DCAF working group, Vienna 46 April 2002

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Distance Learning Course Armed Forces, Politics
and Society New Civil-Military Relations in
the 21st Century
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AGENDA

• Key Elements
• Course offered in partnership with Kings College
  London and RMC Canada
• Accredited by RMC Canada as part of MA course
  unit (20) -- but also a stand-alone course
• Taught by War Studies Group, Kings College
  London
• Launch date Oct. 2002
• 24 seminars
• 2 Essays (10k) and course participation worth 50
  of the course (2 critical reviews 2 mandatory
  Questions and Answers per week)

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• Key Elements
• Reading packs distributed by paper copy through
  the post to students
• Supplemented by Web CT 2000
• Closed area with password access
• All course administrative elements available
• Course materials eg lecture notes and
  bibliography
• Moderated discussion area for students/tutor
• CD Rom can be provided

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• Aim
• to offer a framework of analysis which explains
  the changing state of civil-military relations in
  the its proper post Cold War context. To this
  end, its uses innovative conceptual lenses to
  analyse both old and new problems in
  civil-military relations. In addition, it draws
  on examples from across the world to illustrate
  and explore key themes and concepts of New
  civil-Military relations

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• Seminar Topics
• Section One Introduction
• Section Two the institutional framework of
  civil-military relations
• Section Three Civil-military relations in the
  context of old and new roles of armed forces
• Section four international actors/international
  society and civil-military relations
• Section five Regional patterns of civil-military
  relations
• Section six Conclusions

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Contact Professor B.J.C McKertcher
mckertcher-B_at_rmc.ca Web Site www.rmc.ca