| CODE | EST2231 | ||||||
| TITLE | World Politics and the National Foreign Policies of the EU States | ||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||
| MQF LEVEL | Not Applicable | ||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 6 | ||||||
| DEPARTMENT | European Studies | ||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The main theories of international relations (IR) or world politics that are required to understand the national foreign policies of the EU member states. The study-unit will also focus attention on the foreign policies of a select number of EU member states in order to demonstrate the link between theory and practice. The theoretical foundations of this study-unit are also useful in the study of the EU in world politics. Study-unit Aims: The main aim is to instruct students on the theories of International Relations and Foreign Policy Analysis so that they can better appraise the national foreign policies of the member states and apply them in other courses taught in year three such as the Common Foreign and Security Policy and the External Relations of the EU. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - apply the theories of IR/FPA to the analysis of national foreign policies, - understand the nexus connecting the EU's emerging and still fragile foreign policy and national foreign policies and how the latter impinge upon the former, - understand the extent of the Europeanization of national foreign policies in the EU member states and how this affects the way member states behave in world politics, - comprehend the processes, narratives and theoretical frameworks that are used in the formation of contemporary policies. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - use the skills and knowledge acquired to analyze at some depth the foreign policies of the EU member states, - use such skills to analyze the foreign policies of other states outside the EU, to undertake research and analysis of a substantially good quality. These skills when acquired will also serve other study-units which deal with international relations. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: - John Baylis, Steve Smith and Patricia Owens, The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations, Oxford University Press, Fifth Edition, 2011. - Steve Smith, Amelia Hadfield and Tim Dunne, "Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors and Cases", Oxford University Press. - Michael Baun and Dan Marek, "The New Member States and the EU: Foreign Policy and Europeanization", Routledge, 2013. - Stefan Lehne “The Big Three in EU foreign policy”, CARNEGIE EUROPE, CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE, July 2012. - Mischa Hansel, University of Cologne and Kai Oppermann, King’s College London, “Counterfactual Reasoning in Foreign Policy Analysis: The Cases of German Non-participation in the Iraq and Libya Interventions of 2003 and 2011” Paper presented at the 63rd PSA Annual International Conference “The Party’s over?”, Cardiff 25-27 March 2013. Other articles such as the ones listed here will be uploaded on VLE. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Roderick Pace |
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