Module POL3241 for 2019/0
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
POL3241: International Politics of Multi-Ethnic Societies
This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 academic year.
Module Aims
The module aims to introduce you to politics in multi-ethnic societies. It has on a particular focus on societies divided by ethnic (and other) conflict and the strategies enforced to manage intra-state conflict. It is a case study based module covering a geographically and politically diverse range of societies. Although academic in focus, upon successful completion you will be well placed to apply knowledge gained whilst studying this module to employment at think tanks, government agencies and international organisations in the area of intra-state conflict.
| On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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| Module-Specific Skills | 1. Demonstrate an understanding of the significance of multi-ethnic societies and intra-state conflict in international politics. 2. Critically examine and compare different political strategies for managing conflict in multi-ethnic societies. |
| Discipline-Specific Skills | 3. Recognise the importance of conflict management in multi-ethnic societies to global security. 4. Display awareness of a range of conceptual frameworks to understand and analyse conflict management and politics in multi-ethnic societies. |
| Personal and Key Skills | 5. Identify and analyse cases of intra-state conflict in multi-ethnic societies. 6. Demonstrate awareness of political strategies to manage conflict in multi-ethnic societies. 7. Study independently and manage time and assessment deadlines effectively. 8. Communicate effectively in speech and writing. 9. Demonstrate critical and analytical skills through tutorial discussions and module assessments. 10. Demonstrate proficiency in the use of the internet, online journal databases and other IT resources for the purposes of tutorial and assessment preparation. 11. Demonstrate effective applied writing. 12. demonstrate the ability to work independently, within a limited time frame, and without access to external sources, to complete a specified task. |
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.
Deschouwer, K. (2012) The Politics of Belgium: Governing a Divided Society (2nd ed.), Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Guelke, A. (2012) Politics in Deeply Divided Societies, Cambridge: Polity Press.
Horowitz, D. L. (1985) Ethnic Groups in Conflict, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Jarrett, H. (2018) Peace and Ethnic Identity in Northern Ireland: Consociational Power Sharing and Conflict Management, Routledge: Abingdon.
Lijphart, A. (1977) Democracy in Plural Societies: A Comparative Exploration, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Lijphart, A. (1998) ‘South African democracy: Majoritarian or consociational?’, Democratization, 5(4), 144-50.
McCulloch, A. (2013) ‘Does Moderation Pay? Centripetalism in Deeply Divided Societies’, Ethnopolitics, 12(2), 111-32.
McGarry, J. and O’Leary, B. (2008) ‘Iraq’s Constitution of 2005: Liberal Consociation as Political Prescription’, in Choudhry, S. (ed.) Constitutional Design for Divided Societies: Integration or Accommodation?, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 342-68.
Mohd Sani, M. A. (2009) ‘The Emergence of New Politics in Malaysia: From Consociational to Deliberative Democracy’, Taiwan Journal of Democracy, 5(2), 97-125.
Taylor, R. (ed.) (2009) Consociational Theory: McGarry and O’Leary and the Northern Ireland Conflict, Abingdon: Routledge.
