Description
Knowledge:
1. on issues of political governance and exercise of power in the Mediterranean;
2. on issues of development, innovation, and entrepreneurship, exploitation of natural resources, population increase, unemployment, immigration;
3. on issues regarding the resolution of regional conflicts and threats (political Islam, dissemination of weapons, environmental problems);
4. on issues of Mediterranean policy for the EU and policies for the institutional and organizational treatment of the problem of Mediterranean safety.
Skills: the learners:
1. Understand the various research techniques and different documentation methods used by political scientists, financial scientists, and by persons involved with international studies (international relations, international law).
2. Understand the character of political governance in the Mediterranean and specifically the problems of political power in the Mediterranean South.
3. Understand modern economic theories and the problems for development in the Mediterranean region (bureaucracy, statism, unemployment, immigration, etc.).
4. Understand the problems related to security, the causes and the wider consequences thereof.
Competences: the learners:
1. apply the knowledge and skills acquired during their studies and reinforce them, thus contributing to any future preparation of a doctoral dissertation;
2. apply the quantitative and qualitative methods for data analysis, the technique for collecting them, and the methods for accessing mainly electronic databases;
3. critically approach scientific literature and theories concerning governance and security, while developing the necessary scientific methodology for the conduct of high level research.
Relation to Employment
Access Requirements / Progression Opportunities
Knowledge
Skills
Competences