INR441:Contemporary Strategic Studies

Contemporary Strategic Studies is a one-semester course in the Fourth year of B.A. (Hons) Degree in French and International Relations. It is a three Unit Credit Course designed to explore the nature of Contemporary Strategic Studies as well as the issues relating to global security. The course begins with a discussion of the nature of contemporary strategy as well as the relationship between strategy, policy and military aim before proceeding further into different issues relating to global security and the unfolding challenges in the contemporary era’.

What Will You Learn?

INR 441 is designed to facilitate understanding of the nature and conduct of modern warfare, contemporary strategic concepts such as containment, brinkmanship, massive retaliation, flexible and gradual response, mutual assured destruction, overwhelming force, deterrence, etc, The course further explores the revolution in weapons technology, the military industrial complex as well as the impacts of the revolution in military technology on the conduct of the 21st Century warfare. Issues relating to the causes, evolution and the global war against terrorism were also explored in the course. The course further reviews the global war against terrorism and offered various perspectives on how terrorism could be curtailed in international politics.

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