Dirty Wars: Course Handbook
Prerequisites
0.1
Auditing
0.2
Tasks to Complete Before The First Class
0.3
Version History
Course Outline
1
Introduction
1.1
The Idea
The Course
Project Work
Assessments
1.2
Course Expectations
1.3
Privacy
1.4
Learning Resources
Tools
Accessing Learning Resources
1.5
How To Use This Course Handbook
2
Online Teaching Arrangements
Introduction
2.1
Course Structure & Delivery
Lectures
Seminars
Asynchronous Learning Tasks
3
Reading and Preparation
Introduction
3.1
Before You Start
Do I Need to Buy Anything?
Preparing for the Course
3.2
Preparing for Teaching Sessions
Weekly Checklist
3.3
Reading for the Course
The Idea
Okay, So How Do We Explore That?
The Problem and Legitimacy of Violence
Power Structures and Objects of Analysis
Knowledge and Uncertainty
Ideas and Objectivity
Dirty Wars: Course Guide
4
Teaching Staff
Introduction
4.1
Mark Condos
4.2
Jack McDonald
5
Course Overview
Introduction
The Core Lecture Series: What Makes a War a ‘Dirty’ War?
Research Lecture Series: Interdependent Warfare
Research Lecture Series: War and Digital Rights
First Seminar Series: Explaining Secrecy in War
Second Seminar Series: Intelligence Ethics
Third Seminar Series: Savage Warfare
6
Course Week-By-Week Guide
Introduction
6.1
Week 0 (w/c September 28th)
Course Notes
Lecture: Onboarding
Seminar: Meet & Greet
6.2
Week 1 (w/c October 5th)
Course Notes
Problem: The Soleimani Strike
Lecture: War and Dirty Wars
Seminar: Secrecy in International Security
6.3
Week 2 (w/c October 12th)
Course Notes
Problem: Kosovo 1999
Lecture: War and Political Order
Seminar: Explaining Secret Wars
6.4
Week 3 (w/c October 19th)
Course Notes
Problem: The Highway of Death
Lecture: Restraint in War
Seminar: Presidential Discretion and Secrecy
6.5
Week 4 (w/c October 26th)
Course Notes
Problem: Mask Laws
Lecture: Human Dignity and Political Community in War and National Security
Seminar: The Cold War and Korea
6.6
Week 5 (w/c November 2nd)
Course Notes
Problem: “Horizontal Collaboration”
Lecture: Status in War & Sexual Violence in Conflict
Seminar: The Vietnam Wars
6.7
Week 6 (w/c November 9th)
Course Notes
Problem: Returning ISIS Members to Europe
Lecture: Citizenship in War and National Security
Seminar: Legislative Politics and Secret War
6.8
Week 7 (w/c November 16th)
Course Notes
Problem: Revenge in War
Lecture: Political Warfare and Political Repression
Seminar: Contemporary Secret Wars
6.9
Week 8 (w/c November 23rd)
Course Notes
Problem: Barriers and Walls
Lecture: Strategy and Population Control
Seminar: Intelligence Ethics
6.10
Week 9 (w/c November 30th)
Course Notes
Problem: Identity Cards
Lecture: Identity, Identification, and Intelligence Organisations
Seminar: Just and Unjust Intelligence
6.11
Week 10 (w/c December 7th)
Course Notes
Problem: The Five Techniques
Lecture: Torture
Seminar: Intelligence Harms
6.12
Week 11 (w/c December 14th)
Course Notes
Problem: Asymmetric Killing
Lecture: One-Sided Violence
Seminar: Privacy and Intelligence
6.13
Week 12 (w/c January 18th)
Course Notes
Lecture: Research Projects Workshop
6.13.1
Seminar: No Seminar This Week
6.14
Week 13 (w/c January 25th)
Course Notes
Lecture: Interdependent Warfare
Seminar: Intelligence and Self Defence
6.15
Week 14 (w/c February 1st)
Course Notes
Lecture: Twilight Conflicts
Seminar: War and Privacy
6.16
Week 15 (w/c February 8th)
Course Notes
6.16.1
Lecture: Remote Warfare
Seminar: Immunity to Intelligence Harms
6.17
Week 16 (w/c February 15th)
Course Notes
Lecture: War in a Goldish Bowl
Seminar: ‘Savage Warfare’
6.18
Week 17 (w/c February 22nd)
Course Notes
Lecture: The Shock of the Old
Seminar: The French Conquest of Algeria
6.19
Week 18 (w/c March 1st)
Course Notes
Lecture: War and Digital Rights
Seminar: The Indian Uprising, 1857
6.20
Week 19 (w/c March 8th)
Course Notes
Lecture: Information Warfare and Disinformation
Seminar: The Boxer Rebellion
6.21
Week 20 (w/c March 15th)
Course Notes
Lecture: Guns, Smartphones, and Liability to Attack
Seminar: The Herero and Nama Wars
6.22
Week 21 (w/c March 22nd)
Course Notes
Lecture: The State/Platform/Copyright Nexus of Repression
Seminar: The Mau Mau Rebellion
6.23
Week 22 (w/c March 29th)
Course Notes
Lecture: Exporting Repression
Seminar: The Algerian War of Independence
Assessments & Project Work
7
Projects
Introduction
7.1
The Projects
Using OneNote
Aims
7.2
Article Critique
7.3
Book Reading
7.4
Research Design Prototype
8
Assessment
8.1
Literature Reviews
8.2
Research Essay
Further Material
9
Skills Development
9.1
A Roadmap for Skills Development
9.2
Track Your Progress
9.3
The Basic Structure of Academic Work
9.4
Iteration
9.5
Building and Reducing an Argument
9.6
Supporting Your Argument
9.7
Academic Writing
9.8
Acting Upon Feedback
9.9
Tracking Your Skills Development
10
Case Studies
10.1
Argentina
10.2
Britain, Ireland, and Northern Ireland
10.3
The Vietnam Wars
10.4
The Global War on Terror
10.5
The Second Congo War
11
Further Reading
Introduction
11.1
Human Dignity and Political Community in War and National Security
Introduction
Introductory Readings
Case Study Readings
Theme Readings
Further Reading
11.2
Regulating War and Warfare
Introduction
Introductory Readings
Case Study Readings
Theme Readings
Further Reading
11.3
Reasons for Restraint
Introduction
Introductory Readings
Case Study Readings
Theme Readings
Further Reading
11.4
Is Any War Clean?
Introduction
Introductory Readings
Case Study Readings
Theme Readings
Further Reading
11.5
Treason, Political Community, and National Security
Introduction
Introductory Readings
Case Study Readings
Theme Readings
Further Reading
11.6
Strategy and Population Control
Introduction
Introductory Readings
Case Study Readings
Theme Readings
Further Reading
11.7
Political Warfare and Political Emergencies
Introduction
Introductory Readings
Case Study Readings
Theme Readings
11.8
Identity, Identification, and Intelligence Institutions
Introduction
Introductory Readings
Case Study Readings
Theme Readings
Further Reading
11.9
Torture
Introduction
Introductory Readings
Case Study Readings
Theme Readings
Further Reading
11.10
Targeted Killing and One-Sided Violence
Introduction
Introductory Readings
Case Study Readings
Theme Readings
Further Reading
12
Extended Learning
12.1
Ethics, Technology & Conflict Lab
12.2
Research Projects for 2020/21
References
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