| Course Name |
Foreign Relations of the EU
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Code
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Semester
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Theory
(hour/week) |
Application/Lab
(hour/week) |
Local Credits
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ECTS
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PSIR 509
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Fall/Spring
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3
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0
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3
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7.5
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| Prerequisites |
None
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| Course Language |
English
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| Course Type |
Elective
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| Course Level |
Second Cycle
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| Course Coordinator | - | |||||
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| Course Objectives | This advanced seminar is designed to give graduate students a broad perspective of the EU’s relations with third parties and its role in the international arena. It draws on European Integration theories to analyze the institutional mechanisms of EU’s external relations. The course particularly aims to identify and systematically assess the nature of EU influence across issue areas. The seminar will highlight two broad questions: “What kind of a global actor is the EU?” and “How does the EU act in the international arena?” Therefore seminar starts with a brief overview of theories of European Integration. Following a brief examination of how the EU institutions formulate and execute their policies towards the world outside its borders the seminar will continue with the analysis of a wide range of policy processes, policies and policy instruments of the EU. |
| Learning Outcomes |
The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | This course will focus on the EU's relations with third countries from security, social and economic perspectives. Each perspective will emphasize the historical and instutional aspects of foreign policy making. |
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Core Courses |
X
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| Major Area Courses | ||
| Supportive Courses | ||
| Media and Management Skills Courses | ||
| Transferable Skill Courses |
| Week | Subjects | Related Preparation |
| 1 | Introduction | |
| 2 | Understanding European Integration | 1) Moravcsik, Andrew “Preferences and Power in the European Community: A Liberal Intergovernmentalist Approach,” Journal of Common Market Studies 31 (1993), pp: 473-524. 2) Pierson, Paul “The Path to European Integration; A Historical Institutionalist Analysis, Comparative Political Studies 29:2 (1996), pp: 123-163. |
| 3 | Institutional Structure of the EU Policy Making: Three Pillars I | 1) Wallace, Hellen An Institutional Anatomy and Five Policy Modes in Helen Wallace, William Wallace and Mark Pollack, (eds.), PolicyMaking in the European Union, 5th ed. (Oxford, 2000), pp: 49-90. 2) Hill, Christopher and William Wallace Actors and Actions in Christopher Hill, (ed.), The Actors in Europe’s Foreign Policy (Routledge, 1996), pp: 116 and 288-304. |
| 4 | Institutional Structure of the EU Policy Making: Three Pillars II | 1) Smith, Karen E. EU External Relations in Michelle Cini (ed.), European Union Politics (Oxford, 2005), pp: 229-245. 2) Bretherton, Charlotte and John Vogler. The European Union as a Global Actor (London, 1999), pp: 15-45. |
| 5 | EU Enlargement I | 1) Schimmelfennig, Frank and Ulrich Sedelmeier, “Theorizing EU enlargement: research focus, hypotheses, and the state of research,” Journal of European Public Policy 9:4 (August 2002), pp: 500-528. 2) Bieler, Andreas. “The struggle over EU enlargement: a historical materialist analysis of European integration,” Journal of European Public Policy 9:4 (August 2002), pp: 575-597. |
| 6 | EU Enlargement II | 1) Schimmelfennig, Frank “The Community trap: liberal norms, rhetorical action, and the eastern enlargement of the European Union,” International Organization 55:1 (Winter 2002), pp: 47–80. 2) Glenn, John. EU Enlargement in Michelle Cini (ed.), European Union Politics (Oxford, 2005), pp:211-228 |
| 7 | Midterm Exam | |
| 8 | European Common Foreign and Security Policy | 1) Wallace, William. Foreign and Security Policy in Helen Wallace, William Wallace and Mark Pollack, (eds.), PolicyMaking in the European Union, 5th ed. (Oxford, 2000), pp:429-456. 2) Gordon, Philip, “Europe’s Uncommon Foreign Policy,” International Security 22:3 (Winter 1997/98), pp: 74-100. |
| 9 | Transatlantic Relations | 1) Kagan, Robert “Power and Weakness,” Policy Review 113 (June/July 2002), pp: 328. 2) Kupchan, Charles “The Rise of Europe, America's Changing Internationalism, and the End of U.S. Primacy,” Political Science Quarterly 118 (Summer 2003), pp: 205-231. |
| 10 | European Trade Policy | 1) Woolcock, Stephen Trade Policy in Helen Wallace, William Wallace and Mark Pollack, (eds.), PolicyMaking in the European Union, 5th ed. (Oxford, 2000), pp: 377-400. 2)Young, Alasdair R. “The Adaptation of European Foreign Economic Policy: From Rome to Seattle,” Journal of Common Market Studies 38:1 (March 2000), pp: 93-116. |
| 11 | Development Aid Policy | 1) Elgström, Ole “Norm negotiations: The construction of new norms regarding gender and development in EU foreign aid policy,” Journal of European Public Policy 7:3 (September 2000), pp: 457-476. 2)Forwood, Genevra. “The Road to Cotonou: Negotiating a Successor to Lomé,” Journal of Common Market Studies 39:3 (September 2001), pp: 423-442 |
| 12 | EU’s Neighborhood Policy | 1) FerreroWaldner, Benita “The European Neighbourhood Policy:The EU’s Newest Foreign Policy Instrument” European Foreign Affairs Review 11: (2006) pp:139–142. 2)Berg, Eiki and Piret Ehin “What Kind of Border Regime is in the Making?: Towards a Differentiated and Uneven Border Strategy” Cooperation and Conflict, 41:3 (2006) pp. 53-71. |
| 13 | Human Rights as the Bases of EU’s Identity | 1) Youngs, Richard “Normative Dynamics and Strategic Interests in the EU’s External Identity,” Journal of Common Market Studies 42:2 (June 2004), pp:415-436. 2) Clapham, Andrew Where is the EU’s Human Rights Common Foreign Policy and How is it Manifested in Multilateral Fora? in Philip Alston (ed.), The EU and Human Rights (Oxford, 1999) pp: 627-683. |
| 14 | Concluding Remarks | |
| 15 | Review of the Semester | |
| 16 | Review of the Semester |
| Course Notes/Textbooks | Reading Material and power point presentations. All course readings are available at the University Library and as open sources. |
| Suggested Readings/Materials |
| Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
| Participation | ||
| Laboratory / Application | ||
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
| Homework / Assignments |
5
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20
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| Presentation / Jury |
1
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20
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| Project |
1
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30
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| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exams | ||
| Midterm |
1
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20
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| Final Exam | ||
| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 70 |
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| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 30 |
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| Total |
| Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
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| Theoretical Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) |
16
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3
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48
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| Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) |
16
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| Study Hours Out of Class |
14
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3
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| Field Work | |||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | |||
| Homework / Assignments |
5
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6
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| Presentation / Jury |
1
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| Project |
1
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70
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| Seminar / Workshop | |||
| Oral Exam | |||
| Midterms |
1
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40
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| Final Exam | |||
| Total |
230
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Program Competencies/Outcomes |
* Contribution Level
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4 |
5 |
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| 1 | To improve theoretical and conceptual proficiencies on Political Science and International Relations and to ultimately deepen and develop intellectual interest | X | ||||
| 2 | To evaluate the relationships between factors in the field of Political Science and International Relations such as structures, actors, institutions and culture in a critical perspective | X | ||||
| 3 | To provide advanced competences to determine and question the theoretical and emprical gaps in Political Science and International Relations literature | X | ||||
| 4 | To identify the political and cultual conditions that generate discrimination mechanisms based on race, ethnic groups, gender and religion at national and international levels | X | ||||
| 5 | To provide competences to develop original arguments in order to fill the gaps in Political Science and International Relations literature | |||||
| 6 | To determine, collect, resolve, and interpret the data that would measure the theories and concepts as variables by using scientific research methods in Political Science and International Relations field | X | ||||
| 7 | To use confidently the terms and concepts of Political Science and International Relations | X | ||||
| 8 | To communicate systematically, in written, oral, and visual forms, contemporary developments in Political Science and International Relations to groups inside and outside the said discipline | |||||
| 9 | To take responsibility in an individual capacity and as part of a team in generating solutions to unexpected problems that arise in relation to politics in daily life | |||||
| 10 | To develop projects determining the institutional and political instruments for management of domestic and international conflicts | X | ||||
| 11 | To prepare an orginal thesis/term project about Political Science and International Relations in accordance with scentific criteria | X | ||||
| 12 | To design and carry out a scientific research project in the field of Political Science and International Relations | X | ||||
| 13 | To have ethical, social and scientific values in the stages throughout the processes of collecting, interpreting, disseminating and implementing data relevant to Political Science and International Relations | X | ||||
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