Module POC1022 for 2024/5
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
POC1022: Violence in World Politics
This module descriptor refers to the 2024/5 academic year.
Please note that this module is only delivered on the Penryn Campus.
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Lalwani and Winter-Levy, ‘Is the World Getting Safer?’, available at: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/12/is-the-world-getting-safer/
Bourke, Joanna. “Why does politics turn to violence?” Jenny Edkins and Maja Zehfuss (eds) Global Politics: A New Introduction (London: Routledge, 2009), Ch. 16.
Zimbardo, Philip G. "A situationist perspective on the psychology of evil: Understanding how good people are transformed into perpetrators." The social psychology of good and evil (2004): 21-50.
Lee, Bandy X, Violence: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Causes, Consequences, and Cures (Wiley, 2019)
Yves Winter (2012) Violence and Visibility, New Political Science, 34:2, 195-202
Galtung, Johan. "Cultural violence." Journal of peace research 27, no. 3 (1990): 291-305.
Orend, Brian. War and political theory. Wiley, 2019.
Pankhurst, Donna. "Sexual violence in war." Gender matters in global politics: A feminist introduction to international relations 148 (2010).
Erik Gartzke (2019) Blood and robots: How remotely piloted vehicles and related technologies affect the politics of violence, Journal of Strategic Studies
Devji, Faisal. "The paradox of nonviolence." Public Culture 23, no. 2 (2011): 269-274.