PAI680.5 Country Risk Analysis

Taught in Spanish at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica and may not be offered every semester. This course will focus on the study of the economic and political mechanisms that have shaped the economic relations of the modern economic system, concentrating on the study of the principal theories that form the foundation of the study of international political economy. This therefore provides an analytical foundation for the analysis of country risk, the index that tries to measure the degree of risk of a country in terms of international investment. The focus of this course will be an analytical perspective known as ‘institutionalism of free choice.’ (UC code: ICP 5191-1)

Taught in Spanish at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica and may not be offered every semester. This course mainly addresses the theoretical and methodological aspects that are essential for studying the variables that shape different types of foreign policy. With this as a base, the course emphasizes the application of this knowledge in order to analyze and compare specific situations of foreign policy formation and implementation in a variety of states and international scenes. (UC code: ICP 5422)

Taught in Spanish at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica and may not be offered every semester. This course introduces public policy analysis as a professional practice that makes use of concepts and tools of economic science. These concepts and instruments are reviewed and are put into practice through exercises and cases taken from the real world. (UC code: ICP 5704-1)

Taught in Spanish at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica and may not be offered every semester. This course will focus on the study of the threats to international security and the characteristics of global violence, incorporating the different visions with respect to the phenomenon. In the course, we will address the causes, the characteristics, the actors, and the nature of modern armed conflicts. Special emphasis will be on threats such as terrorism and drug-trafficking. In addition, we will study the measures taken by the international community to face these challenges and the characteristics and challenges of humanitarian work in conflict zones. The themes that will be studied include: security studies, the current threats, international humanitarian law, the intelligence strategy, and peace operations and maintenance. (UC code: ICP 5457)

Taught in Spanish at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica and may not be offered every semester. Using the current principles of modern and contemporary political thought, this course offers a study of the political ideologies that, since the 19th century, have given rise to theoretical discourses; these are the discourses that then develop into political practices that modify the social, economic, and cultural reality. (UC code: ICP5250)

Taught in Spanish at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica and may not be offered every semester. Non-state actors have increasingly assumed a growing role in the international world. Although states continue to be the dominant actors in the world, international relations in the 21st century will be impossible to understand without examining the role and influence of non-state actors, including non-governmental organizations and transnational movements. This course will analyze the nature, the characteristics, and the functions of civil society on the international level. It will address the role and the influence of diverse organizations both from the theoretical perspective, studying the theories that help one to understand the existence of these actors, and also from the practical perspective by studying examples in a series of related topics, including violence and terrorism, human rights, and organized crime. (UC code: ICP 5461)

Taught in Spanish at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica and may not be offered every semester. The objective of this course is to cover the main transformations experienced by the State in the previous two decades – in terms of its institutionalization and its methods of management – in very different national settings. In addition, this course will explore the fundamentals and the consequences of these reforms, from political, juridical, and administrative perspectives. (UC code: ICP 5198)

Taught in Spanish at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica and may not be offered every semester. This course examines, from a political perspective, the most relevant themes in international commerce. As an introduction, it addresses the changes in international society (interdependence and globalization) and their effects on the international economic processes. The course presents the common paradigms used for analyzing this topic and the tendencies of multilateralism regionalism. The second part of the course studies the institutions that govern globalization (IMF, World Bank, WTO, etc), placing special emphasis on the World Trade Organization and on the principal debates that occur in this context. (UC code: ICP 5462)

Taught in Spanish at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica and may not be offered every semester. The objective of this course is to become aware of the composition and the evolution of social policy as well as the debates surrounding the Welfare State in which these policies are developed. The focus will be placed on the relationship between social policy, the state, and development. We will carry out a dual analysis of, on the one hand, the academic debate in terms of the European societies that constructed powerful welfare states and, on the other, the development of these themes in Latin America. (UC code: ICP 5703)

Taught in Spanish at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica and may not be offered every semester. The objective of this course is to inform the students about the procedures and techniques carried out today in different multilateral negotiations of various types: diplomatic, political, or economic. At the end of the semester, the students will know the structure of and the way in which these multilateral negotiations take place on the level of world politics as well as in regional processes. (UC code: ICP 5459)