The EU in the world
Module: 6. Portfolio Elective | 5. European Governance Concentration Elective | 7. Portfolio Elective
Instructors: Prof. Dr. Markus Jachtenfuchs
Abstract
This course analyses the European Union’s role in global politics—a topic widely discussed in Brussels, across the EU’s member states, among Europe’s citizens and within NGOs. Why does the Union not respond more quickly, more coherently and more efffectively across the world’s multiple crises? This will be our key question in class where we explore the EU’s external relations, ranging from near-exclusive powers in trade to limited competences in security.
The course first introduces the conceptual and normative debate about Europe's global role; discusses the origins of the EU as a global actor; and familiarises students with the institutions, instruments, and decision making of EU foreign policy. We then analyse key issues of external governance, including trade, aid and development, crisis management and conflict resolution, as well as the external dimensions of internal policies such as justice and home affairs or digital markets. The course concludes by looking at EU enlargement, the EU's policies towards its neighbours, and the EU’s wider global role. The teaching is designed to equip students with the empirical knowledge, theoretical understanding, and analytical skills necessary to explain and critically assess the EU’s actorness, effectiveness and impact across the range of its external policies.
This course is for 2nd year MIA, MPP and MDS students only.
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