COURSE CATALOGUE FALL 2017 (23/06/2017) Sciences Po Collège universitaire – Reims Campus – Exchange Program

We are very pleased to welcome you in our Exchange Program for Fall 2017 on the Reims Campus. Exchange

students who want to enhance their international profiles can validate one of four certificates :

- International Affairs & Strategy (IAS)

- European Affairs (EA)

- Business & Economics (BE)

- Journalism & Communication (JC)

In order to obtain a certificate, exchange students have to validate :

- two core common exchange program courses (one in the choosen certificate + one about French civilization)

- two courses listed in the choosen certificate1,

- one French language course (except for students with C1 level in French, they have to take an academic

course taught in French),

- an additional course (in the list, i.e. this course can be in any certificate or in the list of additional courses)

- the orientation week (beginning August, 28th 2017)

- a minimum of 30 credits.

Or students may opt out of a certificate, choosing instead to mix and match courses as they like in the list !

1 The courses taught in French are opened to exchange students if they have a minimum of B2 level in French.

COMPULSORY for all students who want to validate a certificate: Orientation Week + core common

courses (certificate + French civilization)

Type Course Format

Title Faculty name No of hours

Language Credits Certificate

Orientation

week Seminar

Academic Methods

Seminar

Vera RADEVA

Benedikt

ERFORTH

Ophélie

CHAVROCHE

Lise HERMAN

(August

28th-

September

2nd)

ENGLISH or FRENCH 5 All

+

Type Course Format

Title Faculty name No of hours

Language Credits Certificate

Core Common

Exchange

Program

Course (French

civilization)

Seminar Why France

matters ? Nicholas DUNGAN 24 ENGLISH 5 All

Core Common

Exchange

Program

Course (French

civilization

Seminar

Une histoire

politique de la

France (1900-2017)

Philipe PIVIDORI 24 FRENCH 5 All

+

Type Course Format

Title Faculty name No of hours

Language Credits Certificate

Core Common

Exchange

Program

Course

(certificate)

Seminar Business and Trade

in a globalized world

Charlotte

DAMMANE 24 ENGLISH 5 BE

Core Common

Exchange

Program

Course

(certificate)

Seminar

Conflicts and

International

Security

Julien THERON 24 ENGLISH 5 IAS

Core Common

Exchange

Program

Course

(certificate)

Seminar European Trade

Policy

Charlotte

DAMMANE 24 ENGLISH 5 EA

Core Common

Exchange

Program

Course

(certificate)

Seminar Political Rhetoric Vincent EDIN 24 ENGLISH 5 JC

Certificate: International Affairs & Strategy (29 courses) Course Format

Title Faculty name No of hours

Language Credits Certificate

1 Certificate

2 Seminar The European Union and Africa Bastien NIVET 24 ENGLISH 5 IAS EA

Major

Crises, pouvoirs et sociétés en Afrique

des Grands Lacs (Ouganda, Rwanda,

Burundi, est du Congo) du 19ème au

20ème siècle

Florent PITON 24 FRENCH 5 IAS

Elective The Birth of Sub- Saharan African

Cinema

Melissa

THACKWAY 24 ENGLISH 5 IAS

Elective Echoes of Africa Maboula

SOUMAHORO 24 ENGLISH 5 IAS

Elective East in the West, a history of Arab

politics and culture in Europe Coline HOUSSAIS 24 ENGLISH 5 IAS

Elective East in the West, a history of Arab

politics and culture in Europe Coline HOUSSAIS 24 ENGLISH 5 IAS EA

Elective Historiography and Film Ellen HAMPTON 24 ENGLISH 5 IAS

Elective

Current Challenges to International

Law: Rise, Decline or Transformation

of the International Legal

Framework

François DELERUE 24 ENGLISH 5 IAS

Elective France et Antilles Emmanuelle

LOYER 24 FRENCH 5 IAS EA

Elective Energy Security and International

Politics in the Contemporary World

Gaetano DI

TOMMASO 24 ENGLISH 5 IAS

Elective East Asian Geopolitics &

International Politics Guillaume CHOUX 24 ENGLISH 5 IAS

Elective The contemporary City, Urbanism

and Architecture

Stéphane

KIRKLAND 24 ENGLISH 5 IAS

Elective Negotiation and Mediation of Middle

East Conflicts Sarah RENNICK 24 ENGLISH 5 IAS

Elective Syrie, un Etat sans nation ? Aux

sources d'un conflit au Moyen Orient

(1918-1946)

Hélène DE

CHAMPCHESNEL 24 FRENCH 5 IAS

Elective International Development: Policy &

Practice Pooja JAIN 24 ENGLISH 5 IAS

Elective D'Ebola aux guerres de l'eau : quelles

géopolitiques environnementales au

21e siècle

René-Eric DAGORN 24 FRENCH 5 IAS

Elective Introduction à l'Islam : religion et

civilisation

Ruth

GROSRICHARD 24 FRENCH 5 IAS

Elective Culinary Diplomacy

Lorenzo

KIHLGREN

GRANDI

24 ENGLISH 5 IAS

Elective Géostratégie de la mer

Xavier

CARPENTIER-

TANGUY

24 FRENCH 5 IAS

Seminar Key Concepts in U.S. Foreign Policy Alice JUDELL 24 ENGLISH 5 IAS

Seminar America and Africa: A Complex

Relationship Aude CHANSON 24 ENGLISH 5 IAS

Seminar A Transatlantic Approach to

Intellectual Property Law &

Management

Géraldine

BLANCHE 24 ENGLISH 5 IAS

Seminar The Long Century of Revolutions:

From the American Revolution to the

Russian Revolution, 1776-1914

Niccolò VALMORI 24 ENGLISH 5 IAS

Seminar The New American Revolution: U.S.

Institutions and Post-Globalization in

Modern Democracies

Olivier PITON 24 ENGLISH 5 IAS

Seminar Taste, Culture & Style: Geographical

Indications from a Transatlantic

Perspective

Pratyush UPRETI 24 ENGLISH 5 IAS

Seminar Les Etats-Unis sont-ils un empire ?

Histoire et géopolitique de l'idée

impériale américaine

René-Eric DAGORN 24 FRENCH 5 IAS

Seminar The African-American Odyssey from

Phyllis Weatley to #BlackLivesMatter Sylvie LAURENT 24 ENGLISH 5 IAS

Seminar The War in Syria : US and European

Policies

Federico

MANFREDI

FIRMIAN

24 ENGLISH 5 IAS EA

Elective War and Screens Guillaume

PIKETTY 24 ENGLISH 5 IAS JC

Certificate Business & Economics (12 courses)

Course Format

Title Faculty name No of hours

Language Credits Certificate

1 Certificate

2 Elective Economie publique Anne-Marie JUBENOT 24 FRENCH 5 BE Major Political Economy of Africa Philippe COPINSCHI 24 ENGLISH 5 BE

Elective Innovation and Private sector

development in Africa Jean-Paul MVOGO 24 ENGLISH 5 BE

Lecture Core Economics Guillaume PLANTIN 48 ENGLISH 5 BE

Seminar Introduction to Calculus Calvin CHEN 24 ENGLISH 5 BE Seminar Calculus I Karam FAYAD 24 ENGLISH 5 BE

Seminar Calculus III Charlemagne

NIKIEMA 24 ENGLISH 5 BE

Elective Introduction to Econometrics

Using STATA

Charlemagne

NIKIEMA 24 ENGLISH 5 BE

Elective Sociology of Markets Andrés CHIRIBOGA 24 ENGLISH 5 BE

Elective Economic History: Society, Trade

and Institutions in the Long Term

Miguel ORTIZ

SERRANO 24 ENGLISH 5 BE

Major Introduction to Public Economics Camila NINO

FERNANDEZ 24 ENGLISH 5 BE

Major Political Economy Ruben DURANTE 24 ENGLISH 5 BE JC

Certificate: Journalism & Communication (12 courses) Course Format

Title Faculty name No of hours

Language Credits Certificate

1 Certificate

2

Elective Journalisme et politique :

l'antagonisme des modèles français et

anglais, du XVIIe siècle à nos jours

Alexis LEVRIER 24 FRENCH 5 JC

Elective Introduction to Media and Design

Theory Claire RICHARD 24 ENGLISH 5 JC

Elective Le discours politique : modèles

antiques, enjeux contemporains

Emmanuel

ECHIVARD 24 FRENCH 5 JC

Elective The Media Brand Revolution.

Magazines from Print to Digital: A

Survival Kit.

Grégoire

HALBOUT 24 ENGLISH 5 JC

Elective War and Screens Guillaume

PIKETTY 24 ENGLISH 5 JC IAS

Elective Comment devenir un bon journaliste Isabelle LEFORT 24 FRENCH 5 JC

Elective Philosophical Perspectives on

Contemporary Debates

Marcus CARLSEN

HÄGGROT 24 ENGLISH 5 JC

Elective Strategies of Influence Nicholas DUNGAN 24 ENGLISH 5 JC Elective Politics & Fiction Pauline BLISTENE 24 ENGLISH 5 JC

Seminar Approches et regards croisés sur les

médias en France Brigitte ROLLET 24 FRENCH 5 JC

Elective Journalisme et politique :

l'antagonisme des modèles français et

anglais, du XVIIe siècle à nos jours

Alexis LEVRIER 24 FRENCH 5 JC

Major Political Economy Ruben DURANTE 24 ENGLISH 5 JC BE

Certificate: European Affairs (18 courses) Course Format

Title Faculty name No of hours

Language Credits Certificate

1 Certificate

2 Seminar L'Europe est-elle un Empire? Sylvain KAHN 24 FRENCH 5 EA

Elective Géopolitique de l'Europe renaissante :

guerres, conflits et diplomatie aux

XIIIè - XVIIè siècles

Jérôme ROUDIER

et Olivier CHOPIN 24 FRENCH 5 EA

Elective Crises et défis de l'Union européenne,

quelles relances possibles? 2005-2020 Sylvain KAHN 24 FRENCH 5 EA

Elective Panorama of English History 1066-

1603 Adrian PARK 24 ENGLISH 5 EA

Elective Mai 68, le temps de l'Histoire Emmanuelle

LOYER 24 FRENCH 5 EA

Elective Antisemitism in France since the end of

the 20th century Julia DAVID 24 ENGLISH 5 EA

Elective Introduction au droit & grands enjeux

du monde contemporain Maud WOITIER 24 FRENCH 5 EA

Elective Une histoire politique de la France

1815-1940 Philippe PIVIDORI 24 FRENCH 5 EA

Elective La Guerre au XXe siècle Philippe PIVIDORI 24 FRENCH 5 EA

Elective Fighting guerrillas: the history of

British and French counter-

insurgencies, 1919-1962

Steven

O'CONNOR 24 ENGLISH 5 EA

Major European Union Law Vanessa BARBÉ 24 ENGLISH 5 EA

Lecture The Quest for Democracy Adrian PARK 48 ENGLISH 5 EA

Seminar Citizenship and Migration in Europe:

Contemporary Debates and Trends Emilien FARGUES 24 ENGLISH 5 EA

Seminar E.U. Public Diplomacy

Xavier

CARPENTIER-

TANGUY

24 ENGLISH 5 EA

Seminar The European Union and Africa Bastien NIVET 24 ENGLISH 5 EA IAS

Elective East in the West, a history of Arab

politics and culture in Europe Coline HOUSSAIS 24 ENGLISH 5 EA IAS

Elective France et Antilles Emmanuelle

LOYER 24 FRENCH 5 EA IAS

Seminar The War in Syria : US and European

Policies

Federico

MANFREDI

FIRMIAN

24 ENGLISH 5 EA IAS

French Courses (6 courses) Course Format

Title Faculty name No of hours

Language Credits Certificate

1 Certificate

2 FLE A1 + atelier 72 FRENCH 5 All

FLE A2 + atelier 72 FRENCH 5 All

FLE B1.1 + atelier 72 FRENCH 5 All

FLE B1.2 + atelier 72 FRENCH 5 All

FLE B2 48 FRENCH 5 All

FLE C1 24 FRENCH 5 All

Additional Courses (8 courses)

Course Format

Title Faculty name No of hours

Language Credits Certificate

1 Certificate

2

Major Introduction aux droits et libertés

fondamentaux Olivia GANDZION 24 FRENCH 5

Elective Naissance de la politique moderne Jérôme Roudier 24 FRENCH 5

Elective The Political Life and the Foundation

of Politics

Masoud

SINAEIAN 24 ENGLISH 5

Elective Analyzing Politics Patrick LE BIHAN 24 ENGLISH 5

Elective Radical Challenges to Liberal

Democracy Alexis CARRE 24 ENGLISH 5

Elective They are the 1%: A Snapshot of

Sociology of Elites Today

Charles

BOSVIEUX-

ONYEKWELU

24 ENGLISH 5

Major Research Methods & Design

Emiliano

GROSSMAN &

Olivier

GODECHOT

24 ENGLISH 5

Elective Making up Machiavelli: Foxes and

Lions

Marcello

SIMONETTA 24 ENGLISH 5

Programme Echanges - Fall 2017

CORE CURRICULUM

CORE CURRICULUM - French Civilization 1.Why France matters? Nicholas DUNGAN “Why France Matters” is an intensive introductory course which in the 2017-2018 academic year is targeted to exchange students at the Reims campus of SciencesPo. Why France Matters offers a broad yet probing investigation of France in its many multi-faceted contexts. The course examines the tried and true reasons why people think France matters (history, culture, lifestyle, elegance), the benefits of France as an organized country (healthcare, education, regional and central government), the 21st-century competitiveness and challenges of French industry and business, how France faces its problems in the economy and society, and France’s power and influence in the world. 2. Une histoire politique de la France 1900-2017 Philippe PIVIDORI A la toute fin du XIX e siècle, la République rencontre de nombreuses crises qui témoignent du passage dans l’autre siècle, siècle de tous les contrastes pour la France et sa vie politique. Est-ce surprenant si la première grande affaire est celle de la laïcité ? Pendant quatre ans, la France est engagée dans un conflit mondial et la victoire de 1918 consolide le régime. Les années trente sont celles de lourdes menaces pour la survie de la République, qui s’effacera, de fait, en 1940. Alors, la France résiste, la France collabore. La III e est morte, vive la Quatrième République, celle de la Reconstruction, et des dysfonctionnements institutionnels. Deux fois huit ans de guerre de décolonisation auront raison du jeune régime. Alors, place à De Gaulle et à « une certaine idée de la France ». Le choc pétrolier de 1973 n’est pas le début de difficultés nouvelles : le pays a d’abord connu « mai 68 ». Peu de surprise ainsi à voir s’installer une « génération Mitterrand », période d’alternance et de cohabitations. Depuis, beaucoup d’espoirs déçus jusqu’à 2017.

CORE CURRICULUM - Certificate

1.Political Rhetoric (Journalism & Communication Certificate) Vincent Edin This class aims at enlarging the ideological scope of the students. In order to work with people defending different ideas, it’s very important to understand what is their logic, their arguments, what moves them. Indeed, this class focus on analysis of the political debate and is willing to classify all ideas into a few patterns that drive the political debate for centuries. The other issue that this class adresses, is for students to be able to promote the opposite of their current ideas. To be able to speak like your opponent is the best way to start a decent conversation with him. 2. Business and Trade in a Globalized World (Business & Economic Certificate) Charlotte DAMMANE

Doing business and trading globally is not only about dealing with international supply chains and fighting against increased competition. It is also about making the best use of national and international trade rules and policies in order to achieve more predictability, legal certainty and reliable prospects for growth. This course proposes to study how trade operates under the World Trade Organisation rules and in some of the most important trading powers : the European Union, the United States, Japan and China. Based on numerous case studies and always related to the latest developments in the field of international trade, the course will look at the challenges and opportunities offered by these different trade policies and study how they can be used by business and economic actors to foster their activities, with a particular focus on the free trade agreements recently adopted or under negotiation. 3. European Trade Policy (European Affairs) Charlotte DAMMANE Trade is an issue of growing importance in international relations as well as in domestic debates. The election of Donald Trump and the Brexit vote have both gained from people’s increasing doubts about the benefits of globalization, in such a way that the global trend towards always more market openness is now questioned as it has never been before This course will look at how the European Union has built its trade strategy and how the different institutional, private and non-state actors are involved in the making of trade policy. The beginning of the course is dedicated to understanding the European legal system with a specific focus on the adoption of trade legislation and trade agreements. With a very practical and work-oriented approach, the course then uses of variety of case studies to enable students to understand how decisions are made in order to better anticipate policy changes and/or participate to those changes. 4. Conflicts and International Security (International Affairs and Strategy) Julien THERON Social unrest, political turmoil, regime changes, ethnic rivalries, radical religious trends,

territorial disputes: after the clash of empires, colonization, independence wars and

Cold War-era proxy confrontations, conflicts are still present in our contemporary world.

This evolution of the international geopolitical environment induces instability and

security risks, from clandestine terrorist actions to nuclear threats, through guerrilla and

conventional war. Unsolved and new conflicts imply today numerous actors,

transforming more or less quickly and sometimes connecting to each other for strategic

and ideological purposes. They present acting or potential threats in a context of global

competition. Nor soft, nor hard, nor smart powers appeared to be perfect stability-

makers and the role of the United Nations is questioned.

This course will treat historical background, geopolitical context and current evolution of

conflicts as well as it will study the actors, their objective, strategies and evolutions.

This program will be based on a theoretical approach to international relations,

geopolitics, geostrategy, and security, with historical, political, religious, ethnocultural,

regional and military elements. The main areas concerned will be Sahel, Lake Chad

region, the Horn of Africa, the Arabian peninsula, Iraq, South Asia, Central Asia, Russia

and Eastern Asia with elements from Latin America.

The course will be based on both scientific knowledge acquisition and critical analysis

and will be animated by exercises performed by the students.

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS 1.The European Union and Africa Bastien NIVET This course intends to provide 2nd year students of the Europe-Afrique programme with an overview of EU-Africa relations, in all their dimensions. The main pedagogical ambition of the lectures is to grant students with a multidisciplinary and cross-thematic knowledge on the EU using EU-Africa as a viewpoint. The lectures present the necessary knowledge and tools for students to develop their own understanding and reflections regarding the different interactions, mutual perceptions, challenges, actors and levels of EU-Africa relations in a context of globalization. A first part of the lecture covers thematic issues, ranging from development to political or diplomatic and security issues. It insists on the shifting nature and content of EU-Africa relations, not least under the pressure from the international environment. A second part of the lecture, allows to go further by adopting transversal problematics of EU-Africa relations such as regionalization and the analysis of three case studies chosen for the complementary perspective they offer: Mali, Southern Africa and Northern Africa. In the end, EU-Africa relations are analysed as a process of interactions and mutual co-construction of two sets of actors in globalization. The teaching is conceived and delivered as a lecture, but questions and inputs from students is highly encouraged. 2. Crises, pouvoirs et sociétés en Afrique des Grands Lacs du 19ème au 20ème siècle (Major) Florent PITON Génocide, instabilité politique, « dictateurs cannibales » : l’Afrique des Grands Lacs semble condenser les fléaux et les stéréotypes du continent. Pourtant, ces crises n’épuisent pas l’histoire de la région et ne remontent pas à des temps immémoriaux. Ce cours entend ainsi éclairer le passé de ces pays. Les crises politiques identitaires seront particulièrement étudiées, afin de rendre compte de leur complexité et de leur contingence. Nous attarderons aussi sur les mutations du pouvoir et sur les transformations sociales. Par l’étude de la sous-région, il s’agira d’interroger les sociétés africaines dans leur ensemble : comment se sont-elles intégrées aux mondialisations ? Comment s’est construit l’Etat ? De quelle façon déconstruire les identités ? Quelle place donner aux conflictualités et à leur histoire ? 3. The Birth of Sub-Saharan African Cinema Melissa THACKWAY The aim of this course is to trace and contextualize the birth and development of post-Independence sub-Saharan African cinema in the 1960s-70s. From both a historical and cinematic perspective, we shall examine the ways in which this key period shaped emerging filmmaking trends in Africa, foregrounding the questions of identity and representation. How did the early African directors represent their realities and societies in a continent hitherto uniquely cinematically represented through the prism of colonial propaganda films, ethnographic cinema and Tarzan-esque fictions? Alternating the viewing and analysis of a corpus of six emblematic 60s and 70s feature films, we shall study the socio-political and cultural contexts of this postcolonial cinema, its influences, themes and aesthetics.

4. Echoes of Africa Maboula SOUMAHORO What is Africa for its diaspora of the Atlantic? This is the significant intellectual question that this course will explore. Can the continent be confined to its physical and geographical materiality? Is the African continent a discourse, a project, or a desire? Each developed, envisioned or expressed by its inhabitants as well as the members of its diaspora? Surveying both historical periods and contemporary times, students attending this course will be invited to examine, journey through, and interpret the various historical, political, and cultural elements, figures, and movements that have contributed to shaping global visions and understandings of the African continent. 5. East in the West,a history of Arab POlitics and Culture in Europe Coline HOUSSAIS This course traces back the arrival and integration in France of populations from the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean. More than others, France’s identity was profoundly shaped by constant dialogue with these populations. From the foundation of Marseille around 600 BC, through the first Arabic courses in 1669, the development of anti-colonial ideas in Paris’ Latin Quartier in the early XXth century to the peak in popularity of North African music in the late 1990s, France has continuously absorbed foreign cultures and regenerated them as its own. As such, this continuous dialogue between France and the Arab world lies very far from the asserted vision of two homogenous and irreconcilable civilizational blocks. This course is essential for students willing to understand France’s unique oriental background, whether political, economic or cultural. It also sheds a new light on questions of integration and identity, which have dominated public debate in recent years. 6. Historiography and Film Ellen HAMPTON This class will examine the twists and turns of American historiography, setting out a guide to the landscape of history writing, and examining its evolution in constructing national identity. American history writing begins in Europe, and moves west with immigration and settlement. History as a tool of republic-building grew over the 19th century, but in a top-down version that told romanticized stories of political leaders and their great deeds. Toward the end of the 20th century, American history exploded into a fragmentation of social, cultural, and economic histories, only to then find itself floating in a new trend of transatlantic and transnational histories, which re-inserted America in a wider world. History also is constructed through film, television and media other than text, and we will be taking a closer look at how our ideas about historical events have been shaped through film. 7. Current Challenges to International Law: Rise, Decline or Transformation of the International Legal Framework François DELERUE Since the end of the Cold War, international law is increasingly challenged by some States and other actors (e.g. States using force outside the cases prescribed by the UN Charter) as well as new phenomena, notably the development of new technologies (e.g. outer space activities, cyberspace, robotics or also artificial intelligence). The objective of the course is twofold. Firstly, providing the necessary background on international law and to understand the new challenges it is facing. Secondly, inviting

the attendees to engage and discuss these challenges and their effects on international law. Hence, the objective is mainly to develop the analytical and critical skills. Ultimately, the attendees will apprehend how international law and policy can be challenged by new questions and technological evolution, and how international norms adapt or transform in such circumstances. 8. France et Antilles Emmanuelle LOYER L'enjeu intellectuel et la nouveauté historiographique de ce cours résident dans le sous-titre : une histoire transatlantique. Il ne s'agira pas tant de décrire et comprendre la mise en place du système esclavagiste des plantations puis son démantèlement avant et après 1848, que d'observer comment le monde caraïbe a constamment inter-réagi avec la métropole française, et plus globalement européenne : dans la perception de l'Autre noir, au moment de la Révolution française et dans le combat abolitionniste pour les libertés, dans le développement du capitalisme français… On proposera donc une histoire économique, sociale, politique et culturelle de va-et-vients de part et d'autre de l'Océan atlantique et sur plus de deux siècles de façonnements réciproques. 9. Energy Security and International Politics in the Contemporary World Gaetano DI TOMMASO Energy is the lifeblood of economic development and military prowess. From the very beginning of the twentieth century, concerns about the availability of supply have influenced the formulation of national policy, shaping perceptions of security and determining patterns of international cooperation and competition. Ensuring access to affordable oil, in particular, has become through the decades a strategic priority and a prime reason for intergovernmental attrition. Today, while we continue to wait for sustainable alternatives, fossil fuels remain the key to political stability and regional growth. The course explores the intersection between national power, security, and energy access and has a strong historical foundation. It is designed to introduce students to the importance of energy-related issues in international politics and provide them with the analytical tools to critically understand some of the main cultural, social, and political processes surrounding the access to energy, thus facilitating the interpretation of today’s geopolitical landscape 10. East Asian Geopolitics & International Politics Guillaume CHOUX East Asia (Japan, China, Taiwan and the Koreas) is among the most dynamic regions on the planet. It is a major hub of globalization, and it is rapidly becoming the world's economic center of gravity. With this course, students will learn about geopolitics at the regional scale as well as about the struggle for leadership in East Asia. Focus will then be set at world scale: how does East Asia fit into globalization and what is its relationship with other great world powers? The first part of the course will deal with the geography and history of East Asia, then with demographics and sociology and a special emphasis shall be put on the diversity of political systems and economic strategies in the region as well as security challenges. The second part of the course aims at studying bilateral relations between East Asia and other regions of the world – such as Europe, America and Africa – mainly through political, economic and security angles. 11. The Contemporary City, Urbanism and Architecture Stéphane KIRKLAND The course objective is to provide a good basic understanding of the mechanisms by which cities develop and of key urban issues through a number of case studies

spanning 1837 to 2017 and through student tasks 12. Negotiation and Mediation of Middle East Conflicts Sarah RENNICK This multi-disciplinary course covers three broad topics: negotiation between states as a key diplomatic function, the phenomenon of third-party mediation in conflict resolution, and a series of case studies from the Middle East. These include: the Lebanese civil war, the Algerian civil war, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the Libya conflict, and the Yemen conflict. The course also involves a simulation exercise based on the negotiation process of the Syria conflict. These three topics are covered from both the theoretical and practical perspectives, so the course literature as well as lectures provide a good balance between what the academics state as well as what actual diplomats and mediators experience. Given the regional focus, the course also provides a degree of area studies specialization. The use of a simulation exercise will provide students with a more immediate empirical foundation to enhance their understanding of the theoretical discussions. Central issues to be discussed and compared are cultural differences in international negotiation, third parties in international negotiations, and practice and strategies linked to various diplomatic actors (states, IGOs, NGOs, as well as official and unofficial diplomats). In addition, the case studies will provide an overview of each conflict as well as the ramifications for short- and long-term peacebuilding in the Middle East. 13.Syrie, un Etat sans nation? Aux sources d'un conflit au Moyen Orient (1918-1946) Hélène DE CHAMPCHESNEL Les évènements que traverse aujourd’hui la Syrie remettent profondément en question les fondements de son identité. La Syrie reste un État récent, dessiné par la France, dont l’avènement s’est fait dans la douleur, en réaction à l’occupation française. Cette genèse particulière a-t- elle un impact sur le drame contemporain ? C’est pour répondre à cette question qu’il nous a paru essentiel de nous pencher sur les circonstances de la naissance de l’État syrien, et de celle conjointe du Liban. Cet enseignement ambitionne de décortiquer le processus de création étatique et le processus de création nationale, deux phénomènes ici exceptionnellement asynchrones. Les exercices requis permettent de valider la compréhension des enjeux historiques du sujet et visent à renforcer les capacités des étudiants à exposer un sujet complexe, à l’écrit comme à l’oral. 14. International Development: Policy & Practice Pooja JAIN This course will introduce students to a conceptual and policy framework pertaining to the field of international development and aid. The aim of the course is to lend insight into the world of development, its actors, paradoxes and stakes. We will go through academic readings, relevant material from institutional websites and current affairs in order to encourage thoughtful and critical discussions on existing development policies and practices. We expect that by the end of the term students will be able to come up with their own arguments on existing development policies through country or sector based case studies and conceptual frameworks that can be channelled from fields as diverse as economics, law, political sciences, or sociology. The course is not exhaustive but will provide a good start to students willing to pursue a career in the very exciting, tremendously useful and fulfilling field of international development. 15. D’Ebola aux guerres de l’eau René-Eric DAGORN

Crise épidémiologique Ebola, tensions sur les métaux stratégiques, conflits d’appropriation des ressources en eau, changements climatiques, courses aux ressources énergétiques en Arctique – et à la biodiversité en Amazonie... Les questions de géographie et de géopolitique environnementale font désormais partie de l’espace mondial. A l’ère de l’anthropocène – où les sociétés construisent des espaces « naturels » – les choix sociaux sont autant politiques qu’environnementaux. L’objectif est de faire apparaître les notions de géopolitique environnementale (anthropocène, man-made disaster, technosphère...), les lieux du monde où les tensions environnementales sont visibles (Arctique, Amazonie, espaces orbitaux...), et les choix environnementaux permettant de construire les espaces du futur (transition énergétique, réchauffement, espaces du risque...). 16. Introduction à l'Islam : religion et civilisation Ruth GROSRICHARD Ce cours n’a pas pour objectif de traiter de toutes les questions relatives à l’islam et au monde musulman des origines à aujourd’hui. Il se propose plutôt de donner quelques points de repères qui permettent de resituer, dans une perspective historique, certains débats voire conflits actuels où s’échangent, de part et d’autre, approximations et arguments sans fondements, sinon idéologiques. 17. Culinary Diplomacy Lorenzo KIHLGREN GRANDI Over the last two centuries, a new form of diplomacy has risen: culinary diplomacy, which consists in the institutionalized use of cuisine in international relations. As a matter of fact, central and local governments – often in cooperation with the private sector, NGOs and international organizations – are increasingly resorting to culinary creativity and traditions in their international relations for a multiplicity of purposes, from the improvement of cooperation to branding, from economic and touristic promotion to conflict management and resolution. The course will explore culinary diplomacy's scope and challenges, as well as its practical applications, through an overview of its theory, a selection of case studies and direct contributions from its protagonists. 18. Géostratégie de la mer Xavier CARPENTIER-TANGUY Ce séminaire a pour objectif de réfléchir à la mer, aux mers et aux océans comme des éléments structurant de notre imaginaire collectif en tant qu’espace qui nous dépasse, d’où proviennent les peurs, les terreurs mais également qui forcent à dépasser de telles limites pour y trouver des moyens de subsistance puis d’échanges entre villes, entre espaces civilisationnels. Ce sont ces échanges et ces espaces de connexion, qui façonnent des routes, des écosystèmes dont le contrôle politique, économique devient un enjeu stratégique, hier, aujourd’hui et clairement, qui peuvent contribuer à dessiner le futur. 19. Key Concepts in U.S. Foreign Policy Alice JUDELL

This series of seminars will use a historical timeline from America’s founding to the Trump era to map out the key concepts and theories of US Foreign Policy. The course aims at providing students with the critical analytical and theoretical tools to understand the evolving status of the United States as a hegemonic power in the 20th and 21st centuries. In particular, this course interrogates the role of external and internal factors influencing America’s behaviour in the world. Students will use the theories of international relations and public policy to study in great detail the actors, institutions and doctrines relevant to US Foreign Policy. The learning material ranges from

textbooks, journal articles, films, documentaries, and public policy documents. This course aims at further exploring aspects of foreign policy, in line with the IR and world politics courses of the degree

20. America and Africa: A Complex Relationship Aude CHANSON This course will introduce you to the intertwined history of Africa South of the Sahara and America from the sixteenth century to the present. The first part of the course focuses on Africans and Afro-Americans in America from the slave trade to the second half of the twentieth century. The second part of the course discusses the place and role of America (with a special focus on the United States) in the African continent and examines the many political, social and economic transformations experienced and initiated by Americans in Africa. NB : Because there is so much to learn about Africa and America during this period, the course does not strive for exhaustive coverage. Instead, we will consider a variety of case studies. Though we will cover nearly every major region within these cases, some will receive particular attention in a effort to balance breadth and depth of historical knowledge. 21. A Transatlantic Approach to Intellectual Property Law & Management Géraldine BLANCHE Over the last several decades, intellectual property has become a vital element of our economies, acting as a strategic legal tool for innovative and creative industries and their multiple economic actors. This course aims at offering students a survey of the different legal mechanisms for protecting intellectual property. It introduces the major branches of intellectual property law (copyright, trademark, patent, industrial design and geographic indicators) and delves into their practical applications along with the current issues they raise in our globalized world. Considering a transatlantic comparative approach, this 12-session course will lay out the theory and provide practical case studies to question the core aspects of this ever-expanding legal system 22. The Long Century of Revolutions: From the American Revolution to the Russian Revolution, 1776-1914 Niccolo VALMORI There are few words that have greater evocative power than “revolution”. After the Arab Spring starting in 2011, the term knew a renewal of interest leading to endless publications and massive references to it in the press as well as on television and other media. The broad use of the term did not imply greater comprehension for the phenomenon. On the contrary, it seems that the adoption of the term to describe a wide variety of cases caused confusion on the peculiarities of a revolutionary movement. This course is designed to offer students the tools to understand the evolution of the concept of revolution during the crucial period between the American Revolution and the Russian Revolution. What are the main features of a revolution? Why do revolutions in the past centuries matter today? How did revolutionary actors look to previous revolution? Finally, could we consider revolutions as a global phenomenon? These are some of the major questions that will be tackled in the course, discussing the assigned readings on topics concerning revolutions between the last quarter of the eighteenth century until the beginning of the twentieth. The interaction between different revolutions as well as the concurrent causes and origins of these momentous phenomena plays a crucial role in the framework of the course. Instead of privileging local and national perspectives, global and comparative approaches to revolution are offered as key tools to understand the relevance of one revolution also on foreign contexts and far-distant countries. Topics include the American and the French revolutions, the Haitian revolution and the

revolutionary movement in South-America, the period of liberal revolutions in Europe between 1830 and 1848, the industrial revolution and the Russian revolution, elements of cultural history and history of consumption. Students will learn to analyze the main political documents of the revolutions, to critically approach the “myths” created by the revolutions and their representations, to recognize the common aspects and the differences between revolutions.

23. The New American Revolution: U.S. Institutions and Post-Globalization in Modern Democracies Olivier PITON The aim of this course is to study how American institutions, and more generally Western institutions, adapt to the rise of alternative forms of government that challenge the doctrines of globalization as we have known them to be since the end of the WWII. How is the election of D. Trump in the United States part of the institutional history of that country? How is his election a departure from the status quo ? How do the opposition forces react ? What do the Constitution and the spirit of the Founding Fathers tell us about how American society can adapt to this political break? The objective will be to measure how the constitutional texts combine flexibility and rigidity to keep democracy alive 24. Taste, Culture & Style: Geographical Indications from a Transatlantic Perspective Pratyush UPRETI In today’s globalized world, it’s not what we drink, eat or use that matters the most, rather it is the origin of the products we consume or use. The choice of the products reflects our lifestyle, class, taste, culture and living standards. Considering the global supply chain, how can a food product be considered as ‘local’? Is it possible to maintain ‘sense of place’ (Terrior) in a technological age, diverse community, climate change etc.? The Geographical Indications (GIs) is a sign used on products that have a specific geographical origin and possess qualities or a reputation that are due to that origin. In other words, GIs are the name of the place, geographical origin, location, and region, associated with goods. The branding of geographical indication shape consumer’s actions and opinions about their desire of products and becomes a valuable marketing tool to promote local culture. Geographical Indication holds a strong linkage between region, history, cultural development and climatic condition, making it a very personal connection and reputation to the community at large. The consumer communicates with farmers through the geographical indication which assures that the foods are locally produced. Similarly, the ability of GIs in creating a market value for the products resulting in lucrative sales and high prices makes it an important tool to promote local products at global level. The growing choice of goods across the borders has penetrated well into the international trading system. The Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) Agreement have integrated geographical indication with the trade and remains to be controversial at international trade. There are two different approaches in protecting geographical indication. The EU has sui generis model to register and protected Geographical Indications for agricultural products and foodstuffs, wine, spirit and aromatised wine. On the other hand, the U.S. protects geographical indication in the form of trademark, mainly as certification marks. Moreover, the EU is moving a step ahead to ensure the protection of the traditional cultural expression through extension of geographical indication protection to non-

agricultural products. Nevertheless, there is always a tension between trademark and geographical indication. Theoretically, it may be argued that the foundation of both the system remains same but in terms of legal status, both are treated differently. This course will examine the concepts of geographical indications and its rural, cultural and economic importance to the Country. Moreover, through examining the case law and current ongoing real world trade negotiation as a case study will aware the position and contemporary issues and concerns related to geographical indications. 25. Les Etats-Unis sont-ils un Empire? Histoire et Géopolitique de l’idée impériale américaine René-Eric DAGORN « We are an Empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality » (Karl Rove, principal conseiller de G. W. Bush, 2004). Au début du 21e siècle, la question de l’Empire traverse la géopolitique des Etats-Unis. Les interventions en Afghanistan (en 2001, en 2010) et en Irak (depuis 2003) se situent dans des logiques « impériales » – la démocratisation par la force. L’administration Trump semble être dans des logiques proches de celle d’Obama et de Bush La question impériale du 21e siècle renvoie également à une interrogation de longue durée : depuis la fondation des Etats-Unis, les acteurs politiques américains réfléchissent à la question de l’Empire. Et l’histoire américaine est marquée par plusieurs « moments impériaux » (1898, 1945, 1989-91, 2003, 2010...). Alors, au 21e siècle, les Etats-Unis sont-ils un Empire ? 26. The African-American Odyssey from Phyllis Weatley to #BlackLivesMatter Sylvie LAURENT This course aims to introduce students to major elements of the African-American journey in the United States. The African-American experience spans four hundred years, from the initial settlement of the American continent by Europeans and the establishment of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and down through the present day. This class contemplates this “odyssey” from a multidisciplinary perspective (literature, sociology, political science) along with an historical background. Central to our discussions will be a focus on the African-American voice since the 18th century. The course is organized chronologically, with an emphasis on the ideas of black social thought, political protest and efforts to initiate social change. This course also draws on popular culture (music, visual arts, television, sports) as to explore the destiny of black people in the American contemporary cultural history, with particular attention to the interplay between “black” culture and political consciousness. From slave poetess Phyllis Weatley to the current president of the United States, the black experience has leaned toward the elimination of racism, the realization of democratic rights and greater social fairness, and toward the achievement of cultural integrity of the black community. 27. The War in Syria: US and European Policies Federico MANFREDI FIRMIAN The aim of this course is to understand the causes and international ramifications of the war in Syria, from the 2011 Arab Spring protests to the rise of ISIS, and from the interventions of Hezbollah, Iran, and Russia to those of the United States and its allies. After a brief introduction on the modern history of Syria and the geopolitics of the Levant, the course will refocus on policy analysis, with special attention devoted to understanding how the United States and its European allies initially responded to the crisis and how their policies evolved over the past six years. The course will thus consider conflict resolution and peace building in failed states, the risk of conflict spillover in neighboring countries, and the heightened risk of ISIS-inspired terrorism on a global scale. It will also examine the Syrian refugee crisis and the catastrophic impact

of the war on the political, economic, and social life of Syria and its people. 28. War and Screens Guillaume PIKETTY This seminar intends to address the sometimes complicated relationships between war and cinema: films used as a means to prepare war and then to wage it; war as it is described (or not) in movies; cinema used to (try to) tell what war is for the combatants and for the civilians who endure it and/or on the home front; relationships between movies and the memory of war. Whilst wars of the 20th and 21st centuries are the primary focus of the seminar, incursions in a wider chronology will occur occasionally. Our work will be based on the study of movies: screenplay(s), director(s) and actors, if possible context of production and of financing, nature of the film (fiction or documentary), content (summary of the plot, main characters, stylistic choices, possible “messages”), reception, position of the movie in the history and the memory of the war, etc. Some more in-depth and more critical analyses of specific scenes will be possible, and welcome. The films that we will mainly use are indicated bellow. But, of course, mentions by the students of their own ideas in terms of movies during their presentations will be very welcome. We will occasionally use series. We will also rely on the books from which some of the films were made. For example All Quiet on the Western Front, Capitaine Conan, La chambre des officiers, Army of Shadows, The Railway Man, The Silence of the Sea, Suite française, Heart of Darkness (for Apocalypse Now). 29. Counterinsurgency in Theory and in Practice: Lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan Michael BAUMGARTNER What are the foundations for effective population-centric counterinsurgency strategies? The two largest US-funded economic assistance efforts in Iraq were water treatment plants costing several hundred million dollars. One of them decreased insurgent and terrorist activity, and one increased it. Why? This course draws on real life examples to help understand the dynamics of insurgencies and realistic approaches to defeating them. Lecture material is based in part on Sen. Baumgartner’s time as a diplomat with the US State Department and his lectures to senior members of the US Military at the Counterinsurgency Leaders Course and at the National Defense University Af/Pak program. 30. Sociologie des arts et de la culture: Les Etats-Unis et la France Kaoutar HARCHI Qu’est-ce que « l’art » ? De quelles manières les pratiques artistiques se sont-elles constituées ? Dans quelles mesures les mondes des arts sont-ils des mondes sociaux ? Peut-on considérer les arts en tant qu’analyseurs des sociétés contemporaines ? Et selon quelles théories ? Quelles méthodes ? L’enseignement Sociologie des arts et de la culture, Etats-Unis-France confère aux étudiants un ensemble de connaissances sociologiques relatives à l’activité artistique et culturelle à travers les processus de production, de diffusion et de réception des œuvres. L’objectif de l’enseignement est triple. Tout d’abord, il s’agit d’approfondir les connaissances sociologiques – théories et méthodologies – des étudiants à partir d’un champ de recherche spécifique. Puis est visée la familiarisation des étudiants à l’approche scientifique, historicisante et critique des arts. Enfin, il est question de sensibiliser les étudiants au rôle majeur joué par la culture dans les transformations sociales et économiques.

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS 1. Economie Publique Marie- Noëlle JUBENOT L’enseignement aborde les principales thématiques de l’action publique : la multiplicité des finalités de l’action publique, la variété des instruments, directs ou indirects, utilisables par les pouvoirs publics et les modalités d’évaluation de la politique publique. L’un des objectifs visés est la connaissance par les étudiants des débats théoriques sur les finalités et les justifications de l’action publique dans une économie de marché. La compréhension suffisamment détaillée des avantages et inconvénients des différentes modalités de l’action publique constitue un autre objectif. Enfin, plusieurs méthodes d’évaluation des politiques publiques en fonction de leurs finalités initiales, et de l’ensemble de leurs implications feront l’objet d’un travail de réflexion. 2. L’économie politique de l’Afrique sub-saharienne Philippe COPINSCHI Comment l’économie de l’Afrique a-t-elle évolué depuis la colonisation et les indépendances ? Quelle est la responsabilité des facteurs internes et internationaux dans les trajectoires des économies africaines ? En quoi l’arrivée en force des pays émergents (notamment la Chine et l’Inde) attirés par ses ressources naturelles est-elle une chance pour le développement de l’Afrique ? Quelles sont les conséquences des mutations du système économique (la « mondialisation » de l’économie) sur les systèmes politiques africains et sur les capacités régulatrices des Etats ? Avec environ 15 % de la population mondiale, l'Afrique réalise moins de 2 % du produit intérieur brut mondial et du commerce international. L'analyse des principales composantes du processus de développement est sans appel et donne l'image d'un continent qui - sauf exception - se retrouve vis-à-vis du reste du monde dans une position de dépendance voire d’exclusion. Si pour les uns, ce mal-développement de l’Afrique est une fatalité endogène, pour les autres à l'inverse, il résulte avant tout de l’ingérence répétée des puissances extérieures, éventuellement guidées par les intérêts de leurs multinationales. Cette vision réductrice mérite d’être déconstruite par une analyse approfondie et critique des conditions politiques du développement économique de l’Afrique. La compréhension des enjeux économiques africains nécessite de mettre en lumière la diversité des intervenants, directs ou indirects, et de leurs logiques d’action. Elle impose de reconstituer la complexité des processus (notamment dans leur profondeur historique) où s’articulent l’enracinement dans le local et l’externalisation régionale et internationale. Dépasser les clichés qui accompagnent le développement de l’Afrique exige de poser un regard critique sur le phénomène en lien avec les dynamiques de construction des Etats, les mobilisations sociales locales et transnationales, les processus d’extraversion économique, etc. Ce cours vise à faire un état des lieux de la situation économique de l'Afrique au début du XXIe siècle et à montrer l'enchevêtrement des facteurs explicatifs du mal-développement, en cherchant à mettre en lumière les mécanismes particuliers de blocage ou au contraire d’impulsion du développement sur le continent africain. Il vise à analyser les enjeux du développement sur le continent africain en étudiant la pluralité

des acteurs intervenants et des causalités politiques et économiques, par une approche résolument pluridisciplinaire, mêlant science politique, économie et sociologie, tout en insistant sur la nécessaire ré-historicisation des phénomènes. L’objectif est en effet de rendre compte de l’enchevêtrement des relations de causalité, partant de l’idée que les forces économiques constituent un facteur à part entière co-déterminant le système politique, avec pour conséquence la nécessité d’étudier les effets des évolutions économiques sur ce système, notamment sur la souveraineté des Etats et leurs capacités de régulation du système. En évitant de tomber dans l’afro-pessimisme réducteur tout autant que dans l’afro-optimisme béat, le cours, dont l’ambition est de penser l’Afrique à travers son insertion économique dans la mondialisation en se penchant en particulier sur la gestion des ressources naturelles qui constituent ses principales exportations, mêle donc une approche thématique à une analyse fondée sur des études de cas 3.Innovation and Private sector development in Africa Jean-Paul MVOGO Within three decades, the African continent will have to face significant challenges, notably the doubling of its population and mounting pressures on the employment market. The course will underline the essential role that innovation and new technologies will have to play to move African economies towards higher degrees of development. Participants will discover the ongoing IT revolution in Africa, its actors, opportunities and the importance of innovations and new technologies for structural change to take place. The course will then stress some risks notably the ones associated to the digital gap and marginalization of Africa in the realm of innovation. The course will therefore emphasize the importance of stronger policies to address current constraints faced by stakeholders of African innovation systems and new technologies sectors, constraints which currently prevent the continent to harness its potential. 4. 5. 6. 7. Introduction to Econometrics Using STATA Charlemagne NIKIEMA This course is an applied-oriented course for undergraduate students in economics. Its main objective is to provide students with an introduction to econometric methods needed for empirical analysis in economics and other related disciplines. The course demonstrates problems involved in the empirical measurement of economic relationships and techniques used to solve the problems. Through the course, we will learn and get familiar with the software package STATA, of which we’ll use to analyze studies from the economics science. While ideas and applications of various econometric methods are of prime importance, technical and theoretical details are also presented 8. Sociology of Markets Andrès CHIRIBOGA Mainstream economics understand the economy as the outcome of rational forces coming together even when there is some acknowledgement that there is something beyond that simplification. Sociology – amongst other social sciences (including some branches in critical economics) – claims that economic decisions, that are normally characterized by high levels of uncertainty and even when they have a clear rational

objective (i.e. like the maximization of utility), rely on social devices such as norms, traditions, power constrains, family and friendship ties. The core objective of this course is to explore the contributions of sociology to understanding the complexity of economic phenomena and, particularly, of markets. In that sense, the course will start by reviewing some key elements on the way economic life and markets are addressed in classical and contemporary. We will then move to study the specific sociological studies of markets where we will critically engage with several key discussions: the embeddedness of markets in other social structures, the role of cognitive mechanisms and devices, economists making markets, among others. With the elements discussed through the course, the students will have the opportunity to explore specific markets from a sociological perspective. 9. Economic History: Society, Trade and institutions in the Long Term Miguel ORTIZ SERRANO The present course aims to construct, through the analysis of historical economic facts, a critical view about long-term economic growth and convergence/divergence across nations. For that purpose, understanding how the early modern divergence and the colonization processes of the Modern Age contributed to create the further economic and institutional framework will help us to obtain a general view about the pre-industrial world, to see how early institutions could affect long-term economic development. The course will continue in the mid XIX century, in order to cover the period from the first industrial revolution to nowadays. Thus, the course aims to answer to the following questions: When did the world start to be unequal across nations? Why there are some countries less developed than others? Why economic theory does not fulfil (completely) and countries tend to diverge? The structure is organized as follows: • The early modern divergence and the origins of capitalism. The course will start by summarizing the colonial processes of the XVI century, the institutional framework arisen as a consequence, and its subsequent effects in the long-term patterns of economic development until the XIX century. This is the period when modern nations start to be configured; when we see the rise and fall of system, the mercantilism, and its substitution for a new economic framework which will determine the subsequent centuries: Capitalism. • Globalization across time: Three periods (1870-1914, 1945-1973, 1973-2008), three stages of globalization. What is the trend after the 2008 crisis? This section aims to analyse the patterns of international trade between nations, and how integrated was the world in every period. Furthermore, this block will cover topics such as the main monetary regimes, trade freedom and institutional framework (i.e. Gold Standard, Bretton-Woods or Floating Exchange Rate; level of freedom and restrictions to trade and capital flows, etc.). 10. Introduction to Public Economics (Major) Camila NINO FERNANDEZ This course examines the role of government in the economy. Under ideal market conditions, competition promotes economic efficiency via Adam Smith's “invisible hand", leaving little role for the government. In some cases, however, markets fail and government intervention may be desirable. Market failures to be analyzed during this course, include public goods and externalities. In addition, the government may have a role in the redistribution of income. The course then examines the financing of such government interventions. Tax systems should be designed to enhance economic efficiency and to promote an equitable distribution of income. 11. Introduction to Political Economy (Major) Ruben DURANTE

The course will be organized around a series of topics: starting with the economic analysis of electoral turnout and voting decision, it will then focus on the selection and motivations of politicians and their impact on public policy, and on questions such as political accountability and corruption; it will then examine the role of mass media and its impact on electoral politics and policy-making, as well as the issue of political distortions through examples such as patronage politics, lobbying, and political connections; finally, it will discuss issues related to crime, conflict and violence, as well as the origins, persistence and impact of political institutions. The course will be primarily based on the reading of recent research papers and the in-depth discussion of their theories, methods, and results. There are no pre-requisites; however, previous exposure to economics courses and familiarity with quantitative methods are desirable 12. Economics Growth and Development Ruben DURANTE The course introduces students to the study of the origins of vast inequality in income per capita across countries, regions and ethnic groups. It will analyze empirically the determinants of growth process over the course of human history and the role of deeply-rooted geographical, institutional, cultural, and genetic factors in the observed pattern of uneven development across the globe.

JOURNALISM & COMMUNICATION 1. Journalisme et politique : l'antagonisme des modèles français et anglais, du XVIIe siècle à nos jours Alexis LEVRIER Ce cours aura pour ambition de confronter les traditions journalistes française et anglaise. Il proposera un parcours à travers l’histoire de la presse, des premières gazettes jusqu’à l’ère numérique. Dès la « Révolution glorieuse » de 1688, la presse anglaise s’est en effet caractérisée par sa liberté à l’égard du pouvoir politique. À l’inverse, le journalisme français s’est construit autour d’un système centralisé, étroitement contrôlé par l’État, qui a perduré jusqu’à la fin de l’Ancien Régime et même, dans une certaine mesure, jusqu’à la grande loi sur la presse de 1881. Bien sûr, la mondialisation tend à effacer aujourd’hui les différences entre ces deux modèles journalistiques. Mais nous montrerons la persistance de profondes disparités, à travers l’étude d’exemples empruntés à l’histoire récente, tels que l’affaire du Sofitel de New-York ou le scandale du News of the World. 2. Introduction to Media and Design Theory Claire RICHARD Design and Media can both be approached as methods of knowledge, technologies of mediation, and practical tools that shape social relationships and are shaped by them in return. In this class, we will consider key thinkers and key debates for the field of Design and Media Theory. This class is a seminar: students are expected to engage in weekly readings and discussions in order to come away with a solid grounding in issues, concepts and terms for making sense of how the world in which we live is made. How do media and design shape our world, our bodies, our relationship to the world, to society and to ourselves ? This course will introduce students to some of the many responses media and design theorists have suggested over the years, and help them develop critical and analytical skills.

3. Le discours politique: modèles antiques, enjeux contemporains Emmanuel ECHIVARD Pas de politique sans un discours qui l'accompagne, véhicule de valeurs, producteur de symboles, chargé d'effets. La rhétorique politique est une mise en scène de la parole du pouvoir, théâtralisant son efficacité et formalisant le rapport des gouvernés aux gouvernants. L'objet du cours est l'apprentissage pratique des modalités de cette théâtralisation de la parole publique, celui des principales clés théoriques, et la lecture de discours politiques représentatifs d'enjeux autant historiques que littéraires. Car en ce domaine, parler, c'est agir, et un style de parole est un style de pouvoir. Il s'agira aussi, finalement, de penser les possibilités d'un rapport de confiance entre gouvernants et gouvernés, dans un espace de représentation. Trois types de séance seront mises en œuvre : des moments d'études des théories de la rhétorique, des lectures commentées de textes, des ateliers d'écriture, mises en pratique personnelles et créatives des apprentissages. 4.The Media Brand Revolution. Magazines from Print to Digital: A Survival Kit. Grégoire HALBOUT This class will expose students to magazine business history, economics and development strategy. It will endeavour to map the present challenges met by French/European, and international magazines and how publishers are setting up development and reshifting strategies to transform traditional magazine titles into brands, managed like business units (print, digital, events, publishing, travel offers...). It also implies some assessment of how tablets and smartphones have changed reading habits, what media content is about nowadays, and how media corporations have revisited the « format based » formula and shifted to the “global content” approach. In other words, why and how magazines have become media brands. 5. War and Screens Guillaume PIKETTY This seminar intends to address the sometimes complicated relationships between war and cinema: films used as a means to prepare war and then to wage it; war as it is described (or not) in movies; cinema used to (try to) tell what war is for the combatants and for the civilians who endure it and/or on the home front; relationships between movies and the memory of war. Whilst wars of the 20th and 21st centuries are the primary focus of the seminar, incursions in a wider chronology will occur occasionally. Our work will be based on the study of movies: screenplay(s), director(s) and actors, if possible context of production and of financing, nature of the film (fiction or documentary), content (summary of the plot, main characters, stylistic choices, possible “messages”), reception, position of the movie in the history and the memory of the war, etc. Some more in-depth and more critical analyses of specific scenes will be possible, and welcome. The films that we will mainly use are indicated bellow. But, of course, mentions by the students of their own ideas in terms of movies during their presentations will be very welcome. We will occasionally use series. We will also rely on the books from which some of the films were made. For example All Quiet on the Western Front, Capitaine Conan, La chambre des officiers, Army of Shadows, The Railway Man, The Silence of the Sea, Suite française, Heart of Darkness (for Apocalypse Now). 6. Comment devenir un bon journaliste Isabelle LEFORT

Ce cours a pour vocation d’enseigner aux étudiants les techniques d’écriture et de présentation (presse écrite, radio TV, web). Qu’il s’agisse des brèves d’agence de presse, d’interviews, d’enquêtes, les 12 cours électifs permettront à chacun de maitriser et de s’exercer au travers d’exercices pratiques permanents, réalisés collectivement et individuellement. 7. Philosophical Perspectives on Contemporary Debates Marcus Carlsen HAGGROT This course looks at the intersection of political theory and public policy. It draws on political and moral philosophy as well as the philosophy of law in order to shed light on the most central concepts of contemporary political and theoretical discourse, and it examines how these concepts inform a range of particular controversies. The course pays particular attention to issues that concern the structure and justification of particular rights and liberties, equality and disadvantage, reproduction and family law, and questions of institutional design 8. Strategies of Influence Nicholas DUNGAN “Strategies of Influence” is a highly interactive elective course encouraging maximum student participation and leadership. The course explores the nature of influence, legitimate and non-coercive methods of influence and different ways of exercising that influence. Ranging from the philosophical to the intensely practical, the course considers forms, methods and networks of influence, but also offers training on how to give a successful speech, how to go on television with no time to prepare, how to exercise influence in organizations and how to create your own persona as an influencer. Eight class sessions will be devoted to perspectives on influence plus hands-on case studies, while three sessions are expected to be led by invited guest lecturers who are recognized influencers themselves. 9.Approches et regards croisés sur les médias en France. Brigitte ROLLET Ce cours proposera une approche inter et pluridisciplinaire des médias en France inspirée des études culturelles. Une fois posé le cadre historique indispensable pour comprendre les spécificités du développement de la presse, de la radio et de la télévision hexagonales, divers axes transversaux seront envisagés pour souligner ses particularités : le rôle de l'État (censure et soutien, organes de régulation, législation), les relations secteur public-secteur privé, la France et ses voisins (les relations au sein de l'Europe et outre-Atlantique). Des études de cas sur chacun des médias permettront ensuite d'en éclairer les singularités en France dans une démarche plus spécifiquement orientée études culturelles et de genre

10. Introduction to Political Economy Ruben DURANTE The course will be organized around a series of topics: starting with the economic analysis of electoral turnout and voting decision, it will then focus on the selection and motivations of politicians and their impact on public policy, and on questions such as political accountability and corruption; it will then examine the role of mass media and its impact on electoral politics and policy-making, as well as the issue of political distortions through examples such as patronage politics, lobbying, and political connections; finally, it will discuss issues related to crime, conflict and violence, as well as the origins, persistence and impact of political institutions. The course will be primarily based on the reading of recent research papers and the in-depth discussion of their theories, methods, and results. There are no pre-requisites; however, previous

exposure to economics courses and familiarity with quantitative methods are desirable

EUROPEAN AFFAIRS 1.L’Europe est-elle un Empire? Sylvain KAHN L’UE est une entité territoriale complètement atypique : elle n’est pas à l’ONU mais

pèse dans tous les forums internationaux. Ses Etats-membres ne sont ni des Etats

fédérés ni des Etats locaux. Si elle dispose d’une souveraineté étatique dans bien des

domaines, même régaliens, l’UE n’est évidemment pas un Etat-nation.

L’UE est donc immense, multiculturelle, multilingue, multinationale et multiterritoriale !

L’UE n’envahit personne mais ne cesse d’étendre son territoire et de se mêler de la

politique de ses voisins et du monde, pour le meilleur et pour le pire.

A tout prendre, l’UE est donc... un empire !? A l’intersection de la géohistoire, des

areas studies, du régionalisme, de la philosophie politique et de la géopolitique, les

Européens seraient-ils un peuple d’empereurs qui s’ignorent ? Pour le savoir,

examinons ensemble comment ils font territoire aujourd’hui et hier, ici et maintenant.

2. Géopolitique de l’Europe renaissante: guerres, conflits et diplomatie aux XIIIè-XVIIè siècles Jérôme ROUDIER et Olivier CHOPIN L’idée de ce cours est de revisiter l’histoire politique de la Renaissance au prisme des outils et des concepts les plus contemporains de la science politique et de l’analyse des relations internationales. Il s’agit d’expérimenter un exercice « d’anachronisme maîtrisé » : utiliser des paradigmes actuels comme le « dilemme de la sécurité », la « diplomatie transformationnelle », les « conflits asymétriques », les « approches constructiviste » et le « tournant esthétique » etc. pour analyser des situations historiques qui ont été fondatrices de la modernité politique. En retour, le cours sera l’occasion pour l’étudiant d’étendre sa culture politique au-delà des généalogies habituelles de la politique occidentale moderne (les Lumières et les révolutions du XVIIIe siècle) en « remontant » aux apports de l’Europe absolutiste et plus loin encore aux fondations de l’Europe pré-renaissante. L’étude de l’affrontement entre le Saint Empire Romain Germanique et le Pape, des guerres civiles à l’intérieur des cités italiennes, de la première affirmation des grandes monarchies (anglaise, espagnole et française), les tensions annonciatrices de la Réforme, puis les effets de rupture des Guerres de religion, etc. sera l’occasion de développer une connaissance plus intime d’innovations politiques et d’expérimentations dont notre monde contemporain est l’héritier. Ce cours se veut enfin d’un ludique foisonnement, puisqu’il nous permettra de discuter des premiers émissaires auprès du Grand Khan, des légations de Machiavel auprès du Roi de France, de l’invention du langage moderne de l’État par Giovanni Botero, « l’inventeur » de la raison d’État, des relations complexes de Raguse avec Venise et avec l’Empire Ottoman, du procès de Savonarole, de l’invention de l’humanisme chrétien, de l’établissement de la première bibliothèque « publique » par Gabriel Naudé, secrétaire de Mazarin. L’érudition sera donc ici le point de départ d’une réflexion géopolitique qui ne veut évidemment pas s’arrêter à l’étude du seul passé. 3.Crises et défis de L’Union Européenne, quelles relances possibles? 2005-2020 Sylvain KAHN

La construction européenne traverse la période la plus difficile de sa jeune histoire. Une défiance sans précédent s'est installée envers l'UE. Les Européens font face en même temps à quatre défis majeurs : le défi politique et démocratique depuis 2005 ; le défi de la cohésion économique et sociale depuis 2008 ; le défi géopolitique depuis 2011 ; le Brexit depuis 2016. Jusqu’à présent, aucune des avancées réelles des années 2012-2017 n’a permis de relancer l’intégration européenne ! L’UE est menacée de déconstruction car beaucoup d’acteurs se posent cette question : l’UE est-elle le problème ou la solution ? Défi par défi et problème par problème, l'enseignement proposera aux étudiants de répondre à cette question et de construire une mise en récit et une analyse de cette crise inédite.

4.Panorama of English History 1066-1603 Adrian PARK For much of the 19th and 20th centuries, the tiny islands of Great Britain dominated world trade, economic, judicial, religious and educational institutions. And the language of English continues to dominate around the world. And yet, just under a thousand years ago, England as a country and English as a language looked all but set for confinement to the dustbin of history as the Norman French invaded and took control of the small but prosperous Saxon kingdom. They governed much of the British Isles for over three hundred years and for large periods England was considered as an outpost of the greater Norman empire. This course will look at some of the major events in English history from the year 1066 to the present. The aim of the course is to give a very general idea of the way in which political and social institutions have developed over the past thousand years. Where possible, and time permitting, we will also look at the lives and ideas of the ordinary men and women who are often ignored by history but without whom no such history could exist. A lesson plan is given followed by a short bibliography. You are not expected to read all the books but you will be expected to show that you have done some background reading. This will stand you in good stead for the coming years at Science Po. Good luck and enjoy the course. 5. Mai 68, le temps de l’Histoire Emmanuelle LOYER La conférence vise à présenter la nouvelle historiographie des années 1968 telle que celle-ci a émergé dans les deux dernières décennies : attention aux acteurs, décentrement du regard (de Paris vers la province), intérêt pour les nouvelles formes politiques, retour sur le déploiement international et transnational du mouvement. On réfléchira ainsi sur ce qu'on appelle un "événement" en histoire. 6. Antisemitism in France since the end of the 20th century Julia DAVID In the way it relates to the Jews, France is a very paradoxical nation. France is the country of the anti-Dreyfusards, but also the nation “where you have to be quick” as Levinas’s father put it, because it is capable of becoming completely divided over “the honor of a little Jewish officer”. It is the nation where Léon Blum could become the head of government under the Popular Front in 1936, and at the same time endure exceptionally violent anti-Semitic attacks. As Zeev Sternhell reminds us, the attitude of French society to the Jews was fraught with paradox: on the one hand, it was the first European country to emancipate its Jews, some two hundred years ago, at the end of the eighteenth century; on the other hand, one hundred and fifty years after the Emancipation, France enacted race laws which were the most similar in Europe to the Nazi model. This ambivalent history is well-known. But since at least two decades, the predominant

forms of anti-Semitism in France are alien to counter-Revolutionary or racial anti-Semitism. Not that these forms have died out in the country, but one can consider them to be temporarily dormant, or at least very minor in comparison to the shape anti-Semitism is now taking. A neo-anti-Semitism has appeared which offers a system of legitimation that is different from the earlier forms of anti-Semitism. The course will explore these transformations, trying to highlight the French specificity of a worldwide phenomenon, focusing also on the discourses and on the interpretations on the intellectual stage and within the academic field. 7. Introduction au droit & grands enjeux du monde contemporain Maud WOITIER Ce cours a pour objectif d'appréhender et de connaitre les spécificités du droit français. Les principes fondateurs du droit français sont étudiés, ainsi que l'évolution connue par la jurisprudence. Le droit français est également vu à travers l'influence du droit bien européen et du droit international. L'objectif de ce cours est de faire connaître les règles principales prédominant le droit français pour permettre, par la suite, de mieux maîtriser les différentes branches juridiques 8. Une Histoire Politique de la France 1815-1940 Philippe PIVIDORI De 1815 à 1848, les monarchies constitutionnelles voient s’affronter idées révolutionnaires et souverains conservateurs. La seconde tentative d’une République ne parvient à être ni démocratique ni libérale et le retour de la France impériale apparaît comme le dernière expression d’un régime autoritaire, pourtant devenu libéral à la fin de son existence. Jusqu’à la fin du XIXe siècle, l’installation de la République ne se fait pas sans heurts, avec la multiplication de crises dues aux difficultés économiques et aux oppositions politiques. Le parti radical prend alors le pouvoir et vise une démocratie libérale, anticléricale et soutenue par les classes moyennes. Si la Première Guerre mondiale a consolidé la République, les années vingt ne sont pas « folles » pour tous, et les clivages politiques s’accentuent pour éclater au grand jour dans les années trente. L’objectif du cours est d’appréhender un XIXe siècle mal connu des étudiants, et pourtant nécessaire à la compréhension de la première moitié du XXe 9. Fighting guerrillas: the history of British and French counter-insurgencies, 1919-1962 Steven O’CONNOR In the aftermath of the First World War the British and French empires reached the height of their territorial extent, covering large parts of Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Yet simultaneously these empires came under pressure leading, within 50 years, to their disappearance. The spread of ideas of national self-determination and communism undermined the legitimacy of imperial states. In many colonies small bands of guerrillas rebelled against the state and were increasingly successful in gaining the support – passive or active – of the local population. Committed to keeping their colonies, Britain and France used considerable military and economic resources in their attempts to defeat the insurgents. This course will focus on three case studies, Ireland, Kenya and Algeria, in order to judge the effectiveness of modern counter-insurgency campaigns. In the Irish War of Independence (1919-1921), Britain was forced to make significant concessions to the Irish republican movement. By contrast, the Kenyan Emergency (1952-1958) represented a British victory over its Mau Mau adversary. The Algerian War (1954-1962), the longest and most costly of the three conflicts, ended with a French withdrawal and Algerian independence. Why did two counter-insurgencies fail and one succeed? During the course we will

examine the causes, course and consequences of these colonial wars. Each one had its own particular strategic, political, economic and social conditions. Yet by using a comparative approach we will identify certain parallels and common themes. In order to deepen our understanding of counter-insurgency we will also compare our case studies with a variety of secondary examples, such as the Philippine–American War, the Boer War, Indochina and Malaya. The various elements of counter-insurgency strategy, such as collective punishment, forced resettlement and ‘hearts and minds’ will be evaluated. We will address current debates on whether the British approach was more restrained than that of other colonial powers, on the use of torture and on whether the military applied lessons learnt from one counter-insurgency to the next. In examining these issues we will use government records, memoirs, oral history interviews and newsreel footage. Presentations, written work and class discussions will help the students to deepen their knowledge of the subject and improve their analytical and communication skills. 10. European Union Law (Major) Vanessa BARBE

In 2017, the European Union celebrates the 60th anniversary of the signature of the Treaty of Rome, while the UK notifies its intention to exit the Union. This is a huge challenge for all the Member States and for the idea of a united Europe. In this course, the students will get the basic knowledge to understand the main legal issues of the European integration. They will study the history of the united Europe, the development of the political and legal cooperation, the structure of the European institutional system and the main policies of the European Union (especially Competition, Free movement, Agriculture and Fisheries, Environment, Human Rights). 11. The Quest for Democracy (Major) Adrian Park This course will attempt to look at various definitions of democracy in history before looking at the specific case of the emergence of democracy in the United Kingdom. We will begin by examining one of the most famous documents in British history — the Magna Carta ("the great charter of liberties"). We will see how this 13th century contract pre-empted the American cry of "No taxation without representation" in the 18th Century. We will then move on to see how the English parliament developed concentrating on the changing relationship between King and Commons. This will take us to the birth of political parties and the eventual enfranchising of all men and women by the 20th century. However, the course will not accept that democracy was by any means an inevitability or that it has actually arrived in all its fullness. 12.Citizenship and Migration in Europe: Contemporary Debates and Trends Emilien FARGUES Citizenship is an ambiguous concept that can be given different meanings. When it is used in the context of migration, it may refer to the range of rights that citizens enjoy, to the legal membership of a state, and it can even be conceived as the expression of a national identity. Since the 1980s, citizenship has gained new visibility in the public debates and policies of European states, and various social actors (political parties, associations) have often disagreed about the different meanings or dimensions of the concept. Citizenship policies are more and more concerned with the ‘integration’ of migrants and they have been developed both at the national level and at the supranational level, all the more so since the institutionalisation of the European citizenship through the Maastricht Treaty in 1992. Over the last thirty years, a growing literature has explored the institutional changes that have been brought to citizenship (Hansen and Weil, 1999; Howard, 2009; Joppke, 2010) as well as engaging with the normative issues which have been raised by its return to the public sphere (Kymlicka

and Norman, 1994; Kostakopoulou, 2010). The purpose of this course is to provide an insight into the contemporary sociological and theoretical debates that deal with citizenship policies in the context of migration. These include, but are not limited to: the ‘devaluation’ of citizenship in a post-national world where the granting of rights is being disconnected from the possession of citizenship; the liberalisation of citizenship policies through the progressive institutionalisation of mixed legal regimes based on jus soli and jus sanguinis; the commodification of citizenship with the development of a market around civic and language tests for naturalisation applications; also the renewed use of citizenship as an instrument to address security issues such as ‘terrorism’ with the revival of citizenship deprivation. The course will explore these issues through a review and discussion of key scientific contributions to the field of citizenship studies which has developed at the nexus of different disciplines over the past thirty years. Citizenship studies provide a good example of how specific research perspectives in political science (public policy analysis, political sociology, political theory) may treat the same object in different ways and how they can sometimes be articulated together in interdisciplinary contributions. Beyond discussing citizenship, the course will then be an opportunity to address more general concerns in political science research (how do we assess change, how do we build a comparative framework, how do we investigate on institutions, how can we combine theory and empirical research…). The focus of the course will be placed on Western Europe, even though the discussion will sometimes extend to other regions, such as North America. 13. E.U. Public Diplomacy Xavier CARPENTIER-TANGUY Even super-powers have to share the world stage with a growing cast of states and non-states actors, all with influence enhanced by new information and communication technologies. The purpose of this course is first to develop attention to public diplomacy and, secondly, to think how Public diplomacy could be seen as various ways of increasing connections among people for two (or multiple) ways communications in order to shape perceptions and to change people's mind. Seen from China, Australia or USA, Europe seems to be a unique political structure with an elaborated decision-making's chain. Yet, seen from the EU, the perception is quite different. EU as a multi-level political object, with different scales of states (from Malta or Luxembourg to Germany), has a quite unique position to disseminate several stories involving joint goals for rallying the world to its norms and values. The EU public diplomacy should consequently be designed for its own area as for the external area. The course will raise questions regarding a common army (hard power), culture (soft power) or other components of the European way or leadership in the world 14. The European Union and Africa Bastien NIVET This course intends to provide 2nd year students of the Europe-Afrique programme with an overview of EU-Africa relations, in all their dimensions. The main pedagogical ambition of the lectures is to grant students with a multidisciplinary and cross-thematic knowledge on the EU using EU-Africa as a viewpoint. The lectures present the necessary knowledge and tools for students to develop their own understanding and reflections regarding the different interactions, mutual perceptions, challenges, actors and levels of EU-Africa relations in a context of

globalization. A first part of the lecture covers thematic issues, ranging from development to political or diplomatic and security issues. It insists on the shifting nature and content of EU-Africa relations, not least under the pressure from the international environment. A second part of the lecture, allows to go further by adopting transversal problematics of EU-Africa relations such as regionalization and the analysis of three case studies chosen for the complementary perspective they offer: Mali, Southern Africa and Northern Africa. In the end, EU-Africa relations are analysed as a process of interactions and mutual co-construction of two sets of actors in globalization. The teaching is conceived and delivered as a lecture, but questions and inputs from students is highly encouraged. 15. East in the West, a History of Arab Politics and Culture in Europe Coline HOUSSAIS This course traces back the arrival and integration in France of populations from the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean. More than others, France’s identity was profoundly shaped by constant dialogue with these populations. From the foundation of Marseille around 600 BC, through the first Arabic courses in 1669, the development of anti-colonial ideas in Paris’ Latin Quartier in the early XXth century to the peak in popularity of North African music in the late 1990s, France has continuously absorbed foreign cultures and regenerated them as its own. As such, this continuous dialogue between France and the Arab world lies very far from the asserted vision of two homogenous and irreconcilable civilizational blocks. This course is essential for students willing to understand France’s unique oriental background, whether political, economic or cultural. It also sheds a new light on questions of integration and identity, which have dominated public debate in recent years. 16. France et Antilles Emmanuelle LOYER L'enjeu intellectuel et la nouveauté historiographique de ce cours résident dans le sous-titre : une histoire transatlantique. Il ne s'agira pas tant de décrire et comprendre la mise en place du système esclavagiste des plantations puis son démantèlement avant et après 1848, que d'observer comment le monde caraïbe a constamment inter-réagi avec la métropole française, et plus globalement européenne : dans la perception de l'Autre noir, au moment de la Révolution française et dans le combat abolitionniste pour les libertés, dans le développement du capitalisme français… On proposera donc une histoire économique, sociale, politique et culturelle de va-et-vients de part et d'autre de l'Océan atlantique et sur plus de deux siècles de façonnements réciproques. 17. The War in Syria: US and European Policies Federico MANFREDI FIRMIAN The aim of this course is to understand the causes and international ramifications of the war in Syria, from the 2011 Arab Spring protests to the rise of ISIS, and from the interventions of Hezbollah, Iran, and Russia to those of the United States and its allies. After a brief introduction on the modern history of Syria and the geopolitics of the Levant, the course will refocus on policy analysis, with special attention devoted to understanding how the United States and its European allies initially responded to the crisis and how their policies evolved over the past six years. The course will thus consider conflict resolution and peace building in failed states, the risk of conflict spillover in neighboring countries, and the heightened risk of ISIS-inspired terrorism on a global scale. It will also examine the Syrian refugee crisis and the catastrophic impact of the war on the political, economic, and social life of Syria and its people.

18. Sociologie des arts et de la culture: Les Etats-Unis et la France Kaoutar HARCHI Qu’est-ce que « l’art » ? De quelles manières les pratiques artistiques se sont-elles constituées ? Dans quelles mesures les mondes des arts sont-ils des mondes sociaux ? Peut-on considérer les arts en tant qu’analyseurs des sociétés contemporaines ? Et selon quelles théories ? Quelles méthodes ? L’enseignement Sociologie des arts et de la culture, Etats-Unis-France confère aux étudiants un ensemble de connaissances sociologiques relatives à l’activité artistique et culturelle à travers les processus de production, de diffusion et de réception des œuvres. L’objectif de l’enseignement est triple. Tout d’abord, il s’agit d’approfondir les connaissances sociologiques – théories et méthodologies – des étudiants à partir d’un champ de recherche spécifique. Puis est visée la familiarisation des étudiants à l’approche scientifique, historicisante et critique des arts. Enfin, il est question de sensibiliser les étudiants au rôle majeur joué par la culture dans les transformations sociales et économiques. 19. La Guerre au XXème siècle Philippe PIVIDORI De 1815 à 1848, les monarchies constitutionnelles voient s’affronter idées révolutionnaires et souverains conservateurs. La seconde tentative d’une République ne parvient à être ni démocratique ni libérale et le retour de la France impériale apparaît comme le dernière expression d’un régime autoritaire, pourtant devenu libéral à la fin de son existence. Jusqu’à la fin du XIXe siècle, l’installation de la République ne se fait pas sans heurts, avec la multiplication de crises dues aux difficultés économiques et aux oppositions politiques. Le parti radical prend alors le pouvoir et vise une démocratie libérale, anticléricale et soutenue par les classes moyennes. Si la Première Guerre mondiale a consolidé la République, les années vingt ne sont pas « folles » pour tous, et les clivages politiques s’accentuent pour éclater au grand jour dans les années trente. L’objectif du cours est d’appréhender un XIXe siècle mal connu des étudiants, et pourtant nécessaire à la compréhension de la première moitié du XXe.

ADDITIONAL COURSES

1.Introduction aux droits et libertés fondamentaux Olivia GANDZION Ce cours d’introduction aux droits et libertés fondamentaux est l’opportunité de faire un tour d’horizon des différentes notions et problématiques touchant à cette thématique aussi riche que passionnante. La transversalité des droits et libertés fondamentaux est ici un atout indéniable. Elle nous permettra en effet de nous intéresser à diverses branches du droit national mais aussi international. La maitrise du fonctionnement des différents systèmes de protection et la bonne compréhension des différentes logiques sous-jacentes aux droits et libertés fondamentaux sont les objectifs principaux de ce cours. L’étude de textes focalisant sur l’un ou l’autre aspect du sujet abordé au cours de chaque séance viendra parfaire le processus d’acquisition des bases relatives aux droits et libertés tout en permettant à chacun de se plonger brièvement mais non moins concrètement dans cette matière. Situés à la frontière que le droit partage avec des domaines tels que la philosophie et la politique, les droits et libertés fondamentaux et leur protection occupent aujourd’hui une place centrale dans les débats juridiques et

sociétaux. Ce cours est donc l’occasion s’approprier la cartographie des droits et libertés fondamentaux, d’en saisir les enjeux et de clarifier ce qui peut sembler être, vu de l’extérieur, un insaisissable enchevêtrement de termes, de textes, de procédures et d’instances. 2. Naissance de la politique moderne Jérôme ROUDIER Les étudiants vont recevoir une introduction aux grands classiques de la littérature politique de l’Europe occidentale. Ils étudieront ainsi des thèmes classiques de pensée politique, traités par les grands auteurs de la Renaissance à la fin des Lumières. Les auteurs sur lesquels porteront les exposés seront essentiellement de langue française (La Boétie, Montesquieu, Rousseau…) mais, bien entendu, les thèmes amèneront l’étude d’autres auteurs (Machiavel, Shakespeare, Erasme, Hobbes, Kant…). L’esprit de l’enseignement consistera à privilégier la lecture directe des grands auteurs par les étudiants afin de saisir à la fois leur langue, leurs argumentations et leurs idées. Les thèmes développés (La querelle du libre-arbitre, le devoir d’obéissance, la monarchie, le conflit théologico-politique, l’éducation...) viseront à restituer, à chaque séance, une grande question de l’époque.

3.The Political Life and the Foundation of Politics Masoud SINAEIAN This course is an introduction to certain ideas on the foundation of politics and the political life in some major political and legal theorists from the last century. We begin with different possible answers to the question of ‘What is political ontology?’, and we study how different ideas on the foundation of political life can be related to processes of political legitimation. This will be discussed in comparative readings of prominent thinkers like George Sorel, Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, Hans Kelsen, Erik Voegelin, Michael Oakeshott, John Rawls, and Claude Lefort. This course will cover twelve sessions of two hours. Each session will be opened with an introductory lecture of thirty minutes by the tutor. This will be followed by class presentations and discussions in a close reading of extract texts from the mentioned thinkers, and the sessions will be concluded with tutor’s final remarks of ten to fifteen minutes. 4.Analyzing Politics Patrick LE BIHAN This course has three substantive and one methodological objective. Substantively, the course first asks whether it is possible to define what a good public policy is. We start by discussing utilitarian, egalitarian, and libertarian views on how to evaluate public policies and present the many existing trade-offs to think about when considering what public policy goals to pursue. We then discuss Arrow's theorem and show that it is not possible to define a coherent collective view over public policy goals from individual preferences without violating some fairness conditions. Attaining the general will may be illusory. Despite these shortcomings we show that it is nonetheless possible to identify public policy outcomes that are clearly undesirable in the sense that everyone could be made happier. After having discussed what a good public policy is, the course shows in a second step how strategic interactions between individuals can lead to social pathologies, that is to policy outcomes that are clearly undesirable in everyone's view. Such social pathologies are very common and provide a major opportunity for public policy interventions. Finally, the course discusses how technological, political, and institutional factors sometimes prevent good public policies from being implemented. Methodologically, the course introduces basic concepts of game theory. Game theory is mathematical language that is used to study strategic interactions that are at the core of the substantive issues discussed in the course. Almost all of life is

one of strategic interdependence, as such game theory is a very useful tool to help us understand and predict whether public policy changes will actually result in public policy improvements 5.Radical Challenges to Liberal Democracy Alexis CARRE If human relations cannot be thought to be the product of practical reason, if in other words they are seen exclusively as power relations, liberal institutions start appearing as a smokescreen hiding the true reality of the political struggle (that of classes, or that of races to take only two of the most usual examples). These opinions are not only external threats to a model that would otherwise be healthy. The challenge they constitute to the truthfulness of the system we live in is on the contrary linked to our own doubt. It is because that system has become questionable to ourselves that we are incapable, either in theory or practice, of disproving them in a decisive way. Which why it is so crucial for the defense of liberal democracy that we be taught by the ones (Marx, Marcuse, Schmitt, Heidegger etc.) who carried furthest the questioning of its legitimacy. 6. They are the 1%: A Snapshot of Sociology of Elites Today Charles BOSVIEUX-ONYEKWELU Taking its cue from philosopher David Hume’s famous statement in The First Principles of Government (“Nothing appears more surprizing to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few”) and drawing on both Weber and Bourdieu’s idea of a sociodicy of elites, the course will study the narrowing in size of those who exert social domination in today's capitalism (with a main focus on Europe and North America). It will take a deeper look into the ethos of upper classes (or upper upper classes) and describe their way of life, their habits in terms of consumption and their social networks. It will also account for the place of these dominant social groups in the field of power. Students will be asked to work on material (articles, excerpts from books or films) that help to document these issues. Accordingly, some time will be dedicated to thinking about the best sociological methods for analysing the gap between this 1 % and the rest of the population (“the 99 %”), as well as for tackling social mobilisations against it and political counter-reactions such as populism 7. Research Design & Methods (Major) Emiliano GROSSMAN Olivier GODECHOT This course is meant to provide a first general approach to enunciating and solving problems in sociology and political science. It will discuss the way in which to frame a problem, ask a good research questions and how to look for answers. This will call for some elements of the theory of science, as well as understanding the importance of theory and causality. A second block will deal with the issue of measurement in responding to problems. It will demonstrate how to develop and how to interpret indicators. Thereby, we will pay attention to levels of measurement and provide examples from opinion surveys, questionnaires and textmining. The third and largest block will provide an introduction into the interpretation and analysis of data. It will introduce to descriptive statistics, graphs, correlation and simple and multiple regression. 8. Making up Machiavelli: Foxes and Lions Marcello SIMONETTA Politics is the realm of appearances, the place for making up ideas and identities, the theatre of dissimulation, where truth is subjected to power and power is mingled with

lies. Machiavelli is the master-mind of the political game. The famous maxim: “the end justifies the means” is attributed to him, even though he never put it on paper. At a closer look, Messer Niccolò appears to be less ruthless than he is usually portrayed. His life raises the issues of morality in politics. After serving as a Chancellor for the Republican government, he tried to gain favor under the princely Medici returned from exile to Florence. On a comparative level, this course will also take a glimpse to the works of his more successful friends Guicciardini and Vettori, and analyze the multifarious, high and low-brow reactions to the 500-year-old Prince, one of the most influential works of political theory and practice ever written.