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Academic year 2014-2015Value date : 12/05/2015
SPOL0225-2  European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP)

Duration :  30h Th
Number of credits :  
Master en sciences politiques, orientation générale, à finalité spécialisée en politiques européennes, 1st year5
Master en sciences politiques, orientation générale, à finalité spécialisée en politiques européennes, 2nd year5
Master in Political Sciences : General 5
Lecturer :  André Dumoulin
Language(s) of instruction :  
French language
Organisation and examination :  
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Course contents :  
 
After the examination of the historical evolution of the attempts European to sit a clean identity as regards European safety, it will be question of examining the structuring and the bodies of this policy sectoral of the European Union. The examination of the various facets of this PESD will be illustrated by the presentation of particular sets of themes sometimes subjacent with the subjects retained like, for examples: - the conceptual one of the ESDP
- permanente structured coo-peration - the relational transatlantic - European values and security defense - the field of dissuasion - scenarios These various topics will be analyzed starting from the taking into account of factual elements of the actuality and the historical and prospective elements in this very particular sphere, but highly significative, implying in the long term solidarity politico-military and an identity sectoral European
Learning outcomes of the course :  
- To determine the various pluridisciplinary elements which, within the framework of the new definition of the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) within the Union and transversely within different intra-European multinational cooperations ad hoc, can be them constitutive bricks, as much as the stabilizing elements with research of a supranational, of a increase in power and a certain decision-making autonomy of the EU in general and the European States in particular in security and strategic sphere of activity. - To support comprehension by the student of the evolution of the relations and of stakes between the European Union and NATO, European Union and UN. - To apprehend the ESDP like a component of the Foreign Affairs which can support diplomatic, political and ethics dimensions of the concepts of security.
Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :  
nothingness
Planned learning activities and teaching methods :  
Thematic Research
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :  
The course gives itself Wednesday of 08.30 a.m. to 10h30 on and after the 16 September 2014
Recommended or required readings :  
Coursebook and PowerPoint. Syllabus available late September to PUL.


Advised readings:
-Sven Biscop and Richard G. Whitman (dir.),The Routledge Handbook of European Security, Routledge. Taylor & francis Group, 2012. -André Dumoulin and Philippe Manigart (dir.), Opinions publiques et Politique européenne de sécurité et de défense. Positions, évolutions, publics spécialisés, Bruylant, Brussels, 2010. -Collectif, European Security and defence Policy. The first 10 years (1999-2009), ISSEU, Paris, 2010. - Andre Dumoulin, Raphaël Mathieu and Gordon Sarlet, La politique européenne de sécurité et de défense. De l'opératoire à l'identitaire, Bruylant, Brussels, 2003. - Andre Dumoulin and Francis Gevers (contr.), Union de l'Europe occidentale : la déstructuration (1998-2006), Bruylant, Brussels, 2005. -Jolyon Howorth, Security and Defence Policy in the European Union, Palgrave, 2007.
Assessment methods and criteria :  
Written (MCQ) in January 2015.
Work placement(s) :  
Organizational remarks :  
The course is held every even year ( 2014-2015, 2016-2017...).
Contacts :  
Andre Dumoulin, Senior Research in Royal Military School ; Lecturer in Department of political science, European Studies Unit, University of Liege; Member of RMES (www.rmes.be). Telephone: 087/33.81.29 ; GSM: 0496.38.06.56 Mail : andredumoulin@skynet.be and adumoulin@ulg.ac.be



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