Order, Violence and Justice
UndergraduateTAS-HIR3042025
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 13 July 2025
- Entry requirements
- Prior study needed
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Price from
- $2,440
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Order, Violence and Justice
About this subject
Upon successful completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Explain key ideas, debates and theoretical perspectives with respect to the relationship between order, violence and justice in the international realm.
- Apply theoretical perspectives and debates on the relationship between order, violence and justice in the international realm to real world examples.
- Communicate coherently in written and/or oral formats drawing upon evidence to support your argument.
- Module 1: Violence and the Formation of International Society
- Introduction: Violence, Order and International Society
- States of Violence I: Machiavelli, Clausewitz and Raison D’état
- States of Violence II: Hobbes and the Realist Tradition
- Moderating Violence in International Society I: Grotius
- Moderating Violence in International Society II: Vattel
- Kant and the Enlightenment’s Critique of War
- Module 2: Order, Violence and Justice?
- The Laws of War
- Emerging Global Justice
- The International Criminal Court (parts 1, 2)
- Humanitarian War and ‘Responsibility to Protect’ – Kosovo, Libya and Syria
- ‘‘The War on Terror’: Iraq, Afghanistan (and Syria)
This subject is concerned with the question of the changing/evolving nature of violence in the international realm. Part one of the subject will trace the emergence of modern thought about violence through theoretical 'traditions' and the writings of Niccolo Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes through Hugo Grotius and Immanuel Kant to Carl von Clausewitz. The second part of the subject will trace the establishment of international laws and norms that attempt to regulate the use of force in the international realm, the emergence of humanitarian intervention and the relationship between sovereignty, international law and the use of force. The subject will conclude with an evaluation of the degree to which new international legal mechanisms have altered the way we think about the legitimate use of force.
- Take Home Exam (40%)
- Critical Literature Review (20%)
- Major Essay (40%)
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Conditional requisite: 25 credit points at Introductory level or higher
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- Other requirements - Teaching arrangements: weekly recorded lecture (1 hour) and weekly online tutorial (1.5 hours)
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- 0.125 EFTSL
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