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The general objective of this course is to offer the students with a basic knowledge on the main theories of international relations. To this end, we will present and discuss field debates, their theoretical approaches and the fashion how each theoretical approach may be used to interpret different topics from the global agenda.

Since International Political Economy plays an important role on modern debates on economics, one of the main objectives of the course will be to increase the skills and the willingness of the students to take part in the political process. The students are to learn the basic concepts of International Political Economy and the problems that politicians and voters face, as the costs and economic benefits of globalization, the impact of the WTO and IMF on peoples and nations, as well as the different paths towards development. The students shall also develop critical thinking to provide solutions to complicated problems related to International Political Economy.

What are the political effects of electoral regulations? What factors determine the number of political parties of a country and its political strength? What are the effects of the political party system concerning representation or governability? These are some of the questions addressed in this course. The objective is to provide students with conceptual and practical tools about the electoral systems, the parties and the interactions among them. The course includes a compared approach that privileges the study of the Latin-American case, with special emphasis made on the Colombian case.

Within the horizon of reflection on the relations taking place between Justice and memory, that permitted the awakening of a new humanitarian conscience in the aftermath of the Second World War, the main purpose of this course is to show the most significant processes and decisions of the so called transitional justice as the privileged object of the battles waged in memory. The objective is to provide the students with criteria for analysis and historical examples, enhancing their understanding on the role of justice in the construction processes of collective memory.

As the name implies, the goal of this course is to have the student develop a research experience, after presenting a research design as the first step of the workshop, the students are expected to put into practice the skills gained in the previous course, by making that design a reality. Likewise, the course will reinforce the knowledge acquired while offering new learning within the field of methodology. The knowledge has to do, especially, with the analysis of quantitative and qualitative data.