ATS1056

Geopolitical Security in the Indo-Pacific

Assessment 3

Presentation Instructions

Due: Friday, 18 October 2024, 11:55 PM

1. Overview

• This Presentation assessment is weighted at 30% of your overall assessment

for this unit, comprising:

• A recorded, narrated, slide presentation, which includes –

• A 15-minute (approximately) presentation. The presentation topics are listed

below.

• Markers will cease assessing the presentation, if it exceeds 20 minutes in

duration.

• Presentations may NOT cover similar subject matter to a topic submitted for

Assessment 1 or 2. If in doubt, please consult your tutor.

• The presentation must be submitted via Moodle by the due date. Late

submissions will be penalised 5% per day (e.g., 70% - 5% = 65%).

• Students must ensure that they have allowed sufficient time to upload their

presentation to Moodle.

2. Presentation requirements:

• Microsoft Powerpoint, Apple Keynote or any other presentation recording

software (e.g., Zoom), is permitted.

• Total size of the submission must be less than 500 megabytes (MB).

• The presentation must include both video of the presenter and the content,

together with the presenter’s audio commentary in the submission.

• Students must utilize in-text citations and include a reference list at the end

of the presentation.

• Students are responsible for ensuring the quality of audio is fit for purpose.

3. Content requirements

• Students should select one of the topics below and argue for or against the

statement.

• Presentations must advance an argument.

• Where applicable, students may choose the case studies/examples

they

wish to utilize.

• Credible, scholarly sources should make up the majority of the content.

• The presentation must be substantially original and not rely excessively on

quoting or pasting third-party sources.

4. Presentation topics

Ensure in your presentation that you argue FOR or AGAINST one of the following

topics:

1. Core countries have economically stratified the Indo-Pacific region to

maintain the structure of inequality between the core and peripheral/semi- peripheral countries.

2. Middle powers have little influence on great powers’ foreign policy decisions.

Discuss with specific reference to ONE middle power’s diplomatic strategy.

3. Choose one of the following Indo-Pacific countries:

- China;

- Japan;

- An ASEAN country

- India).

- [Chosen country] is not serious about its low-carbon transition and

building climate resilience.

4. Australia should develop a nuclear weapons capability alongside its nuclear

submarine fleet.

5. Free trade agreements assist developing countries in the Indo-Pacific by

modernizing their economies and raising incomes and standards of living.

6. The AIIB, BRI and NDB are not designed to aid development; they exist to

further China’s geostrategic objectives in the Indo-Pacific.

7. The decline of US hegemony in the Indo-Pacific would lead to instability and

conflict.

5. Generative AI

AI and Generative AI tools may be used SELECTIVELY within this assessment.

In this assessment, you can use generative artificial intelligence (AI) for one,

more or all of the following tasks:

• To gain familiarity with a topic.

• To create a draft assignment plan.

• To assist with the development of the reference list. This includes maps,

figures,, tables or other reference and statistical data.

• AI and Generative AI tools CANNOT be used to generate the body text for

this assessment.

• AI and Generative AI tools must be acknowledged appropriately. This

assessment must include the following completed statement inserted at the

beginning of the list of bibliographic references in the final slide:

"I acknowledge the use of [insert AI system(s) and link] to [specific use of generative

artificial intelligence]. The prompts used include [list of prompts]. The output from

these prompts was used to [explain use]."

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