International Studies

This course analyzes international society and globalization including structure and main features, the subjects and actors, and the regimes of cooperation developed such as for human rights, the environment, international security, and international economics.

This course integrates a gender perspective in the studies of societies and politics in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). It deploys an interdisciplinary approach and provides a gendered understanding of key issues and concepts such as nation and citizenship, family/kinship, social movements and civil society, violence and conflict. The course is based on two methods: (1) a theoretical framework setting the basis for gender studies in the MENA region; (2) an analysis of case studies and topical issues in order to understand the place of women and gender in the transformations of societies and political regimes in the MENA region.

This course focuses on current history from the last third of the 20th century to the present. Topics include: politics and international relations; the economy; culture; international conflicts in a global world; technological and scientific globalization; global society and risk; global civil society. 

States spend a great deal of time and effort justifying their actions with law, yet international relations scholars have often doubted international law's ability to shape state behavior. This course examines this paradox by introducing the major debates about the politics of international law. These perspectives are applied to the history of international organizations and (legal) order since 1919, including the development of collective security and humanitarianism at the League of Nations and United Nations., particularly since the creation of the United Nations in 1945.