INAF U6048y Risk & Scenario Analysis Across the Energy Value Chain 3 pts. Bringing together insights from various parts of the IEMP program, this course aims to provide an integrated, interdisciplinary perspective on risk management in major oil and gas projects at both corporate and country levels. It explores the nature of risk-taking by international investors in large scale oil and gas projects, and places these risks within the context of sovereign objectives sought by producer countries. An original scenarios methodology and a typology of how 'sovereign' and 'market' objectives combine are used to explore the relationship between international investors, governments, national energy companies (NGOs) and local communities or stakeholders. Case studies from Eurasia make concrete the contemporary challenges for corporate-level risk management, as well as international energy policies and governance related to oil and gas investment. SIPA: E&E- IEMP. SIPA: Russia.

INAF U8221x Elections & Political Development 3 pts. This course will begin with a review of the major issues surrounding elections and political development including: electoral systems, election fraud and the role of domestic and international monitors, political parties, and the relationship between elections and democratic breakthroughs and consolidations. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: Russia.

INAF U8565x European Security 3 pts. This course surveys historical and current case studies in the context of theoretical debates about the sources of security and insecurity and war and peace. The aim is to establish a foundation for analyzing the prospects for a secure order in Europe in the first part of the 21st century. The emphasis is on problems concerning strategic calculations, military strategy and war as well as political processes and institutional dynamics. Separate sections in the second half of the term are devoted to selected current policy challenges, such as transatlantic rifts, identity issues and ethnonational conflict, transitions in Central Europe and the former Soviet Union, NATO and EU enlargements, and European foreign and defense initiatives. SIPA: East Central Europe. SIPA: Europe. SIPA: Intl Org. SIPA: ISP. SIPA: Russia.

REGN U6120y Crime, Corruption and Transition in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union Not offered in 2012-2013. Organized crime and corruption represent one of the central challenges facing all governments in transition from the planned to the market economy. Over two decades after the fall of Communism, they still form a considerable barrier to economic growth and the consolidation of democratic institutions. Dramatic real-life narrative will enhance the solid theoretical foundations of the course. SIPA: East Central Europe. SIPA: ISP. SIPA: Russia. SIPA: Short Courses.

REGN U6149y Energy, Corporate Responsibility & Human Rights 3 pts. This course will focus on energy companies' practices, and their impact. These practices will be examined in part through the prism of Central and Eastern Europe with particular focus on the land of the Rose Revolution, Georgia, through which the strategic multi-billion dollar oil and gas pipelines from Azerbaijan to Turkey and the West are to be constructed. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: IFEP- Finance. SIPA: E&E- IEMP. SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: Russia.

REGN U6520y Political Identity Post Communism 3 pts.Not offered in 2012-2013. The course examines the complex relations between policies and identities in various countries of post-communist Eastern, Central and Southern Europe. It deals with various aspects of identity politics, including language, ethnicity, religion and memory, in an array of social domains encompassing education, public administration, citizenship, foreign policy, the media, churches, toponymy, and public monuments. It seeks to describe post-communist processes in these domains as both grounded in the ideologies and practices of the communist and pre-communist past and shaped by general sociopolitical situation in the countries under consideration and external (geo)political contexts in which they were choosing their transformation strategies. A case featured in the course is Ukraine; it is very interesting in view of its ambivalent historical legacy and contradictory policies in post-Soviet years and has been rather extensively studied by Western scholars. At the same time, the course also pays considerable attention to cases as different as Estonia, Latvia, Belarus, Moldova, Poland, Slovakia, Romania, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. This choice of cases makes it possible to present a diversity and complexity of identity politics in post-communist societies. In particular, it makes it possible to show how different degrees of radicalism of "nationalizing" policies have been both determined by inherited ideologies of elites and identities of masses and determining post-communist transformation of these ideologies and identities, as well as influencing social stability, democratic reform and foreign policy trajectories. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: Europe. SIPA: Russia.

REGN U6530x Post-Soviet Russia from the Inside This course will look at the history of modern Russia from perestroika, to the collapse of the USSR, the creation of the Russian Federation, conversion to a market econonmy and the Putin era. The focus will be on the developmnet of the new economy and new business and professional leaders in Russian society. We will explore changes in the loegal structures and commercial practices. Guest speakers who were themselves involved in these processes will add on-the-ground insights into these changes. SIPA: East Central Europe. SIPA: Europe. SIPA: Russia.

REGN U6535y The Geopolitics of Russian Oil and Gas This class will examine the Russian energy polices with the focus on oil and gas industry. Oil and gas exports remain a source of major revenue for the Russian budget and provide Russia with the considerable bargaining power in the geopolitical sphere. For the foreseeable future Russia will remain one of the major players at the world energy scene. However, the rising competition from unconventional oil and gas production compels Russia to readjust its energy strategies. The challenge may be an opportunity for Russia to advance its energy industry, or it may turn into a problematic disadvantage if no changes pursued. Existing political patronage for two major state energy companies (Rosneft and Gazprom) may appear to be not efficient for the needed changes. Limitations and restrictions to smaller independent companies for market participation are not helpful to the Russian industry. What changes are needed to sustain rising competition? What new geopolitical alliances Russia may attempt to form in search for energy security of supply? These and other related questions will be examined in the seminar. SIPA: E&E- IEMP. SIPA: E&E- Environment Policy. SIPA: Russia. SIPA: Short Courses. SIPA: E&E- Energy Policy.

REGN U6725y Modern Afghanistan: History, Culture, Politics 3 pts.Not offered in 2012-2013. This course will be a weekly seminar, limited to 20 students. It will be a historically-oriented introduction to culture, politics and international relations of Afghanistan; themes to be addressed include state-society relations, ethnic and tribal diversity, modernization and development, nationalism and political identity, the position of women and religion and the state, as well as Afghan relations with outside world. Sources include materials from many disciplines including history, anthropology, political science, literature and film. SIPA: East Central Europe. SIPA: Middle East. SIPA: Russia. SIPA: Southern Asia.

REGN U8480y Politics and Society in Post-Revolutionary East Central Europe 3 pts. The purpose of this colloquium is to examine contemporary political, social, and intellectual issues in the countries of East Central Europe. SIPA: Russia.

REGN U8730x Reforming Legal Systems after Communism in Eastern Europe and Eurasia 3 pts. This course analyzes legal reforms in Eastern Europe and countries of the former Soviet Union which are members of the Council of Europe from legal, political and sociological perspectives. It considers common problems that these societies faced at the end of communist regimes and examines their uneven success in introducing the rule of law.

The course starts with working definitions of the "rule of law." It then focuses on developments in three areas of public law - constitutional, criminal, civil rights and liberties. Did countries in transition simply amend existing constitutions or did they create a completely new legal order? How distinct are new constitutions in Eastern Europe and Eurasia from West European counterparts or constitutional models elsewhere? Could nascent legal systems judge the communist past without violating basic principles of the rule of law? Choices made at the start of legal reforms continue to shape these countries' internal political dynamics and their relations with the international community.

Assessing successes and failures of legal reforms, the course examines their driving forces - among others, aspirations to join European institutions, internal political pressures, importation of western legal models, and demands for legal reform by civil society. The study of formal legal institutions such as independent judiciaries is combined with an attempt to measure more elusive social phenomena such as legal cultures.

Formal training in law is not required - rather, the course helps non-lawyers to acquire skills necessary to read and interpret legislation and the case law of domestic and international tribunals.

REGN U8745y Politics in Russia This course has several goals. First, it invites students to think deeply about why and how the Soviet Union-a superpower for 75 years-disintegrated suddenly and for the most part, peacefully. Then, the bulk of the course focuses on state-building in the Russian Federation. Russia's effort to construct new political institutions, a functioning economy, and a healthy society represents one of the greatest political dramas of our time. Beginning with Yeltsin's presidency in 1991 and continuing through the present era of Putin and Medvedev, we consider political phenomena such as economic reform, nationalism, separatism, federalism, war, legal reform, civil society and NGOs, and democratization. The third part of the course addresses Russia's relations with other states. Like its predecessor states the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, Russia is concerned with what kind of state it is (or should be) and where it stands in the international order. We will study how Russian leaders and intellectuals make sense of Russia's identity, as well as Russia's policies toward the US, Europe, its "near abroad," and China. On a practical level, this course will sharpen students' ability to assimilate facts and think analytically. Course assignments will also strengthen students' research and writing skills. SIPA: Russia.

REGN U8750y Political Transitions in the Former Soviet Union 3 pts. In the almost twenty years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fifteen countries which once made up of the Soviet Union have followed different paths of political development. Some have become reasonably well functioning democracies; a few have solidified into authoritarian systems, while many remain somewhere in between.

REGN U8753y International News Reporting in Russia & its Neighbors 3 pts. This course is a guide to the work of foreign correspondents. It is aimed not only at students who seek a career in journalism, but at those who seek to understand how foreign correspondents work, how to work with them and how to get the most out of their coverage. Lectures and discussions present the principles, ethics, tradecraft, technology and dangers of international news reporting, with an emphasis on past and present coverage of the area once controlled or influenced by the Soviet Union. However, lectures and guest speakers will provide current perspectives on coverage all parts of the world. SIPA: IMAC. SIPA: Russia.

REGN U8755y Ukraine: Power Politics & Diplomacy 3 pts."What's going on in Ukraine now? Is there a promised political stability or a growing confrontation? What are the causes of current turmoil? Where is Kyiv heading: East, West or toward the grey zone in between? What's the impact of 2012 Parliamentary Election? Are there prospects for solving the outstanding energy problems? These and other issues, including behind-the-scene politics, power struggle and diplomatic activities, are dealt with in the newly revised course delivered by a career diplomat. The course is aimed at both graduate and advanced undergraduate students." SIPA: EPD. SIPA: Russia.

REGN U8757x Ukrainian Foreign Policy 3 pts. The course will provide historical perspectives on Ukraine's foreign relations and examine the trajectory of its foreign policy since Independence in 1991 till the Orange Revolution in 2004 and beyond. While providing an assessment of political, social and economic transformations and their impact on foreign policy, the course will focus on Ukraine's relationship with its major partners: Russia, Europe and the US, and its role at the United Nations. The class will be able to analyze Ukraine's renunciation of its nuclear arsenal, its quest for Euroatlantic integration and the obstacles thereto, its participation in regional structures and its attitude towards the Commonwealth of Independent States. The course delivers first-hand insights by a career diplomat who has been actively involved in the implementation of Ukrainian foreign policy. The format of the course will encourage active dialogue and analytical reflection on the part of the students. Each student will prepare a 10-15 page paper exploring the prospect of Ukraine's joining NATO and the EU or staying in the zone of Russia's influence, and the consequences thereof. SIPA: MIA- Interstate Relations. SIPA: East Central Europe. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: Russia.

SIPA U0030x and y (Section 7) Regional Specialization: Russia

All SIPA candidates are required to register for one of the specializations in each semester of matriculation at SIPA. The regional specialization registration will be for zero academic credits and will not affect or be affected by fees or financial charges. SIPA: Russia.

LAW L9462y Law in Emerging Markets: Russia & the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) 2 pts. This is a Law School course.

For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search