Module Information
Course Delivery
Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
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Seminars / Tutorials | 8 Hours. (8 x 1 hour) |
Lecture | 14 Hours. (14 x 1 hour) |
Assessment
Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
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Semester Assessment | Seminar Performance | 10% |
Semester Assessment | 2,500 word essay | 40% |
Semester Exam | 2 Hours 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.) | 50% |
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this module students should be able to:
- Analyse the impact of Gorbachev on Russian security
- Analyse the major security debates which have taken place in Russia since 1992
- Discuss the security issues raised by Russia's wars against Chechnya
- Consider the contribution which peacekeeping makes to Russia's security
- Discuss the problems associated with the reform of the armed forces and the conversion of the defence industry in Russia
Brief description
This module provides an examination of a number of internal and external components which affect Russia's search for security in the post-Soviet period.
Content
Lectures
1. Gorbachev and Soviet security: breaking with the past?
2. Influences on security policy in post-Soviet Russia
3. What constitutes security: Russian debates
4. Russia's security forces: Ministry of Defence
5. Russia's security forces: internal security forces, civil-military relations and the Russian defence industry
6. Organised crime, criminal behaviour, terrorism
7. Economic collapse, environmental degradation, ethnic/religious tension
8. Russia's first Chechen war: 1994-96
9. Russia's second Chechen war: 1999-?
10. Russia's 'near abroad' and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
11. Russian peacekeeping in the CIS
12. Regional threats to Russia's security
13. Russia's relations with the United States: 9/11 and after
14. Russian security and Moscow's role in the World
Aims
The aim of this module is to examine a range of contemporary security concepts and issues from a Russian perspective.
Transferable skills
10 ECTS Credits
Reading List
General TextLo, Bobo (Oct. 2002) Vladimir Putin and the Evolution of Russian Foreign Policy Wiley-Blackwell [Imprint] Primo search Lo, Bobo (Nov. 2003) Vladimir Putin and the Evolution of Russian Foreign Policy John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated Primo search Recommended Text
Miller, Steven E. & Trenin, Dmitri (ed.) (2004) The Russian military :power and policy /edited by Steven E. Miller and Dmitri Trenin. Primo search
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 6