African Politics

The course will be organized around four sessions of 3 hours and one field-trip of 6 hours.

The course is centered on class discussions and all assigned readings are compulsory unless otherwise noted. For the quality of class discussion, it is essential that you do the readings before each session.

The evaluation process will be threefold:

(1) Group presentations (20% of the final grade) (2-3 students, on one sub-theme of the course).

(2) Second, as international law and international relations are often seen as standing at odds in terms of research approaches and methodologies, students will be asked to conduct fieldwork using methods and focusing on issues discussed, researched and observed during the field trip. You will be required to write a short fieldtrip memo (1000 words) and present it in class. The memo and the in-class presentation will account for 30% of the final grade.

(3) Finally, each student will be asked to write a research essay of 2500 words. The topics will be distributed during the first session. This will account for 50% of the final grade.