Geopolitics

Code Cours
2223-ISTC-M4S1-UE22-GEOP
Language of instruction
French, English
Teaching content
UE22
Training officer(s)
V.DURET
Level
Master
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
The main objective is:

- Teaching students the new geopolitical stakes such as the globalisation of the economy and of cultures, the transformations of instabilities and dangers, and the unprecedented complexity of crisis management.
- Providing them with the tools required for applied territorial analysis.
- Preparing them to the professional reality of geopolitics in the business world.

In concrete terms, students will:

- Analyse a geopolitical issue and present it synthetically.
- Develop their analytical and synthetical skills.
- Show the interactions between international relations situations, places and players.

This course develops the following professional skills:
- Understanding, analysing and interpreting one’s 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:

- Analysing the major evolutions, but also ongoing transformations.
- Replacing each issue in historical perspective, assess its significance, imagine its future.
Priority is given to: local power relationships, diplomacy, crises, defence and strategic debates, major evolutions of the world economy, demographics, etc.

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.

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