Saint-Louis – Université Méditerranéenne des Nations
CHOISEUL FACULTY — Social sciences, humanities and international relationsBeing established
A faculty being established, devoted to the social sciences, the humanities and international relations.
Motto: Consilio, non vi · by counsel, not by force
Dean: Ali Sedjari, former holder of the UNESCO Chair in Human Rights (2005-2017), specialist in the science of government and public action.
French academic component of the partnership with the University of Baghdad.
The faculty brings together the social sciences and the humanities and hosts the Al-Khawarizmi programme. It incorporates the Department of History, Sociology and Public Law. It works in liaison with LARHA – MC FEDERICI and the ORIENT centre.
Louis-Michel van Loo, portrait of Étienne-François, Duke of Choiseul (detail).
Étienne-François de Choiseul
1719 – 1785 · Duke of Choiseul, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (1758-1761 and 1766-1770), for War (1761-1770) and for the Navy (1761-1766) under Louis XV
The real head of Louis XV’s ministry from 1758 to 1770, Choiseul made the Mediterranean and the Ottoman Empire one of the steady lines of his diplomacy, and rebuilt the royal fleet after the Seven Years’ War. The faculty honours in him the art of diplomacy, and that alone.
Initial training
Department of History, Sociology and Public Law
Incorporated into the faculty, the Department brings together four disciplines: history, sociology, public law and international relations. The International Relations track is attached to it, with the Ph.D. in History of International Relations and the track in Comparative History of International Relations; its public law works in liaison with the KING AFFONSO I FACULTY.
“Practice of philosophical discourse applied to lived experience”, a seminar directed by Yigal Dawidowicz: ten three-hour sessions, open to all and awarded a university certificate of training.
Continuing education · delivered by the Institut Montpensier
Continuing education programmes
International relations · Mediterranean and African diplomacy · Public law and institutions · Applied social sciences · History and international relations. The Institut Montpensier is chaired by Jean-Louis Fabiani.
Partnership under way: University of Baghdad
The faculty is designed as a joint faculty, of Iraqi and French affiliation, founded on a protocol of academic and scientific cooperation with the University of Baghdad, in connection with the UNESCO Chair for genocide prevention studies in the Islamic world. Professor Salah Fleifel Ayed Al-Jabri is its coordinator for the University of Baghdad. The Al-Khawarizmi programme is conducted there with the Cercle France-Irak, and the faculty relies on its partnership with the BAUDOUIN DE COURTENAY FACULTY OF KNOWLEDGE AND PROFESSIONS.
Fields of study
History and comparative historiography · sociology and historical sociology of knowledge · economics and public policy · public law and European law · philosophy · the Mediterranean world and the Middle East · diplomacy and international relations · memory and research on violent pasts · academic francophonie.
Initial training · Department of History, Sociology and Public LawPh.D. History of International Relations · Nasser Michaëlene GabryelSeminar on philosophical practice · Yigal Dawidowicz
Continuing education · Institut MontpensierInternational relations · Mediterranean and African diplomacy · Public law and institutions · Applied social sciences · History and international relationsPresident of the Institut · Jean-Louis Fabiani
Pr Salah Fleifel Ayed Al-Jabri
