Semester	Fall Semester, 2020
Department	MA Program of Diplomacy, First Year PhD Program of Diplomacy, First Year MA Program of Diplomacy, Second Year PhD Program of Diplomacy, Second Year
Course Name	Area Studies - International Relations in European Union
Instructor	SU CHO-HSIN
Credit	3.0
Course Type	Selectively
Prerequisite

Course Objective

Course Description

Course Schedule

Week	Class	Reading list
9/15	Class introduction: historical overview of the European integration	Wallace, H., Pollack, Mark A. and Young, Alasdair R. (eds) (2015) Policy-making in the European Union, 7th edition, Oxford University Press.
9/22	EU multi-level governance: theory and practice
9/29	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.
10/6	Guest lecture	To be determined
10/13	EU normative power	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.
10/20	The Brussels effect	Bradford, A. (2020). The Brussels Effect. How the European Union Rules the World. Oxford University Press.
10/27	United Kingdom: Brexit and beyond	Hix, S. (2018) ‘Brexit: Where is the EU-UK Relationship Heading?’, Journal of Common Market Studies, 56: 11-27.
11/3	France: Macron and his new European campaign	Tiersky, R. (2018) ‘Macron’s World: How the New President is Remaking France’, Foreign Affairs, 97 (1): 87-96.
11/10	Germany: Merkel and the immigration policy
11/17	EU and its member states: the illiberal turn within	Pech, L. and K. L. Scheppele (2017) ‘Illiberalism Within: Rule of Law Backsliding in the EU’, Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies, 19: 3-47.
11/24	EU and other Europe: the European Neighbourhood Policy
12/1	EU and Russia: the Ukrainian crisis
12/8	EU and the United States: transatlantic relations in the age of Donald Trump	Welfens, P. J. L. (2019) The Global Trump: Structural US populism and Economic Conflicts with Europe and Asia. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan; Simón, Luis (2015) ‘Europe, the rise of Asia and the future of the transatlantic relationship’, International Affairs, 91 (5): 969-989.
12/15	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.
12/22	EU and Asia: trade and investment relations	Wu, C.-H. and Gaenssmantel, F. (ed.) (2020) Law and Diplomacy in the Management of EU-Asia Trade and Investment Relations. New York: Routledge.
12/29	EU and China: the Belt and Road Initiative	Vangeli, A. (2017) ‘China’s Engagement with the Sixteen Countries of Central, East and Southeast Europe under the Belt and Road Initiative’, China & World Economy, 25 (5): 101-124.
1/5	EU’s role in international relations in the 21st century
1/12	Final paper and discussion

Teaching Methods

Teaching Assistant

Requirement/Grading

The first part of the class will be lecture-giving. From week 8 to week 16, there will be 9 topics for discussion, each covering one special relation of the EU with another actor. Each topic discussion will be divided into 3 sessions: the first session will be the introduction of the issue, the second session will be a seminar of the given topic presented by students, and third session will be in-depth discussions of the presentation and the reading. Throughout the semester, students’ active participations are expected. By the end of the semester, students are required to hand in one paper on her/his selected issue.

Class participation 30%

Group presentation 30%

Final exam 40%

Textbook & Reference

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.

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

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.

Hix, S. (2018) ‘Brexit: Where is the EU-UK Relationship Heading?’, Journal of Common Market Studies, 56: 11-27.

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

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.

Pech, L. and K. L. Scheppele (2017) ‘Illiberalism Within: Rule of Law Backsliding in the EU’, Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies, 19: 3-47.

Tiersky, R. (2018) ‘Macron’s World: How the New President is Remaking France’, Foreign Affairs, 97 (1): 87-96.

Vangeli, A. (2017) ‘China’s Engagement with the Sixteen Countries of Central, East and Southeast Europe under the Belt and Road Initiative’, China & World Economy, 25 (5): 101-124.

Wallace, H., Pollack, Mark A. and Young, Alasdair R. (eds) (2015) Policy-making in the European Union, 7th edition, Oxford University Press.

Welfens, P. J. L. (2019) The Global Trump: Structural US populism and Economic Conflicts with Europe and Asia. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.

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

Wu, C.-H. and Gaenssmantel, F. (ed.) (2020) Law and Diplomacy in the Management of EU-Asia Trade and Investment Relations. New York: Routledge.

Urls about Course

Attachment