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Instructors: Univ-Prof. Dr. Arne Niemann
Event type:
Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
Sem Methods IR
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Requirements / organisational issues:
Bereich: Internationale Beziehungen.
Contents:
The purpose of this seminar is to familiarise students with the most import areas and aspects of the European Union (EU) external relations and the EU as an actor in global politics. In the first part of the course, we will look at the big picture of the EU external policy: the historical context, the institutional set-up and ways to conceptualise the EU’s role in international relations. In Part II, we will concentrate on the most important policy areas of the EU external relations: foreign policy, security and defence policy, trade policy, development policy, policy on Justice and Home Affairs (migration, organised crime and terrorism), as well as the EU external environmental policy. Part III will focus on the geographical dimension and relations with important regions/countries (European Neighbourhood Policy and transatlantic relations). In the fourth part, we will deal with a number of important horizontal issues, such as transparency, legitimacy and democracy in the EU’s foreign policy, as well as the question whether the EU constitutes a normative power. Students should have already attended a course on European Integration or attained solid knowledge of the EU by other means (e.g. read one of the background readings below). The seminar will be taught in English.
Recommended reading list:
Background reading: (one of the below texts should be read before the start of the course by those students who are not sure if they have enough knowledge)
McCormick, John (2008), Understanding the European Union: A Concise Introduction, 4th Edition, Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.
(This is an accessible basic introduction)
Dinan, Desmond (2005), Ever Closer Union: An Introduction to European Integration, 3rd Edition, Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, chapters 1-6.
(Perhaps the most widely read introductory book on European integration; a classic. Takes foremost a historical approach)
George, Stephen and Bache, Ian (2006), Politics in the European Union, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Also a very good introduction)
Cini, Michelle and Nieves Perez-Solorzano Borragan (ed.) (2010), European Union Politics, Third Edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
(Fine book, with many valuable chapter written by experts in the particular fields).
Wallace, Helen, Mark Pollack and Young, Alasdair (2010) (eds), Policy-Making in the European Union, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
(Excellent book; each chapter written by an expert in the particular policy area; somewhat more advanced than the above ones).
Readings
Bretherton, Charlotte and Vogler, John (2006), The European Union as a Global Actor, London: Routledge.
Hill, Christopher and Michael Smith (eds.), International Relations and the European Union, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Keukeleire, Stephan and MacNaughtan, Jennifer (2008), The Foreign Policy of the European Union, Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.
Telò, M. (ed.) (2009), The European Union and Global Governance London: Routledge.
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