This course starts with a broad conceptual and historical perspective on technological and scientific innovation, and then focuses on concepts, theories, and methods for policy analysis as well as their application to policy questions in a variety of issue areas.

In this seminar staff members of the Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS) and external guests present and discuss their research.

The colloquium consists of presentations by guest speakers from academia and practice/policy. Students must attend all meetings in person and actively participate in the discussion.

Presentations by guest speakers from academia and practice. Students must attend all meetings in person and actively participate in the discussion.

This module enables participants to understand and assess political communication and information-processing techniques, strategies and activities. It also enables them to identify different negotiation situations and apply respective negotiation approaches. These are important skills in order to effectively co-design policies through collaboration between scientists and political practitioners.

This module enables participants to understand and assess political communication and information-processing techniques, strategies and activities. It also enables them to identify different negotiation situations and apply respective negotiation approaches. These are important skills in order to effectively co-design policies through collaboration between scientists and political practitioners.

This course focuses on the technical, economic, and political challenges of dealing with water allocation and pollution problems in large international river systems. It examines ways and means through which such challenges are or can be addressed, and when and why international efforts in this respect succeed or fail.

Students write an individual term paper on technical, economic, and political water challenges in an international context. Coached by one of the instructors, students develop and write a case study that examines ways and means to address a specific challenge, and to evaluate success or failure of international collaboration.

This course introduces students to the MSc STP programme. It provides a general introduction to the study of STP.

PhD students in public policy (or related fields) get an introduction to epistemology and an overview of different methodological approaches. The course will help them design their own (interdisciplinary) research and create meaningful and policy-relevant insights.

In this colloquium, doctoral students present their research plan within the first year of their doctorate, which is reviewed by three professors affiliated with the ISTP and commented on by the peer students registered in the colloquium. We recommend attending the colloquium for two semesters and presenting the research plan in the second semester.

This course deals with how and why international problem-solving efforts (cooperation) in environmental politics emerge and evolve, and under what circumstances such efforts are effective. Based on concepts, theories, and methods of political economy, political science, and public policy, various examples of international environmental policy-making are examined.

This course deals with how and why international cooperation in environmental politics emerges, andunder what circumstances such cooperation is effective and efficient. Based on theories ofinternational political economy and theories of government regulation various examples ofinternational environmental politics are discussed: the management of international water resources

This course deals with the conditions under which cooperation in international environmental politics emerges and the conditions under which such cooperation is effective and/or efficient.

Based on the contents of the International Environmental Politics lecture (860-0023-00L) students will develop a research question and study design on a topic of their choice, carry out independent research and write a research paper under the supervision of Prof. Bernauer, Prof. Koubi, as well as postdocs and doctoral students in their research group.

A two-day field trip to international organizations in Geneva - e.g., the World Trade Organization, the World Health Organization and the International Committee of the Red Cross.

The course covers the main theories (realism, institutionalism, liberalism, transnationalism and constructivism) as well as core problems of international politics such as war, peace, international cooperation and integration. The lectures are accompanied by a tutorial with case studies.