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Paul J. Godt
Professor Emeritus
BA, Bowdoin College.
MA, PhD, New School for Social Research. |
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Comparative Political Communications
Environmental Policy
International Law
Politics |
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For more information about the
programs offered in the Department of International and
Comparative Politics, you may contact the Department Chair: |
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Contact
Hall Gardner |
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hall.gardner@aup.edu |
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+33 1 40.62.06.00 ext. 691 |
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Combes, AUP: 6, Rue du Colonel Combes, 75007, Paris (Métro: La Tour-Maubourg, Ecole Militaire, Alma-Marceau, Invalides) |
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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. |
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Major in
INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE POLITICS |
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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)
PL/PO 3021 Cosmopolitanism and its Critics: Global Approaches to Global
Problems
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
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 3031 Regulating Global Finance
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 3037 Multi-disciplinary Perspectives on Political Economy
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
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Hall Gardner, Professor of Political
Science and Chair of the Department of
International and Comparative Politics,
spoke to a full house at the historic
Amerika Haus in Munich on April 23 on the
subject, “The Future of American Foreign
Policy: Neo-Conservatism or
Neo-Isolationism?” invited by the Munich
Foreign Affairs Association in cooperation
with the Bavarian-American Center. On May
14-15, Gardner has been invited to speak
on NATO-Russian relations at the Shadow
NATO Summit, to be held in Washington, DC,
at The
Elliott School of International Affairs at
The George Washington University sponsored
by
BASIC; the Bulletin
of the Atomic Scientists; NATO
Watch and Strategy
International. All AUP alumni and
students are welcome to attend, but
registration is required. The program and
registration form are available on the
NATO Watch website. |
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[AUP - Posted 30 Apr 2012] |
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Peter Hägel,
Assistant Professor of International and
Comparative Politics,
published a commentary, “French Voters are
Angry”, on the
politics of austerity in Europe with the
New York Times’ “Room for Debate”. |
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[AUP - Posted 30 Apr 2012] |
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Professors
Larry Eaker and Fred Einbinder served as
judges in the French national rounds held
in Paris February 17 and 18 of the 53rd
annual Jessup International Moot Court
Competition. The competitors represented
most of the top law schools in France.
Masters in International Law and Policy
students, Cornelia Van Tonder and Alex
Phuong, participated as bailiffs. |
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[AUP - Posted 3 Mar 2012] |
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Hall
Gardner was one of the EWI experts that
helped produce the East West Institute
discussion paper, "Bridging the Fault
Lines: Collective Security in Southwest
Asia" (20 January). On 6-7 February, he
spoke on the topic “NATO-Russia-Ukraine:
Toward a New Concerted Relationship?” at
the CIOR conference of NATO Reservists,
NATO’s Strategic Concept: Promoting
International Security Through Cooperation
at Schloss Eichholz, Wesseling, Germany.
On 8 February, he spoke at the seminar «
Les Transformations Géostratégiques
actuelles au Moyen-Orient » Salon Mars III
at the Assemblée Nationale. |
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[AUP - Posted 3 Mar 2012] |
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Oleg
Kobtzeff was invited by the brand new
French version of the
Huffington Post to become one of
its featured bloggers. He will be writing
about general geopolitical issues, the
environment and the countries that he
knows well. His
first editorial is about the Russian
presidential elections and opposition to
Vladimir Putin. Professor Kobtzeff has
also given three interviews on Russian
politics to France24, and one on French
presidential elections to Radio France
International. |
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[AUP - Posted 3 Mar 2012] |
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In
February Douglas Yates published a chapter
on "Oil, Rebel Movements and Armed
Conflict in Africa," in Alain Beltrane,
ed.
Le
pétrole et la guerre/Oil and War
(Brussels: Peter Laing, 2012) based on a
paper presented last year for the Institut
d'Histoire du Temps Présent and the CNRS.
Yates was interviewed by Bloomberg
television on the French presidential
elections (Jan. 30 and Feb. 20). He was
also interviewed by France24 television on
the visit to Paris by Ivory Coast
President Alassane Ouattara (Jan. 25), the
terrorist attacks of Boko Haram in Nigeria
(Feb. 7), and Senegal's presidential
elections (Feb. 20). He was also
interviewed by Radio France International
on Ouattara's visit to Paris (Jan. 27),
the crisis in the Ivory Coast (Jan. 31),
the trial of democracy activists in Gabon
(Feb. 3), and President Sarkozy's nuclear
energy in France (Feb. 9). Finally,
Professor Yates was invited by the United
States Embassy in Paris to meet the new
Assistant Undersecretary for African
Affairs, William Fitzgerald (Jan. 19). |
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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 ère 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. |
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