The Strategic Studies specialisation allows students to consider how nation states conceive of and formulate their strategic world view, how they develop particular policies as a response to that world view, and to consider the success and failure of those policies. This specialisation gives student the option to consider Australian, Asian, and global perspectives on strategy, and meshing together conceptual and disciplinary discussions of strategy with case studies and empirical examples.
Learning Outcomes
- Appreciate contemporary disciplinary debates in Strategic Studies
- Apply Strategic Studies concepts to contemporary issues in world affairs
- Critically appraise the inputs and shapers of state strategy formulation and implementation with particular focus on state security.
Other Information
This specialisation is not available to students in the Master of Strategy and Defence, and the Master of Strategic and Defence Studies, or online versions of those awards.
Relevant Degrees
Requirements
This specialisation requires the completion of 24 units, of which:
A minimum of 12 units must come from completion of 8000-level courses
24 units must come from completion of the following list of Strategic Studies courses:
INTR8034 AI and the Future of War
NSPO8030 Coercion and National Security
NSPO8032 Geoeconomics and National Security
NSPO8049 Security in the Indo-Pacific
STST8001Strategy and Defence: Cases and Concepts
STST8004 Deterrence and Defence in Australian Strategic Policy
STST8026 Nuclear Strategy
STST8052 The Resort to Force: Military Operations and the Future of War
STST8066 Strategy, Statecraft and Diplomacy for the 21st Century
STST8068 Asian Strategy and Security: History, Theory and Practice
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