This specialisation is designed for students pursuing a wide range of careers that engage both domestic and international policy processes. It reflects the conviction that international and domestic policymaking are increasingly difficult, and often impossible, to disentangle.
The specialisation provides students with an opportunity to explore this nexus and to focus on policy arenas of particular interest to them. Elective courses within this specialisation cover a wide variety of issues, including: global and regional governance, international trade, foreign investment, energy, environmental regulation, social policy, and the nature of globalisation. It is designed for students who are professionally engaged in policy making and administration with an international dimension or who take an interest in international policy.
Learning Outcomes
Demonstrate deep knowledge and critical understanding of key debates and thinking in the field of international policy.
Analyse, synthesise and communicate complex, political and institutional policy problems from multiple perspectives.
Develop innovative policy recommendations to complex problems in changing international policy environments.
Understand challenges relating to management, implementation and evaluation of international policies and respond to these in innovative ways.
Relevant Degrees
Requirements
This specialisation requires the completion of 24 units, which must consist of:
24 units from completion of courses from the following list:
POGO8015 Foreign Direct Investment Policy
POGO8044 Global Social Policy
POGO8045 International Policy Making in the Shadow of the Future
POGO8098 International Aid Programs and Politics
POGO8213 The Global Trading System
POGO8220 Issues in Japanese Policy
DEMO8047 International Migration
DIPL8002 Contemporary Challenges in Diplomacy
EMDV8080 International Climate Change Policy and Economics
INTR8022 International Relations in the Asia-Pacific
INTR8045 Global Governance
NSPO8009 Cyber and Emerging Technologies in National Security
NSPO8032 Geoeconomics and National Security
NSPO8041 Borders, Migration and Security (3 units)
NSPO8044 Energy Security (3 units)
NSPO8045 Propaganda and Information War (3 units)
NSPO8046 Terrorism and National Security (3 units)
This specialisation is available only to students undertaking the Master of Public Policy.
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