Australian Foreign Policy

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

Duration

  • 1 Semester or equivalent
     
     
     

Contact hours

  • 36 hours

On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning. For Online unit delivery, learning is conducted exclusively online.

2021 teaching periods

Hawthorn

Higher Ed. Semester 2

Dates:
2 Aug 21 - 31 Oct 21

Results:
7 Dec 21

Last self enrolment:
15 Aug 21

Census:
31 Aug 21

Last withdraw without fail:
17 Sep 21
More teaching periods

Swinburne Online

Teaching Period 2

Dates:
5 Jul 21 - 3 Oct 21

Results:
26 Oct 21

Last self enrolment:
18 Jul 21

Census:
30 Jul 21

Last withdraw without fail:
20 Aug 21

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.