Social and Political Risks

2025/2026

Учебный год

ENG

Обучение ведется на английском языке

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Кредиты

Кто читает:

Департамент политологии и международных отношений

Статус:

Курс по выбору

Когда читается:

1-й курс, 2 модуль

Преподаватель

Воробьев Никита Игоревич

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course explores the notion of business risks with emphasis on the ESG and sustainable development perspective. Students will learn the mechanisms behind mitigation of threats to companies’ operations which arise from regulatory, environmental and social factors. Through real-world examples of large enterprises from different industries students will familiarize themselves with multifaceted structure of corporate risks and the tools of their measurement, management and mapping.

Learning Objectives

• The main aims of the course include: ● Get a comprehensive grasp on the risks’ nature and their effects in corporate context. ● Learn to analyze complex sociopolitical processes and estimate their probability and impacts on daily operations of a company. ● Develop understanding of integrated corporate systems and the mechanisms ensuring their resilience. ● Understand embeddedness of corporate structures into varying social, ecological and regulatory contexts.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• ● Navigates contemporary threats to long-term corporate stability
• ● Analyzes political, social and economic impacts on different business functions
• ● Evaluates materiality of risks based on available data
• ● Visualizes and presents the results of risk-assessment
• ● Develops tailored risk-mitigation strategies for companies

Course Contents

• Workshop 1: Introduction to sociopolitical risks and ESG aspects
• Workshop 2: Regulatory risks in the post-Soviet space
• Workshop 3: Ecological risks and sustainable business transformation
• Workshop 4: Climate risks: adaptation and mitigation strategies
• Workshop 5: Workplace health and safety, social risks

Assessment Elements

• Workshops
  Teacher evaluates students’ participation in and contribution to seminar discussion
• HW1 (homework 1)
  A short and illustrative presentation of an assigned company’s regulatory risks. Assessment of their importance and probability of occurrence.
• HW2 (homework 2)
  A short and illustrative presentation of an assigned company’s ecological risks. Assessment of their importance and probability of occurrence.
• Group project
  Students form small groups (2-4 people) to present risk-management scenarios for each of the four covered aspects (regulations, ecology, climate, workplace safety). The groups are expected to present their vision of respective risks of a chosen company, their impact on business, probability and materiality and propose mitigating activities specifying the responsible business units.

Interim Assessment

• 2025/2026 2nd module
  0.25 * Group project + 0.25 * HW1 (homework 1) + 0.25 * HW2 (homework 2) + 0.25 * Workshops

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• A Global Perspective on Energy Markets Climate Change & Economic Integration: Problems and Prospects. (2008). Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsstc&AN=edsstc.1146287

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Cairney, P. (2016). The Politics of Evidence-Based Policy Making. New York: Palgrave Pivot. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1203451