1. SA Army Seminar 21 Change and Continuity in Global Politics and Military Strategy (with special reference to Human Rights, the Nature of War and Humanitarian Intervention)
Prof Jack Spence OBE

2. Scope
A brief outline of conflict management in the Cold War international order
Outline of the post-Cold War context
Key features of the post 9/11 disorder
The theory and practice of intervention: humanitarian / regime change
Implications for South Africa’s security, its military doctrine and capabilities
Conclusions

3. Conflict Management in the Cold War International Order
The implications of the end of the Cold War for international order

4. Outline of the post-Cold War context
End of History
The emergence of a solitary superpower
The ‘New World Order’
Intra-state war in Europe etc.
Failed and collapsing states

5. Key features of the post 9/11 disorder
A qualitative change in the structure and process of the international society?
The nature of the terrorist threat: ideology and capabilities; the impact of globalisation
New security threats; the implications for western military doctrine; the revival of collective security
The erosion of the boundary between the domestic and international realms of political activity
The impact of 9/11 on democratic politics and civil liberty in mature democratic states

6. The Theory and Practice of Intervention: Humanitarian / Regime Change
The human rights dimension; the responsibility to protect; the doctrine of international community
Incentives and constraints: moral, political, economic
Implications for peace keeping and peace enforcement in theory and practice
Lessons from current experience: Iraq and Afghanistan

7. Implications for South Africa’s Security, its Military Doctrine and Capabilities
South Africa as an emerging power 
The primacy of civilian control 
Implications for defence policy 
Terrorism in Africa: South Africa's responses 
Collaboration with external powers 
African peacekeeping and peace enforcement: incentives and constraints