Module Identifier | IPM6530 | ||
Module Title | MILITARY DIMENSIONS OF HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION | ||
Academic Year | 2002/2003 | ||
Co-ordinator | Dr Nicholas J Wheeler | ||
Semester | Intended for use in future years | ||
Next year offered | N/A | ||
Next semester offered | N/A | ||
Course delivery | Seminars / Tutorials | 22 Hours (1 x 2 hour seminar per week) | |
Assessment | Semester Assessment | 3,000 words Essay: | 45% |
Semester Assessment | Book Review Essay: 1,500 words | 15% | |
Semester Assessment | Briefing Paper Course Work: 3,000 words | 40% | |
Supplementary Exam | Students may, subject to Faculty approval, have the opportunity to resit this module, normally during the supplementary examination period. For further clarification please contact the Teaching Programme Administrator in the Department of International Politics. |
- Understand the concepts of peacekeeping/peace enforcement in UN peace support operations
- Critically assess the legal, moral and political argument for and against a right and duty of unilateral humanitarian intervention
- assess the strengths and limitations of the military instrument as a protector of human rights
- analyse the role of the UN and regional organizations in humanitarian intervention
- An ability to relate the conceptual ideas discussed on the module to specific case studies.