IBL Chair: from the Soviet Union to the Russian Federation. Evolutions of an Eurasian power
[ LEUSL2309 ]
5.0 crédits ECTS
30.0 h
1q
| Teacher(s) |
de Wilde d'Estmael Tanguy (coordinator) ;
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| Language |
French
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Place
of the course |
Louvain-la-Neuve
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| Main themes |
This course relies on an overall knowledge of Eastern European history (great political ideas, defining moments of the 20th century) to explain the collapse of the Soviet Union, its geopolitical complexities. This knowledge helps us understand today's conflicts and tensions.
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| Aims |
This course specializes in Russian foreign policy. It includes the political, economical, security transformation of what used to be the soviet space. The aim is to gain expertise on contemporary Russian diplomacy in what it considers to be its zone of special interest.
The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and
command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be
accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled
“Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
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| Content |
To deal with these tensions, several scientific approaches are useful:
- 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.
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| Other information |
Periodicity: yearly.
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.
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Cycle et année
d'étude |
> Master [60] in Political Sciences: General
> Master [120] in Public Administration
> Master [120] in Political Sciences: International Relations
> Master [120] in European Studies
> Master [120] in Political Sciences: General
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Faculty or entity
in charge |
> EURO
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