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Term2 *FINAL* Social Sciences Assignment

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A2-4 Week 4 Summary Task

1. Sovereignty and the international system

Lecture 1 hand out - States, sovereignty, and nationalism

How does a country become a country?

Global Voices: Citizen media stories about international relations

2. War and conflict

Lecture 2 hand out - WWI and International Relations

Otis Reading `Security'

Video: People's Century Part 01 (1900 Age of Hope)

Video: The People's Century, Part 02: Killing Fields (1914-1918)

Video: People's Century Part 04 - 1919 Lost Peace

Video: People's Century Part 11 - 1945 Fallout

Council on Foreign Relations

East Asia Forum

Council on Foreign Relations podcast: Nationalism, Japan, and a Changing Asia

3. International society and law

Lecture 3 hand out. International law

Geneva Conventions

International Criminal Court

International Commission of Jurists

Lawfare website: International Law

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Drone Wars

Unmanned: America's Drone Wars (documentary film)

4. International organisation: the United Nations

Lecture 4 hand out. The United Nations

Video: Creation of the United Nations

People's Century Part 12 - 1945 Brave New World

United Nations Organisation

Security Council Report

Council on Foreign Relations: United Nations

United Nations Department of Peace Operations

UN Peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO)

Video: Mandated to Protect

Video: Can the UN keep the peace?

Video: The Peacekeepers

5. US hegemony and liberal international order

Lecture 5 hand out. US hegemony and liberal international order

Video: Now the Peace

Wilson Center

U.S. State Department

Cold War International History Project - Wilson Center

National Security Archive: George Washington University

Video: Guantanamo Diaries

Guardian: Afghanistan Papers

READING WEEK

Mid-Term Quiz

6. Multipolar world?

Lecture 6 hand out - China's rise and international order

US-China Perceptions Monitor

China Institute for International Studies

China Power - Center for Strategic and International Studies

Council on Foreign Relations: China's Maritime Disputes

Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)

Mearsheimer v. Nye on the rise of China

E-IR book: New Perspectives on China's Relations with the World

7. Insecurity and conflict in the Global South

Lecture 7. (In)security in the Global South

Lecture 7 hand out. (In)security in the Global South

Video: Peoples Century `Freedom Now'

Our World in Data: Civil Wars

Fund for Peace: Fragile States Index

ICIJ. From colonization to kleptocracy: A history of Angola

Video: Cote d'Ivoire

Sub-Saharan Program - Council on Foreign Relations

e-IR book: South Sudan after Independence

KEY ACTIVITIES & DATES

Term2 FINAL Social Sciences Assignment