Sciences Po Reims

This course covers the history of film, filmmaking techniques, and the creative choices of filmmakers. The course starts by looking at angles, movement, and lighting in early film. Then it moves on to narrative films, studying narrative form. Students look at editing, cinematography, mise-en-scene, lighting, and sound. Each week students view two films and complete a more technical reading on film-art. Films assigned included CITIZEN KANE, NORTH BY NORTHWEST, MOONRISE KINGDOM, VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE, LUMIERE BROTHERS FILMS, ALL THE PRESIDENTS MEN, THE SHINING, THE BIRDS, and THE CONVERSATION.

Non-state actors represent an oft-neglected category in international relations studies. After surveying the history of non-state actors, the course reviews, inter alia, international government organizations, political parties, global cities, non-governmental organizations, multinational firms, terrorist groups, media and moguls, actors from religion, culture, and sport. The course evaluates the interplay of these actors with states and with each other, then assesses the future impact of non-state actors. The course builds on a project initiated by Nicholas Dungan between Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London, and Egmont, the Belgian Royal Institute for International Relations in Brussels.

With a news cycle that never stops and the bustle of social media, the ever growing quantity of information available to us is overwhelming. Looking at key elements of journalism, participants in this workshop develop skills for critical thinking that help them become better informed so that they can make better decisions.

The European Union (EU) is today –together with the US and China– one of the leading actors in the world, especially in trade, investment, and development policy. With regard to Foreign and Security policy the EU is making slow progress towards reaching a comparable level of influence. Based on the actual state and perspectives of the EU –in a crucial year 2019 with the next elections to the European Parliament and the designation of the future EU-Commission– the seminar examines the most important areas and problems facing the EU in its external environment, from the neighborhood to the necessary partners in a globalized world. The objective is to enable the students –either later in politics, administration, or in business– to dispose of a solid basis for evaluating major developments.

This course focuses on bringing back politics but also strategy in United Nations Peacekeeping (UNPK) operations. The course mobilizes concepts such as means and ends, trinity, fog, friction, and center of gravity to examine their effects on the politics of UN peace operations. One assumption of this course is that UNPK is often undertaken when it is not the “appropriate instrument of policy”. The course argues that one of the problems of UN operations is that they are not guided by a clear strategy with final objectives. This problem can be traced to the political processes leading to their creation. The UN Security Council is not a single actor deciding about the aims of those operations. If this situation did not pose a problem for traditional UN operations, it is no longer the case with robust missions. That's why it is important to understand the politics and strategy of UNPK. The general objective of the course is to give the students the intellectual tools to analyze more critically how UNPK is organized. The theories used to examine UNPK are mostly Realism (Classical, Structural), Liberalism, and Constructivism. The class aims at criticizing but not rejecting UNPK. The goal is rather to try to look at possible solutions to fix the political and strategic problems surrounding this military-diplomatic tool invented between 1945 and 1956.

The special relationship between the United States and Great Britain is a fairly recent one and, as the title of this course suggests, it hovers between myth and reality. However, at times, especially during the inter-war period of the twentieth century, relationships between the two countries were so strained that there was open hostility. This course explores that relationship throughout the twentieth century.

This course offers a panorama of international law norms regulating the peaceful existence and continuous development of international society, mainly inter-State relations. The rules and their knowledge thus constitute fundamental pillars of the overall understanding of international relations and politics as well as their impact on national decision-making. The aim of the course is both to learn the norms and to acquire capacity to apply them to particular world affairs and main judicial cases. Issues like State sovereignty and its limits, peaceful settlement of disputes, coercive measures and the use of force as ultima ratio, human rights standards and their enforcement and the role of supranational institutions are studied. The underlying line is the identification of the sources of international law, the subjects bound by its norms as well as the consequences of the violation of international law. Finally, a complete framework of international law and its position beside foreign and international policy, economy, religion, and international ethics is covered.

This French language workshop seminar supplements the primary French language lectures. Here, students work on oral presentations and written productions. Students are required to take both the Fre nch lecture and the French workshop.

This French language workshop seminar supplements the primary French language lectures. Here, students work on oral presentations and written productions. Every other week in this workshop of oral expression, three students do a five-minute presentation based on a new article of their choice, on a contemporary subject (within the past six months) according to the guidelines given. Students are required to take both the Fre nch lecture and the French workshop.