STATES IN TRANSITION: PEACEBUILDING AFTER CIVIL WAR AND REGIME CHANGE

POL5QQA

Not currently offered

Credit points: 15

Subject outline

Across the world today, a diverse range of states are undergoing complex and often violent processes of transition. From states emerging from civil wars in Africa, Eastern Europe, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific, to those that the Arab Spring swept through in 2011-2013, the international community has been faced with the difficult task of supporting these transitions through state building, peace building, and development. This subject explores the way the international community engages in these deeply contested processes of social and political change, the dominant approaches taken, and their effectiveness in supporting states to transition out of oppressive regimes or civil wars. It uses a series of in-depth case-studies to explore different aspects of transitions and the challenges they entail. It encourages students to consider states in transition in the context of local, national, regional and international politics and processes, and the interaction between them.

School: Humanities and Social Sciences (Pre 2022)

Credit points: 15

Subject Co-ordinator: Jasmine Westendorf

Available to Study Abroad/Exchange Students: Yes

Subject year level: Year Level 5 - Masters

Available as Elective: No

Learning Activities: N/A

Capstone subject: No

Subject particulars

Subject rules

Prerequisites: Must be enrolled in HUSS Graduate Diploma or Masters Degree or through subject coordinator's approval

Co-requisites: N/A

Incompatible subjects: POL5QAQ

Equivalent subjects: N/A

Quota Management Strategy: N/A

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Minimum credit point requirement: N/A

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Career Ready

Career-focused: No

Work-based learning: No

Self sourced or Uni sourced: N/A

Entire subject or partial subject: N/A

Total hours/days required: N/A

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Graduate capabilities & intended learning outcomes

Graduate Capabilities

Intended Learning Outcomes

01. Students will have mastery of the theoretical knowledge concerning peacebuilding in transitional states.
02. Students will have extensive knowledge of recent developments and professional practice in the field of peacebuilding, state building, and international responses to states in transition.
03. Students will used their advanced conceptual knowledge and research skills to critically examine case studies of transition in states emerging from civil war or regime change, in order to identify and provide policy recommendations that can be communicated to specialist and non-specialist audiences.
04. To understand the benefits of comparisons and case studies as a methodology in International Relations
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