Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
Since the independence of African countries, the former metropolises and the current powers (both large and medium) have not ceased to take an interest in the African continent. But since the early 2000s, interest in Africa has never been greater, to the point of making it a major issue in international relations and becoming a theater of confrontation. Each one pursues various objectives: increase in power, security, accumulation of resources, extension of its area of influence, development, economic expansion, etc. This course is intended to be an extension of the "African Political Science" course.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
The objective of the course is to present and analyze, on the basis of theories of international relations, the foreign policies of powers and former metropolises vis-à-vis the African continent. Several lessons will be devoted to relations between Belgium and the countries of Central Africa, in particular Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
A lesson of theories of international relations.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
This lesson comes in the form of a seminar whose objective is to bring students to achieve, by group, a report that they must do then present. For the completion of the work, students must perform several readings.
Course materials and recommended or required readings
BATTISTELLA, Dario, Théorie des relations internationales, Paris, Presses de Sciences po, 5ème édition, 2015, 720 p.
Work group and face-to-face meetings.
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Contacts
Bob Kabamba, Bob.Kabamba@uliege.be
Dealan Riga, Assistant, dealan.riga@uliege.be
Association of one or more MOOCs
Items online
Africa, an international issue
Course Powerpoint