The aim of the Masters of Arts in Development Policy is the acquisition of an overview of development issues by taking an interdisciplinary approach enhanced by a comparative analysis of the various development models. The master course includes 10 thematic and geographical modules and is organised into two parts, one for each of the two semesters of the academic year. The first semester is made up of five thematic modules entitled:“Economics of Development”, “Political governance”, “Economic Ressources & Development”, “Environment and development”, and “Migration and development”, followed by a seminar on sustainable development issues. The second semester is dedicated to case studies according to geographical zones such as “Russia & Central Asia”, “Asia”, “Latin America”, “Maghreb and Middle East” and “Sub-Saharan Africa”. The course ends with a seminar on the comparative analysis of the various development models.
Master of Arts in Development Policy-Curriculum
Module 1 Economics of Development
1. Economic Globalization & Regionalization
2. Global economic Institutional Environment
3. International Trading System
4. International Financial System
5. Economic Development in Global World
6. Bilateral & Multilateral Aid
7. EU and the South
Module 2 Political Governance
1. Theory & Practice of Political Development
2. Political & Financial Governance
3. State, Democracy building & Electoral Management
4. Conflict Management and Peace building
5. Development, Poverty, Inequality & Insecurity
6. Autopsy of a failed State
Module 3 Geopolitics of Energy & Primary resources
1. Geopolitics of Energy
2. The Future of Fossil Energy
3. Renewable Energy
4. Mineral Resources
5. Food Resources
6. Water Resources
Module 4 Environment & Development
1. Climate Change & Development
2. Global Warming & its impact to Development
3. Climate Change, Water Problem & Food shortage
4. Environment & global healt
5. Environment & Sustainable Development
Module 5 Migration & Development
1. Poverty & Inequality
2. The Migration Process
3. International Migration
4. Regional Migration
Module 6 Russia & Central Asia: beyond transition
1. Russia & Economic transition
2. Russia, petrostate & the global Crisis
3. Central Asia Issues
4. New Central Asia
Module 7 Middle East & North Africa
1. Political Economy of Middle East Development
2. Middle East Oil prior to the formation of OPEC
3. Oil & Economic Development, Political economy approach
4. Islam & Economic Development, Sociopolitical approach
Module 8 South and East Asia
1. Asia, the new Epicentre of the Global Change
2. South East & East Asia, the lesson of economic growth
3. China economic success & world economic power
4. India & South Asia, will India Overtake China?
5. Conference : asian ambassadorial debate
Module 9 Latin America: making up for lost time
1. Latin America's new Development Strategies
2. Economic Nationalism in Latin America
3. Economic Regionalism in Latin America
4. Political Economy & Brazilian Development
5. Conference : LAC ambassadorial debate
Module 10 Sub-Saharan Africa
1. The following of Sub-Saharan African Economies
2. China's historical turn to the African continent
3. Democracy & Political accountability
4. Democracy & Financial accountability
Seminars
1. Sustainable Development
2. Culture, Identity & Nationalism
3. Current Status of International Penal Law
4. International Negociation
5. Development Strategies in Comparative perspective
