Literature review
The literature review entails writing a 1,000-word reflective narrative in response to a question of your choosing. The quality and breadth of the research conducted, as well as the analytical depth of the review submitted, will be considered when evaluating the literature review.
Choose only 1 question and answer it. The literature review must draw on and assess in equal measure on the module literature syllabus as well as on the student’s own independent research effort.
Are states really the most important actors in international security?
Is war obsolete, or is it rather that we live in a world permanently at war today?
Does the ‘responsibility to protect’ have a future?
Is the global economy a cause for peace or conflict?
MODULE LITERATURE:
Williams, P. (2013a). 1. Security studies: an introduction, 2nd ed. London: Routledge. Available from http://www.vlebooks.com/vleweb/product/openreader?id=WestminUni&isbn=9780203122570.
Dunn Cavelty, M., Mauer, V. and Balzacq, T. (eds.). (2016a). 2. The Routledge handbook of security studies, Second edition. London: Routledge. Available from https://www-taylorfrancis-com.uow.idm.oclc.org/books/e/9781317620921.
Williams, P. (2013b). Security studies: an introduction, 2nd ed. London: Routledge. Available from http://www.vlebooks.com/vleweb/product/openreader?id=WestminUni&isbn=9780203122570.
Ole Waever and Barry Buzan. (2013). Chapter: After the Return to Theory: the Past, Present, and Future of Security Studies. Contemporary security studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 417–435.
Dunn Cavelty, M., Mauer, V. and Balzacq, T. (eds.). (2016b). The Routledge handbook of security studies. London: Routledge. Available from https://www-taylorfrancis-com.uow.idm.oclc.org/books/e/9781317620921.
Mearsheimer, J.J. (1990). Back to the Future: Instability in Europe after the Cold War. International Security, 15 (1). Available from https://doi.org/10.2307/2538981.
Martha Finnemore. (2009). Legitimacy, Hypocrisy, and the Social Structure of Unipolarity: Why Being a Unipole Isn’t All It’s Cracked up to Be. World Politics, 61 (1), 58–85. Available from http://www.jstor.org/stable/40060221?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents.
Dunn Cavelty, M., Mauer, V. and Balzacq, T. (eds.). (2016c). The Routledge handbook of security studies. London: Routledge. Available from https://doi-org.uow.idm.oclc.org/10.4324/9781315753393.
Williams, P. (2013d). Security Studies: An Introduction. Routledge, 187–205. Available from http://www.vlebooks.com/vleweb/product/openreader?id=WestminUni&isbn=9780203122570.
Barkawi, T. (2004). Connection and constitution: locating war and culture in globalization studies. Globalizations, 1 (2), 155–170. Available from https://doi.org/10.1080/1474773042000308532.
Nyman, J. (2018). Security Studies: An Introduction. 63–76. Available from https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/westminster/detail.action?docID=5295090.
Wendt, A. (1995). Constructing International Politics. International Security, 20 (1). Available from https://doi.org/10.2307/2539217.
Please use Harvard referencing system.
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