Module Identifier | IP33220 | ||||||||||||||
Module Title | HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION IN WORLD POLITICS | ||||||||||||||
Academic Year | 2007/2008 | ||||||||||||||
Co-ordinator | Professor Nicholas J Wheeler | ||||||||||||||
Semester | Semester 2 | ||||||||||||||
Other staff | Huw Lloyd Williams, Ali Bilgic, Mrs Linnea Maria Bergholm | ||||||||||||||
Course delivery | Lecture | 16 Hours. (16 x 1 hour) | |||||||||||||
Seminars / Tutorials | 8 Hours. (8 x 1 hour) | ||||||||||||||
Assessment |
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- understand competing definitions of humanitarian intervention
- critically analyse conflicting views on the ethics of using force to end human rights emergencies
knowledge of the legal context
- an ability to relate conceptual issues to specific empirical cases
- an understanding of the political context of contemporary debates over sovereignty and intervention.
- an ability to relate the conceptual ideas discussed on the module to specific case studies.
10 ECTS credits
This module is at CQFW Level 6