STRATEGY
| Title | ΣΤΡΑΤΗΓΙΚΗ / STRATEGY |
| Code | ΣΣΑ01 |
| Faculty | Law |
| School | Law |
| Cycle / Level | 2nd / Postgraduate |
| Teaching Period | Winter/Spring |
| Coordinator | Moysis Sidiropoulos |
| Common | No |
| Status | Active |
| Course ID | 600022167 |
Programme of Study: Koinó PMS Stratīgikés Spoudés (2022-sīmera)
Registered students: 198
| Orientation | Attendance Type | Semester | Year | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KORMOS | Compulsory Course | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| ENERGEIA KAI VIŌSIMĪ ANAPTYXĪ | Compulsory Course | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| EPIKOINŌNIES KAI NEES TECΗNOLOGIES | Compulsory Course | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| DIOIKĪSĪ ERGOU | Compulsory Course | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Academic Year | 2025 – 2026 |
| Class Period | Winter |
| Faculty Instructors | |
| Weekly Hours | 2 |
| Total Hours | 26 |
| Class ID | 600289314
|
Course Type 2021
Specific Foundation
Mode of Delivery
- Face to face
- Distance learning
Digital Course Content
- e-Study Guide https://qa.auth.gr/en/class/1/600289314
- eLearning: https://elearning.auth.gr/course/view.php?id=17120
- Other: GOOGLE DRIVE (STUDENT ACCESS ONLY)
Language of Instruction
- Greek (Instruction, Examination)
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of the lecture series, students will be able to:
- Analyse the key strategic stakes at national, European and Euro-Atlantic level.
- Thoroughly develop the main theories of strategy, contrast them and apply them in the field.
- Critically analyse working hypotheses and case studies of previous crises and identify strategic choices, mistakes and risk-taking, forecasts and possible outcomes.
- Make use of existing methodological tools in order to formulate strategic options and to develop and/or implement strategies in the field.
General Competences
- Apply knowledge in practice
- Make decisions
- Work in an international context
- Design and manage projects
- Be critical and self-critical
- Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
The aim of the course is to familiarise students with the basic theories of strategy (Thucydides, Sun Tzu, Clausewitz, Jomini, Rumsfeld, Gat, Mahan, Corbett, Douhet, Fuller, Liddell-Hart, Wylie, Brodie, Luttwak, Schelling) and the theories concerning the nature and function of war, the place of strategic studies in the broader field of international relations and the interface between strategy, risk analysis and decision-making models. In this context, the main theoretical and methodological streams of strategic studies are examined, contemporary problems of strategy are analysed, historical precedents are explored with an emphasis on small state strategies, and the central concepts of strategic studies are analysed.
Keywords
strategy, victory, small states, surprise, grand strategy
Educational Material Types
- Notes
- Slide presentations
- Book
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
- Use of ICT in Course Teaching
Description
- Integrated e-learning management system (elearning.auth) (LMS) which is implemented by the open source software Moodle and allows the creation and hosting of a virtual classroom.
- Provide a friendly modern tele-education environment for real-time interaction of the participants that allows to conduct remote lectures for course needs using tools such as Zoom, MS Teams, Google Meet, BigBlueButton
- Classrooms with appropriate audio-visual equipment to host a distance learning postgraduate programme.
- Creation and hosting of the website of each MSc using the service https://websites.auth.gr/.
- Technological support for the creation of multimedia material (podcasts - videocasts) synchronized with the presentation of a speaker in the offered courses through the production infrastructure of educational material of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (https://it.auth.gr/service/studio/)
- Support for live and recorded streaming/recording of the courses.
Course Organization
| Activities | Workload | ECTS | Individual | Teamwork | Erasmus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lectures | 26 | 1.0 | ✓ | ||
| Seminars | 20 | 0.8 | ✓ | ||
| Reading Assigment | 54 | 2.2 | ✓ | ||
| Exams | 3 | 0.1 | ✓ | ||
| self-study | 22 | 0.9 | ✓ | ||
| Total | 125 | 5 |
Student Assessment
Description
Written exams with multiple-choice and short-answer questions.
Student Assessment methods
- Written Exam with Multiple Choice Questions (Formative, Summative)
- Q&A during the lectures (Formative)
Bibliography
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
Ραγιές Ιωάννη Α., Σύγχρονη Αμυντική Ανάλυση: Κράτος, Άμυνα και Ένοπλες Δυνάμεις (Αθήνα: Κάλλιπος, 2023) Κεφάλαιο 2.
Διαφάνειες-Σημειώσεις Διαλέξεων
Additional bibliography for study
Balzacq Thierry, Ronald R. Krebs (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Grand Strategy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021)
Bartholomees J. Boone Jr. (ed.), Theory of War and Strategy, vol. 1 (3rd ed., Carlisle Barracks PA: SSI US Army War College), open access at https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep12115
Baylis John, James J. Wirtz & Colin S. Gray, Strategy in the Contemporary World: An Introduction to Strategic Studies (6th ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019)
Blainey Geoffrey, The Causes of War (3rd ed., New York: Free Press, 1988), free access at https://archive.org/details/causesofwar0000blai
Breitenbauch Henrik, André Ken Jakobsson (eds), Defence Planning as Strategic Fact (Abington Oxon: Routledge, 2020)
Clausewitz Carl Maria von, On War (J. J. Graham tr., Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions, 1997/2013)
Fuller J. F. C., The Foundations of the Science of War (London: Hutchinson & Co, 1926), open access at https://archive.org/details/foundationsofsci00jfcf/
Ghat Azar, The Origins of Military Thought: From the Enlightenment to Clausewitz (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989), free access at https://archive.org/details/originsofmilitar0000gata
Gheciu Alexandra, William C. Wohlforth (eds), The Oxford Handbook of International Security (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018)
Howard Michael, War in European History (Oxford University Press, 1979), free access at https://archive.org/details/warineuropeanhis0000howa
Jones R. V., Wizard War: British Scientific Intelligence, 1939-1945 (New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1978), free access at https://archive.org/details/wizardwarbritish00jonerich/
Meese Michael J. et al., American National Security (7th ed., Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018)
Paret Peter, Gordon A. Craig & Felix Gilbert, (eds), Makers of Modern Strategy: From Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010)
Razma Gintautas, ‘Strategic Facts as a Comprehensive Model for Defence Analysis’ (2023) 23(2) Defence Studies 254
Sørensen Jesper B., Glenn R. Carroll, Making Great Strategy: Arguing for Organizational Advantage (New York: Columbia University Press, 2021)
Sun Tzu, The Art of War (L. Giles tr., London: Luzac, 1910), open access at https://archive.org/details/artofwaroldestmi00suntuoft/
Wright Quincy, A Study of War, vols. 1-2 (Chicago IL: University of Chicago Press, 1942)
Ηλεκτρονικές Πηγές και Περιοδικά για περαιτέρω εμβάθυνση:
Journal of Strategic Studies (Heal Link)
Defence Studies (Heal Link)
RUSI Journal (Heal Link)
MERLN: Military Education Research Library Network
Brookings Institution
Jane’s Information Group
Rand Corporation
JSTOR Security Studies
NATO Publications
U.S. Army Center of Military History
U.S. Homeland Security Digital Library
U.S. Naval War College, Military Strategy & History Lectures
Foreign Policy Research Institute, Military Strategy: A Global History
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Last Update
07-01-2024
