Australian Foreign Policy

POL20008 12.5 Credit Points Hawthorn, Online Available to incoming Study Abroad and Exchange students

Duration

  • 1 Semester/Teaching Period

Contact hours

  • 36 hours

2020 teaching periods

Hawthorn

Higher Ed. Semester 2

Dates:
3 Aug 20 - 1 Nov 20

Results:
8 Dec 20

Last self enrolment:
16 Aug 20

Census:
31 Aug 20
More teaching periods

Swinburne Online

Teaching Period 2

Dates:
6 Jul 20 - 4 Oct 20

Results:
27 Oct 20

Last self enrolment:
19 Jul 20

Census:
31 Jul 20

Prerequisites

50 Credit Points

Aims and objectives

This unit introduces students to Australian foreign policy, exploring the regional and international context in which Australia pursues its national and security interests, and how those interests have changed over time. It covers Australia's relationship with the USA and other international and regional actors and organisations, and explores key foreign policy issues in the context of the globalised world, such as terrorism, asylum and migration, global economics, foreign aid, climate change and human rights. It also assesses Australia's place in the world, and what sort of international actor it has been, and aims to be.


Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
1. Articulate the pre- and post-colonial legacies on Australian foreign policy;
2. Evaluate the major developments in Australian foreign policy, and their relationship to domestic politics and identity;
3. Identify the problems of alliance, multilateralism, and unilateralism in Australian foreign policy;
4. Evaluate Australia’s place in global and regional politics and relevant emerging foreign policy issues, individually and with others;
5. Critically analyse Australian foreign policy in relation to key concepts and foreign policy approaches and theories.