Overview

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Offerings

MURDOCH-S1-EXT-2023-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S1-INT-2023-ONGOING

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Enrolment rules

This unit code is restricted to students of M1194 Master of Public Policy and Management and M1195 Master of Development Studies. Students taking this unit as an elective for another course should enrol in GOV6121.

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Learning outcomes

1.

Identify key governance practices, processes and dynamics in global governance.

2.

Undertake secondary and primary research in the field of international affairs, and communicate its findings in a range of formats (oral and written, academic and practical).

3.

Analyse and evaluate contemporary international security and economic issues in a critical and clear manner in both written assignments and participation in seminars and workshops.

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Additional information

Unit content:

Topics covered will include the following: Perspectives on world politics Global governance; The shifting terrain of security; The international financial system; The global trade system; Globalised production; Multinational corporations; Rising economic powers; Ethics, justice and rights in global politics; Conflict and the viability of peace; and global movement regimes.