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Séminaire : Questions spéciales relatives à l’intégration européenne Christian Franck
Divers thèmes : partis politiques européens, élections européennes, clivages et votes au
Parlement européen ; politiques européennes des Etats et européanisation des systèmes
nationaux ; rapports avec les partenaires stratégiques et action multilatérales.
Seminar on Region Building. The Global Proliferation of Regional Integration
Ludger Kühnhardt
Across the world, region building has become a new trend in the shaping of the
international order. The course studies its preconditions and its consequences,
its obstacles and its potential. It emphasises comparative reflections of European
integration yet recognises the genuine nature of region building elsewhere in the world.
Contemporary Issues in IR: Russian Domestic Politics and External Relations
(lecture and seminar) Gerhard Mangott
The course deals with Russia’s protracted democratisation, the main features of Russia’s
polity, the intermediary level of party activity and the anarchical decentralisation of
political power during the Yeltsin era. The socioeconomic and socio-demographic
features of post-Soviet Russia, its recriminated privatisation schemes and the role of
the oligarchs are discussed, as well as Putin’s concept of ‘controlled democracy’ and
its impact on human rights, opposition parties and NGO’s. The course continues by
debating the rationale and major features of Medvedev’s presidency. The next section
addresses Putin’s return to the Russian presidency and its encompassing features:
an erosion of stability and the re-vitalisation of the public sphere ushering in mass
demonstrations and civil protest. Russia’s international role is also addressed with
particular attention paid to Russia’s energy policies. The seminar provides more detailed
analysis of the course’s topics.
Seminar on US Foreign Policy Michael Jasinski
The course discusses the dominant theoretical models of US foreign policy, the aims
and motives of their proponents, and the combination of international and domestic
influences on the policymaking process. The aim of the course is also to highlight the
differences between US and European determinants of foreign policymaking.
Seminar on Ethnic Conflict Stuart Kaufman
This course focuses on three sets of questions. First, what is the nature of ethnicity and
ethnic conflict? Second, why do these conflicts sometimes escalate into brutal wars and
genocides? Third, what are the options for managing or resolving these conflicts, and
how effective are they?
Seminar on Terrorism Michael Jasinski
The course establishes a theoretical framework for the study of terrorism by evaluating
the competing theories of the phenomenon, provides a comparative study of the
relative effectiveness of national counter-terrorism strategies and political reasons
for their adoption, and concludes with a series of major contemporary terrorism case
studies.