2023-2024 / SPOL0095-1

Emerging powers and the challenges of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East

Duration

30h Th

Number of credits

 Master in political sciences : general (120 ECTS) (Odd years, organized in 2023-2024) 5 crédits 
 Master in political sciences : general (120 ECTS) (CATANE (OUT)) (Odd years, organized in 2023-2024) 5 crédits 
 Master in political sciences : general (120 ECTS) (CATANE (IN)), 1st year (Odd years, organized in 2023-2024) 5 crédits 
 Master in political sciences : general (60 ECTS) (Odd years, organized in 2023-2024) 5 crédits 
 Extra courses intended for exchange students (Erasmus, ...) (Faculty of Law, Political Science and Criminology) (Odd years, organized in 2023-2024) 5 crédits 

Lecturer

Kamal Bayramzadeh

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the second semester

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

This course will be organised in 2019-2020, 2021-2022. The objective of this cours consists in analyzing the role of the nuclear power in the international relations to show the evolutionary process and the new stakes bound to the nuclear weapon in the new international context. We are going to study first of all the concepts, in particular the dissuasive concept, and the doctrines which contributed to the emergence of the nuclear factor on the international political scene.Then, we will do a comparative study of the nuclear doctrines of the emergent powers possessing the nuclear weapon. In this part, the role of the TNP will be dicussed. Finally, we shall analyze the main stakes of the nuclear proliferation in the region of the Middle East.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

Give to students an analytical capacity to understand the role of the nuclear proliferation in the evolution of the international relations in the Middel East.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

The students have to now the theories of the international relations and the history of the cold war.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

This course includes a theoretical part presented by the holder and a part based on the presentation of the students.

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

The active participation of the students in the course is necessary.

Recommended or required readings

The course mostly based on notes prepared by the responsable of the cours.

Obligatory readings for the exam:

Boniface Pascal, Courmont Bartélémy, Le monde nucléaire : Arme nucléaire et relations internationales depuis 1945, Armand Collin, 2006.

Chagnollaud Jean-Paul, Brève Histoire de l'arme nucléaire, Ellipses, 2011.

Mongin Dominique, Histoire de la dissuasion nucléaire depuis la seconde guerre mondiale, 2021.

 

A note for the presentation and a note for the oral examination.

Work placement(s)

Organisational remarks and main changes to the course

To succeed exam it is highly recommende to attend the cours. This course is held every odd year (2019-2020, 2021-2022,...).

Contacts

Kamal Bayramzadeh
International relations

Association of one or more MOOCs

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The general plan of the course
It's a bout the general plan of the cours.