: Political Extremism
2022 Semester One (1223)
Considers the political context behind a range of forms of modern extremism, including fascism and other forms of dictatorship, genocide, the persecution of minorities, far-right white nationalism, and religious and political terrorism. Investigate cases such as the Nazi regime; Stalin’s Soviet Union; the Cambodian, Indonesian and other genocides; al Qaeda; Islamic State / ISIS; and neo-Nazis so as to identify common pathways to extremism.
Subject: Politics & International Rels
No pre-requisites or restrictions
2500

POLITICS 710

: The Security-Development Nexus
2025 Semester One (1253)
The security-development nexus has become the leading paradigm for international interventions since the end of the Cold War, especially since the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks. This course engages with the advanced theoretical, normative and operational underpinnings of the ‘nexus’. The theoretical learning will then allow students to critically analyse the political economy and operational outcomes of international interventions.
Subject: Politics & International Rels
No pre-requisites or restrictions