Strategic Studies is the field of the discipline of international relations that explores, focusing on human action and power, how the relation of means to the ends of policy plays its part in shaping occurrences, trends and transformations in world politics. It is substantially a subject whose terrain of research and knowledge, cutting across such subjects of the discipline as security and defence studies, geopolitics, crisis management, conflict resolution and foreign policy analysis, is constantly formulated through and by the interdisciplinary dialogue engagement of International Relations with History, Political Science and Sociology. It is from this perspective that drawing attention to violence and especially its main component, military force, sets the thread of the problematique and theoretical discussions over the phenomenon of war and peace. Equipped with this framework of analysis, the course will shed light on the history of strategic thought with a view to making the conceptual and theoretical fundamentals of Strategic Studies familiar to students.