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Geopolitics and Human Rights

Code Cours
2223-FDL-LAW-EN-5024
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Establishment
Law Faculty
Language of instruction
French, English
This course occurs in the following program(s)
Training officer(s)
Kalliopi Kyriakopoulou
Period
S1

Présentation

Modalités

Forms of instruction

This course assessment has three components:

  1. Attendance and Participation: Students should attend classes well prepared with questions, comments, and observations based on the assigned reading material.
  2. Presentation: Students will be asked to present a case study of their choice at the end of the course. Presentations will be assessed on the basis of preparation and organisation, quality of delivery, quality of analysis and ability to synthesise different theories and to trigger discussion around the selected topic.
  3. Essay: Students will be asked to submit an essay in which they should demonstrate their synthetic and analytical skills, their familiarity with the relevant literature, clarity of expression as well as their ability to address and evaluate various positions, to debate, and to develop argumentation.

N.B. Recommended presentations and essays titles will be discussed with the students in the first class/meeting.

Effective presence: 24h

self-learning:20h

Personal work: 20h

Evaluation
Examen : coeff. 1

Ressources

Bibliography

<b>Advised</b><b> books:</b>|||| Alison Brysk. <i>The Future of Human Rights</i>. London: Polity, 2018.|| C. Carey, Mark Gibney, Steven C. Poe. <i>The Politics of Human Rights</i>. London: Cambridge University Press, 2010.|| Patrick J. Deneen. <i>Why Liberalism Failed</i>. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018.|| Michael Freeman. <i>Human Rights</i> (2nd edition). London: Polity, 2011.|| Michael Goodhart. <i>Human Rights. Politics and Practice</i>. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.|| Michael Goodhard and Anja Mihr. <i>Human Rights in the 21st Century</i>. London: Palgrave, 2011.|| Adam Jones. <i>Origins of Genocide: A comprehensive introduction</i> (3rd edition). London and New York: Routledge 2017.|| Steven Levitsky &amp; Daniel Ziblatt. <i>How Democracies Die</i>. London: Penguin, 2018.|| Yascha Mounk. <i>The People Vs. Democracy</i>. Cambridge MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2018.|| Derrick M. Nault and Swaun L. England. <i>Globalisation and Human Rights in the Developing World</i>. London: Palgrave, 2011.|| Daniel E. Lee and Elizabeth J. Lee. <i>Human Rights and the Ethics of Globalisation</i>. London: Cambridge University Press, 2010.|| David Runciman. <i>How Democracy Ends</i>. London: Profile Books, 2018||