Sciences Po Reims

This course introduces the looming energy challenges faced by the world economic system, as access and control of energy resources are a key stake in the world's geopolitics while climate change issues, resource scarcity, and their foreseen impacts drive the existing energy model to a potential crisis. The first part of the course examines the links between energy systems and social and economic models of our societies. It then explores the current energy transition dynamic and assesses its perspectives and impacts by studying different scales. The last part of the course addresses the ongoing changes in energy geopolitics and their links with climate issues.

This course examines gender and its critical intersections with power in contemporary social and political life. It reflects on key definitions, ideas, debates, and controversies in gender studies, using an interdisciplinary set of readings in history, sociology, anthropology, international relations, political science, literary studies, and critical theory. Some questions that considered include: How are gender and sex being explained as natural and social phenomena? In what ways is gender interacting with other social identities e.g. sexuality, ethnicity, class, and nationality? How is gender shaping individual identity and popular culture?

Through an analysis of their health policies, this seminar examines the philosophical, historical, and political conceptions underlying the organization of health systems in France and the United States. It looks at the actions of governmental and local actors through decentralization or devolution; health systems and social coverage financing; the impact of political and media debates reflected in the texts, from the Social Security financing bills to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act instituting "Obamacare”; hospital governance; the management of care, technical, and organizational projects in hospitals; and the reality of daily life management and crises.

This course provides an overview of the political history of France from 1815-1940. It covers the failed Second Republic, neither democratic nor liberal; the return of imperial France, a final transition between an authoritarian regime and a liberal regime; the Third Republic, a severe struggle between the royalists and republicans; and the radical party, aimed at a liberal democracy. The course highlights how, through the end of the 19th century, the installation of the Republic was fraught with economic crises and political oppositions.