Seminar on international relations

Duration

30h SEM

Number of credits

Lecturer

Sébastian Santander

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

THE COURSE IS HELD EVERY EVEN YEAR (2018-2019, 2020-2021...).
The seminar on international relations aims to deepen some contemporay issues on international relations. The are several groups managed by the assistents and the professor. Each group relates to a specefic issue. The seminar will analyse and deepen different concepts as: power, rising power, domination, hegemony, globalisation, goverance, terrorisme,...
The student will also have the opportunity to deepen his knowledge on a particular geographical area of his choice.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

Give the possibility to the students to deepen an issue handled during the courses on Introduction to international relations and Theories in international relations. At the end of this seminar, the student will be able to carry out a research on a particular issue by mobilizing the specific tools of the discipline. The student will also have learned how to communicate the results of his research both orally and in writing.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Students need to have some empirical and theoretical knowledge in international relations.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Oral presentation, written paper and obligatory reading(s)

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)

1. Introduction to the Seminar
2. Course about the methodology
3. Theoretical course
4. Oral presentation of the Student
5. Feed-back of the professor
6. Written paper
7. Submit written paper

Recommended or required readings

Obligatory reading:
- Sebastian Santander (coord.), L'Afrique, nouveau terrain de jeu des émergents, Paris, Karthala, 2014, 322 p.
- Or: Li Xing, The BRICS and Beyond: the international political economy of the emergence of a new world order, Angleterre, Ashgate, 2014, 227 p.
- Or: Arolda Elbasani (ed.), European integration and transformation in the Western Balkans: europeanization or business as usual?, London, Routledge, 2013, 215 p.
- Or: Soeren Keil and Zeynep Arkan (ed.), The EU and member state building: European foreign policy in the Western Balkans, Abingdon, Routledge, 2015, 247 p.
- Or: Emma Mawdsley, From Recipients to Donors. Emerging Powers and the Changing Development Landscape, Londres, ZED Books, 2012, 280 p.

Assessment methods and criteria

Take it in to account:
-the methodological and theoretical handled during the course,
- the oral presentation,
- the written paper,
- the obligatory reading and
- the active participation to the seminar.

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

- To succeed the seminar it is highly recommended to attend the course. - If the student is 3 times absent, without a valid and official reason, he will not be able to present his paper for the first session. He will have to wait until august to deposit its written work. - The knowledge of English is necessary. 

Contacts

- Professor: Sebastian Santander (Office: R71, niveau 0 - tel. 04 366 30 46) - . - Assistants:
Liridon Lika (Bureau R12, niveau 0 - tel. 04.366.42.59, Liridon.Lika@ulg.ac.be)
Gabrielle W. Cusson (Bureau R80, niveau 0 - tel. 04.366.43.89, gcusson@ulg.ac.be)