1813 Status of the European Union in the Globalized World
Content
- The historical development of a common European foreign and defence policy
- Theories of globalization and international integration
- Humanitarian intervention and developemnt policy
- Multi-level governance and the EU foreign/ security policy
- EU and International Trade
- Regional Blocks and Placement of the EU (New Regionalism)
- EU-China-Russia relations
- Transatlantic relations of the EU: USA and Canada
- Relations between the EU and the countries of the Western Balkans.
- Neighbourhood policy and cross-border cooperation
- EU and Global Environmental Governance
- Global economic trends and the role of the EU and free-trade agreements
Objectives and competences
Objectives:
- Recognizing the conceptual-theoretical level of a common European and security policy.
- Studying basic theoretical approaches to globalization.
- To examine the role of the EU institutions in the context of foreign policy and international relations.
- Understanding the strengths and roles of the EU towards related integration in an international context.
- Ability to apply the content of EU treaties to the field of international relations
- Understanding the design of public policies in the area of migration
- Ability to understand the nature and development of the EU’s trade policy
Competences:
- Ability to carry out a comparative analysis of various related integrations in an international context.
- Using a variety of theoretical models and methodological approaches, student explores and understands the changing role of the EU
- Ability to create a critical argument in the context of the study of external relations, international trade and processes of globalization
- In-depth understanding of the process of enlargement and the changing of the conventional structure of European integrations.
- The ability of parallel application of the theories of European integrations and the corresponding methodological knowledge