Description
Topics
- The purpose, function and characteristics of strategic analysis in Pacific contexts
- The need for strategic analysis in the Pacific islands
- Analytic processes – making the hard calls: what matters and why?
- Structured Analytic Techniques (SAT) – methods for security analysis
- Communication for impact
- Small group self-selecting databasing activity – analysis of a Pacific security issue
- Editing exercise: enhancing analysis drafting process
Learning outcomes
Upon successful completion, enrollees will have the knowledge and skills to:
- Demonstrate a baseline understanding of analytic concepts
- Demonstrate early capacity to conduct strategic analysis, framed by Pacific interests
- Lead and contribute to group analytic techniques
Indicative assessment
Participation in Structured Analytic Techniques activities: 50%; Links to LO: 1, 2 and 3
Final analysis – as part of a group or individual exercise - short verbal presentation on an analytical approach (5-10min) and written piece of analysis on a Pacific security issue (1500 words): 50%; Links to LO 1, 2 and 3
Assumed knowledge
This Micro-credential is taught at graduate level and assumes the generic skills of a Bachelors or equivalent.
Micro-credential stack information
This Micro-credential is currently not part of a stack.
Details
Course Code: DPA07
Workload: Contact hours: 12 hours, face-to-face or online (eg via Zoom). Individual study and assessment: approx. 50-60 hours.
ANU unit value: 3 units
Course Code Level: 8000
Contact: ANU Department of Pacific Affairs: dpa@anu.edu.au
This Micro-credential is taught at a graduate level. This is not an AQF qualification.
Description:
The Pacific "Step-up" has been one of the Australian Government's highest foreign policy priorities in recent years. How and why has this come about? This credential considers the extent to which current policy reflects longstanding themes in Australia's attitude towards the Pacific Islands (including PNG), dating back to the 19th Century, and the extent to which it represents a qualitative change of focus.
The credential will consider Australia's preponderant role as the primary security provider, and largest aid donor, in the region, alongside both its allies and friends in the region, and its strategic competitors. The credential material will also cover the nature of non-government links between Australia and the Pacific, and the impact that opening Australia's labour market to Pacific Islanders is having on relationships in the region. The credential has a strong policy orientation and draws heavily on practitioner as well as academic perspectives. It will expose participants to Pacific Islander views, perspectives and assumptions about Australia and Australian policy towards the region.
Topics:
- Overview of the history of Australia's relations with the Pacific islands
- Contemporary relations: the Step-up and its origins
- Security cooperation between Australia and the Pacific Islands
- Australian aid in the Pacific: challenges and choices
- People-to-people links including labour mobility
- How do Pacific Islanders perceive Australia?
Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion, enrolees will have the knowledge and skills to:
- Understand the key themes of, and constraints on, Australia's approach towards the Pacific Islands over time
- Understand the strengths and weaknesses of Australian whole-of-government cooperation in the Pacific
- Critically analyse and articulate Australian policy choices in its relations with the Pacific Islands
- Articulate ways in which Australian approaches and initiatives may be perceived, and critiqued, by Pacific Islands governments and decision-makers
Indicative Assessment:
Research essay: 200 words analysing a case study in Australian relations with the Pacific; 60%; links to Learning Outcomes 1, 4
Seminar presentation based on selected policy challenges; 40%; links to Learning Outcomes 2, 3
Assumed Knowledge:
This micro-credential is taught at graduate level and assumes the generic skills of a Bachelors or equivalent.
Micro-credential Stack Information:
This Micro-credential is currently not part of a stack.
Details:
Course Code: DPA04
Workload: 62-72 hours
- Contact hours: 12 hours
- Individual study and assessment: 50-60 hours
ANU unit value: 3 units
Course Code level: 8000
Contact: ANU Department of Pacific Affairs: dpa@anu.edu.au
This Micro-credential is taught at a graduate level. This is not an AQF qualification.
Description
Topics
- Securing what for who?
- Security, Resilience and Development: Making the Connections
- Security narratives in the Pacific
- Regional declarations on Pacific security over time – convergences & differences
- Securitisation, or Putting people at the centre?
- Security Framing: Pacific Island Forum leaders’ Boe Declaration on Regional Security
- Expanded security concept: Climate, Resource/environment, Human, Traditional security
- Geopolitics of security
- Security architecture - Regional collaboration or competition?
- The future of security in the region
- Scenario exercise – a practical application of the concept
Learning outcomes
Upon successful completion, enrollees will have the knowledge and skills to:
- Understand the diversity and commonality in the way security is conceived in the Pacific Islands, including variations between regional security, national security, and security at the community level
- Understand the regional security priorities as framed by Pacific political leaders
- Critically examine the impact of the geopolitical contest on Pacific countries and consider their agency in response
- Explore the public policy levers available at a regional and national level the countries of the Pacific
Indicative assessment
Participation in scenario exercise: 50%; Links to LO: 1, 2, 3 ,4
Analytic essay: examination of a key security challenge from a Pacific perspective, including critical analysis of two regional security documents (2000 words) 50%; Links to LO: 2, 4
Assumed knowledge
This Micro-credential is taught at graduate level and assumes the generic skills of a Bachelors or equivalent.
Micro-credential stack information
This Micro-credential is currently not part of a stack.
Details
Course Code: DPA06
Workload: Contact hours: 12 hours, face-to-face or online (eg via Zoom). Individual study and assessment: approx. 50-60 hours.
ANU unit value: 3 units
Course Code Level: 8000
Contact: ANU Department of Pacific Affairs: dpa@anu.edu.au
This Micro-credential is taught at a graduate level. This is not an AQF qualification.
Description
The study of regionalism has for a long time provided important theoretical contributions for the discipline of international relations and international politics. The emergence of regional projects as mechanisms to conform to international orders, have changed and adapted throughout the credential of history. This credential looks at the unique contributions from understanding regionalism in the Pacific. With the most extensive network of regional organisations and regimes in world, participants will explore the history, politics, institutions and the ideas that have been constructed from states choosing to cooperate with each other. It will take an in-depth approach to how the governments in Australia, Papua New Guinea, Fiji and Samoa have use regionalism one of its foreign policy tools. Furthermore, it introduces participants to key contemporary regional priorities/policies such as health, climate change, oceans, security, mobility, business and inclusivity by unpacking how regional organisations, member and partner countries work together. The credential will be co-taught by officials from government, regional organisations, private and civil society officials from the Pacific islands and Australia.
Topics
- Regionalism and New Regionalisms Approach: theoretical approaches and frameworks to understanding regionalism
- The Pacific: region, regionalism(s) and regionalisation
- Pacific Diplomacy and Regional Order – multilateral institutions diplomacy, development and security
- Pacific Regionalism and Australia
- Pacific Regionalism and Papua New Guinea, Fiji and Samoa
- New Regionalism(s)- civil society and business networks
Learning outcomes
Upon successful completion, enrollees will have the knowledge and skills to:- Demonstrate an understanding of theoretical approaches and frameworks in studying regionalism in international politics: purpose, policy and trajectory
- Identify and discuss the changing dynamics of regionalism(s) in the Pacific: history, institutions, purpose
- Identify and analyse critical contemporary environmental, political, economic and social development issues in the Pacific region
- Discuss and analyse the challenges and opportunities of regional diplomacy, security, development and policy making in the Pacific
Indicative assessment
- Quiz: 20%; Links to Learning Outcomes: 2, 3
- Policy Briefing – 1,000 words: 30%; Links to Learning Outcomes: 2, 3, 4
- Academic Essay – 2,5000 words 50%; Links to Learning Outcomes: 1, 2, 3, 4
Assumed knowledge
This Micro-credential is taught at graduate level and assumes the generic skills of a Bachelors or equivalent.
Micro-credential stack information
This Micro-credential is currently not part of a stack.
Details
Course Code: DPA03
Workload: Contact hours: 12 hours, face-to-face or online (eg via Zoom). Individual study and assessment: approx. 50-60 hours.
ANU unit value: 3 units
Course Code Level: 8000
Contact: ANU Department of Pacific Affairs: dpa@anu.edu.au
This Micro-credential is taught at a graduate level. This is not an AQF qualification.
Description
Over the last two decades the Peoples Republic of China has become a major aid donor, trade partner, and source of investment in the Pacific Islands. This is one of the most significant developments in the region in recent times with implications for the diplomatic priorities of Pacific Islands states as well as the aspirations of ordinary Pacific Islanders. This micro-credential looks at the history of China’s rise, the nature of its interests in the region, the diplomatic competition between China and Taiwan, as well as the response of more established external actors like Australia, New Zealand, and the United States to Beijing’s increased regional influence. This micro-credential will examine China’s changing role in the Pacific, with a focus on Pacific and Chinese perspectives. Enrollees will gain a comprehensive understanding of the People’s Republic of China’s motivations for engaging with the Pacific, with a particular focus on Chinese state and non-state actors involved in aid, investment, migration and diplomacy in the Pacific. Key questions include: how have Pacific Islands states benefited from or been disadvantaged by China’s increased regional profile? Will they be able to retain their sovereignty as the rivalry between China and the US intensifies? How do ordinary citizens view these developments, particularly as Chinese companies and Chinese nationals become more active in their communities?
Topics
- Introduction: Changing Geopolitics in the Pacific
- The Belt and Road is here: China’s economic engagement with the Pacific
- China Aid: Debt Traps, Win-Win and South-South Cooperation
- Chinese Migration to the Pacific and Diaspora Management
- The New Pacific Diplomacy: Island Responses to China’s Rise
- Stepping Up and Resetting: Traditional Powers Respond to China’s Pacific Rise
Learning outcomes
Indicative assessment
- Podcast script and episode: 30%; Links to Learning Outcomes: 1, 2, 3, 4
- Research essay 70%; Links to Learning Outcomes: 1, 2, 3,4
Assumed knowledge
This Micro-credential is taught at graduate level and assumes the generic skills of a Bachelors or equivalent.
Micro-credential stack information
This Micro-credential is currently not part of a stack.
Details
Course Code: DPA05
Workload: Contact hours: 12 hours, face-to-face or online (eg via Zoom). Individual study and assessment: approx. 50-60 hours.
ANU unit value: 3 units
Course Code Level: 8000
Contact: ANU Department of Pacific Affairs: dpa@anu.edu.au
This Micro-credential is taught at a graduate level. This is not an AQF qualification.
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