Module Identifier | IP31420 | ||
Module Title | WAR AND MODERN SOCIETY IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE | ||
Academic Year | 2001/2002 | ||
Co-ordinator | Mr Tarak Barkawi | ||
Semester | Intended for use in future years | ||
Next year offered | N/A | ||
Next semester offered | N/A | ||
Course delivery | Lecture | 16 Hours 16 x 1 hour Lectures | |
Seminar | 8 Hours 8 x 1 hour Seminars | ||
Assessment | Essay | 1 x 2,000 word essay | 30% |
Exam | 2 Hours | 70% |
10 ECTS Credits
Accordingly, attention is paid to the changing nature of modern war in both the core and periphery of the international system, and to the role of warfare in processes of global social change. `Modernity? is addressed in terms of the dynamic application of instrumental reason to the means of warfare; the role of ideology in shaping war, and of war in shaping ideology; the impact of the advent of mass society upon war, and of war upon it; as well as in terms of the changes in war wrought by industrial capitalism, and of the impact of war on state organisation of the economy. Finally, attention is paid to the cultural dimensions of the social organisation of violence, in particular to the role of violence in creating social solidarity and to change and continuity in the social basis of soldiers? `will to combat.?