With this module, explore your interests in one of our four focus areas on International and European affairs, including issues such as conflict resolution approaches (terrorism, war, migration), the place of religion in the European public sphere, the Eurozone crisis, European identity and values, etc...
Most of courses are conducted by world-renowned International professors and researchers in their respective domains of expertise.
Europe and Violence
The course will look at Europe’s history of violence – political, social, colonial –, and its intellectual underpinnings. This is somewhat a paradox, as Europe also developed a strong theoretical and practical tradition of human rights, cosmopolitanism, and pacifism. How can we account for such a hiatus? We will look at the construction of the subject and otherness in modern European thought and investigate how it served both to found human rights and enable new forms of social and political violence.
The main purpose of the course is to provide students with the analytical tools and theoretical framework through which to critically evaluate and discuss the multiple meanings of religion and family ties in the migration experience.
With this goal in mind, the course aims to invite students to reflect on what "religion" is for states and what "religion" does for migrants and their families, that is, how religion and the migration experience mutually shape each other and play out in daily life both structurally and culturally.
This class explores the growing international interest in the Arctic by examining how the region is politically, strategically, and symbolically constructed in contemporary global affairs. Adopting a critical and constructivist perspective, it questions dominant narratives of the Arctic as an “empty”, resource-rich space and (geo)political theater, and instead highlights how competing actors produce different meanings and representations of the region. Through four units, the course analyzes Arctic governance frameworks, the interests and strategies of Arctic and non-Arctic states, and the role of Indigenous Peoples as core political actors. Particular attention is given to issues of sovereignty, environmental change, security, resource extraction, as well as to the power relations embedded in Arctic discourses and policymaking.
This class aims to explore various aspects of the crisis and challenges currently facing multilateralism, ranging from US withdrawal(s) from
international organizations to boycott dynamics and, more broadly, the ways in which the legitimacy of international organizations—and the UN in particular—is being both negotiated and challenged.
This module is thought of both as an introduction to multilateral cooperation through specific authors and case studies, as well as an opportunity to explore social sciences methods in order to investigate international organizations in a dynamic and participative way.
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francesca.geilager@sciencespo-lille.eu
*The course offering is tentative and subject to change.
The final course and professor list for the political sciences track will be soon available. If you would like to be placed on the Summer School mailing list to receive alerts and updates as soon as this information is available, please contact us: francesca.geilager@sciencespo-lille.eu
CREDITS
35 hours of French language classes are also included.
Students will be able to validate 12 ECTS.
TEACHING METHODS
Interactive lectures, Case study, Projects, Research, Seminars.
ASSESSMENT
Students are assessed through participation to lectures, seminars and through dissertations on the courses they attended during the summer school.
PREREQUISITES
The student should know some basic notions of EU Affairs.
