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Instructors: Univ-Prof. Dr. Arne Niemann
Event type:
Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
Sem EU-US Relations
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
- | 30
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Requirements / organisational issues:
Bereich: Internationale Beziehungen.
Contents:
In the near future, emerging powers such as China, Russia, India and Brazil, but also Mexico, South Africa and others, are expected to play a defining role not only in the global economy but also in global politics. On the other hand, this seems to go hand in hand with a decreasing importance of the old, established great powers, Europe and the USA.
Cooperating effectively with these countries is likely to be crucial in the future, as already seen on many vital issues of global governance, including climate change, trade policy, or the management of the financial crisis. Several interesting and important questions arise:
- ? How can the European Union’s relations with emerging powers be conceptualised?
- ? What are the conditions for (deeper) cooperation (and discord) between the EU and the emerging powers?
- ? What impact does the EU’s relationship with emerging powers have for the foreign policies of select member states towards the BRICS?
- ? Most of the current studies of EU bilateral relations tend to be Eurocentric. What are the emerging powers perceptions of the Union and the bilateral relationship?
- ? What is the impact of the Eurozone crisis on the bilateral relationship? To what extent has the crisis weakened the EU’s position in the relationship?
- ? It is unlikely to be just the bilateral relationship that matters: how does the United States impact on these relationships - both economically and politically? To what extent is the US the ‘elephant in the room’?
In the course, we will analyse relationships between the EU and individual emerging powers such as China, Russia, India, Brazil and South Africa in a comprehensive and systematic manner. Additionally, we will include transatlantic relations between the EU and the USA to compare EU’s foreign policy towards old and newly emerging powers. The course will seek to address the above questions in order to gain insights on the similarities and differences as well as the conditions for cooperation and discord of the EU’s bilateral relations with the emerging powers.
The seminar will be taught in English.
Recommended reading list:
Background reading:
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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