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Exchange Program Spring 2018 Course Catalogue
Program Regulations
We are very pleased to welcome you in our Exchange Program for Spring 2018 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 must validate:
- two core common exchange program courses (one in the chosen certificate + one on French civilization1)
- two courses listed in the chosen certificate2,
- one French language course (C1 French level students must take an academic course taught in French),
- an additional course (regardless of which certificate it pertains to)
- the orientation week (beginning January, 19th 2018)
- a minimum of 30 credits.
You may opt out of a certificate, choosing instead to mix and match courses as you please (max. 37 credits) !
All courses listed in this catalogue are offered to exchange students and count for 5 ECTS credits.
Sport courses (2 credits) will be offered to exchange students in January.
DON’T TAKE MORE THAN ONE MAJOR and ONE SEMINAR per semester (maximum)
1 The language of your French civilization class will depend on your French level. If you are registered in B1.2 French class (and above), you will have to take
your French civilization class taught in French.
2 The courses taught in French are opened to exchange students if they have a minimum of B2 level in French.
1Program Regulations 1
Orientation Week 7
French Civilization 8
Title: Be(com)ing French: civilization, style and # 8
Title: La Société française expliquée par le Droit 9
Certificates 10
Title: The Age of Economist 10
Title: Evolutions of Armed Confrontations and Security Risks 11
Title: Europe in the World 11
Title: Making Sense of Political Speeches 12
International Affairs & Strategy 13
Title: War, Peace and World Orders from Antiquity to the Present 13
Title: International Law and its Special Regimes 13
Title: The Changing Practices of Contemporary Diplomacy 14
Title: Dilemmas of a Nuclear-Armed World 14
Title: Overcoming the Marxism vs Capitalism Dilemma: The Case for Sustainable Development, Consumption, and CSR 15
Title: Geopolitics of Energy 16
Title: City Diplomacy 16
Title: Human Rights as a Response to Global Challenges: One-size-fits-all? 17
Title: New Wars, New Laws? Use of Force and the Conduct of Hostilities in the 21st Century 17
Title: Introduction à l'Islam : religion et civilisation 18
Title: “The Dream Factory”: Eléments d’analyse culturaliste du cinéma hollywoodien 18
2Title: Middle Eastern Cinema: War, Conflict, and Aesthetics 19
Title: The Changing Role of Non-State Actors in International Affairs 19
Title: Strategies of Influence 20
Title: International Arbitration: Theory and Practice in a Globalized World 20
Title: Islamized Constitutions and Human Rights 21
Title: Comprendre la géopolitique la géopolitique : guerre et politique dans un village planétaire 22
Title: Gouvernement et démocratie entre les nations, l'Europe et le monde 23
Title: The Law and Policy of the World Trade Organization 24
Title: The Idea of Equality in the United States from Thomas Paine to Thomas Piketty 24
Title: Introduction to Development Economics 25
Title: Contemporary Sub Saharan African Cinema 26
Title: Education in Africa: Rituals, 3R, Higher Education 26
Title: Energy, climate and geopolitics - contemporary challenges 27
Title: L’Afrique des sports, enjeux politiques et géopolitique 27
Title: Traite Européenne, esclavage et abolitions. De l’histoire à la mémoire 28
Title: An Interdisciplinary Introduction to Laws in Sub-Saharan Africa 28
Title: Britain and the United States - The Special Relationship: Myth or Reality? 29
Title: Anthropology of French and American Laws 30
Title: Immigration Law & Policy: A Transatlantic Perspective 30
Title: Russia as International Actor 31
Title: Histoire politique du Maghreb 32
Title: Sociologie du travail et mondialisation 32
Title: Habiter en ville au 21ème siècle 33
Title: Europe in the World 34
Title: Law and Gender 35
3Journalism & Communication 36
Title: Elections and Political Representation: A Comparative Approach 36
Title: Le pouvoir de l’image façonne t-il notre vision du monde 36
Title: Media Relations in the Business World 37
Title: Ecrire une critique littéraire 37
Title: Les lieux de pouvoir dans la politique française 38
Title: Strategies of Influence 39
Title: Political Communication in the Age of “Fake New” 39
Title: Literary Translation in practice 40
Business & Economics 41
Title: Monetary Economics 41
Title: Intermediate Microeconomics 41
Title: Comparative Political Economy in the Welfare 42
Title: Economics of Poverty and Income Inequality 42
Title: Economics of Education 43
Title: How to live sustainably in an era of energy overconsumption? 43
Title: The Business of Wine, Champagne and Luxe Marketing 44
Title: Introduction to Finance 44
Title: Corporate Finance 45
Title: Financial Crisis, Regulation and Growth - a Historical Perspective 45
Title: An Interdisciplinary Introduction to Laws in Sub-Saharan Africa 46
Title: Statistics applied to social sciences – Introductory level 47
Title: Statistics applied to social sciences – Intermediate/Advanced level 47
Title: Calculus III 47
4Title: Introduction to Econometrics 48
European Affairs 49
Title: Social Inequalities in Europe 49
Title: The E.U. and the National Political Systems 50
Title: Le système judiciaire français : organisation, intégration et spécificité au sein de l’appareil de l’Etat 51
Title: La littérature française contemporaine: quelle politique? 52
Title: Britishness and Womanhood 52
Title: British Social and Political History 1945 to the Present Day 53
Title: Britain and the United States - The Special Relationship: Myth or Reality? 54
Title: Entre texte et représentation : l'histoire du théâtre français du 17e siècle à nos jours 54
Title: Les lieux de pouvoir dans la politique française 55
Title: National Stereotypes and Identity Building: Central Europe and the Balkans in Comparative Perspective 55
Title: Une histoire politique de l'Europe (1848-1939) 56
Title: The Three faces of Action in Greek Thought: Idea, History, Drama 57
Title: Histoire de la République 57
Title: Histoire de la gauche dans la France contemporaine 58
Title: Histoire de la droite dans la France contemporaine 58
Title: Introduction à l'histoire du cinéma français (1895-1995) : inventions, passions et exceptions 59
Title: The Birth of Humanitarian Consciousness in 19th-century Britain 59
Title: Representing Alterity: Postcolonial French Cinema 60
Title: Gouvernement et démocratie entre les nations, l'Europe et le monde 60
Title: Anthropology of French and American Laws 61
5Additional Courses 62
Title: Introduction to Organizational behavior 62
Title: Conception de la justice sociale 62
Title: Le droit de punir: comment penser une justice sans violence? 63
Title: Abécédaire du pouvoir 64
Title: Gothic Mysteries 64
Title: Aux origines de la French Theory 65
Title: The Philosophy of Multiculturalism 65
Title: L’Art au musée (XIXe-XXIe siècle) 66
Title: Contemporary Issues in Corporate Law and Governance 66
Title: Politique et société dans l’Antiquité 67
Title: Le théâtre à l’âge baroque: théories politiques des représentations 67
Title: Introduction à l’analyse du cinéma : formes, théories et critiques 68
Title: Islamized Constitutions and Human Rights 69
Title: Corporate Finance 70
French Language Courses 71
6Orientation Week
7French Civilization
Title: Be(com)ing French: civilization, style and #
Language: English
Course Format: Core Common
Professor: Julie SAGE
What has made France the country it is today?
59571 5 credits
To answer this question in all its complexity, we will undertake a historical and thematic approach to understand
the major events, identity debates and social questions that have faced French politicians, writers, and citizens over
the past century. The seminar will be structured as an inventory covering the most significant contemporary issues
that the “French civilization” is confronted with today. We will consult historical sources (speeches, declarations and
manifestos), literature (novels, correspondence and eyes-witness accounts) and cultural documents (newspapers
articles, documentaries, films, songs) to understand the varying perspectives and arguments that have shaped
France’s culture and identity throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.
Through both primary and secondary readings and a wide range of visual sources, we will learn about not only
the important events in 20th century France but also about the many interpretations and arguments that have
attempted to explain them. We will engage with a broad range of methodologies by looking at visual archives and
photographs, by reading all kinds of cultural documents and literary sources and by watching both documentary and
fictional films. We will gain a deeper understanding of the identity debates surrounding different kinds of readings and
what we can glean from each approach.
8Title: La Société française expliquée par le Droit
Language: French
Course Format: Core Common
Professor: Maud Woitier
5 credits
Le droit est omniprésent dans la vie tant quotidienne que la vie institutionnelle. A travers des exemples concrets, ce
58984
cours a pour objectif d’expliquer ces diverses règles de droit, mais également de permettre de mieux comprendre la
société française.
9Certificates
Title: The Age of Economist
Language: English
Course Format: Core Common – Business & Economics
Professor: David DUHAMEL
“The age of chivalry is gone… now is the age of economists; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.”
(Burke, 1790).
The course is an overview of how economic thought has risen over the centuries, and how, since WWII, it has
56618 influenced neighboring disciplines such as Political Philosophy, Common Law, Political Science, Sociology and 5 credits
Psychology.
Globalization, free trade, growth and its possible end, the crisis, inequalities… all those subjects will be studied.
From Gilgamesh and Aristotle to Neuroeconomics and High Frequency Trading, from Tolkien’s Sauron to Martin’s
Littlefinger, this course aims to contextualize contemporary debates and underline how economics’ “way of thinking”
is now one of, if not The, dominant scheme in our lives, whether it is at individual, societal or planetary levels.
As Keynes wrote: “The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they
are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men,
who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct
economist.”
Better be a self-aware economist than the slave of a dead one.
10Title: Evolutions of Armed Confrontations and Security Risks
Language: English
Course Format: Core Common – International Affairs & Strategy
Professor: François DELERUE
This course offers an introduction to various approaches on the study of international security and conflicts. After a
58982 5 credits
brief historical introduction, the course mainly focuses on conflicts or assimilated situations that occurred or are
occurring since the fall of the Berlin Wall. In that sense, the objective is to analyse the evolution of conflicts in the
recent time as well as of the means and methods of warfare, notably the increasing recourse to new technologies
(space communications and imagery; cyberspace; drones and robots; etc.) in the conduct of hostilities. The course
studies new trends and issues affecting international security and conflicts such as international terrorism, proxy
warfare as well as hybrid warfare. Finally, the course also analyses the norms of international law regulating the
recourse to force and the conduct of hostilities with a specific focus on state practice and state discourse on
international law in their international relations.
Title: Europe in the World
Language: English
Course Format: Elective
Professor: Benedikt ERFORTH
The European Union, home to more than 500 million people, is a significant player in the international system.
59682 Together, the 28 (soon 27?) European Member States account for an estimated 30 per-cent of global wealth and are
the world’s first exporter of goods and services. As a civil power, Europe is also the world’s largest donor of 5 credits
development assistance and has developed a diplomatic service that maintains a network of more than 139
delegations around the world. While there is no denying that Europe matters on the international scene, the
European Union also remains a divided actor, with its Member States pursuing agendas of their own and even acting
in open contradiction to one another and the Union’s common agenda.
These discrepancies invite us to question the different actors, structures, and processes that account for European
action abroad. We will begin by defining this unique political entity on the international scene. After a brief overview
of the different institutions that make and shape European foreign policy, we will then delve into the various policy
11areas that fall in the realm of European external action. We will question Europe’s trade, aid, and neighborhood
policies and put particular emphasis on Europe’s changing role as a security actor in the world. Throughout the
course, you will acquire a combination of theoretical knowledge and practical skills in the context of European policy-
making.
Title: Making Sense of Political Speeches
Language: English
Course Format: Core Common – Journalism & Communication
Professor: Alexandre KOUCHNER
Great speeches echo through history. Good speeches can win an election. Regular speeches are glorified shopping
58972 5 credits
lists … The difference between them is a subtle alchemy of message, medium, context and public. By analyzing
some of history’s greatest speeches, this class will try to make sense of political speeches both through the literary
and medium approaches.
Words are the main political means. There is no politics without speech. But how these words are perceived is also
influenced by the medium used. Taking into account Regis Debray’s « mediologie » and Marshall McLuhan’s works,
this class will also consider the impact of media evolution in the making of political speeches.
By focusing on political speeches though their themes, context and media, this class will touch on political rhetoric,
media training and public speaking coaching.
12International Affairs & Strategy
Title: War, Peace and World Orders from Antiquity to the Present
Language: English
Course Format: Major
Professor: Beatrice HEUSER
58461 This module examines patterns of and ideas about “international” relations from before nations and states in a 5 credits
modern sense existed, until the present. It focuses mainly on the genealogy of
related ideas in Europe and “the West”. It traces them from the Greek city states with their rivalries, alliances and
early balance-of- power behavior, and Rome with its pretence to universal domination, to the United Nations which at
once were formed to establish a world order, and to protect the sovereignty of its member states, and the European
Union. The latter can only be understood properly against the background of the historic models of Pax Romana,
Res Publica Christiana and Holy Roman Empire. Alongside these, Balance-of- power strategies and the pursuit of
sovereignty have haunted European politics from the Middle Ages until the Brexit vote; instead of enhancing security,
they were a war driver.
Title: International Law and its Special Regimes
Language: English
Course Format: Major
Professor: Jean D’ASPREMONT
58463 This course aims at introducing students to all the special areas of international law, including international human 5 credits
rights law, international humanitarian law, international environmental law, international investment law, etc. In doing
so, it will provide students who are already familiar with the general principles of international law with advanced
knowledge about the rules applicable to those special areas regulated by international law as well as the way they
are interpreted in practice. In doing so, this course will introduce students to the variety of ways in which these
special regimes interact with one another as well as the mechanisms of resolution of conflicts between regimes. This
course will simultaneously offer an opportunity to reflect upon the systematicity of international law as a whole and
the extent to which it could constitutes a ‘system’. For each session, students will be expected to make preliminary
readings.
13Title: The Changing Practices of Contemporary Diplomacy
Language: English
Course Format: Seminar
Professor: Christian LEQUESNE
55189 The objective of this course is to show the students how diplomacy, as a specific social activity, is working in 2017. 5 credits
The course will consider diplomacy as an activity still conducted by States in an international system where they are
co-actors with others (non-State actors, subnational governments, supranational institutions).
The course will be divided into three parts
Part 1 (lectures 1 to 4) will present the main actors of contemporary diplomacy.
Part 2 (lectures to 5 to 8) will concentrate on the art of diplomatic negotiations, both bilateral and multilateral.
Part 3 (lectures 9 to 12) will consider the management of diplomacy in specific issue areas.
Title: Dilemmas of a Nuclear-Armed World
Language: English
Course Format: Seminar
Professor: Benoît PELOPIDAS
58773 This seminar explores the impact of nuclear weapons on the world we live in. It will allow students to better 5 credits
understand policy issues such as the Iranian and North Korean crises, the problems of democratic control of the
power to use nuclear weapons, investments in nuclear weapons “modernization” worldwide and the new nuclear
arms race. It addresses security issues but goes beyond them to address ethical and historical issues. It investigates
nuclear weapons as techno-political objects which create new dilemmas for people living under their shadow: the
“dilemmas of a nuclear-armed world”. By doing so, it allows students interested in international relations, history as
well as sociology of science and technology to include the nuclear weapons factor in their thinking without limiting it
to security issues and to get a better grasp of the historicity of those dilemmas. This seminar will be divided in three
parts described below. The first part questions the notion of “dilemmas of a nuclear-armed world” itself (it introduces
students to nuclear weapons technologies and questions the existence of such dilemmas in contrast to the
normalization of nuclear weapons in the world), the second one focuses on a series of fundamental dilemmas (the
fear dilemma, the value dilemma and democracies’ nuclear dilemma) and the third one focuses on a set of situated
dilemmas. In other words, it investigates the dilemmas created by the presence of nuclear weapons in the world from
14the point of view of different roles and positions in a given society: the civilian citizen, t he member of the military, the
nuclear scientist and engineer, the public intellectual. It builds on the extensive and ongoing research of the instructor
as well as his experience of the politics of nuclear weapons with policymaking elites and civil society.
Title: Overcoming the Marxism vs Capitalism Dilemma: The Case for Sustainable Development,
Consumption, and CSR
Language: English
Course Format: Seminar
Professor: Elisabeth CHAILLET-LEFORESTIER
58484 Sustainable development and consumption, the role that private and public enterprise plays in society have long 5 credits
constituted important topics in philosophy and theology as well as the natural and social sciences. Long before Milton
Friedman’s oft-cited 1970 New York times Magazine piece that contented “The Social Responsibility of business is to
increase its profits”, penned as response to the current discourse on the role of business in society, the question of
the shareholder-centric versus stakeholder-centric perspectives has antecedents in the political economy discourse
and in discussions of the nature of the firm. Fundamental questions in this line of inquiry include discussion of why
firms exist and the rights and responsibilities that private/private organizations and public governments have. Those
questions take on importance in the light of reactions that surrounded the collapse of Soviet Union and most recently
the COP-Summit series. The most widely agreed upon definition “development that meets the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of the future generations to meet their own needs” (1) includes the three main pillars
of economic growth, environmental protection and social equality. Recognizing the inherent tradeoffs and issues in
operationalizing the definition, the course will present a review of different aspects of the pillars, their own historical
frameworks, concrete contents and their interactions and trends. On completing the lecture, we will explore the
interaction-mechanisms between sustainable development, CSR and innovation, taking consideration the core
insights from the most recent European and American research.
15Title: Geopolitics of Energy
Language: English
Course Format: Elective
Professor: Federico MANFREDI
57079 The aim of this course is to explain the connections between energy, global markets, and international politics. How 5 credits
much energy do the world’s largest economies consume? Do these economies have domestic sources or not? How
can governments influence energy supply and demand? We will consider competing interests, ideology and conflict,
as well as the role of multinational energy conglomerates and international organizations. We will also examine the
impact of the shale gas and tight oil revolutions, as well as the growing importance of renewable energy. Students
will learn to analyze energy policies in light of domestic and foreign policy interests; and how to track trends in energy
production and consumption, in order to anticipate new patterns and structural shifts in global markets.
Title: City Diplomacy
Language: English
Course Format: Elective
Professor: Lorenzo KIHLGREN GRANDI
56724 People, ideas, money, goods and services circulate in a global network whose hotspots are represented by cities. 5 credits
Across today's highly globalized world, cities are the undisputed cradles of innovation, research, creativity, wealth
and entrepreneurship, while being on the frontline of substantial economic, social and cultural challenges. Ov er the
last few decades, a growing number of diverse municipalities from all over the world have consequently risen as key
actors of international relations. From economic, cultural and scientific cooperation to sustainable development and
humanitarian assistance, cities - and their transnational networks - have been deploying informal and flexible, yet
effective tools of diplomacy. The course will provide students with an in-depth understanding of city diplomacy’s
scope and ongoing challenges through the analysis of its features and goals, with a focus on a selection of case
studies.
16Title: Human Rights as a Response to Global Challenges: One-size-fits-all?
Language: English
Course Format: Elective
Professor: Stavros PANTAZOPOULOS 5 credits
Group 1
58291 The human rights discourse is increasingly used by a variety of actors in the international arena. This course
examines human rights’ potential to provide adequate responses to global challenges, ranging from the protection of
refugees, to climate change, to the so-called ‘global war on terror’. Having identified the promises and limits of
Group 2 human rights in addressing these global challenges, this course will question the role of human rights as the
58294 contemporary lingua franca. Can this seemingly universal discourse accommodate alternative understandings of
specific rights? If we make a step back, what does it mean to articulate claims using the human rights vocabulary?
What is the impact on other vocabularies claiming a potential for emancipation?
Title: New Wars, New Laws? Use of Force and the Conduct of Hostilities in the 21st Century
Language: English
Course Format: Elective
Professor: Stavros PANTAZOPOULOS
5 credits
58297 The character of war is gradually transforming, as the distinctions between war, organized crime and large-scale
violations of human rights are becoming blurred. The emergence of ransnational terrorism exercises pressures to the
traditional framework regulating war. Arguments justifying the scope of permissible uses of force have been
advanced as a response, even though such an expansive reading might lead to the legitimisation of increasing resort
to violence. Moreover, the ‘global war on terrorism’, whose battlefield could be territorially unlimited, threatens to
collapse the foundational distinction between fighters and civilians. This course examines the existing legal
framework regulating the resort to force and the conduct of hostilities, identifying at the same time the challenges
posed by the evolution of new wars. The course moves on to question the adequacy of the current legal framework
to address these challenges and asks whether the international community is in need of new laws.
17Title: Introduction à l'Islam : religion et civilisation
Language: French
Course Format: Elective
Professor: Ruth GROSRICHARD
53860 Ce cours n’a pas pour objectif de traiter de toutes les questions relatives à l’islam et au monde musulman des 5 credits
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.
Title: “The Dream Factory”: Eléments d’analyse culturaliste du cinéma hollywoodien
Language: French
Course Format: Elective
Professor: Sébastien HUBIER
Les studios californiens ont élaboré une puissante industrie dont l’efficacité économique et idéologique ne s’est
58343 jamais affaiblie. Hollywood reste le modèle pour les cinéastes du monde entier ; aussi bien pour ceux qui tentent de 5 credits
le copier que pour ceux qui s’y opposent. Comment expliquer ce succès ? D’abord, le cinéma hollywoodien est fondé
sur des hiérarchies budgétaires très strictes et il repose sur un star system qui assure sa propre promotion. Ensuite,
il est parfaitement compartimenté en genres qui, standardisés, assurent le plaisir de ses spectateurs. Outre le fait
que ce cinéma de genre (exploitation film) recoupe quantité d’hypogenres, il apparaît bel et bien comme une usine,
certes, mais une « usine à rêves ». Ainsi, son organisation économique spécifique s’accompagne de schèmes
idéologiques et psychologiques qu’il conviendra de dégager dans la perspective des cultural studies.
18Title: Middle Eastern Cinema: War, Conflict, and Aesthetics
Language: English
Course Format: Elective
Professor: Diana GONZALEZ-DUCLERT
58696 War, violent conflicts and socio-political oppression are challenges in the Middle East region. Contemporary Middle 5 credits
Eastern cinema reflects the social, political and cultural conflicts in the region, while revealing the revolutionary spirit
of its filmmakers. This course uses film and its aesthetics as a means to define themes of war and socio-political
conflict in the Middle East, by concentrating on: religious fundamentalism, civil war, territory, cultural identity, trauma,
national memory, gender, traditionalism vs. modernism and ethnic violence within both historical and present political
contexts. Filmmakers will include: Chahine, Doueiri, Gitai, Folman, Maoz, Khleifi, Abu Assad, Güney, Ceylan,
Kiarostami and Farhadi, concentrating on Egypt, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Turkey and Iran.
Title: The Changing Role of Non-State Actors in International Affairs
Language: English
Course Format: Elective
Professor: Nicholas DUNGAN
54052 “Non-State Actors” is a highly interactive elective seminar course. Non-state actors represent an oft-neglected 5 credits
category in international relations studies. After surveying the history of non-state actors, the course reviews, inter
alia, international government organizations, political parties, global cities, non-governmental organizations,
multinational firms, terrorist groups, media and moguls, actors from religion, culture and sport. The course evaluates
the interplay of these actors with states and with each other, then assesses the future impact of non-state actors. The
course builds on a project initiated by Nicholas Dungan between Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International
Affairs in London, and Egmont, the Belgian Royal Institute for International Relations in Brussels.
19Title: Strategies of Influence
Language: English
Course Format: Elective
Professor: Nicholas DUNGAN
“Strategies of Influence” is a highly interactive elective seminar course encouraging maximum student participation
and leadership. Grounded in the concept of πρᾶξις (praxis: learning by doing, education for use), the course explores
the nature of influence, legitimate and non-coercive methods of influence and different ways of exercising that
55209 influence. Ranging from the academic and philosophical to the practical and personal, the course considers forms, 5 credits
methods and networks of influence, weighs questions related to messaging, visibility and the power of example, as
well as offering 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.
Title: International Arbitration: Theory and Practice in a Globalized World
Language: English
Course Format: Elective
Professor: Mohamed ABDELSALAM
58699 Once people began to live and trade together, various forms of adjudication emerged for resolving the disputes which 5 credits
arose among them. In recent years, arbitration has grown to become the major dispute settlement mechanism
because of its specific features, including its confidential nature.
This course provides an introduction to the theory and practice of international arbitration as a dispute settlement
mechanism that is mainly used in state-to-business and in business-to-business relationships. The course is
intended to introduce students to both the theoretical aspects surrounding international arbitration and to insights on
issues of the practice of arbitration.
The classes are intended to have a global focus, but also with the objective that students acquire a reasonable
overview of how international arbitration operates in different jurisdictions, such as in the Middle East.
The course will be divided into several parts. Part I of the course will include an examination of the principles of
international arbitration, arbitral institutions, arbitration proceedings, arbitration agreements, arbitration practice in
different parts of the world and the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Awards. Part II will highlight the business
strategies that lie behind arbitration proceedings. And finally, Part III will discuss the role of arbitration as a source of
20regulation in a globalized world.
Each class will include three elements: a presentation of the material by the teacher, a students’ presentation of a
pre-assigned topic, and practical exercises (for example: simulations of arbitration hearings).
Title: Islamized Constitutions and Human Rights
Language: English
Course Format: Elective
Professor: Mohamed ABDELSALAM
58700 Many Islamic Countries’ constitutions adopt clauses which implement supremacy of the Islamic Sharia Law. This 5 credits
course will provide an overview of different Islamized constitutions and cover the differences and similarities between
different countries which adopted the Sharia guarantee clause in their constitutions and its relationship with the
practice of Human Rights.
This course will examine Islamized constitutions and Human rights from three different perspectives. First, from an
Islamic law perspective, it will go through Islamic law and human rights in Islam. Second from a legal perspective, it
will describe the legal framework, and legal practice of human rights under Islamized constitutions. Finally, it will
highlight the judicial adjudication on the international human rights within an islamized constitution, based on the
teacher’s experience as a Judge.
For such purpose, the course will expound on the following issues: Where the Sharia supremacy clause originated.
Why and how did it become a part of the constitution? How it is having an impact on the legal system? How it is
affecting the practice of International Human Rights? Are the rights granted under sharia contradictory to the rights
stipulated in international treaties? what are the main differences between the Sharia Guarantee clauses wording
within different constitutions and the consequences of these differences? All of these questions would be answered
and discussed within a critical comparative overview of different countries, with insights on the judicial adjudication
applying International Human rights treaties within an Islamized constitution.
While following the legal developments in different Islamic Countries, the course aims at offering the necessary tools
to understand the historical background, current events and debates in a critical frame. Finally, the significance of
this topic raised in the International community due to the international engagement in the constitution making
process in some Islamic countries such as Afghanistan and Iraq where there were different international stakeholders
21involved in the process.
Each class will include two elements: a presentation of material by the teacher and a students’ presentation of a pre-
assigned topic, followed by a general discussion.
Title: Comprendre la géopolitique la géopolitique : guerre et politique dans un village planétaire
Language: French
Course Format: Elective
Professor: Réne-Eric DAGORN
58995 Guerre civile au Yémen, affrontements indirects au Liban entre Arabie Saoudite et Iran, menaces nucléaires de la 5 credits
Corée du Nord, déplacement de l’ambassade des Etats-Unis à Jérusalem... l’actualité géopolitique semble passer
d’un lieu à l’autre et d’un événement à l’autre sans que l’on puisse donner un sens à ce désordre.
- Or Il y a bien un ordre dans la géopolitique actuelle. La scène mondiale est marquée par plusieurs grandes
dynamiques qui la complexifie : multiplication des acteurs de toute nature (États, FMN, Lobbies, acteurs non
étatiques violents, individus...), impuissance de la puissance, importance des petits acteurs (qui ne sont plus des
acteurs faibles), empilement des anciens et des nouveaux acteurs...
- Alors comment comprendre l’actualité géopolitique au 21 e siècle ?
22Title: Gouvernement et démocratie entre les nations, l'Europe et le monde
Language: French
Course Format: Elective
Professor: Frederic COHEN
55192 Si la réflexion politique et les grands enjeux nationaux et internationaux furent longtemps dominés par la recherche 5 credits
du meilleur régime politique, la plupart des penseurs politiques contemporains estiment au contraire cette question
maintenant résolue et donc dépassée. Nous chercherons à discuter ce point de vue car, s’il est vrai que la disparition
de la menace totalitaire, l’absence d’alternatives sérieuses, et l’apparition d’un consensus politique et intellectuel
autour de la validité des fondements de la démocratie libérale ont fini par consacrer celle-ci seul régime
effectivement légitime et acceptable, force est pourtant de constater que cet avènement ne se fait pas sans
résistance ni désenchantement. Ce succès de la démocratie libérale se heurte d’ailleurs dans le même temps à une
indétermination préoccupante, non seulement au sujet du cadre ou de la forme politique (Classe, Région, Nation,
Europe, Monde) propre à la démocratie, mais surtout quant à ses modalités de gouvernement, comme en témoigne
l’apparition de nouveaux concepts tels que celui de « gouvernance ».
Il s’agit de saisir l’ampleur des transformations que nos régimes démocratiques et nos conceptions de la démocratie
subissent à la faveur des bouleversements internationaux récents, que nous résumons généralement sous le nom
de « mondialisation », phénomène que l’on caractérise par l’avènement d’une société civile mondiale composée
d’acteurs transnationaux de toute sorte et par l’affaiblissement des régulations étatiques nationales. Mais, pour bien
comprendre les effets et limites de ces mutations sur l’organisation de notre vie politique au niveau national et
international, nous devons chercher à expliquer le caractère ambivalent de ce mélange d’unification et de
fragmentation du monde qui s’affiche sous la bannière de la mondialisation et que l’on perçoit dans des processus
complexes tels que le projet d’intégration européenne, lequel peine à devenir un projet véritablement politique.
L’objectif de ce cours est donc de ressaisir les grands enjeux politiques contemporains, derrière les considérations
sociales, économiques, morales et juridiques qui semblent dominer nos vies politiques et font croire à une possible
dépolitisation de notre monde. Si nos aspirations démocratiques semblent de plus en plus portées à s’affranchir de
tout cadre politique clairement défini, contre l’idée même de gouvernement, au nom de l’émancipation de la société
civile et de l’individu, ce cours visera toutefois à montrer que les défis majeurs de notre temps sont avant tout des
problèmes politiques qui exigent de redonner au point de vue politique toute son importance.
23Title: The Law and Policy of the World Trade Organization
Language: English
Course Format: Elective
Professor: Eliza PATTERSON
58906 This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the important role the WTO plays in regulating 5 credits
international commerce. We will begin by examining the overarching objectives of the organization and its framework
of rules, and the roles played by the member countries- particularly the US and the `EU – in crafting those rules. We
will then study the rules themselves and discuss their impact on trade, investment and workers. We will also study
several key dispute settlement cases involving the US and the EU and discuss the merits of the system for resolving
disputes between members. We will conclude with a discussion of the future of the WTO which is currently under
attack by some of its founding members, notably the US.
Title: The Idea of Equality in the United States from Thomas Paine to Thomas Piketty
Language: English
Course Format: Elective
Professor: Sylvie LAURENT
58907 Americans, at least since the Founding era, have cherished the idea of political equality. Alexis de Tocqueville 5 credits
believed that Americans’ “passion for equality” was “ardent, insatiable, eternal, and invincible” and famously stated:
“Nothing struck me more forcibly than the general equality of condition among the people.” Indeed, according to the
Declaration of Independence, all citizens are supposed to be equal in terms of their rights and in terms of the
consideration given to their interests before the government. But what about the non-citizens? Where do slaves,
Native-Americans, women and poor people fit in this definition of equality? The American paradox lies in such
apparent contradiction. To understand the idea of equality in American society, this course will begin with an
examination of its use in the mind of the Founders, tracing their view into subsequent developments in American
history. A primary goal of this course will therefore be to describe and understand how the tension between
preserving freedom and promoting equality has shaped the course of American history. A closely related goal of this
course will be to arrive at some understanding of what equality mean in America: its democracy has become more
and more inclusive over time but does achieving equal rights mean achieving substantive equality? Equality is a n
ideal as much as an idea. We will consider historical formulations of this ideal from the colonial era to our day,
24focusing on the American tradition of dissent which sought to expand its meaning, in relation to the questions of
racial and gender equality. Through this semester, we will address equality as demanded by the abolitionist
movement, the women’s suffrage and the labor movements, the civil rights revolutionaries and through the debates
revolving around Affirmative Action policies. “Equality of opportunity,” equality of outcome,” “equality of condition” as
well as principles of “equality under the law,” “justice” and “fairness” will be analyzed and discussed in an historical
perspective.
A third, but by no means tertiary goal of the course is to explore how wealth inequality has come to epitomize the
shortcomings of the egalitarian ideals proclaimed by the founders. It has been boldly argued in recent scholarship
that, in terms of income inequality, the American colonies were exceptionally egalitarian, compared to both other
nations at the time and the U.S. today. Why is it then that, as early as 1776, in his pamphlet “Common Sense",
Thomas Paine asserted the need for economic equality so that the poor could access to political power? Indeed, in
his wake, many grassroots movements have stressed the need for “equality of condition”. Populism, the social
movements of the progressive era and the New Deal have challenged the assumption of a classless society in which
the “rags to riches” narrative proved true. This course will explore how, long before French economist Thomas
Piketty’s smashing editorial success with Capital in the XXI th Century, the unfairness and unequal outcome of
capitalism have been castigated. We’ll end up discussing new paths toward true equality, a never-ending work in
progress.
Title: Introduction to Development Economics
Language: English
Course Format: Elective
Professor: Björn NILSSON
59069 5 credits
The aim of this course is to provide students with the key concepts debated in the field of development economics
and increase their capacity to analyze critical issues facing policy makers in Africa.
The course will cover different themes from the macro and micro development economics field (i.e. economic growth,
institutions, poverty and inequality, microfinance, agriculture, labor markets, etc), and for each present basic theories
and concepts as well as the recent figures in Africa. The course will also introduce the ongoing debates as discussed
in the recent academic literature and media.
25Title: Contemporary Sub Saharan African Cinema
Language: English
Course Format: Elective
Professor: Melissa THACKWAY
The objective of this course is to study, contextualize and understand contemporary sub-Saharan African cinema.
Through the prism of questions of representation, we shall focus on this cinema’s diversification – both aesthetic or
geographic – and continuities since the late 1980s. Alternating the viewing and analysis of a corpus of six
contemporary feature films, we shall study these works’ cinematic form and content. Analysis will focus on the films’
56604 themes in this period (history/memory; women, exile, territoriality, diaspora, cultural hybridity…), and their styles and 5 credits
genres (fiction, documentary, aesthetic diversification…). We shall also consider divergences between African auteur
cinema and more recent Nollywood-esque productions.
Title: Education in Africa: Rituals, 3R, Higher Education
Language: English
Course Format: Elective
Professor: Aude CHANSON
59063 The course deals with education policies and the role of education in the development of African societies during the 5 credits
19th and 20th centuries. Indigenous knowledge and learning systems will be related to formal and structured
education systems. The role of colonial powers, international organizations in African societies will be discussed. The
question of gender, opportunities, religions regarding education will be analyzed. We will consider a variety of case-
studies to go deeper into analysis and cover all regions of the African continent. Primary sources as curriculum,
reports, time schedule will be analyzed.
26Title: Energy, climate and geopolitics - contemporary challenges
Language: English
Course Format: Elective
Professor: Angélique PALLE
Energy is a cornerstone of our globalised society and a vital element upon which the world economic system is built.
Access and control of the energy resources are a key stake in the world’s geopolitics while climate change issues,
resource scarcity and their foreseen impacts drive our energy model to a potential crisis. The goal of this course is to
59067 introduce to the upcoming energy challenges. The introductive part is dedicated to the links between energy systems 5 credits
and social and economic models of our societies. We will then go through the current energy transition dynamic,
assess its perspectives and its impacts, studying different scales. The last part of the course addresses the ongoing
changes in energy geopolitics and their links with climate issues.
Title: L’Afrique des sports, enjeux politiques et géopolitique
Language: English
Course Format: Elective
Professor: Pascal CHARITAS
55297 5 credits
Cet enseignement se donne pour objectif d'exposer et d'interroger les étapes du processus qui construisent une
histoire du sport en Afrique au cours du XXème siècle et au début du XXème siècle. Le plan du cours est constitué
de deux majeures parties interrogeant le corps de l'indigène, et ses formes de contrôle puis d'émancipation que sont
l'Education physique et le sport : la période coloniale et la période postcoloniale. Les processus de rejet,
d'acculturation, d'émancipation, d'institutionnalisation du mouvement sportif africain jusqu'à son internationalisation
sur la scène sportive mondiale puis ceux d'apartheid, de boycott, de migrations sportives seront interrogés en
prenant en compte les différents modèles coloniaux et leurs sphères d'influences postcoloniales (anglophones,
francophones, arabophones et lusophones essentiellement).
27Title: Traite Européenne, esclavage et abolitions. De l’histoire à la mémoire
Language: French
Course Format: Major
Professor: Sébastien LEDOUX
Le cours est divisé en deux parties. Il s’agit dans un premier temps de présenter aux étudiants l’histoire de la traite
européenne, de l’esclavage et de leurs abolitions dans le cadre des relations Europe-Afrique, du XVIe au XIXe siècle.
55373 Les dimensions économiques, politiques et sociales de ce fait sont abordées pour les deux espaces géographiques 5 credits
concernés. Dans un deuxième temps, ce sont les mémoires de la traite, de l’esclavage et des abolitions qui sont
présentées pour la période très contemporaine. L’évocation des mobilisations des acteurs dans une dimension
transnationale et des politiques de mémoire mises en place à l’échelle nationale ou locale sont notamment l’occasion
d’examiner les dynamiques Europe-Afrique dans le domaine des constructions identitaires individuelles et
collectives. Pour les deux dimensions, historiques et mémorielles, il sera proposé aux étudiants des études de cas
en Europe et en Afrique.
Title: An Interdisciplinary Introduction to Laws in Sub-Saharan Africa
Language: English
Course Format: Major
Professor: Ounia DOUKOURE- PECCHIOLI
55310 The course AN INTERDISCIPLINARY INTRODUCTION TO LAWS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA invites students for a 5 credits
journey into “probably today’s largest living laboratory of effective legal pluralism” (J. Frémont).
This course offers a dynamic introduction to African legal complexity, focusing on present-day institutional
frameworks, the content of several Sub-Saharan African legal systems*, as well as individuals’ or groups’ norms,
practices and representations of law. Looking at institutions, links and disjunctions in the normative practices and
experiences of people, students will explore the State, the legal, the magical and the just in Africa.
AN INTERDISCIPLINARY INTRODUCTION TO LAWS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA expands on themes developed
in Legal Anthropology, Law and African Studies. It relies on theoretical readings from legal and postcolonial literature,
policy papers and legal resources, reports published by international organizations and NGOs, as well as
ethnographic inquiries. Students will address long-lasting and new legal challenges such as the reception of foreign
28and international laws, legal pluralism and its implications, the implementation of human rights standards, the
movements of people within and beyond the African continent. The course also unveils race, ethnicity and kinship as
criteria of membership and the limits of the principle of nationality in Africa. Additionally, students will get acquainted
with the main African institutions, notion(s) of governance and alternative methods of dispute settlement developed in
this region, looking at examples of legal integrations, coexistence with customary authorities, state-building
processes as well as judicial and constitutional evolutions. For teaching purposes, the course is divided into three
units. Unit 1 aims at introducing students to the main conceptual, theoretical, and analytical frameworks (sessions 1,
2, 3, 4).
The course also explores the main institutional frameworks, legal and judicial evolutions at state, regional and
international levels, and their implications regarding international standards, African legal orders and peoples (unit 2:
sessions 5, 6 , 7, 8). Unit 3 (sessions 9, 10, 11, 12) further evaluates the role of law and individuals’ lived legal
experiences in fostering social changes. It addresses some definitional challenges in light of the structures of social
relationships and belief systems that operate in different Sub-Saharan normative settings.
Title: Britain and the United States - The Special Relationship: Myth or Reality?
Language: English
Course Format: Elective
Professor: Adrian PARK
55256 The idea of a 'special relationship' between the U.S. and Great Britain is a fairly recent one and, as the title of this 5 credits
course suggests, it hovers between myth and reality. However, at times, especially during the inter-war period of the
20th century, relationships between the two countries were so strained that there was open hostility. In July 1927,
Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, told his Cabinet colleagues that, "No doubt it is quite right in the
interests of peace to go on talking about war with the United States being 'unthinkable'." The tensions were over
rivalries in naval and maritime policies which threatened Britain's control of sea trade and, ultimately, her empire.
Churchill continued: "However foolish and disastrous such a war would be, we do not wish to put ourselves in the
power of the United States. We cannot tell what they might do if at some future date they were in a position to give us
orders about our policy, say, in India, or Egypt or Canada, or on any other great matter behind which their
electioneering forces were marshalled."
29Title: Anthropology of French and American Laws
Language: English
Course Format: Elective
Professor: Joachim-Nicolas HERRERA
59297 This course provides an opportunity to examine law as “a batch of tools to get jobs done in a culture.” Drawing on 5 credits
Karl Llewellyn’s anthropological approach to law, the first three sessions will ask: what “jobs” need to be done in a
human group for it to become and therefore remain, a society? How did the normative “tools” that are found in any
human group transform historically to become Western law, then evolving into distinct civil law and common law
traditions?
Title: Immigration Law & Policy: A Transatlantic Perspective
Language: English
Course Format: Elective
Professor: Louis IMBERT
59478 This course is particularly relevant for students wishing to confirm their interest in pursuing legal studies. Participants 5 credits
will be familiarized with core issues of immigration law and encouraged to think critically about this area of law. We
will address its political dimension, exploring how legal actors – judges, lawyers – shape and/or contest migration
policies. We will study the extent to which European human rights law and American and French constitutional law
safeguard the rights of foreigners. Overall, students can expect to develop their knowledge of immigration law,
constitutional law and human rights law. They will also learn to build sound legal arguments, conduct legal research
and critical analysis, review the work of peers and present their ideas in a clear, concise manner.
30Title: Russia as International Actor
Language: English
Course Format:
Professor: Pierre ANDRIEU
58774 After the collapse of the Soviet Union and a searching period under Yeltsin, Putin's Russia has recovered an 5 credits
ambitious and robust foreign policy.
The strong trends of this policy appeared very distinctly : reaffirmation of power and thirst of recognition, need to be
put on a par with the United States by becoming an indispensable partner in the major international questions
(disarmament, Eastern Europe, Middle-East, Iran), recovering of its exclusive influence in the former USSR countries
(Ukraine, Caucasus), reorientation of its attention towards the Asia-Pacific region, especially with China, access to
the Mediterranean and the Pacific, containing of the role of the OSCE and limitation of the influence of the EU in
Eastern Europe.
The means of action that led this ambitious foreign policy are ideological and political ("patchwork" of tsarist
nationalism, soviet patriotism, Christian orthodoxy, "russianism" and "eurasianism"), diplomatic and multilateral (UN,
OSCE, Eurasian Union – EAU -, Shanghai Cooperation Organization - SCO - with China and Central Asian
countries), economic (the same EAU and SCO), security (Collective Security Treaty Organization - CSTO), software
and influence (media, cyber, Moscow Patriarchate…).
The use of these means, which are always well coordinated, is inspired by the USSR or even the Russian Empires.
More than obeying to a predetermined strategy, it reacts oftenly to internal or external political impulses or simply
depends on the president's will.
Despite the limitations of financial and economic resources due to the fall of the gas and oil prices, the world
economic crises and Western sanctions, the Russian economy has showed a strong resilience that allow to conduct
such an active foreign policy.
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