UCL - Diplomatic Issues: Great Powers Foreign

[SPRI2065]

[15h] 5 credits

Teacher(s): Amine Ait-Chaalal

Language: French

Level: Second

Aims
Main themes
Content and teaching methods
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Aims

The students will be able to give a structured, coherent and pertinent analysis on specific topics of international diplomacy in relation to the Great-Powers' foreign policy.

Main themes

Topics presented during the course will depend on current events in international diplomacy related to the for-eign policy of Germany, Brazil, China, France, United States, India, Japan, United Kingdom and Russia. The analyzed topics, chosen by the professors' staff , will be adapted depending on the current international ques-tions.

Content and teaching methods

Contents: the topics are subdivided in several specific themes making it possible to determine and detail them. These subjects are distributed between the participants in the seminar, by groups. While giving the emphasis on a political and diplomatic approach of international relations, other dimensions are also integrated: history, cul-ture, economy, ideology, law and strategy.
Method: the seminar begins with lectures from each professor. These lectures will give a general framework to the studied issues. It will also give the main methodological and bibliographical research steps. After these in-troductory lessons, the following lectures present a more specific set of themes, followed by debates with all the members of the seminar.

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

"Law Of the Nations", "Geopolitics and the Contemporary International System ", "International Organisations"

Participation to the seminar and a written essay

List of bibliographical references given at the beginning of the seminar

Work supervision by lecturers