Looking East: EU Instruments and Policies

Year
0
Academic year
2019-2020
Code
01016073
Subject Area
Área Científica do Menor
Language of Instruction
English
Mode of Delivery
E-learning
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
6.0
Type
Elective
Level
1st Cycle Studies

Recommended Prerequisites

Knowledge of English as the curricular unit working language is English

Teaching Methods

E-learning.

Learning Outcomes

This course addresses EU external relations from a conceptualization perspective, and specialized in its approach to the topic through a regional lenses. It starts by discussing dynamics of integration and enlargement in the process of building the EU internally and the impact it has on its dimension as an international actor. It focuses on the Eastern neighbourhood, looking at the main issues on the agenda as well as how relations with Russia contribute to enhancing or hindering EU policies/approaches towards this neighbouring area. It also draws on potentialities and limitations and discusses challenges ahead. The e-learning format allows an innovative approach, as an open educational resource building on new technologies. Students should be able to identify EU integration processes and its relation with non-members, discuss the reach of enlargement as a policy tool, analyse critically different issues on the agenda of EU and its neighbours, and with Russia.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1.         EU dynamics of integration and enlargement and the development of relations with the EU’s eastern neighbourhood

2.         Issues: political and security triangulation in EU-Russia-EaP countries relations

3.         New agents: business, civil society, parliamentary cooperation

4.         Possibilities and limits to the development of the Eastern Partnership agenda: from decision-making to implementation

5.         Challenges ahead

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria Raquel de Sousa Freire

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Periodic or by final exam as given in the course information: 100.0%

Bibliography

Uma lista mais detalhada de leituras consta do programa da uc. A more detailed list of readings is available in the syllabus.

Dimitris Bouris and Tobias Schumacher (2016) The Revised European Neighbourhood Policy: Continuity and Change in EU Foreign Policy. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Anna-Sophie Maass (2016) EU-Russia Relations, 1999-2015: From Courtship to Confrontation (Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe. London: Routledge.

Hubert Zimmermann and Andreas Dür (2016) Key Controversies in European Integration (The European Union Series). Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Ivan T. Berend (2016) The Contemporary Crisis of the European Union: Prospects for the future (Routledge Studies in the European Economy). London: Routledge.

Neill Nugent (2014) European Union Enlargement (The European Union Series). Basingstoke: Palgrave.