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School of Social Sciences

ARTS3783
Great and Emerging Powers in Contemporary
World Politics
(6 units of credit)

Source: British Cartoon Archive: Michael Cummings, Daily Express, 2 February 1962,
available at http://www.cartoons.ac.uk/record/MC1049

Semester 2, 2015

Table of Contents

1. Course Staff
2. Course Aims and Objectives
3. Course Materials
4. Key Dates
5. Lecture Schedule
6. Tutorial Schedule
7. Assessment
8. Criteria Sheet for Essay Assessment
9. Course Grading
10. Communication
11. Occupational Health and Safety
12. Student Support and Grievance Procedure
13. Course Evaluation and Development
14. Student Equity and Disabilities Unit

1.

Course staff

Course Coordinator and Lecturer


Dr Andrea Benvenuti
Senior Lecturer in International Relations and European Studies
School of Social Sciences
Room: 146, Level 1, Morven Brown Building
Phone (office): 9385 8545
Email: Andrea.Benvenuti@unsw.edu.au

1.1

Com m unication and Consultation w ith Staff

2.

Course Aims and Objectives

Andrea Benvenuti will be available for up to 2 hours per week to conduct consultations on a
drop-in basis. His consultation timetable will be between 4 pm and 6 pm on Thursdays. He is
also happy to conduct consultations by e-mail.

2.1 Credit Points


6UOC

2.2 Course Description

ARTS3783 examines the foreign policies of a number of great and emerging powers, including
the United States, China, India, Britain and France from 1945 to the present. In doing so, it
focuses on the problems, threats and challenges that confronted these powers during the Cold
War and in the period following the collapse of the old bipolar system; it assesses how these
powers perceived these problems, threats and challenges, how they reacted to them and what
policies they put in place to offset them. In addition, ARTS3783 analyses the geopolitical,
military, economic and domestic constraints under which these powers acted and considers the
economic and military capabilities they relied on in pursuance of their foreign policy objectives.
Methodologically, ARTS3783 heavily draws upon such fields of studies as diplomatic and political
history. Please note that this course is specifically designed for those students who have a
strong interest in diplomacy and statecraft in a historical and policy-oriented context, and who
are keen to understand how the worlds major powers sought to pursue their national interests
in a highly complex post-war international system.

2.3

Aim s of the Course

The course has three central objectives:

To develop students understanding of the foreign policies of the 20th centurys major
powers.

To promote an awareness of the historical, political, strategic and economic factors that
have shaped the foreign policies of the 20th centurys major powers.

To develop students skills in areas of research as well as to develop students capacity


for critical analysis

By the completion of this course, students should have achieved the following learning
outcomes:
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1) An understanding of key aspects of the foreign policies of the 20th centurys major
powers.
2) An appreciation of of the historical, political, strategic and economic factors that have
shaped the foreign policies of the 20th centurys major powers.
3) The development and advancement of skills of research and critical analysis in a manner
consistent with the completion of students postgraduate degrees.

2.4 Student R esponsibilities

You must read and adhere to the UNSW Student Code Policy (2012):
http://www.gs.unsw.edu.au/policy/documents/studentcodepolicy.pdf.
There are five primary student responsibilities under this Code:
1. A condition of enrolment that students inform themselves of the Universitys rules and
policies affecting them, and conduct themselves accordingly.
2. An obligation to act with integrity in academic work, to ensure that all academic work is
conducted ethically and safely.
3. An obligation to observe standards of equity and respect in dealing with every member
of the University community.
4. An obligation to use and care for University resources in a lawful and appropriate
manner
5. An obligation to not diminish the Universitys reputation in the carrying out of academic
and other associated University activities.
(UNSW Student Code Policy, Art. 2)
A related document is the UNSW Student Misconduct Procedure (2014):
https://www.gs.unsw.edu.au/policy/documents/studentmisconductprocedures.pdf.
All courses in the School of Social Sciences are run in accordance with School, Faculty and
University rules and policies. You need to make sure that you are familiar with the School
rules and policies, available at
https://socialsciences.arts.unsw.edu.au/students/resources/policies-guidelines/, particularly
those relating to attendance requirements, extensions and late submission of assessed
work.

2.5 Learning Outcom es


Upon successful completion of this course, students should have achieved the following learning
outcomes:
1. An appreciation of key aspects of the foreign policies of the 20th centurys major
powers.
2. An understanding of the historical, political, strategic and economic factors that have
shaped the foreign policies of these powers
3. The acquisition of skills of research and critical analysis in a manner consistent with the
completion of students postgraduate degrees.
In accordance with UNSW Learning and Teaching Guidelines the expectation is that students
will engage in learning through structured, seminar-style discussions which contextualise and
extend knowledge gained through independent reading and research.
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2.6 Graduate Attributes

These intended student outcomes are in accordance with University policy on the fostering of
graduate attributes, including the requirement that students attain a capacity for analytical and
critical thinking, creative problem solving and the skills involved in scholarly inquiry. Further
details of University policy on graduate attributes can be obtained from the Learning and
Teaching
Unit
website
(http://www.ltu.unsw.edu.au/content/course_prog_support
/graduate_attributes.cfm).
More specifically, POLS5129 aims to foster the following graduate attributes:
1. Critical and creative thinkers with the desire and ability to question open-mindedly world
events and the academic analysis of them.
2. Rigorous analysts able to evaluate theoretical, conceptual and empirical information
presented in scholarly literature and other media.
3. Effective communicators with accomplished oral and written skills honed though group
discussion, individual presentations, essays, briefing papers and examinations.
4. Engaged citizens of the academic and wider community, able to work independently and
with others, as both leaders and participants in a quest for understanding.

2.7 Course Design and Learning Activities

The course is taught through a two-hour lecture and a one-hour tutorial. The lecture is
designed to give you detailed core course content and present different perspectives on the
course material. The one-hour tutorial seminar is characterized by a discussion led by a tutor
between class participants. The tutorial discussion is designed to develop your understanding of
the previous weeks material. Attendance at tutorials is also essential for passing the course
(see attendance at section 7.3.).
Class interaction and dialogue will be considered in your assessment. Therefore, it is
essential that you come to class fully prepared to contribute to the learning environment. This
means that students must complete the required readings every week in preparation for
tutorials. Failure to do so is unprofessional and will be considered unsatisfactory achievement of
course goals and objectives.
The assessment has been designed in such a way as to complement the learning and
teaching process. An attendance requirement ensures that student have ongoing contact
with the course, their peers and teaching staff. Addressing discussion topics will ensure that
students keep up and engage critically with their subjects material. The foreign policy
review will allow students to explore a particular issue in depth while expanding your skills in
written academic English, research and library skills and constructing arguments. And finally, a
mid-term in-class test and a final in-class choice test will ensure that students are fully
familiar with the courses reading material.
In all tutorial classes please observe the following:
1. Do not talk when lecturers or other students are talking to the class.
2. Show respect and courtesy to all class mates and members of the teaching team
3.

TURN OFF MOBILE PHONES.

4.

We request NO FACEBOOK or INTERNET SURFING


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PLEASE NOTE: Students who do not abide by these rules may be asked to leave the seminar
room with no attendance being recorded.
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2.8M oodle
ARTS3783 makes extensive use of Moodle, an online environment intended to enhance face-toface and off-campus learning and teaching. Lecture notes and class announcements are posted
on Moodle. In it students will also find some readings, weblinks and other teaching resources.
Students are therefore expected to familiarize themselves with Moodle and access it regularly.

3. Course Materials

3.1 Tex tbooks and general tex ts

There is no set text for ARTS3783. Students should refer to the bibliography that is included in
this guide. Some of the essential weekly readings for the tutorial classes will be made available
through Moodle. Some others can be accessed through the link provided in this course outline.
However, useful reference books for this course are:
Kennedy, Paul, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict
from 1500 to 2000 (New York: Random House, 1987)
Keylor, William, The Twentieth Century World and Beyond: An International History (New York:
Oxford University Press, 2006).
Kissinger, Henry, Diplomacy (New York: Touchstone, 1994)
McKercher, B.J.C. (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Diplomacy and Statecraft (New York:

Routledge, 1992).

Young, John and Kent, John, International Relations since 1945: A Global History (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2004)

3.2 Online m aterial

In addition to the above-mentioned texts you are expected to consult, read and assess critically
a large number of sources. To this end, you should familiarize yourself with the following
academic journals for regular analysis of historical and diplomatic issues. These journals are
available at http://info.library.unsw.edu.au/ (see e-journals):

Australian Journal of International Affairs (formerly Australian Outlook)


Australian Journal of Politics and History
Cold War History
Contemporary British History
Contemporary European History
Contemporary Security Issues
Diplomacy and Statecraft
Diplomatic History
Economist
English Historical Review
Foreign Affairs
Foreign Policy
Journal of Cold War Studies
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
International Affairs
International Organisation
International Security

National Interest
Pacific Review
World Politics
A very useful source of academic journals in international relations is Jstor. This database is
available at http://info.library.unsw.edu.au/ and includes the following academic journals:

Asian Survey
Cambridge Historical Journal
International Journal of Middle East Studies
Journal of American History
Journal of British Studies
Journal of Contemporary History
Journal of Economic History
Pacific Historical Review

4. Key Dates
30 July: Lectures begin
3-7 August: Tutorials begin
27 August: Mid-term in-class test
17 September: Foreign Policy Review due
22 October: Final in-class test

5. Lecture Schedule
Please note that lectures will take place in the Central Lecture Theatre 2 on Thursdays from 2
pm to 4 pm. For the time and locations of your tutorials, please consult MyUnsw.
Lecture
Week 1
30 July
Week 2
6 August
Week 3
13 August
Week 4
20 August

Introduction and Course Overview


US Foreign Policy 1: from Truman to Johnson
US Foreign Policy 2: from Nixon to Obama
Soviet Foreign Policy

Week 5

Mid-term Test (1:30 hr)

27 August
Week 6

British Foreign Policy

3 September
Week 7

Indias Foreign Policy

10 September
Week 8

Chinese Foreign Policy

17 September
Week 9

French Foreign Policy

24 September
27 September-2 October
Week 10

Mid-semester Break
German Foreign Policy

8 October
Week 11

Australian Foreign Policy

15 October
Week 12

End of Semester Test (1:30 hr)

22 October

6. Tutorial Program

Tutorial 1 (week 2)

Introduction

3-7 August

Organisational tutorial only

Tutorial 2 (week 3)

US Foreign Policy 1

10-14 August

Discussion Topics
o
o

Assess the pros and cons of Americas containment strategy during the early Cold
War?
Was containment wrong-headed?

Essential Readings
Leffler, Melvin, The Emergence of an American Grand Strategy, 1945-52, in Melvyn
Leffler and Odd Arne Westad (eds), The Cambridge History of the Cold War: The Origins
vol.1 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 67-89 [available online through
http://lrd.library.unsw.edu.au and, then, Cambridge Histories Online]
McMahon, Robert, US National Security Policy from Eisenhower to Kennedy, in Melvyn
Leffler and Odd Arne Westad (eds), The Cambridge History of the Cold War: The Origins
vol.1 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 288-311 [available online
through http://lrd.library.unsw.edu.au and, then, Cambridge Histories Online]
Costigliola, Frank, US Foreign Policy from Kennedy to Johnson, in Melvyn Leffler and Odd
Arne Westad (eds), The Cambridge History of the Cold War: Crises and Detente vol. 2
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 112-133 [available online through
http://lrd.library.unsw.edu.au and, then, Cambridge Histories Online]

Recommended Reading
Cohen, Warren, The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations Vol. 4: America in
the Age of Soviet Power, 19451991 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
Dobson, Alan and Marsh, Steve, US Foreign Policy since 1945 (Hoboken: Taylor & Francis,
2006) [available online through http://library.unsw.edu.au]
Gaddis, John Lewis, The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947 (New
York:
Columbia
University
Press,
2000)
[available
online
through
http://library.unsw.edu.au]
Jadie, Pauline and Pettiford, Lloyd (eds), Foreign Policies of the Major Powers: Politics and
Diplomacy since World War II, vol. 1, United States of America (London: IB Tauris, 2007)
Harris, Owen, Benign or Imperial? Reflections on America Hegemony (Sydney: ABC
Books, 2004)
Herring George, From Colony to Superpower: US Foreign Relations since 1776 (New York:
Oxford University Press, 2008) [available online through http://library.unsw.edu.au]
Hogan, Michael, The Marshall Plan: America, Britain, and the Reconstruction of Western
Europe, 1947-1952 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987) [available online
through http://library.unsw.edu.au]
Karabell, Zachary, Architects of Intervention: The United States, the Third World, and the
Cold War, 1946-1962 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999) [available
online through http://library.unsw.edu.au]
Martel, Gordon (ed.), American Foreign Relations Reconsidered, 1890-1993 (New York:
Routledge, 1994) [available online through http://library.unsw.edu.au]
Schulzinger, Robert (ed.), A Companion to American Foreign Relations (London: WileyBlackwell, 2007) [available online through http://library.unsw.edu.au]
Yahuda, Michael, The United States in the Asia-Pacific, in Michael Yahuda, The
International Politics of the Asia-Pacific (New York: Routledge, 1995), pp. 109-141
[available online through http://library.unsw.edu.au]
Westad, Odd Arne, The Global Cold War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)
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Tutorial 3 (week 4)

US Foreign Policy 2

17-21 August

Discussion Topic
o

o
o

How did Nixon, an allegedly staunch cold warrior, manage to achieve a


remarkable improvement in Sino-American relations? Why did a Republican like him
succeed where his Democratic predecessor failed?
Was it Reagan a reckless cold warrior?
In your view, did the US fail to define a grand strategy for itself after the end of
the Cold War?

Essential Readings
Macmillan, Margaret, Nixon, Kissinger and the Opening to China, in Frederik Logevall and
Andrew Preston (eds), Nixon in the World: American Foreign Relations, 1969-1977
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), pp. 106-125 [available online through
http://ibrary.unsw.edu.au]
Fisher, Beth A. US foreign policy under Reagan and Bush, in Melvyn Leffler and Odd
Arne Westad (eds), The Cambridge History of the Cold War: Endings vol. 3 (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 267-288 [available online through
http://lrd.library.unsw.edu.au and, then, Cambridge Histories Online]
Dumbrell, John, America in the 1990s: Searching for a Purpose, in Michael Cox and Doug
Stokes (eds), US Foreign Policy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), pp. 89-104
[available on Moodle]

Recommended Readings
Andrews, David (ed.), The Atlantic Alliance under Stress: US-European Relations after
Iraq (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 56-73
Bell, Coral, A World out of Balance: American Ascendancy an International Politics in the
21st Century (Sydney: Longueville Media, 2003)
Brands, Hal, From Berlin to Baghdad: Americas Search for Purpose in the Post-Cold War
World (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008)
Cox, Michael, US Foreign Policy after the Cold War: Superpower without a Mission?
(London: Pinter, 1995)
Daalder, Ivo, America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy (Washington:
Brookings Institution, 2003)
Dobson, Alan and Marsh, Steve, US Foreign Policy since 1945 (Hoboken: Taylor & Francis,
2006) [available online through http://library.unsw.edu.au]
Herring George, From Colony to Superpower: US Foreign Relations since 1776 (New York:
Oxford University Press, 2008) [available online through http://library.unsw.edu.au]
Jadie, Pauline and Pettiford, Lloyd (eds), Foreign Policies of the Major Powers: Politics and
Diplomacy since World War II, vol. 1, United States of America (London: IB Tauris, 2007)

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Nye, Joseph, The Paradox of American Power: Why the Worlds Only Superpower Cant
Go It Alone (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003) [available online through
http://ibrary.unsw.edu.au]
Parmar, Inderjeet, Miller, Linda B. and Ledwidge, Mark (eds), New Directions in US
Foreign Policy (New York: Routledge, 2009) [available online through
http://library.unsw.edu.au]
Schulzinger, Robert (ed.), A Companion to American Foreign Relations (London: WileyBlackwell, 2007) [available online through http://library.unsw.edu.au]
Yahuda, Michael, The United States in the Asia-Pacific, in Michael Yahuda, The
International Politics of the Asia-Pacific (New York: Routledge, 1995), pp. 109-141
[available online through http://library.unsw.edu.au]

Tutorial 4 (week 5) Soviet Foreign Policy

24-28 August

Discussion Topic
o

What were the main aims of Soviet foreign policy during the Cold War?

How aggressive, if aggressive at all, was the Soviet Union during the Cold War?

Essential Readings
Pechatov, Vladimir, The Soviet Union and the World, 1944-53, in Melvyn Leffler and Odd
Arne Westad (eds), The Cambridge History of the Cold War: The Origins vol.1 (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 90-111 [available online through
http://library.unsw.edu.au and, then, Cambridge Histories Online]
Mastny, Vojtech, Soviet Foreign Policy, 1953-1962, in Melvyn Leffler and Odd Arne Westad
(eds), The Cambridge History of the Cold War: The Origins vol.1 (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2010), pp. 312-333 [available online through http://library.unsw.edu.au
and, then, Cambridge Histories Online]
Savranskaya, Svetlana and Taubman, William, Soviet Foreign Policy, 19621975, in Melvyn
Leffler and Odd Arne Westad (eds), The Cambridge History of the Cold War: Crises and
Dtente vol. 2 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 134-157 [available online
through http://library.unsw.edu.au and, then, Cambridge Histories Online]

Recommended Readings
LaFaber, Walter, America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-2006 (Boston: McGraw-Hill,
2008)
Garthoff, Raymond, Dtente and Confrontation: American-Soviet Relations from Nixon to
Reagan (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1994)
Legvold, Robert, The Three Russias: Decline, Revolution and Reconstruction, in Robert
Pastor (ed.), A Centurys Journey: How the Great Powers Shape the World (New York:
Basic Books, 1999), pp. 139-150
London, Kurt, The Soviet Union in World Politics (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1980)
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Masty, Vojtech, The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: the Stalin Years (New York: Oxford
University Press, 1996) [available online through http://library.unsw.edu.au]
Ouimet, Matthew, The Rise and Fall of the Brezhnev Doctrine in Soviet Foreign Policy
(Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2004) [available online through
http://library.unsw.edu.au]
Roberts, Geoffrey, The Soviet Union in World Politics: Coexistence, Revolution and Cold
War, 1945-1991 [available online through http://library.unsw.edu.au]

, Stalin's Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939-1953: From World War to Cold
War, 1939-1953 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006)
Savranskaya, Svetlana and Taubman, William, Soviet Foreign Policy, 1962-75, in Melvyn
Leffler and Odd Arne Westad (eds), The Cambridge History of the Cold War: Volume 2
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 134-157
Staar, Richard Felix, USSR Foreign Policies after Dtente (Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution
Press, 1985)
Zubok, Vladislav, A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to
Gorbachev (Chapell Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007)

, The Soviet Union and Dtente of the 1970s, Cold War History, vol. 8, no. 4, 2008,
pp. 427447 [available online through http://library.unsw.edu.au]
Zubok, Vladislav and Pleshakov, Constantine, Inside the Kremlins Cold War: From Stalin
to Khrushchev (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992)
Westad, Odd Arne, The Global Cold War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)
Worth, Owen and Pettiford, Lloyd (eds), Foreign Policies of the Major Powers: Politics and
Diplomacy since World War II, vol. 2, The Soviet Union and Russia (London: IB Tauris,
2007)

Tutorial 5 (week 6) Foreign Policy: Discussion

7-11 September

In this tutorial class your tutor will take questions on how to write a Foreign Policy Review
and clarify any remaining doubts. In preparation for this class, you will be required to
familiarize yourself with the examples/models of foreign policy reviews posted on Moodle
under the rubric Foreign Policy Reviews.

Tutorial 6 (week 7)

British Foreign Policy

31 August-4 September

Discussion Topic
o

How would you characterize Britains role in international affairs in the post-1945
world?

How did Britain seek to maintain a place in the sun after the Second World War?

Can and should Britain move away from Europe?

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Essential Readings
Deighton, Anne, The Past in the Present: British Imperial Memories and the European
Question, in Jan-Werner Mller (ed.), Memory and Power in Post-war Europe: Studies in
the Presence of the Past (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 100-120
[available online at http://unsw.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=202156]
Reynolds, David, From World War to Cold War: Churchill, Roosevelt, and the International
History of the 1940s (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), ch. 17 (pp. 309-320)
[available online at http://unsw.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=422718]
May, Alex, Britain and Europe since 1945 (New York: Longman, 1999), pp. 91-96
[available on Moodle]
Sanders, David, Losing an Empire, Finding a Role: British Foreign Policy since 1945
(London: Macmillan, 1990), pp. 135-141 [available on Moodle]
The Lure of the Open Sea: British Eurosceptics try out a new argument: ditch the
sclerotic EU and roam the globe, The Economist, 14 April 2012 [available on Moodle]
Could Britain move away from EU and toward the Commonwealth?, Christian Science
Monitor, 17 January 2013 [available on Moodle]

Recommended Readings
Adamthwaite, Anthony, Overstretched and Overstrung: Eden, the Foreign Office and the
Making of Policy, 19515, International Affairs, vol. 64, no. 2, 1998, pp. 241259
Becker, Josef and Knipping, Franz (eds), Power in Europe? Great Britain, France, Italy,
and Germany in a Postwar World, 1945-1950 (Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 1986)
Byrd, Peter, British Foreign Policy under Thatcher (New York: St. Martins Press, 1988)
Darwin, John, Britain and Decolonisation: The Retreat from Empire in the Post-War World
(Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992)

, The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830-1970

(Cambridge: Cambridge
http://library.unsw.edu.au]

University

Press,

2009)

[available

online

through

Ellison, James, Threatening Europe. Britain and the Creation of the European Community,
1955-58 (Basingstoke: Palgrave 2000)
Frankel, Joseph, British Foreign Policy 1945-73 (London: Oxford University Press, 1975)
Gowland, David and Turner, Arthur, Britain and European Integration 1945-1998 Harlow:
Longman, 2000)
Hitchcock, William, The Struggle for Europe: The Turbulent History of a Divided
Continent, 1945-2002 (New York: Doubleday, 2003), chs 2, 6 and 12.

, Reversal of Fortune: Britain, France, and the Making of Europe, 1945-56, in Paul
Kennedy and William Hitchcock, From War to Peace: Altered Strategic Landscape in the
Twentieth Century (London: Yale University Press, 2000), pp. 79-88
Holland, Robert, The Pursuit of Greatness: Britain and the World Role, 1900-1970
(London: Fontana, 1991)
Kaiser, Wolfram, A Never-Ending Story: Britain in Europe, British Journal of Politics and
International Relations, vol. 4, no. 1, 2002, pp.152-165 [available online through
http://library.unsw.edu.au]

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Lieber, Robert, Great Britain: Decline and Recovery, Robert Pastor (ed.), A Centurys
Journey: How the Great Powers Shape the World (New York: Basic Books, 1999), pp. 3362
Milward, Alan, The Rise and Fall of a National Strategy, 1945-1963 (London: Frank Cass,
2002)
Reynolds, David, A Special Relationship? America, Britain and the International Order
since the Second World War, International Affairs, vol. 62, no. 1, 1985-86, pp. 1-20

, Britain, in David Reynolds (ed.), The Origins of the Cold War in Europe:
International Perspectives (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994), pp. 77-95
, Britannia Overruled: British Policy and World Power in the Twentieth Century
(Harlow: Longman, 2000)

Smith Geoffrey, Britain in the New Europe, Foreign Affairs, vol. 71, no. 4, 1992 pp.155170 [available online through http://library.unsw.edu.au]
Sanders, David Losing and Empire, Finding a Role: British Foreign Policy since 1945
(Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1990)
Young, Hugo, This Blessed Plot: Britain and Europe from Churchill to Blair (London:
Macmillan, 1998), chs 1, 2, 4, 7, 11, and 12.
Young, John, Britain and European Unity, 19451992 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1993)

, (ed.), The Foreign Policy of Churchills Peace Administration, 1951-55 (Leicester:

Leicester University Press, 1988)

Young, John and Dockrill, Michael, British Foreign Policy, 1945-56 (New York: St. Martins,
1999)

Tutorial 7 (week 8)

Indian Foreign Policy

14-18 September

Discussion Topics
o What difficulties has Indias foreign policy encountered in its quest for international
status?
o In your view, what are the main aspects of Indias foreign policy since Nehru?
o Was Indias non-alignment misguided?

Essential Readings
Guha, Ramachandra, Home and the World, in Ramachandra Guha, India after Gandhi
(London: Macmillan, 2007), pp. 151-179 [available on Moodle]
Ganguly, Sumit and Pardesi, Manjeet, Explaining Sixty Years of Indias Foreign Policy,
Review, vol. 8, no.1, 2009, pp. 4-19 [available online through
http://library.unsw.edu.au]

India

Ganguly, Sumit, India Grows Up, World Policy Journal, vol. 20, no. 4, 2003, pp. 41-47
[available online through http://library.unsw.edu.au]

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Recommended Readings
Jha, C.S., From Bandung to Tashkent: Glimpses of India's Foreign Policy (Madras:
Sangam Books, 1983)
Mohan, Raja, India and the Balance of Power, Foreign Affairs, vol. 85, no. 4, 2006, pp.
17-32
Chriyankandath, James, Realigning India: Indian Foreign Policy after the Cold War, The
Round Table, vol. 93, no. 374, 2004, pp. 199211
Ganguly, Sumit, India's Foreign Policy Grows Up, World Policy Journal, vol. 20, no. 4,
2003/2004), pp. 41-47
Jain, B.M., Indias Foreign Policy: An Overview, in B.M. Jain, Global Power: Indias
Foreign Policy, 1947-2006 (Plymouth: Lexington Books, 2008), pp. 19-48.
McMahon, Robert, The Cold War on the Periphery: The United States, India and Pakistan
(New York; Columbia University Press, 1994)
Muni, S.D. India and the Post-Cold War World: Opportunities and Challenges, Asian

Survey, vol. 31, no. 9, 1991, pp. 862-874

Pant, Harsh, Contemporary Debates in Indian Foreign and Security Policy: India
Negotiates its Rise in the International System (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)

[available online through http://library.unsw.edu.au]

Power, Paul, Indian Foreign Policy: The Age of Nehru, The Review of Politics, vol. 26, no.
2, 1964, pp. 257-286
Singh, Josh Harcharan, Indias Foreign Policy: Nehru to Rao (New Delhi: Indian Council of
World Affairs 1994)
Thakur, Ramesh, India after Nonalignment, Foreign Affairs, vol. 71, no. 2, 1992, pp. 165182
, India in the World: Neither Rich, Powerful, nor Principled, Foreign Affairs, vol. 76,
no. 4, 1997, pp. 15-22
Thomas, Raju, The Shifting Landscape of Indian Foreign Policy, in Steven Hook (ed.),

Comparative Foreign Policy: Adaptation of the Great and Emerging Powers (Upper Saddle

River, NJ: Pearson Education, 2002), pp. 170-193

Tutorial 8 (week 9)

Chinese Foreign Policy

21-25 September

Discussion Topic
o

In your view, what were Chinas major foreign policy objectives during the Cold
War?

How would you describe Chinas role in Cold War Asia?

Essential Readings
Niu Jun, The Birth of the Peoples Republic of China and the Road to the Korean War, in
Melvyn Leffler and Odd Arne Westad (eds), The Cambridge History of the Cold War: The
Origins vol.1 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 321-243 [available
online through http://library.unsw.edu.au and, then, Cambridge Histories Online]
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Shu Guang Zhang The Sino-Soviet Alliance and the Cold War in Asia, 19541962, in
Melvyn Leffler and Odd Arne Westad (eds), The Cambridge History of the Cold War: The
Origins vol.1 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 353-375 [available
online through http://library.unsw.edu.au and, then, Cambridge Histories Online]
Yahuda, Michael, The International Politics of the Asia Pacific. Third and Revised Edition
(New York: Routledge, 2011), ch. 6 (pp. 137-159) [available online at
http://unsw.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=668390]

Recommended Readings
Barnett, A., The Making of Foreign Policy in China: Structure and Process (Boulder, CO,
Westview Press, 1985)
Carver North, Robert, The Foreign Relations of China (North Sciutate, Mass: Duxbury
Press, 1989)
Foot, Rosemary, The Practice of Power: US Foreign Relations with China since 1949
(Oxford:
Oxford
University
Press,
1997)
[available
online
through
http://library.unsw.edu.au]
Lanteigne, Marc, Chinese Foreign Policy: An Introduction (New York: Routledge, 2009)
[available online through http://library.unsw.edu.au]
Kornberg, Judith, China in World Politics: Policies, Processes, Prospects (Boulder, CO:
Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2004)
Kim, Samuel, China and the World: Chinese Foreign Relations in the post-Cold War Era
(Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994)
Jian, Chen, China and the Cold War after Mao, in Melvyn Leffler and Odd Arne Westad
(eds), The Cambridge History of the Cold War: Volume 3 (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2009), pp. 181-200 [available online through http://library.unsw.edu.au
and, then, Cambridge Histories Online]
Moore, Phoebe and Pettiford, Lloyd (eds), Foreign Policies of the Major Powers: Politics
and Diplomacy since World War II, vol. 3, China and Japan (London: IB Tauris, 2007)
Nathan, Andrew, The Great Wall and the Empty Fortress: Chinas Search for Security
(New York: Norton, 1997) [available online through http://library.unsw.edu.au]
Jiang, Chen, Chinas Road to the Korean War: The Making of the Sino-American
Confrontation (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994)
Oksenberg, Michael, China: A Tortuous Path onto the World Stage, in Robert Pastor,
(ed.), A Centurys Journey: How the Great Powers Shape the World (New York: Basic
Books, 1999), pp. 291-332
Robinson, Thomas and Shambaugh, David, Chinese Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994)
Shambaugh, David, Greater China: The Next Superpower? (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1995)

, Power Shift: China and Asias New Dynamics (Berkeley: University of California
Press, 2005)

Yahuda, Michael, Chinas Role in World Affairs (London: Croom Helm, 1978)

, Towards the End of Isolationism: Chinas Foreign Policy after Mao (New York: St

Martins Press, 1983)

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Wang, Fei-Ling and Deng, Yong, China Rising: Power and Motivation in Chinese Foreign
Policy (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004)
Westad, Odd Arne, The Global Cold War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)

No tutorial classes

28 September-2 October

Mid-Semester Break

Tutorial 9 (week 10)

French Foreign Policy

5-9 October

Discussion Topic
o

In your view, what are the major themes in Frances foreign policy during the
Cold War?

Is it Europe a continuation of France by other means?

Essential Readings
Cogan, Charles, French Negotiating Behaviour: Dealing with la Grande Nation
(Washington, DC: Institute of Peace Press: 2003), pp. 80-105 [available on Moodle]
Gildea, Robert, Myth, Memory and policy in France since 1945, in Jan-Werner Mller
(ed.), Memory and Power in Post-war Europe: Studies in the Presence of the Past
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 59-75 [available online at
http://unsw.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=202156]
Wall, Irwin, France in the Cold War, Journal of European Studies, vol. 38, no. 2, 2008,
pp. 121-139 [available online through http://library.unsw.edu.au]

Recommended Readings
Aldrich, Robert and Connell, John (eds), France in World Politics (London: Routledge,
1989)
Becker, Josef and Knipping, Franz (eds), Power in Europe? Great Britain, France, Italy,
and Germany in a Postwar World, 1945-1950 (Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 1986)
Bozo, Frederic, France, Gaullism, and the Cold War, Melvyn Leffler and Odd Arne Westad
(eds), The Cambridge History of the Cold War: Volume 2 (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2009), pp. 158-178 [available online through http://library.unsw.edu.au and, then,
Cambridge Histories Online]
Brouard, Sylvain, Appleton Andrew and Mazur, Amy (eds), The French Fifty Republic at
Fifty: Beyond Stereotypes (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
Charillon, F. and Wong, R., France: Europeanization by Default? in R. Wong and C. Hill,

National and European Foreign Policy (London: Taylor Francis, 2012), pp. 19-32

[available online at http://unsw.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=714013]

Creswell, Michael, A Question of Balance: How France and the United States created Cold
War Europe (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2006)
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Creswell, Michael and Trachtenberg, Marc, France and the German Question, Journal of
Cold War Studies, vol. 5, no. 3, 2003, pp. 5-28 [available online through
http://library.unsw.edu.au]
Gildea, Robert, France since 1945 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002)
Gillingham, John, Coal, Steel, and the Rebirth of Europe, 1945-1955: The Germans and
French from Ruhr Conflict to Economic Community (Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press, 2004) [available online through http://library.unsw.edu.au]

Gough, Hugh and Horne, John (eds), De Gaulle and Twentieth Century France (London:
Edward Harnold, 1994)
Hitchcock, William, France, the Western Alliance, and the Origins of the Schuman Plan,
1948-1950, Diplomatic History, vol. 21, no. 4, 1997, pp. 603-630
, France Restored: Cold War Diplomacy and the Quest for Leadership in Europe,
1944-1954 (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1998)
, The Struggle for Europe: The Turbulent History of a Divided Continent, 1945-2002
(New York: Doubleday, 2003), pp. 147-155 and 224-230
, Turning Weakness into Strength: France's Post-World War II Diplomacy, Diplomatic
vol. 24, no. 3, 2000, pp. 543-546 [available online through
http://library.unsw.edu.au]

History,

Hecht, Gabrielle, The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after
World War II (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1998) [available online through

http://library.unsw.edu.au]

Hoffman, Stanley, France: Two Obsessions for One Century, in Robert Pastor (ed.), A
Centurys Journey: How the Great Powers Shape the World (New York: Basic Books,
1999), pp. 63-73
Keiger, John, France and the World since 1870 (London: Arnold, 2001)
Keylor, William, The Eternal Quest for a Place in the Sun, Diplomatic History, vol. 28, no. 4,
2004, pp. 599-605 [available online through http://library.unsw.edu.au]
Kramer, Stephen, The End of French Europe?, Foreign Affairs, vol. 85, no. 4, 2006, pp.
126-138
Mangold, Peter, The Almost Impossible Ally: Harold Macmillan and Charles de Gaulle
(London: I.B. Tauris, 2006)
Price, Roger, A Concise History of France (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005),
chs 7 and 8
Sotou, Georges-Henri, France, in David Reynolds (ed.), The Origins of the Cold War in
Europe: International Perspectives (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994), pp. 96-120
Trachtemberg, Marc, France and NATO, 1949-1991, Journal of Transatlantic Studies, vol.
9, no. 3, 2011, pp. 184-194.
Wise, Mark, France and the European Unity, in Robert Aldrich and John Connell (eds),
France in World Politics (London: Routledge, 1989)
Wong, Reuben, The Europeanization of French Foreign Policy: France and the EU in East
Asia (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)

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Tutorial 10 (week 11) German Foreign Policy

12-16 October

Discussion Topic
o

How would you characterize Germanys postwar foreign policy? In your view,
what are its main features?

Why did Germany under Chancellor Helmut Kohl agree to the ambitious but
possibly misconceived European Monetary Union?

Chancellor Adenauer's policy of Westbindung was a complete failure as it tied


Germany far too closely to the United States. Discuss

Essential Readings
Joffe, Joseph, Germany: the Continuities from Frederick the Great to the Federal
Republic, Robert Pastor (ed.), A Centurys Journey: How the Great Powers Shape the
World (New York: Basic Books, 1999), pp. 110-138 [available on Moodle]
Willis, Roy, Germany, France and Europe, Wolfram Hanrieder (ed.), West German
Foreign Policy 1949-79 (Boulder, CO: Westview Press 1980), p. 93-112 [available on
Moodle]
Kundnani, Hans, Germany as a Geo-economic Power, The Washington Quarterly, vol. 34,
no. 3, 2001, pp. 31-45 [available online through http://library.unsw.edu.au]

Recommended Readings
Feldman, Lily Gardner, Germany and the EC: Realism and Responsibility, Annals of the
American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 531, 1994, pp. 25-43
Hanrieder, Wolfram, The Stable Crisis: Two Decades of German Foreign Policy (New York:
Harper and Row, 1970)
, Germany, America, Europe: Forty Years of German Foreign Policy (New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1898)
Larres, Klaus and Panayi, Panikos (eds), The Federal Republic of Germany since 1949:
Politics, Society and Economy before and after Unification (Harlow: Addison Wesley
Longman, 1966)
Krieger, Wolfgang, Germany, in Reynolds, David (ed.), The Origins of the Cold War in
Europe: International Perspectives (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994), pp. 144165.
Junker, Detlef, Maunch, Christof and Lazar, David, The United States and Germany in the
Era of Cold War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 125-132 [available
online through http://library.unsw.edu.au]
Kapp, Manfred, Divided Loyalties in Transatlantic Policy toward Europe, in Junker, Detlef,
Maunch, Christof and Lazar, David, The United States and Germany in the Era of Cold
War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 125-132 [available online
through http://library.unsw.edu.au]
McAdams, A. James, Germany Divided: From the Wall to Reunification (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1993).
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Nicholls, A. J., The Bonn Republic: West German Democracy, 1945-1990 (London:
Longman, 1997)
Parkes, Stuart, Understanding Contemporary Germany (London: Routledge, 1997)
Patton, David, Cold War Politics in Postwar Germany (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1990)
Windsor, Philip, West Germany in Divided Europe in F.S. Northedge (ed.), The Foreign

Policies of the Powers (London: Faber & Faber, 1974), pp. 237-268.

Tutorial 11 (week 12) Australian Foreign Policy

19 October-23 October

Discussion Topics
o

Did Australia fail to engage with Asia during the Cold War?

Was Australias alliance with the US an impediment to its regional engagement?

Is Australias relationship with the US an obstacle to the formulation of an


independent foreign policy?

Essential Readings
Gurry, Meg, Identifying Australias Region: From Evatt to Evans, Australian Journal of
International Affairs, vol. 49, no. 1, 1995, pp. 17-31 [available online through
http://library.unsw.edu.au]
Jones, David Martin and Smith, Mike Lawrence, Menzies and Whitlam: Reassessing the
Ideological Construction of Australian Foreign Policy, The Round Table, vol. 89, no. 355,
pp. 387-406 [available online through http://library.unsw.edu.au]
McLean, David, From British Colony to American Satellite? Australia and the USA during
the Cold War , Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 52, no. 1, 2006, pp. 64-79
[available online through http://library.unsw.edu.au]

Recommended Readings
Bell, Coral, Dependent Ally: A Study in Australian Foreign Policy (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1988)
Bongiorno, Frank, The Price of Nostalgia: Menzies, the Liberal Tradition and Australian
Foreign Policy, Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 51, no. 3, 2005, pp. 400-417
Boyce, Peter, Bonds of Culture and Commonwealth in Southeast Asia, Journal of
Southeast Asian Studies, vol. 2, no.1, 1971, pp. 65-100
Edwards, Peter with Gregory Pemberton, 1992. Crises and Commitments: The Politics and
Diplomacy of Australia's Involvement in Southeast Asian Conflicts, 19481965 (Sydney:
Allen & Unwin)
Evans, Gareth and Grant, Bruce, Australias Foreign Relations in the World of the 1990s
(Melbourne: MUP, 1995)
Gifford, Peter, Cold War across Asia, in David Goldsworthy (ed.), Facing North: A Century

of Australian Engagement with Asia (Melbourne: MUP, 2001)

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Goldsworthy, David, Australian External Policy and the End of Britains Empire, Australian
Journal of Politics and History, vol. 51, no. 1, 2005, pp. 17-29
Grant, Bruce, The Crisis of Loyalty: A Study of Australian Foreign Policy (Sydney: Angus &
Robertson, 1972)
Goldsworthy, David, Losing the Blanket: Australia and the end of Britains Empire.
(Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002)
Lowe, David (ed.), Australia and the End of Empires: The Impact of Decolonisation in
Australias Near North, 1945-65 (Melbourne: DUP, 1996)
Jones, David Martin and Smith, Mike Lawrence, Misreading Menzies and Whitlam:
Reassessing the Ideological Construction of Australian Foreign Policy, Round Table, vol.
355, no. 1, 2000, pp. 387406
Lee, David, Search for Security: The Political Economy of Australias Postwar Foreign and
Defence Policy (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1995)
McDougall, Derek, Australian Foreign Relations: Contemporary Perspectives. (Melbourne:
Addison Wesley, 1998)
Millar, T.B., Australia in Peace and War: External Relations since 1788 (Canberra:
Australian National University Press, 1991)
Pemberton, Gregory, An Imperial Imagination: Explaining the Post-1945 Foreign Policy of
Robert Gordon Menzies, in Frank Cain (ed.), Menzies in War and Peace (Sydney: Allen &
Unwin, 1997)
Waters, Christopher, After Decolonization: Australia and the Emergence of the NonAligned Movement in Asia, 1954-55, Diplomacy & Statecraft, vol. 12, no. 2, 2001, pp.
153-174

Tutorial 12 (week 13)

October

Special theme: online documentary

27-30

In place of our usual face-to-face tutorial, you will be required to watch the following
documentary covering in greater depth one of the themes examined during the course of
the previous teaching weeks. The documentary will be available on Moodle (please go to
Course Resources and then to Tutorial Schedule. Look for tutorial 12)
This year's theme is the impact of US President Richard Nixon's opening to China on SinoAmerican relations. In 300 words, please address the following question: What lessons
are to be learned from Nixon's decision to open to China in 1972?
The assignment will have to be uploaded on Moodle by Friday 30 October and will be
counted towards your participation/attendance in class activities. This means that
students failing to submit his/her written answer to the question (or writing a poor one)
will be considered as having missed his/her tutorial class.

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7. Assessment

7.1 Form al R equirem ents


Assessm ent
task

Length

W eight

2,000
words

55%

1, 2, 3

1, 2, 3, 4

17 September,
4pm

No more 10%
than
5minutes

1, 2, 3

1, 2, 3, 4

Assigned week

Presentation
Summary

500
words

5%

1, 2, 3

1, 2, 3, 4

Day before the


presentation is
due

Mid-Semester
Test

1.30 hr

15%

1, 2

27 August

End of Semester
Test

1.30 hr

15%

1, 2

22 October

Foreign Policy
Review
Presentation

Learning outcom es
assessed

Graduate
attributes
assessed

Due date

Please be reminded that the School requires you to make a reasonable attempt at all
assessment tasks in order to get a final grade in this course.

Foreign Policy Review (55%)

A foreign policy review is a major piece of writing used by Foreign Ministries around the world
to guide policy development. A review will analyse historical developments, compare policy
options, and propose specific policy recommendations. This exercise is designed to test your
understanding of real-world problems and your ability to produce sound policy judgements. In
addition, its aim is to make you think about contemporary foreign policy issues as well as to
encourage you to appreciate some of the difficulties that policymakers are faced with in
formulating a coherent foreign policy towards a country, region or multilateral political issue. In
this exercise, you will therefore assume the role of a foreign policy adviser. You will write a
review of policy following the format provided by the course coordinator in week 5. The review
must be based on solid empirical evidence and demonstrate a coherent policy approach. It
should canvass alternative policy options and provide sound reasons for the policy approach
advocated. Students should consult the course coordinator to discuss the subject of their
proposed review. In general, you are expected to cover the foreign policy of one of the eight
countries covered in this course. The review will be assessed on the following criteria: 1)
evidence of research, 2) coherence, accuracy and succinctness of written expression, 3)
soundness of proposed recommendations. The review must be no more than 2,000 words in
length (footnotes/endnotes excluded). In drafting it, you must make sure that you have
consulted a wide range of sources from academic books and refereed essays/papers to
newspaper articles. There is no hard and fast rule on many readings you are expected to do.
This, in part, will depend on the kind of review that you choose to do. Foreign policy reviews
that are set in the past will inevitably rely, first and foremost, on academic books and
essays/papers. In this case, the expectation is that you have at least 10 scholarly sources in
your review. On the other hand, if you are doing a foreign policy review focused on
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contemporary/future developments, then the expectation is that you will draw considerably on
newspaper articles. In this case, the rule of the thumb is that you should have no less than 3
scholarly sources and several newspaper articles (at least 20) in your paper. Also be aware that
failure to provide footnotes/endnotes/citations and bibliography will also lead to your review
being failed. Although it is true that, in real life, foreign policy reviews do not have
footnotes/endnotes, your foreign policy review is still an academic assignment and, as such, it
has to be properly and adequately referenced. Please note that sloppy and/or inaccurate
referencing will also be looked upon unfavourably and will result in significant point deductions..

Mid-semester in-class test (15%)

The mid-semester in-class test will assess your knowledge and understanding of the material
covered in weeks 1-4 (inclusive). A mock test to assist your preparation will be uploaded on
Moodle. The test will last for 90 minutes and you will be required to complete a questionnaire of
40 questions, some of which are multiple-choice and some in the true/false format. No laptops,
no dictionary, textbooks or notes are allowed during the test. Please make sure that you do
not miss the test as this will not be repeated.

Final in-class test (15%)

The final in-class test will assess your knowledge and understanding of the material covered in
weeks 5-13 (inclusive). The test will last for 90 minutes and you will be required to complete a
questionnaire of 40 questions, some of which are multiple-choice and some in the true/false
format. No laptops, no dictionary, textbooks or notes are allowed during the test. Please make
sure that you do not miss the test as this will not be repeated.

Presentation (10%)

Each student will be required to do a tutorial presentation. Marks will be awarded in terms of
the oral presentations overall quality (e.g. ability to present a clear case in support or against
the question that has been asked; the presentation has to have a clear structure with an
introduction, a main body in which you develop your argument, and a conclusion. Please avoid
reading your presentation word-for-word from a script or from PowerPoint slides (listening to
someone read aloud can boring for an audience). Instead, aim to talk freely and, in doing so,
strive to speak clearly and at a moderate pace (please dont rush or speed up as your audience
will find it hard to follow you). For further information on how to do a good presentation please
go to http://www.lc.unsw.edu.au/onlib/tutsem.html. Some material on tutorial presentations
can also be found on Moodle. Your presentation should last no less than 4 minutes and no more
than 5 minutes. This assessment task will comprise 10% of the total course grade. Please
make sure that you turn up for your presentation and do not miss the tutorial time
slot allocated to you. We will not allow the rescheduling of your presentation (we
cannot afford to let presentation to take up most of the tutorial time). Failure to turn
up for your presentation will result in a 0 grade. In special circumstances, we may
consider a written make-up assignment.

Presentation Summary (5%)

In preparation for your oral presentation you will be asked to produce a 500 word
summary/abstract of it. This will have to reach your tutor/lecturer in electronic format the day
before (please note that the deadline is 3 pm) your presentation is due so that it can be circulated
to other students. Please be advised that the teaching staff will neither chase nor
accept late submissions. Please make sure that you clearly state your argument and that
this is coherently developed. At the end of your summary please provide the list of books/articles
that you have relied up/consulted to prepare your talk (bibliography is excluded from the word
count). This assessment task will comprise 5% of the total course grade.

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7.2 Feedback

Assessm ent task

Feedback m echanism

Feedback date

Research Paper

Students are encouraged to discuss their


essay plans with lecturer/tutors; they will
receive written feedback on their work
with specific comments on possible
improvement

Within two/three
weeks from the
submission deadline

Presentation

Students will be given feedback on their


presentations by email

Within 24-48 hours


from the end of their
tutorial class

Presentation Summary

Students will be given feedback on their


summaries by email.

Within 24-48 hours


from the end of their
tutorial class

Mid-Semester Test

Test scores will be uploaded on Moodle

Generally within two


weeks from the date
of the test

End of Semester Test

Test scores will be uploaded on Moodle

Generally within two


weeks from the date
of the test

7.3 Subm ission of Assignm ents

Hard copy assignments are to be submitted to the appropriate assignment box located on the
First Floor of the Morven Brown Building unless this course specifies electronic submission
ONLY. There will be a separate box for late submissions. Only late submissions will be
stamped by the School Office with the receipt date. A penalty will be applied to assignments
that are submitted to the wrong box. You are also required to submit an electronic through
Turnitin in Moodle.
BOTH HARD COPY AND ELECTRONIC COPY OF YOUR ASSIGNMENT MUST BE SUBMITTED BY
4PM ON THE DUE DATE TO AVOID A LATE PENALTY.
Please be advised that there is usually a queue to submit near the 4pm deadline. You are
strongly advised to aim to submit early, as submissions received at 4.01pm will be stamped as
late and will incur a late penalty. The late penalty is 3% of the total possible marks for the
task for each day or part day that the work is late. Lateness includes weekends and public
holidays. It is your responsibility to keep a copy of your work in case of loss of an assignment.
You are also responsible for checking that your submission is complete and accurate. A penalty
will be applied to assignments that are submitted to the wrong box. All assignments (hard
copy and electronic submission) must be submitted with a signed Assessment Cover Sheet
(required for all assignments). Please ensure that you read the Assessment Cover Sheet
carefully, particularly the section related to the originality of the submission. Assessment
Cover Sheets are available from outside the School Office (first floor, Morven Brown building),
near the assignment submission boxes, and are available to download from the School
website: https://socialsciences.arts.unsw.edu.au/students/resources/forms/. If you do not
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complete your Assessment Cover Sheet accurately and in full, a penalty of 5% will be applied
to your grade.

7.4 Collection of W ritten Assignm ents

Assessments are normally returned in tutorials. For assessments with due dates from Week 10
onwards, you may request for feedback on the assessment to be returned by attaching a selfaddressed postage-paid envelope to your assignment. If the postage is insufficient to cover
the delivery of the assignment, it will not be posted.

7.5 Course Evaluation and Developm ent

Student evaluative feedback is gathered periodically using, among other means, UNSW's Course
and Teaching Evaluation and Improvement (CATEI) process. Informal feedback and classgenerated feedback are also important. Student feedback is taken seriously, and continual
improvements are made to the course based in part on such feedback. Significant changes to
the course will be communicated to subsequent cohorts of students taking the course.

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8.

Criteria Sheet for Essay Assessment

Criterion

< 50% F

50-64% P

65-74% C

75-84% D

85%+ HD

Argument: How well


does the Foreign Policy
Review/Essay address the
chosen topic? Is the
argument sustained?

Failure to put an
argument or
question not
answered

Attempt made but


some significant
weaknesses exist

Good argument,
responds to
question

Solid, nuanced and


engaging argument

Evidence/Resources:
Are relevant examples
used to support
arguments? Do
conclusions flow from
evidence?

Very limited
research,
inappropriate or very
limited use of
evidence, irrelevant
evidence used

Limited research,
resources not well
integrated

Wide range of
reading, good
use of evidence
to sustain
argument

Excellent use of
appropriate
evidence,
engagement with
all aspects

Structure/Organisation
: Does the argument flow
logically and carry
throughout? Are
paragraphs well written or
rambling? Are linking
sentences used where
needed? Do conclusions
flow logically from
evidence presented? Is
word length as required?

No or jumbled
structure, poor flow,
rambling,
incoherent, very
disorganised, too
short/long

Basic structure
evident but lacks
coherence and
clarity

Competent,
logical and
consistently
argued; some
minor
weaknesses
Reading meets
the
requirement of
this exercise,
resources
generally wellintegrated
Coherent
structure,
some linkages,
signposting,
reasonably
well
constructed
paragraphs

Intro, linkages,
signposting are
good, structure is
logical, thread of
argument
throughout

Linkages and
signposting are
excellent, structure
aids clarity of
argument, logical
order, excellent
intro

Referencing: Are there


enough references? Is
referencing system
accurate? Has student
plagiarised?

Plagiarism,
unacceptable level
of paraphrasing, too
many long/short
quotations,
Largely inaccurate
referencing

Basic information
provided most of
the time, but fairly
inconsistent
referencing

Most
information
provided,
generally
consistent, but
some errors
exist

Accurate and
consistent
referencing with
some minor
errors, accords
with recognised
format

Accurate and
consistent
referencing with no
errors, accords with
recognised format

Expression/Style: Are
syntax and grammar
correct? Is meaning of
expression clear?

Sloppy or mangled
grammar,
expression often
unclear

Laboured syntax,
meaning is
comprehensible,
but the Foreign
Policy Review does
not flow and is
awkward in several
places

Sufficiently
clear
expression,
with few
errors,
meaning is
generally clear
despite a few
awkward
sentences

Sound
expression,
complex
meanings and
concepts
communicated
clearly

Excellent, fluent
expression, creative
and precise, aids
the argument

Note: These criteria are not necessarily weighted equally in determining an overall mark. Significant
linguistic weaknesses are, for example, likely to lead to a low grade or a fail, no matter whether a clear
effort has been made to sustain a central thesis. Sloppy referencing and poor research are also very likely
to lead to a low grade. In general, significant importance is given to the soundness of your argument.

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9.

Course grading

Grades will be awarded on the following basis:


1.

Fail (FL)

0 46%

2.

Fail/Conceded Pass

46-49%

3.

Pass (PS)

50 - 64 %

4.

Credit (CR)

65 - 74 %

5.

Distinction (DN)

75 - 84 %

6.

High Distinction (HD)

85 - 100 %

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