Print syllabusEU Eastern Policy
General data
| Course ID: | 2200-9HA-18-OG |
| Erasmus code / ISCED: |
14.6
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| Course title: | EU Eastern Policy |
| Name in Polish: | EU Eastern Policy |
| Organizational unit: | Faculty of Law and Administration |
| Course groups: |
General university courses General university courses in Faculty of Law and Administration General university courses in the social sciences |
| ECTS credit allocation (and other scores): |
(not available)
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| Language: | English |
| Type of course: | general courses |
| Short description: |
The course consists of four stages. Stage I (week 1-2) includes introductory lectures on the tools for the foreign policy analysis (FPA), the EU’s foreign policy (institutions and mechanisms) and the EU’s external activity in the region of Eastern Europe. Stage II (week 3-4) includes a workshop with an expert on how to write an analytical paper. Stage III (weeks 5-10) includes analysing EU’s Eastern policy from the perspective of its addressees. Stage IV (weeks 11-13) is dedicated to the evaluation of EU’s Eastern Policy. The class during week 13 will have a form of a student debate in which each student is expected to prepare his opinion whether the EU is purely a “civilisational” or an imperial power. |
| Full description: |
1. How to analyse foreign policy? The case of the EU’s external activity - The Foreign Policy Analysis: main notions and concepts - The EU as an international actor: institutions, mechanisms, agenda, instruments 2. The EU’s Eastern policy: ideological underpinning, interests, goals, instruments - The ideological foundations of EU’s Eastern policy - The evolution of the EU’s Eastern policy: interests, goals, instruments - The EU’s policy and the interests of particular member states 3-4. Workshop with an expert: how to write an analytical paper 5. The New Eastern Europe: from the USRR to the EU’s periphery - The consequences of the fall of the USSR - The burden of the triple transformation - Bandwagoning or balancing: a better strategy for the ‘New’ Eastern Europe 6. Belarus 7. Ukraine 8. Moldova 9. South Caucasus 10. Russia |
| Bibliography: |
During the course students work with contemporary articles from academic journals. Below the main monographs used in the course: - Stephan Keukeleire, Tom Delreux, The Foreign Policy of the European Union, Palgrave Macmillan 2014 - Federiga Bindi [ed.], The Foreign Policy of the EU. Assessing Europe’s Role in the World, Brookings Institution Press 2010, pp. 13-51. - Richard Whitman, Stefan Wolff [eds.], The European Neighbourhood Policy in Perspective. Context, Implementation and Impact, Palgrave MacMillan 2010 - Heather Grabbe, The EU’s Transformative Power, Palgrave Macmillan 2006, pp. 52-73. - Ivan T. Berend, From the Soviet Bloc to the EU. The Economic and Social Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe since 1973, Cambridge University Press 2009. - Elena Korosteleva, The European Union and its Eastern Neighbours, Routledge 2012. - Nelli Babayan, The In-Betweeners, The Eastern Partnership Countries and the Russia-West Conflict, Transatlantic Academy Paper Press, April 2016. Jan Zielonka, Europe as Empire: The Nature of the Enlarged European Union, Oxford University Press 2007. |
| Learning outcomes: |
In conformity with the learning outcomes set out by the NOHA network, students should achieve the following learning outcomes by the end of this module: • specialised knowledge about the conceptual assumptions and political execution of the Eastern dimension of the EU policy. Shows an understanding of ideological and material basis for this policy. Builds up own awareness of geopolitical consequences of the Eastern policy of the EU on a regional as well as global scale • critical understanding of differences in interests and goals projected for the EU Eastern policy by particular member states • highly specialised knowledge about the Eastern European countries – addressees of the EU policy. Has a good understanding of political, economical and social processes in these countries. • ability to evaluate efficiency of the EU policies by combining the needs of Eastern European states and means adopted by the EU. Has the ability to interpret, critically analyse and contextualise the obtained data • skills to give own recommendations for modification of policies and find new solutions for the EU as well as for Eastern European countries. Improves abilities to assess geopolitical risks in regard to the EU Eastern Policy |
| Assessment methods and assessment criteria: |
While assessing the overall performance of a student, the coordinator takes into account the number of absences, activity during classes (preparing compulsory readings) and the quality of tasks (analytical paper, presentation of this paper and participation in the debate). The fundamental condition of receiving a graded pass is the presence during classes. A student has a right to be absent twice and only during these weeks when she/he does not perform a presentation (!). Furthermore, in order to be able to fulfil the required tasks, each student has to take part in the workshop. |
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