Australia's Strategic Environment

12 unitsIn PersonNot offered

Strategic and Defence Studies Centre · ANU College of Asia and the Pacific

About this course

This course presents a comprehensive introduction to Australia’s current strategic environment including the South West Pacific, South East Asia and North East Asia, Middle East and the global international system. This module links closely to the Australia's Strategic and Defence Policy module as it sets past, present and future Australian policy into its historical and regional context. This course is only open to students posted to the Australian War College.

Learning outcomes

1Understand the Indo-Pacific from the perspective of its emergence as a strategic system, its use in policy and academic debates as a framing device for understanding the strategic order and the changes occurring within that order.
2Describe and clearly identify the various regions and sub-regions that collectively constitute Australia’s strategic environment, including North Asia, South Asia, the Southeast Asian archipelago, and the Pacific Islands, or impact on Australia’s strategic environment – Middle-East and Afghanistan.
3Describe and identify the strategic position and perspectives of significant countries within the system, particularly the United States, China, India, Japan, Indonesia, and the Pacific Islands and New Zealand.
4Describe and analyse the impact of forces that affect the functioning of the strategic system as a whole, including nuclear proliferation, terrorism, climate change, cyber, and other forces related to globalisation.
5Describe and analyse the impact of economic as well as geostrategic forces in shaping the regional strategic order
6Describe and analyse the factors - geographical, historical, economic, political, military and cultural – shaping Australia’s strategic environment
7Explain and evaluate the implications of the strategic choices Australia makes in responding to its strategic environment
8Demonstrate the capacity to communicate effectively in written form on the subject of Australia’s strategic environment

Assessment

Weights and hurdle requirements come straight from the imported ANU record.

Major Essay (5,000 words)

Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

60%

Three written assignment (1,000 words each)

Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

40%

Study expectations

Study information

Teaching will occur intensively and is equivalent to 260 hours over the duration of the teaching period. Assessment is scheduled during the teaching period as part of the overall program timetabling.

Texts and reading

Core reading materials will be available as an e-brick.

Course essentials

Academic year: 2023
Course subject: STST
Subject name: Strategic Studies
Academic career: PGRD
School: Strategic and Defence Studies Centre
College: ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
Convener: Not listed
Delivery: In Person
Unit value: 12 units
EFTSL: 0.25
Last source update: Not listed

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Fees

Domestic fee paying students: Domestic · 2023 · Course basis; $8,640
International fee paying students: International · 2023 · Course basis; $12,360
Student Contribution Band Code 14: Commonwealth supported · 2023; ANU contribution-band code 14