France

This course focuses on understanding the relationship between terrorism and urban space. It traces the impact of terrorist attacks on cities and urban, cultural, political, religious, public, and economic areas in the strategies of terrorist organizations. The course discusses the method of terrorism to manipulate and change urban spaces and the counter-terrorism strategies and policies aimed at rehabilitating the damage. Three cities will be the primary examples in this course, among others: New York, Paris, and Mosul. The course provides an introduction to global digital governance and highlights the importance of understanding how internet technology functions, is evolving, and being governed. It examines how the digitization of the world is impacting our societies and economies, and what rules this trend may imply.

This course provides an introduction to artificial intelligence including its challenges, revolution, and achievements, and covers topics within machine learning and deep learning. Topics in machine learning include principles, supervised learning, unsupervised learning, Bayesian methods, linear regression, logistic regression, K-means, and decision trees. Topics in deep learning include foundations, architectures, and algorithms.

This course studies the design of institutions that optimally cope with fundamental, longstanding economic questions (allocation of private goods, public good provision, externalities). It begins from a simple, institution-free description of each question to understand the basic tensions at work and derive institutions that optimally address these tensions. In the process, it introduces the important ideas of social choice, game theory, and market design and highlights the theoretical concepts using empirical applications and in-class games. Topics include social choice, efficiency, and welfare; game theory and incentives; institutions as mechanisms; and limits to efficiency.

This course studies key aspects of contemporary French culture and civilization. The course covers topics that are pertinent to the functions of French society such as state organization, the educational system, the press and media, and demographics.

This course introduces Francophone literature through the reading of two different works: Tahar Ben Jalloun's L'ENFANT DE SABLE (1985) and Marima Bâ's UN SI LONGUE LETTRE (1979). Through these texts, the course examines the themes of sexuality, the question of masculine and feminine roles in francophone society (notably in Morocco and Senegal), while also analyzing how their culture and religion may have affected the author's upbringing and writing.

This course examines both the evolution of United States foreign policy in the post-Trump era and the strategic challenges confronting the United States and its allies in a changing world environment. It does so through cross views from the transatlantic community of scholars combining academics, think tank fellows, former policy makers, and administration officials from both sides of the Atlantic. Given the evolutions in the strategic environment, the emphasis is on the future of transatlantic relations and United States relations with NATO in the context of power competition; the questioning of military cooperation and the American Way of War in the Middle East and Africa; the pursuit of the United States strategy in the Indo-Pacific region and the future of the United States-China rivalry and interdependency; the challenges of new forms of power competition with the two identified revisionist powers: China and Russia; the future of American power on new battlefields: in cyber and information warfare that are part of the game of power politics of today; and redefining American alliances.

This trans-disciplinary course provides details on past and current systems and cases of censorship to allow for in-depth study of certain landmark plays, novels, and film adaptations that have caused the greatest scandals and most intense censorship over the past century. It brings together notions of media studies, sociology, history, law and key legal battles, publication processes, as well as literary and film analysis. The course mainly focuses on banned and censored books and film adaptations in Great Britain and the United States, and students have the opportunity to bring in such cases in other countries during the weekly round table debates and in-class discussions.