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
The course is not organized in 2021-2022.
Introduction
- Geopolitics and national and international security: a major challenge
Chapter 1: Definition of geopolitics and cyberpolitics
- Geopolitics
- Cyberpolitics
Chapter 2: The main factors of geopolitics
- Geography
- Demographics
Chapteer 3: The actors of geopolitics
- 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
Chapter 5: Communication, Information and artificiel intelligence
- 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 objectives:
1. Geopolitics is a strategic issue for the development of business establishment and international trade. All states seek to be in the best possible geographical position and competing political and economic actors are putting these regions in competition.
2. Cyber-politics tends to change the game by eliminating competition between states and the search for the best geographic region, thanks to digital communication and artificial intelligence.
Currently, geopolitics is still dominant, but cyber-politics is gradually beginning to replace it, thanks to the digital economy. The most digitally advanced states will be the political and economic powers of tomorrow.
All states seek to develop their power through the economy, even if military wars are still very important in many parts of the world, with digital technoloigical developments of the armaments manufactured by the great economic powers.
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
Nothing
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Interactive lesson and personal case study
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Presential and/or virtual
Recommended or required readings
Bibliography:
- 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
Oral test of 30 minutes on the lessons and personal study
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Contacts
The course is not organized in 2021-2022.
Michel Hermans, professor
lessons in French
Michel.Hermans@uliege.be
Smartphone: 0477/22.53.62
Skype: michel.hermans19