Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po)

Starting with the 2008 crisis and its consequences on the economy, this course traces the reactions of political authorities to escape the recession and reduce economic imbalances. In this context, it outlines the policies of structural politics and attempts to analyze their impacts on the growth perspectives in the years to come. Lastly, the course revisits the various economic policies (budgetary, monetary, and employment) put into place in the past twenty years in France, and their consequences on the French economy. It reviews the aid instruments that economists possess to examine their optimal economic policies: structural unemployment, production potential, output gap, and macroeconomic model.

This course explores how the burdens and benefits of social cooperation should, as a matter of justice, be distributed. It considers a range of answers that have been offered by some of today's most prominent analytical political philosophers, all based on the philosophical method of reflective equilibrium, and evaluates their arguments in detail to develop an understanding of the preferred conception of distributive justice.

This course introduces the contemporary and emerging stakes posed by the governance system of human migration at the local, national and international levels. In dialogue with case studies and comparative research, the course considers how European states seek to control immigration inflows. The externalization and internalization of migration control have transformed the geography of public intervention, opening new fields for political interventions for a range of multiscalar actors: civil society organizations, municipalities, diaspora groups, international organizations, etc. The course provides a theoretical toolbox to understand the dynamics at stake and knowledge on the ways new categories of actors interfere with the management of migrations.

This course exposes students to public and scientific debates pertaining to colonial past, and the gender studies, research methods, and writing of contemporary history. It explores these concepts through several lenses over three parts of the course: historical approaches to the colonial past, the use of gender studies, and the new history of colonial wars. Each theme includes an introduction to the field of research, discussions and presentations based on readings, and scientific articles and archives.

This course introduces the debate about the state of democracy in Europe which is crucial to understand changes in today's politics. The course focuses on the most daunting challenges for Europe's democracy. The first part of the course discusses the theoretical foundations and the historical roots of Europe's democracy. The second part focuses on the current challenges including populism, authoritarianism, and technocracy. The last part envisions the future of democracy in Europe.

This course provides a historical and political introduction to modern Afghanistan. While it covers a historical timeline spanning from the late 19th century through 2021, it does not provide an exhaustive historical catalogue of events, but rather a genealogy of the political processes and factors that are pertinent to the evaluation of the processes of state-building and nation-building in Afghanistan through today. Covering the country's modern political history from its genesis during The Great Game and the birth of Afghan nationalism in the early 20th century, up to the occupations by the USSR and United States and their political consequences, the course attempts to identify the most salient patterns and trends about the country's political elites and institutions, as well as the interventions of foreign powers, all of which have affected the transformations of the state in Afghanistan.

This general sociology course systematically integrates gender studies to revisit the important questions of this discipline. The course examines themes of family, school, work, politics, health, and sexuality through the lens of gender while integrating a certain number of fundamental theories. It discusses gender sociology texts based on concepts examined during the lectures, considers the relationship between public policies and contemporary debates, and develops axes on which to read the social world through the prism of gender: paying attention to gender inequalities in their different constructions and how gender is integrated into different categories of thought.