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Master 2021/2022

Minority Rights: Comparative Practices

Type: Elective course (Political Analysis and Public Policy)
Area of studies: Political Science
Delivered by: Public Policy Department
When: 1 year, 3, 4 module
Mode of studies: offline
Open to: students of all HSE University campuses
Instructors: Dmitry Dubrovsky, Stanislav Myasnikov
Master’s programme: Political Analysis and Public Policy
Language: English
ECTS credits: 5
Contact hours: 40

Course Syllabus

Abstract

Learning objectives of the course Minorities’ rights: comparative practices are: to introduce students to the main problems of the discriminations of minorities, to give them complex understanding of existing literature and to the state of research on the topic; to introduce them to variations both in state approaches to the problems of different minorities; to develop skills and competencies to propose strategies and technologies for vulnerable groups rights protection.
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

  • Working with primary sources and literature on the problems of minorities and social vulnerable groups
  • Collecting objective and adequate information on the problems connected with minorities and social vulnerable groups
  • Designing and implementation special strategies for protection minorities and social vulnerable groups’ rights
  • Be able to compare problems of minorities and social vulnerable groups in different regions and countries
Expected Learning Outcomes

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • Able to competently analyse the nature and character of problems connected with minorities and social vulnerable groups in concrete circumstances
  • Be able to analyze and compare the different types of state policy towards minorities and social vulnerable groups
  • Know the main approaches of minorities studies
  • Know the major problems of different minorities and social vulnerable groups. Forms of their economic, political and cultural discrimination
Course Contents

Course Contents

  • Race and nationality: cases of discrimination and strategies of protection
  • Ethnic minorities: comparative practices of rights protection
  • Religious minorities and their rights: causes of discrimination and the strategies of protection
Assessment Elements

Assessment Elements

  • non-blocking Essay
  • non-blocking Individual presentation
  • non-blocking active participation
Interim Assessment

Interim Assessment

  • 2021/2022 4th module
    0.5 * Essay + 0.2 * active participation + 0.3 * Individual presentation
Bibliography

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

  • Basta Fleiner, L., Lin, L., & Xixia, L. (2012). On Minority Rights. [N.p.]: Paths International Ltd. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1018127
  • Chapman, C., & Ramsay, K. (2011). Two Campaigns to Strengthen United Nations Mechanisms on Minority Rights. International Journal on Minority & Group Rights, 18(2), 185–199. https://doi.org/10.1163/157181111X565657
  • Skrentny, J. D. (2002). The Minority Rights Revolution. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=282190
  • Tove H. Malloy. (2014). Minority Issues in Europe: Rights, Concepts, Policy. [N.p.]: Frank & Timme GmbH. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=977820

Recommended Additional Bibliography

  • Dersso, S. A. (2012). Taking Ethno-cultural Diversity Seriously in Constitutional Design : A Theory of Minority Rights for Addressing Africa’s Multiethnic Challenge. Leiden: Brill | Nijhoff. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=503866
  • When equality directives are not enough: Taking an issue with the missing minority rights policy in the EU? (2018). Hart Publishing / Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsnar&AN=edsnar.oai.pure.rug.nl.publications.5027581b.2059.4c2d.ad89.ef60cdb4722e

Authors

  • ULDANOV ARTEM ALEKSANDROVICH
  • DUBROVSKIY DMITRIY VIKTOROVICH
  • Хайнацкая Татьяна Игоревна