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Security Challenges in Policy and Practice

Murdoch University
Murdoch , Australia
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National Security | Public Security | Security Management
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Social Sciences | Security Services
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POL304 - Security Challenges in Policy and Practice

Overview

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Offerings

The following offerings are available for this unit:


  • MURDOCH-S1-EXT-2023-ONGOING
    • Teaching period code: Semester 1-S1
    • Location: Murdoch
    • Attendance mode: External
    • Start year: 2023
    • End year: -
    • Self enrol: Yes
  • MURDOCH-S1-INT-2023-ONGOING
    • Teaching period code: Semester 1-S1
    • Location: Murdoch
    • Attendance mode: Internal
    • Start year: 2023
    • End year: -
    • Self enrol: Yes
  • OUA-S1-EXT-2024-ONGOING
    • Teaching period code: Semester 1-S1
    • Location: Open Universities Australia
    • Attendance mode: External
    • Start year: 2024
    • End year: -
    • Self enrol: No

Learning Outcomes

The learning outcomes for this unit are:


  1. Knowledge of the various structures, processes, actors and norms of security-related policymaking.
  2. A broad critical understanding of the role of evidence and theories of change in security policy.
  3. The ability to identify and analyse the political dynamics and risks of security policy approaches in different issue areas.
  4. Detailed knowledge of a number of traditional and new security policy challenges, such as poverty, armed violence, environmental and climate change, international tensions and refugeeism.
  5. Ability to undertake a self-directed policy project.
  6. Clearly and persuasively communicate concepts, problems and arguments in relation to security politics, policy and practice.

Unit Content

The unit content includes:


  1. Introduction: security and policy in theory and practice
  2. Security Challenges: identifying risk and threat
  3. Whose security? Competing interests and policy making
  4. Security Governance
  5. Securitisation and Theories of Change
  6. Developing evidence-based security policy
  7. The security-development nexus in a time of poly-crisis
  8. Case study: Water Security
  9. Case study: Refugees, rights and displacement
  10. Case study: Conflict Prevention and Post-conflict Peacemaking
  11. Case study: Climate security and resource conflict
  12. Conclusion: Security Policy challenges in practice

Unit Details

  • Unit version: 06
  • Version start date: 01/01/2024
  • End date: 30/06/2024
  • Owning college: College of Law, Arts and Social Sciences
  • Owning school: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
  • Credit points: 3
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