International Undergraduate Study Program in International and Comparative Politics at The American University of Paris - France

 

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International and Comparative Politics

Faculty

 
 

 

Faculty Emeriti

 

Paul J. Godt
Professor Emeritus
BA, Bowdoin College.
MA, PhD, New School for Social Research.

 
 

Minors

 

Comparative Political Communications

Environmental Policy

International Law

Politics

 
 

Course Catalog

 
 

AUP Course Catalog

 
 
 
 

Contact this Academic Department

 

For more information about the programs offered in the Department of International and Comparative Politics, you may contact the Department Chair:

 
 

Contact Hall Gardner

 

 

hall.gardner@aup.edu

+33 1 40.62.06.00 ext. 691

Combes, AUP: 6, Rue du Colonel Combes, 75007, Paris (Métro: La Tour-Maubourg, Ecole Militaire, Alma-Marceau, Invalides)

 

 

 

Overview

 

We live in a rapidly changing world where the interaction between different political actors impacts our lives. The complex relationships between the national and international, the local and global, the corporate and civil, offer exciting new challenges to students of politics, economics and public policy.

 

We prepare students of diverse nationalities to become world citizens, ready to assume the responsibilities of civic and political leadership in the 21st century. Through a variety of program initiatives, we foster an interactive, interdisciplinary learning environment where conversations on the nature and practice of politics occur across the academy. Within the Division, the Major in International and Comparative Politics provides a sophisticated understanding of the allocation of ideas and resources across nations and societies, a study which is reinforced by dynamic new Minors in Politics, International Law, Comparative Political Communication and in Environmental Policy.

 

The possibility of a four- or five-year BA-MA degree encourages our students to build on their undergraduate learning experience by specializing at the graduate level in International Affairs, Public Policy, International Law or one of the combined Masters degrees, including the French certificate program with the Sorbonne and the International Human Rights Law Program with Oxford.

 

 

Student Learning Outcomes

Students with a degree in International and Comparative Politics will manifest intellectual autonomy, imagination and openness to new experiences, and the flexibility to think across disciplines in a rigorous fashion. They will reflect on the evolution of political and international relations theory, and apply that theory to the practice of good citizenship – in government, in an international institution, an NGO or the corporate world.

 

 

Interdisciplinary Initiatives

In addition to the honors program, students may pursue an interdisciplinary Minor in International Law, Environmental Policy or Comparative Political Communications. At the graduate level, the Division offers combined degree programs in Public Policy, in Global Communications and in Middle Eastern Studies.

 

 

Centers and Partnerships

The Working Paper series in the Social Sciences brings well-known scholars from internationally recognized universities and institutions to present their work in progress to an audience of students, faculty and experts in Paris.

 
 
 
 
 

Major

 
Major in  INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE POLITICS
 

 

FirstBridge
8 FirstBridge courses change every year.
 

GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
Up to 8 EN 1010 College Writing, EN 2020 Writing and Criticism
Up to 22 French through FR 2035 and FrenchBridge
4 Historical and Cross-Cultural Understandings
4 Social Experience and Organization
4 from either of the above two categories
Up to 8 Scientific and Mathematical Investigations
 

CORE
Required

(36 credits)
 

PO 1011 Foundations of Modern Politics
PO/PL 2003 Political Philosophy
PO 2015 Comparative Politics
PO 2031 World Politics
PO 2050 Political Analysis
PO 3051 Global Political Economy
PO/HI 3054 20th Century Diplomatic History
PO 3061 International Law
PO 4090 Senior Seminar
 

TRACKS
Select three electives within one track or select any three electives in consultation with an ICP advisor
(12 credits)

 

 

World Politics Track
PO 2012 Introduction to Political Geography and Geopolitics

PO 3000 Topics (if topic is appropriate)
PO 3032 International Institutions
PO 3033 International Politics of the Environment
PO 3035 Waters of the Globe
PO 3043 European Security: NATO, the EU and Russia
PO/HI 3046 American Foreign Policy
PO 3052 Global Hotspots and Conflict Resolution
PO/HI 3060 War and Peace
PO/CM 3071 Representing International Politics
PO 3072 Politics of the Middle East
PL/PO 3076 Philosophical and Political Modernity
PO 3078 War on Terrorism and Origins of Violence
PL/PO 3021 Thinking the World: Cosmopolitanism and its Critics

 

European and US Politics Track
PO 2010 European Politics
PO 3000 Topics (if topic is appropriate)
PO 3016 Ideas of Europe
PO 3026 The Politics of European Integration
PO 3034 Comparative Public Policy
PO 3043 European Security: NATO, the EU and Russia
PO 3045 Politics in Russia
PO/HI 3046 American Foreign Policy
PO 3050 European Union Law
PO 3053 Politics in France
PO 3057 Politics in Central and Eastern Europe
PO 3069 Democracy and Social Change

 

Development and Human Rights Track
PO/GS 2005 The Political Economy of Developing Countries
PO 3000 Topics (if topic is appropriate)
PO 3006 Politics of Latin America
PO 3022 Politics in Africa
PO/GS 3024 Politics of Human Rights
PO 3027 Politics in China
PO 3029 International Relations in Asia
PO 3033 International Politics of the Environment
PO 3035 Waters of the Globe
PO 3041 International Human Rights Law
PO 3052 Global Hotspots and Conflict Resolution
PO 3069 Democracy and Social Change
PO/CM 3071 Representing International Politics
PO 3072 Politics of the Middle East

 

Plus GENERAL ELECTIVES to total 128 credits

 

 
 
 
 

 

News

 

On November 8, Steven Ekovich moderated a debate between former French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and campaign consultant Jacques Seguela, organized by The KitSon press club. On November 21 he analyzed American foreign policy in the Arab world in a talk entitled “Les Etats-Unis d’Amérique face aux mutations de l’aire arabe” at the Association des Etudes Internationales of Tunis. Attending were researchers, Tunisian ambassadors, and members of the foreign ministry. On December 9 Ekovich presented a paper on “Le Printemps Arabe, la Tunisie et les Etats-Unis” at a conference in Tunis on “La révolution tunisienne : début d’une nouvelle čre dans les pays arabes” sponsored by the Fondation Temimi and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung en Tunisie. On December 15 he gave a talk on American foreign policy regarding the Arab Spring at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris at a conference on “La Démocratisation dans le Monde Arabe: Alternance pour quelle Alternative?”  The conference was sponsored by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Université Paris Descartes, the Sorbonne, and the Institut du Monde Arabe.  Professor Ekovich appears regularly on French radio and television to analyze American politics and foreign policy.

[AUP - Posted 2 Feb 2012]

 
 

On November 7, 2011, Hall Gardner was invited to speak at the research seminar ‘The G-20 after the Cannes Summit’ sponsored by the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS), the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA) and the G8 Research Group at the University of Toronto (G8RG). The seminar took place at the Centres de Conférences Ministériels, Ministčre des Affaires Etrangčres et Européennes. Out of this conference, he published  Toward a Geo-Economic Resolution of the Euro Crisis, G8 Research Group at the University of Toronto (G8RG) and Toward a Resolution of the Cyprus dispute and the Euro Crisis: A Geo-economic perspective / Cicero Foundation Great Debate Paper, No. 12/01  January 2012. He also recently published "Toward a New Euro-Atlantic Security Framework" (European Union Institute for Security Studies), which has also been featured on the New Policy Forum website of Mikhail Gorbachev.  Later, in November, Professor Gardner moderated, and participated in, a panel discussion on the subject "The New Middle East - An Emerging Reality Panel: Strategic fallout and Peace Perspective: Chances, Risks, Obstacles" at the International Conference: Policymakers' Responsibility in a Changing World. The Mediterranean: Waves of Change, jointly organized by the Region of Languedoc-Roussillon (France) and the New Policy Forum (Mikhail Gorbachev). Based on the preparation for this conference, he published A Dangerous Transition in the 'Greater Middle East'.  This article was also re-published on many websites, including, Open Democracy.  Another publication, The Ashgate Companion to War: Origins and Prevention, edited by Hall Gardner and Oleg Kobtzeff and featuring articles by a number of AUP professors, including Hall Gardner, Oleg Kobtzeff, Susan Perry, and Steve Ekovich, is coming out in early February. In the meantime, Gardner participated in the France24 debate on US policy toward Iran with Trita Parsi, Francis Perrin, and Borzou Daragahi (part one and part two).  Professor Gardner was a member of the group of experts that produced the discussion paper "Bridging the Fault Lines: Collective Security in Southwest Asia" (January 20, 2012) produced by the East West Institute.  He also commented on the US primary process for France24 before the New Hampshire primary.

[AUP - Posted 2 Feb 2012]

 
 

Oleg Kobtzeff was solicited by the Cahiers du Monde Russe to review Gwenn Miller’s Kodiak Kreol: Communities of Empire in Early Russian America. Kobtzeff appeared on France24 at a rhythm of one interview every three days, in average, between December 4 and December 26 when he participated in an hour-length debate on the 20th anniversary of the demise of the Soviet Union.

[AUP - Posted 2 Feb 2012]

 
 

Douglas Yates’ fourth book, entitled The Scramble for African Oil: Oppression, Corruption and War for Control of Africa’s Natural Resources (London: Pluto Press, 2012), has just been released.  This book describes how the international demand for oil contributes to the chronic problems plaguing Africa, and is being praised by Michael Klare as “essential reading for anyone seeking an understanding of the resource curse.”  In other news Professor Yates was invited to speak on Radio France International about the presidential elections in Senegal (Jan. 3), and on France24 television about the massive strikes against fuel subsidy cuts in Nigeria (Jan.13 and Jan.16). 

[AUP - Posted 2 Feb 2012]

 
 

Richard Beardsworth delivered the keynote speech at a UNESCO-organized youth seminar in Cairo in June entitled "Ethical Dilemmas and Democracy." He participated in May in the UK launch of Academics Against Poverty at the Global Ethics Centre, University of Birmingham and has since joined the steering committee for a Global Poverty Consensus Report targeted at the aftermath of the Millennium Development Goals in 2015. His article "National Interest, Interdependence and State Responsibility: An Argument for Cosmopolitan Realism" is presently under review for International Theory. His paper "Political Vision in International Relations" will be given at the Millennium Annual Conference, London in October. 

[AUP - Posted 2 Jan 2012]

 
 
 
 

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