The European Union as a Global Actor

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

 Lectures and debate classes.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the semester, students must be able to:

Understand the evolution and the significance of the EU as a global actor

Identify the institutional architecture that provide the basis for the EU’s external action 

Compare the EU's external role across several policy areas

Identify and explain the most important obstacles to the EU’s exercise and enhancement of its external policies

Understand external perceptions regarding the EU’s actorness.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Introductory concepts: actors and actorness

2. The evolution of the UE actorness: processes and institutions

3. Identity and roles of the EU

4. The EU as an economic power and trade actor

5. The EU as development and humanitarian actor

6. The EU’s leadership role in environmental policy

7. The EU as regional actor: enlargement and neighbourhood policy

8. The EU as security community and military actor: the renewed CFSP and CSDP

9. The external perceptions of the EU as a global actor.

Head Lecturer(s)

Isabel Anunciação Ferraz Camisão

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Resolution Problems: 20.0%
Research work: 30.0%
Frequency: 50.0%

Bibliography

Bretherton, Charlotte, and John Vogler. 2006. The European Union as a Global Actor. 2nd ed. Oxon: Routledge.

 

Bindi, Federiga, and Irina Angelescu, eds. 2012. The Foreign Policy of the European Union: Assessing Europe's Role in the World. 2nd ed. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution.

 

Gareis, Sven, Gunther Hauser, and Frank Kernic, eds. 2013. The European Union: A global Actor? Opladen: Barbara Budrich Publishers.

 

Lucarelli, Sonia, and Lorenzo Fioramonti. 2011. External Perceptions of the European Union as a Global Actor. London: Routledge.

 

Staab, Andreas. 2013. The European Union Explained: Institutions, Actors, Global Impact. 3rd ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.