| Kommentar |
No single book is exactly coterminous with the syllabus. But the following are useful background readings recommended for purchase:
Hill, C. and M. Smith (2011) International Relations and the European Union, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Class discussion will be more interesting if we are all up-to-date on EU current events. During the semester, students are encouraged to follow the latest news from Europe by reading one or more of the following publications and websites, for example: The Financial Times, The Economist, BBC News, Le Monde, Deutschlandradio, Süddeutsche Zeitung, FAZ, Le Monde. In addition to the coverage in national newspapers, you might also find www.euractive.com and http://euobserver.com/ helpful. You might want to follow me on twitter @michael.kaeding |
| Bemerkung |
The European Union’s existence and development raises many empirical and theoretical questions. This course follows up on the previous seminar and is designed for IBEP graduate students, who are interested in acquiring specialised knowledge of the role of the EU in international affairs. The objective of this class is to understand the various dimensions (institutional, legal, policy outcome) of the EU’s external relations and the significance of the EU as a global actor in multiple policy areas (foreign, security and defence, trade, development, environment and climate change). The aim is to familiarise ourselves with the relevant literature, to gain a deeper understanding of the various aspects of the EU’s CFSP. The following tools will be used: presentations, guest-speakers, take-home-exams, workshop, debates (different styles) on various CFSP related issues. At the end of this course you will have gained a thorough understanding of the EU’s role in international relations and the related current public and scholarly social scientific and normative debates.
Please note that participants of this seminar will take part in a series of debates on CFSP and development policy, culminating in a pan-University debating contest against other students from Universities in NRW on 12.1.2017 /12-19h) at Duisburg. Please reserve the entire day for this big event! For more infos please see www.nrwdebattierteuropa.eu |
