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| SPOL0962-1 | European foreign policy
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| Duration : | 30h Th |
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| Lecturer : | André Dumoulin |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the first semester, review in January |
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Course contents :
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| -The course is intended to define the axes that determine the foreign policy of the European Union. It will address the European diplomacy from keywords working on their interactions, both in the historical field but also and especially in the current environment and predictable. As will be discussed foreign policy of the EU in its relations with other powers, the neighborhood, the enlargements, European geopolitic, security policy, interactions with other multilateral organizations, values and human rights. It will also discuss the components of this multidimensional foreign policy: development aid, Echo, special representatives, bodies and agencies, the European External Action Service (EEAS), European Parliament, European Commission, etc. The CFSP will be considered in its legal and political evolution from examining its place in each major EU Treaty, as will updates the specifics of some European countries face this common policy known (France, UK, Germany, small countries "historic" southern countries, Central and Eastern Europe, Nordic). This material should also allow a better understanding of historical interactions around the European but also and especially with the European Security and Defence Policy (CSDP), subjects from other courses.
-A case study will also be conducted around the evolving relationship between the CFSP and the WEU as model complexity and inter-organizational interactions and interstate (complicity and rivalry) in the field of transatlantic and European foreign policy. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| -Determine the political, diplomatic, legal and geopolitical around foreign policy of the European Union, while controlling the transverse support elements or disruptive (national diplomatic, geopolitical regional rivalries between organizations) in the process of decision process regarding foreign policy of the EU.
-Assimilate-dimensional and multi-disciplinary approach to foreign policy of the EU, including the review of its bodies and agencies.
-Determine the lines of force of the EU's foreign policy and its characteristics over time, including assumptions about future evolution. |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| -Political history of the European construction.
-The European Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| -Work-thematic research group
-PowerPoint
-Reading official documents (speeches, treaties, declarations, ...), including materials via historic-audio (CVCE) on the foreign policy of the EU.
-Contacts-witnesses and actors. |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| The lesson is essentially on Thursday from 13:30 until 15:30 (from September 16, 2014) |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Lecture notes and PowerPoint. Syllabus available late September to PUL
Recommended readings:
-Jean-Michel Dumont and Philippe Setton, foreign policy and security policy (CFSP), Paris, 1999.
-Franck-Smalltown, international policy of the European Union, Les Presses de Sciences Po, Paris, 2006.
-Laïdi-Zaki, standard without force. The enigma of European power, Les Presses de Sciences Po, Paris, 2005.
-Fabien Terpan, common foreign policy of the European Union, Bruylant, Brussels, 2003.
-Nicole Gnesotto, Europe has a future strategy?, Armand Colin, Paris, 2011.
-Christopher Hill and Michael Smith (eds.), International Relations and the European Union, Oxford University Press, 2005.
-Stephan Kekeleire and Jenifer MacNaughtan, The Foreign Policy of the European Union, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2008. |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Written (MCQ and Tutorial) in January 2015 |
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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Contacts :
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| André Dumoulin, lecturer in the Department of Political Science, European Studies Unit, University of Liège
Phone: 087/33.81.29 GSM: 0496/38.06.56
Email: andredumoulin@skynet.be and adumoulin@ulg.ac.be |
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