Geopolitics

Code Cours
2223-ISTC-L3A-UE15-GEOP
Language of instruction
French, English
Teaching content
UE15
Training officer(s)
P.BLEUZE
Stakeholder(s)
P.BLEUZE
Level
Bachelor
Program year
Period

Présentation

Prerequisite
- Knowing the history of international relations from 1945 to today.
- Keeping up to date with current international events.
- Having a good command of computer software: Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
Goal
- Comprehending a geopolitical situation in its major recent evolutions.
- Showing the interactions between international relations situations, places and players.

This course develops the following professional skills:
- Understanding, analysing and interpreting your environment (general knowledge), including the global context.
- Designing and presenting a through-the-line communication strategy: drawing it up, presenting and defending it (being able to justify the choices made).
Presentation
KNOWLEDGE:

- Introduction to Geopolitics.
- History of International Relations.
- Theory of International Relations.
- Analysis of the major evolutions, but also of ongoing transformations.

SKILLS:

The course is organised on three simple principles:

1/ Using geographical maps in order to locate events in the world and to analyse the stakes on several scales.

2/ Taking into account the historical dimension, without which political behaviours, whether collective or individual, can only be understood incompletely. History shapes events, and sometimes decides.

3/ Trying to detect long-term changes in geopolitics, in strategy, in evolutions of the right to self-determination.

SOCIAL SKILLS:

Students will:
- study a geopolitical issue and present it synthetically in writing and orally.
- find academic questions and knowledge about geopolitical issues.
- learn how to communicate orally on a given topic.

Modalités

Organization
Type Amount of time Comment
Face to face
15,00
Independent study
Travail personnel indicatif 15,00
Overall student workload 30,00
Evaluation
Control type Duration Amount Weighting
Continuous assessment
3,00 2 40,00
Final Exam
1,30 2 60,00
TOTAL 100,00

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