IBL Chair: from the Soviet Union to the Russian Federation. Evolutions of an Eurasian power
[EUSL2309]
[30h] 5 credits
Teacher(s): Tanguy de Wilde d'Estmael(coord.)
Language: French
Level: Second
Aims
Main themes
Content and teaching methods
- History of political thought, to understand the switch from Marxism-Leninism to political and economical liberalism.
- Constitutional law to understand the creation and dismantlement of the Soviet Union, as well as Russian Federalism.
- Political science, to understand the transformation of regimes and the process of democratization.
- Anthropology as a key to understanding the ethnic, religious, and social complexity of most post-soviet countries.
- Sociology as a tool for dealing with the change from collectivism to individualism and the loss of ideologies.
These disciplines shouldn't be mastered to attend the course: they simply show how complex, how wide the problem of post-soviet studies is and what is required to understand present Russian policies.
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)
Language: French (with a few conferences in English).
Prerequisite: course "Action extérieure de l'Union européenne".
Evaluation: written examination.
Support: to be determined by the professor in charge.