- Platform
- FutureLearn
- Provider
- Grenoble School of Management
- Effort
- 6 hours/week
- Length
- 4 weeks
- Language
- English
- Credentials
- Paid Certificate Available
- Part of
- Course Link
Overview
Understand how risks and threats affect our world.
Why do some events have a more lasting impact on our global affairs than others? What threats directly affect foreign affairs and global policy - and how do we evaluate them?
Get answers with this course, which goes beyond the explanations you will find in the press and on social media.
Dive deep into global studies to look at anticipated threats and cultural divides and how they reshape the global landscape.
Get insights about demography, geography, and anthropology, and make educated guesses about our future.
Des traductions françaises sont disponibles pour ce cours
This course will be of interest to business and International Relations students, area specialists (Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Latin America), professionals who work globally and earners concerned by the evolution of global politics and who need organized information about the evolution of world affairs
A Bachelor level in the fields of global studies or international affairs is an asset but not mandatory at all. French translations are available throughout the course.
If you are taking this course as part of the International Relations program for credit, you will be expected to spend 10 hours per week studying this course. If you are not taking the course for credit, 6 hours per week is expected for basic understanding.
Taught by
Yves Schemeil
Understand how risks and threats affect our world.
Why do some events have a more lasting impact on our global affairs than others? What threats directly affect foreign affairs and global policy - and how do we evaluate them?
Get answers with this course, which goes beyond the explanations you will find in the press and on social media.
Dive deep into global studies to look at anticipated threats and cultural divides and how they reshape the global landscape.
Get insights about demography, geography, and anthropology, and make educated guesses about our future.
Des traductions françaises sont disponibles pour ce cours
This course will be of interest to business and International Relations students, area specialists (Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Latin America), professionals who work globally and earners concerned by the evolution of global politics and who need organized information about the evolution of world affairs
A Bachelor level in the fields of global studies or international affairs is an asset but not mandatory at all. French translations are available throughout the course.
If you are taking this course as part of the International Relations program for credit, you will be expected to spend 10 hours per week studying this course. If you are not taking the course for credit, 6 hours per week is expected for basic understanding.
What topics will you cover?
- Political risks
- International risks
- Regional risks
- Intercultural communication
- Institutional and political instability
- Revolutions and civil strife
- Exhaustion of natural resources
- Increasing nuclear risks and cyber risks
- Security issues and disarmament
- The transformation of war
- New polarities, new centers of power
- New norms, new practices
Taught by
Yves Schemeil