Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po)

This course provides an introduction to the international legal and regulatory framework for finance, especially banking. It provides both an academic, theoretical framework and a practitioner's perspective. It presents the most important bodies involved in the governance of globalized finance, e.g., IMF, BIS, Basel Committee, FATF. It offers an overview of the international regulation in place, with a focus on the implications of the Global Financial Crisis in sparking regulatory reform. The course also refers to particularly significant experiences at the regional (e.g., the European Union) or national (e.g., United States) level to provide concrete examples. Where appropriate, experts from relevant authorities may be invited to offer students a hands-on perspective.

This course introduces the international regime of refugee protection and acquaints students with its origins and historical development. It provides an in-depth understanding and knowledge of the 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol. The course highlights limitations of international refugee law, drawing on international human rights law and international humanitarian law as complementary bodies of law. It explores the role of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and sheds light on contemporary challenges to refugee protection.

This course investigates why advanced democratic states of the Global North have seemingly been unwilling or unable to grapple with migration, and why their societies feel threatened by migrants despite their vast wealth, stability, and ostensible commitment to human rights. Given this overarching question, the course provides a broad understanding of contemporary developments with respect to international migration in democratic states. It introduces major debates surrounding migration at the domestic, regional, and international levels and offers frameworks for analyzing migration politics tied to foundational theoretical debates in comparative politics and international relations. It provides an opportunity to develop research, written argumentation, and public speaking skills.

This course analyzes the functions of European Union (EU) economic integration with a special focus on the Eurozone. It emphasizes the ways in which the European Single Market for goods, services, and capital impinges on the ability of national governments and European institutions to conduct economic policies. The implications of a monetary union for the functioning of member states' economies and domestic policies are analyzed with the help of macroeconomic tools. The various aspects of economic governance of the European monetary union are studied within the framework of a modern political economy. Structural aspects of the European integration (external economic relations and the role of the EU in globalization, banking and financial regulation, the economic implications of population aging, the transition to a low-carbon economic growth path, etc.) are also dealt with by mobilizing the most recent analyses. The course selects a number of issues that appear salient in current debates about the EU, its relationship with the rest of the world, and its future. It mobilizes the economist's analytical tool box to shed light on policy decision-making and pending issues.