Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
| Bachelor in political sciences : general | 5 crédits | |||
| Extra courses intended for exchange students (Erasmus, ...) | 5 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
After examining the concepts around security (keywords), will be discussed to address the different types (conflicts, peacekeeping operations, crisis management, asymmetric wars, disarmament, irenology, war studies, deterrence) in the form of concrete examples and case studies to control the semantics of "objects" selected. Several issues around security and defense will be combined with, among others, military sociology, asymmetric warfare, risk taking, geostrategy, nuclear, media and public opinion, terrorism and resilience, technology and defense, the economy of conflicts, values ¿¿and underlying ethics, great strategists.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
-Control specific vocabulary and concepts of security in order to facilitate the reading of the geopolitical, geostrategic and military events related to past events, present and prospective field.
-Determine The elements of conflict types, operations, disarmament and irenology.
-Promote understanding by the student of themes related to the security, defense, international crises.
-Associate the theories of security in the dialectic of major international institutional and organizational actors such as the EU, NATO, UN, ...
-Prepare Students to master the vocabulary associated in master 2 on "European Security and Defence Policy".
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Nothingness
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Thematic Research
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
The lessons is essentially on Thursday PM from Fébruary 2019.
Recommended or required readings
Coursebook and PowerPoint
Assessment methods and criteria
Written (MCQ and Tutorial) in Juni 2019.
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Contacts
André Dumoulin, Senior Research in IRSD ; Lecturer in Department of political science, European Studies Unit, University of Liège.
GSM : 0496.38.06.56.
Courriel : adumoulin@ulg.ac.be ou andredumoulin@skynet.be