Europe in the world

Recommended Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of English.

Teaching Methods

The seminar-based format of the course presupposes active participation by the students. Besides the lecturer providing a conceptual framework from the outset, critical analysis and discussion of key texts are privileged throughout the course.

Learning Outcomes

Main learning outcome:

- Allow students to analyse critically the main security, economic and political practices and tendencies in Europe, particularly in relation to the European Union (EU), the foreign policies of the main European powers (e.g. Germany), the strategic positioning of Europe's smaller states and other European organisations.

 

Specific learning outcomes and skills:

- Identify and understand the conceptual frameworks with which to study regional spaces;

- Understand the main dynamics and actors within Europe;

- Understand the political, economic and security positioninng of th EU and key European states in relation to broader global dynamics, such as transatlanticism, EU expansion, among other issues. 

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Conceptual framework: Regional spaces and Europe's position within global dynamics

 

European Union Foreign Policies

Other European organisations and their roles

The foreign policies of key European powers

Strategic positionining of Europe's smaller powers

 

The impact of transatlantic relations in Europe

Other dynamics within the European space.

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

Buzan, Barry. 2008. Regions and powers: the structure of international security. 6th print. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. [BP 327 BUZ]

Bull, Hedley. 1977. The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Kubicek, Paul. 2017. European Politics. London: Routledge.

Lagadec, Erwan. 2013. Transatlantic Relations in the 21st Century: Europe, America and the Rise of the Rest. London: Routledge.

Neumann, Iver B. 1998. Uses of the Other: “The East” in European Identity Formation. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Szabo, Stephen. 2014. Germany, Russia, and the Rise of Geo-Economics. London: Bloombury.

White, Stephen, and Valentina Feklyunina. 2014. Identities and Foreign Policies in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus: The Other Europes. London: Palgrave Macmillan