Delivered at:: School of International Affairs

Course type:: Elective course

When:: 2 year, 2 module

Instructor

Андриё Пьер

Full Syllabus

Abstract

How can a supranational entity such as the European Union promote a credible Foreign and Security policy without having its own Army Forces and Intelligence Services? In its general part, the course is willing to analyse the EU’s economic power, its influence in the international arena and its external relations and foreign policy by examining its main a) Institutions; b) Instruments; c) Sectorial Policies; d) Geographical and Geopolitical areas of interest and action. The course will also foresee important monographic parts devoted to an in-depth analysis of the Union’s Defence and Security Policies as well as those of international Aid and Cooperation towards non-member States – which have been increasing their importance over the last two decades in defining the rising ambition and effort of the EU to have a consolidated and self-standing system of international relations. Attendants to the Course will be offered both formal and substantial framework analysis – in order to intercept the main strengths and weaknesses of the European Union foreign policy and understand out of the predominant journalistic narratives the real essence of its relationship with the world. One of the course’s questions is whether the European Union’s geopolitical interests are the same as those of its Member States. This question concerns relations between the EU and Russia, the US and China. The course foresees a crosscutting part of practical simulations of the elaboration of the EU common Foreign and Security Policy and the respective roles of the Commission, the European External Action Service (EEAS), and the European Parliament in this process.

Learning Objectives

An Intergovernmental or Federal Europe? The idea of this course is to understand better (i) what the European Union is, (ii) how it became the largest trade bloc in the world and the biggest donor of development fund, (iii) how the decision-making process goes, and (iv) if such an important economic and trade power is capable of transforming itself into a geostrategic power.

Expected Learning Outcomes

Analyses of the monetary and economic crisis
Analyses the EU Eastern Partnership Policy
Analyses the EU-Russian relations.
Analyses the results of Foreign Policy, Security and Defence.
Defines the EU energy policy security and explains environmental challenges
Describes and analyses the process of enlargement of the EU.
Describes the main features of the relations between the EU, the USA and China
Explains the topic “Normative Power Europe.”
Explores the institutions and the purpose of the European Union.

Course Contents

October 6: Idea and Construction of the European Union
October 13: European Union Enlargement.
October 27: Foreign Policy, Security, Defence
November 3: The economy of the European Union
November 10: Energy Security and Environmental Challenges
November 17: Brexit and its consequences on the EU and the international position of the UK.
November 24: The EU Eastern Partnership Policy
December 1: The EU and Russia
December 8: The EU and the USA. Transatlantic relations.
December 15: The EU and China
December 22: Final Essay

Assessment Elements

Attendance and participation
presentations
Final Essay
No books or digital appliances can be used during the final exam.

Interim Assessment

2022/2023 2nd module
0.3 * Attendance and participation + 0.3 * Final Essay + 0.4 * presentations

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

Chryssogelos, A. (2016). The EU’s Crisis of Governance and European Foreign Policy. United Kingdom, Europe: Chatham House. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.A63B08B8
Gross, E. (DE-588)1045373443, (DE-627)774471433, (DE-576)161211178, aut. (2009). The europeanization of national foreign policy continuity and change in European crisis management Eva Gross.
Koutrakos, P. (2011). European Foreign Policy : Legal and Political Perspectives. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=387726
Winn, N. (DE-588)115042423, (DE-627)691238766, (DE-576)176515763, aut. (2001). EU foreign policy beyond the nation-state joint actions and institutional analysis of the common foreign and security policy Neil Winn and Christopher Lord.

Recommended Additional Bibliography

Carbone, M. (DE-588)136755275, (DE-627)585880050, (DE-576)271776390, aut. (2007). The European Union and international development the politics of foreign aid Maurizio Carbone.
VERSCHAEVE, J. (2012). European Foreign Policy: Legal and Political Perspectives - Edited by P. Koutrakos. Journal of Common Market Studies, 50(3), 537–538. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5965.2012.02247_11.x
What European foreign policy to address today’s and tomorrow’s geopolitical challenges? (2018). Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.FAEB3352

Master’s Programme 'International Relations: European and Asian Studies'

Address

EU in the World