Duration
18h Th
Number of credits
| Master in management (120 ECTS) | 3 crédits | |||
| Extra courses intended for exchange students (Erasmus, ...) | 3 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
Introduction
- Geopolitics and national and international security: a major challenge
Chapter 1: Definition of geopolitics and security of a State
- Information
- Geopolitics
- Information and ePolicy
Chapter 2: The main factors of globalization
- Geography
- Demographics
Chapteer 3: The actors of globalization
- Multinational (independent of national political action)
- SME's (fragile by their limited means)
- States (actors increasingly challenged in the international context)
- International economic organizations
- The citizen-consumers (more and more active in their choice of consumption)
- N.G.O.
Chapter 4: Strategic Areas
- The major powers (United States, Japan, China, Russia, India, Brazil, EU) and the new global economic war
- The other emerging powers (Mexico, Thailand, Turkey, Vietnam, etc.)
- Regional economic associations and alliances (EU, NAFTA, Mercosur, etc.)
Chapter 5: Communication and Information
- Raw information (individualized or manipulated via new media means)
- New means of communication and the evolution of states, and products intelligence: the war of communication
- Protection of communication tools and data
- ePolicy face geopolitics
Chapter 6: The security policies of European states
- Chart analysis
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
This course has two goals:
1 Determine the origins and means of struggle against the theft of economic information by competitors and foreign powers.
2 For Belgium, the international dimension is crucial to economic development, more than 80% of its business. The marketing strategy of the companies turned to other countries, foreign competitors and the strategy of government and business must take into account competition and foreign designs on the potential and know-how of companies in a developed but vunerable country without this international involvement at European and global level.
This course contributes to the following Intended Learning Outcomes :
ILO-1 : To strengthen knowledge and understanding of policy context.
ILO-9 : Developing a critical sense (arguing).
ILO-10 : Developing a transversal, global vision.
ILO-11 : Creative conception of solutions.
ILO-12 : Professional capacity for oral communication.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Content of Political Science and Globalization, with lessons during 1st Bac or syllabus
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Interactive lesson and personal case study
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Face to face
Recommended or required readings
Bibliography:
- ABC des Nations Unies, United Nations, French edition, 2011, 342 pages
- Battistella Dario : « Relations Internationales, bilan et perspectives », Optimum, Editions Ellipses, Paris, 2013, 572 pages
- Battistella Dario: « Un monde unidimensionel », Nouveaux Débats, Les presses de Sciences Po, Paris, 2011, 174 pages
- De Senarclens Pierre : « La mondialisation, théories, enjeux et débats », Armand Colin, 4ème édition, 2005, 275 pages
- Herzog Philippe : « Europe, réveille-toi », Collection l'Europe après l'Europe, Le Manuscrit, 2013, 206 pages
- Lefébure Antoine: "L'affaire Snowden, comment les Etats-Unis espionnent le Monde", Edition La Découverte, Paris, 2014, 275 pages
- Mattelart Armand : « Histoire de l'utopie planétaire », Editions La Découverte, Paris, 2009, 430 pages
- Petras James et Veltmayer Henry : « La face cachée de la mondialisation, l'impérialisme au XXIème siècle », Parangon édition, 2001, 285 pages
- Santander Sébastian : « L'émergence de nouvelles puissances, vers un système multipolaire », Edition Ellipses, Paris, 2009, 250 pages
- Wolton Dominique : « L'autre mondialisation », Champs Essais, Edition Flammarion, Paris, 2010, 211 pages
- Wolton Dominique : « Penser la communication », Champs-Essais, Flammarion, Paris, 2008, 401 pages
- La Mondialisation en question, Revue Sciences humaines, mars 2017
- Wikipedia
- Universalis Encyclopedia
Assessment methods and criteria
Oral test of 30 minutes on the lessons and personal study
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Contacts
Madeleine Hubin, professor
lessons in English
mhubin@uliege.be
Office 207 (buil N1)
Phone: 04/232.72.86