Political Science

The student will learn about the sources of international law, treaties, custom, unilateral acts, general principles of international law, doctrine, and jurisprudence. In the same way, students will understand about concepts related to subjects of international law, jurisdiction and immunities. Additionally, they will identify concepts such as territorial domain, the legal regime of Maritime Spaces, Airspace, Outer space and Antartica. Finally, students will understand the concept of international responsibility.

Revolutionary movements often times embed their actions in places where power is physically located, i.e., houses of parliaments, presidential palaces and so on. Aiming at the so-called nerve centers of powers can be crucial in successfully disrupting power. Throughout history public spaces have time and again served as playing fields for contentious politics: During the French revolution, the storming of the Bastille in 1789 held symbolic value, while the protest camp in Cairo’s Tahrir square was crucial for the overthrowing of the Egyptian regime in 2011. Beyond those, examples of the use of space for contentious politics by both resistance and repression actors can be found in Khartoum (qiyadah sit-in), Beijing (Tiananmen massacre) and Tirana (Skanderbeg Square) to name a few. But how do these squares and places become revolutionary – or not? Following this question, the seminar aims to explore the relationship between revolutions and space, delving specifically into the role of public spaces for revolutionary oppositions in mobilizing, building shared identities, and configuring spaces which embody their visions for a different future. 
 

In this course students will know the theoretical foundations that support an analysis of the governance applied to the field of formation and transformation of the modern State and its practices of government in contemporary societies. 

The course covers the development of European integration after the Second World War with a special focus on questions concerning national and supranational identities and values. The aim is to study the EU's development from the time of the European Coal and Steel Community to the UK's withdrawal in 2020, partly chronologically, but also based on a present-day perspective.

This course provides a comprehensive overview of theoretical and practical challenges involved in the complex subject of global governance. It traces the evolving roles of both states and non-state actors and covers a wide range of issues on peace and security; human rights and democracy; money and finance; trade and investment, and sustainable development and the environment. 

This course provides students with knowledge of the fundamental concepts, principles, processes, and rules of public international law as well as a more in-depth knowledge of selected areas of the law. This course covers different aspects of general international law, including the sources of international law, statehood and international legal personality, the law of international responsibility, and dispute settlement. It also examines more specialized areas of public international law, with a focus on jurisdiction, immunities, the use of force, and human rights, land and sea, and the environment. The course addresses theoretical debates and uses practical examples of international law in action, many of them relating to contemporary events in international relations.

This course examines the comparative analysis of women's roles in politics and the challenges they encounter in attaining positions of power within the political arena. The seminar is split into two parts. The first part explores various aspects of women's involvement in politics, such as the historical struggle for women's suffrage, the gender gap in voting behavior, ideology, and political involvement, and their variation across countries and time. The second part focuses on various aspects of women's representation in political institutions, including the challenges they face when seeking public office, their portrayal in the media, their impact on political decision-making, and the relationship between their presence and corruption. Additional topics include the entry of women into politics and the degree of this transformation varying across different countries and regions. Questions covered include: what factors underlie these variations? Why have some political systems successfully integrated women into politics while others lag behind? Do men and women approach politics differently in terms of understanding and engagement? Is there a disparity in political involvement and aspirations between genders? Additionally, how has media coverage affected female candidates? Furthermore, once in power, do women govern differently from men? 

This course investigates the process of the formation of the socialist system and the characteristics of the socialist system from historical, ideological, and political-social perspectives, and examines the possibility of its existence as an alternative ideology despite the collapse of real socialism.  

The course places communism as an ideology into dialog with reality as the system manifested in the Soviet Union and North Korea. Students will analyze communism as “theory” or “ideology” while using works of Karl Marx, investigate how the Bolsheviks tried to build the “first socialist country on earth” in the Soviet Union, and investigate the North Korean case, comparing it to the Soviet experience as well as the early ideals of Marxism.