DAFF 25A37 - Politics for Business: Assessing political and regulatory risks

DAFF 25A37 · Semestre de printemps 2025-2026

Langue d'enseignement
English
Type d'enseignement
Cours séminaire
Nombre d'heures
24
Crédits
5

Informations

Descriptif

There is a significant industry dedicated to the study of how changes in politics and policy will impact businesses. The course is an introduction to the practice of this discipline, which draws on the study of political science to help businesses understand the impacts of politics. Key to this discipline is translating conclusions drawn from the study of political science into meaningful implications for businesses. An underlying thread throughout the course will be focusing on how to focusing on the concrete consequences of political and policy developments.

The course will trace key concepts in political risk, including assessing political and regulatory stability, and how these different concepts interact. We will consider issues such as how different political systems drive different types of policy-making and how political ideologies translate into policy implications.

Pré-requis

Students should be already interested and engaged in the study of politics and potentially geopolitics.

Mode de validation

One oral briefing (recorded) A on the impacts of political stability on regulatory risk (25%).

One oral briefing (group presentation) on an outlier political risk scenario 35%

One 1,000-word essay on topic of choice, assessing the likely political risk impacts of an upcoming event in the year ahead briefing (40%).

Lectures

Lectures principales 3

  1. BRINK, Charlotte H. Measuring political risk: risks to foreign investment. Routledge, 2017. (Chapters 1 & 4)

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  2. CAMPISI, Julian Michael. What's in a Political Risk? Re-Assessing the Policies and Determinants of Foreign Investments. University of York, 2022

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  3. Shell International BV, Scenarios: An Explorer's Guide. 2008.

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Lectures secondaires 9

  1. ACAR, Yasemin; DYSON, George. The Conflict in Ukraine and AKP’s Foreign Policy: Implications for Turkish Identity and Nationhood. In: A World Order in Transformation?: A Comparative Study of Consequences of the War and Reactions to These Changes in the Region. Södertörn University, Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES), 2024.

  2. BREMMER, Ian; KEAT, Preston. The fat tail: The power of political knowledge in an uncertain world. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.

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  3. CAMPISI, Julian Michael. Social and political risks: Factors affecting FDI in China's Mining sector. Thunderbird International Business Review, 2017.

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  4. CONDOLEEZZA, Rice; ZEGART, Amy. Managing 21st Century Political Risk. In: KAPLAN, Robert S., et al. Harvard Business Press, 2020.

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  5. HECKER, Charles. Zero sum. Hurst Publishers, 2024.

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  6. LIJPHART, Arend. Democracy in plural societies. Yale University Press, 1977.

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  7. MCKELLAR, Robert. A short guide to political risk. Farnham: Gower Publishing, Ltd., 2010.

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  8. MESQUITA, Bruce Bueno de; et al. The Logic of Political Survival. The MIT Press, 2005.

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  9. STAVRAKAKIS, Yannis; KATSAMBEKIS, Giorgos. Left-wing populism in the European periphery: the case of SYRIZA. Journal of Political Ideologies, Vol. 19, No. 2, 119–142, 2014.

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Unités pédagogiques

N° d'UPType d'UP Unités pédagogiquesEnseignants Nombre d'heuresCrédits
58075Cours séminaire Politics for Business: Assessing political and regulatory risks George DYSON245

Enseignants

  • George DYSON

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Contacts et ressources

Contact pédagogique
NICOULEAU Svetlana