POL20008: Australian Foreign Policy.
Assignment 1: News review
Teaching period 3, 2018
Word/time limit:800 (+/- 10%)
Weighting: 20%
Due date: 5pm AEDT Monday19 November 2018
This task requires that you complete the following elements:
Select a topic from those listedbelow (Assignment 3 essay questions).
Identify a current, or recent news event (within the past six months) relevant to this topic.
Summarise the news event (200 words).
Provide a theoretical context for the news event you’ve chosen by explaining what impact the event has on Australian foreign policy, or why it’s of interest to Australia in regards to foreign policy (600 words).
Refer to at least one scholarly reference (e.g. journal article, book) in your contextualisation.
Supporting resources
(I selected this question)
Q.Is Australia increasingly mismanaging its relationship with China? Discuss with reference to defence issues and with an emphasis on the last 20 years?
Discuss with reference to either global economic governance OR Australia's UN engagement.
'Australia's commitment to RtoP (Responsibility to Protect) is informed by a synergy of values and interests' (Bellamy 2010). Critically assess this claim.
How has terrorism been portrayed as a ‘threat’ in the Counter-Terrorism White Paper of February 2010? Do you think the terrorist threat presented here is ‘inflated’ (Michaelsen 2010) or has some substance?
Critically assess the claim that there has been a distinct difference between Labor and Liberal governments on climate change and environmental policy.
Critically assess the claim that there has been a distinct difference between Labor and Liberal governments on asylum and refugee policy.
Australian foreign aid and its approach to development assistance is largely determined by its national interests. Do you agree or disagree with this statement?
Can the evolution and practice of Australian foreign policy be best explained in terms of a constructivist approach or a realist analysis?
Is the label of ‘middle power’ an accurate description for Australian foreign policy?