Semester	Fall Semester, 2023
Department	Program(master level)
Course Name	Area Studies - International Relations in European Union
Instructor	SU CHO-HSIN
Credit	3.0
Course Type	Elective
Prerequisite

Course Objective

Course Description

Course Schedule

Week	Class	Reading list
9/14	Class introduction: historical overview of the European integration	Wallace, H., Pollack, Mark A. and Young, Alasdair R. (eds) (2020) Policy-making in the European Union, 8th edition, Oxford University Press.
9/21	EU multi-level governance: theory and practice	Hooghe, L. and G. Marks. (2001) Multi-Level Governance and European Integration. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
9/28	The nature and the policy-making system of the EU foreign policy	Keukeleire, S. and Delreux, T. (2014) The Foreign Policy of the European Union, 2nd edition, Palgrave Macmillan.
10/5	EU financial crisis and its reforms Guest lecture: Dr. Benjamin Peeters UCLouvain Saint-Louis Brussels
10/12	Extensive reading
10/19	EU normative power and the Brussels effect	Neuman, M. (2019). Democracy Promotion and the Normative Power Europe Framework. Switzerland: Springer; Björkdahl, A. et al. (ed.) (2015). Importing EU Norms: Conceptual Framework and Empirical Findings. Switzerland: Springer; Bradford, A. (2020). The Brussels Effect. How the European Union Rules the World. Oxford University Press.
10/26	United Kingdom: Brexit and beyond	Staiger, U. and R. Schütze. (2022). ‘The Past, Present and Future of Brexit: An Introduction’, Global Policy, 13 (S2): 5-8.
11/2	France: Macron and his new European campaign	Bouza García, L. and Á. Oleart. (2021). ‘Make Europe Great Again: The Politicising Pro-European Narrative of Emmanuel Macron in France’ In Haapala, T. and Á. Oleart, (ed.) Tracing the Politicisation of the EU. Springer, pp. 271-293.
11/9	Germany: from Merkel to Schotz	Mese, Z. (2022). ‘The New German Coalition and Its Impact on EU-Turkey Relations’, Insight (Turkey), 24 (1): 89-103.
11/16	EU and its member states Guest lecture: Professor Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy Vrije Universiteit Brussel
11/23	EU and China Guest lecture: Professor Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy Vrije Universiteit Brussel
11/30	EU and Asia Guest lecture: Professor Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy Vrije Universiteit Brussel
12/7	EU and Russia Guest lecture: Professor Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy Vrije Universiteit Brussel EU and the United States
12/14	EU and the US	Men, J. et al. (ed.) (2020) The Evolving Relationship between China, the EU and the USA. Routledge.
12/21	EU and the Mediterranean/Middle East: EU and the Arab Spring	Del Sarto, R. A. (2016) ‘Normative Empire Europe: The European Union, its Borderlands, and the ‘Arab Spring’’, Journal of Common Market Studies, 54 (2): 215-232.
12/28	Final presentation
1/4	Final presentation
1/11	Extensive reading

Teaching Methods

Teaching Assistant

Requirement/Grading

The first part of the class will be lecture-giving. Guest lecturers from Europe specialized on the topics are integrated in the course. The last 2 weeks will be group presentations by students. Each group is required to select one topic that tackles EU's external relations with one specific actor in the IR, e.g. states, IGOs, NGOs, etc. The presentation will be a situation analysis of the chosen topic, using IR theoretical approaches to test the hypothesis and to present probable developments. Throughout the semester, students’ active participations are expected.

Class participation 30%

Midterm paper 40%

Group presentation 30%

Textbook & Reference

Adriaensen, J. and Postnikov, E. (ed.) (2022) A Geo-Economic Turn in Trade Policy? EU Trade Agreements in Asia-Pacific. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.

Björkdahl, A. et al. (ed.) (2015) Importing EU Norms: Conceptual Framework and Empirical Findings. Switzerland: Springer.

Börzel, T. A. and V. van Hüllen (2014) ‘One Voice, One Message, but Conflicting Goals: Cohesiveness and Consistency in the European Neighbourhood Policy’, Journal of European Public Policy, 21 (7): 1033-1049.

Bouza García, L. and Á. Oleart. (2021). ‘Make Europe Great Again: The Politicising Pro-European Narrative of Emmanuel Macron in France’ In Haapala, T. and Á. Oleart, (ed.) Tracing the Politicisation of the EU. Springer, pp. 271-293.

Bradford, A. (2020) The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World. Oxford University Press.

Coman, R. et al., (ed.) (2020). Governance and Politics in the Post-Crisis European Union. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 278-293.

Del Sarto, R. A. (2016) ‘Normative Empire Europe: The European Union, its Borderlands, and the ‘Arab Spring’’, Journal of Common Market Studies, 54 (2): 215-232.

Haapala, T. and Á. Oleart. (ed.) (2021). Tracing the Politicisation of the EU. Springer.

Hooghe, L. and G. Marks. (2001) Multi-Level Governance and European Integration. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

Keukeleire, S. and Delreux, T. (2014) The Foreign Policy of the European Union, 2nd edition, Palgrave Macmillan.

Men, J. et al. (ed.) (2020) The Evolving Relationship between China, the EU and the USA. Routledge.

Mese, Z. (2022). ‘The New German Coalition and Its Impact on EU-Turkey Relations’, Insight (Turkey), 24 (1): 89-103.

Neuman, M. (2019). Democracy Promotion and the Normative Power Europe Framework: The European Union in South Eastern Europe, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. Switzerland: Springer.

Staiger, U. and R. Schütze. (2022). ‘The Past, Present and Future of Brexit: An Introduction’, Global Policy, 13 (S2): 5-8.

Van Middelaar, L. (2022) Le réveil géopolitique de l'Europe. Paris: Collège de France.

Wallace, H., Pollack, Mark A. and Young, Alasdair R. (eds) (2020) Policy-making in the European Union, 8th edition, Oxford University Press.

Whitman, R. G. (ed.) (2011) Normative Power Europe: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan.

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