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Présentation
General undergraduate knowledge of International Relations (IR).
This course provides an introduction to the environment and international relations. By doing so, it considers a decisive question: what are the causes of environmental change and is there any way to regulate it across borders?
The course begins by asking whether there is a ‘climate crisis’ and further examines several core issues and actors in relation with environmental change and politics. It then explores state- as well as non-state-led environmental governance, looking at both its legal and economic aspects. Indeed, over the past few decades, the environment has risen as a concern on the global agenda and led to formal and informal arrangements to handle scientific and political uncertainties. The course ends with a consideration of the environment and international relations in the 21st century, with the objective of showing to what extent international relations as a distinct discipline can illuminate answers to these questions.
Modalités
By the end of the course, students should be able to understand the environment using the lenses of international relations theory and practice and be able to master a wide set of issues relating to the environment and other closely associated questions.
Knowledge
1. Understand the environment using the lenses of international relations theory and practice.
2. Understand the ‘climate crisis’; key issues and actors in relation with environmental change; state- and non-state-led governance, legal or economic; the environment and international relations in the 21st century.
Thinking Skills
3. Select arguments and data to understand environmental issues within the discipline of international relations.
4. Learn about issues and actors with respect to the environment, as well as state- and non-state-led governance, legal and economic.
Subject-Based Practical Skills
5. Collect and analyse data relating to the study of the environment within the specific field of international relations.
6. Utilise online data retrieval systems to gain information relevant to the study of the environment within the discipline of international relations.
Skills for Life and Work (General Skills)
7. Present data and produce one PowerPoint presentation and one Commentary.
Ressources
Comprehensive bibliographical references are provided in the course syllabus. They consist in one textbook and a number of additional readings for each session of the course.