Foreign Policy of the European Union and Member States
Preliminary requirements:
Basic knowledge in the field of humanities and international relations
Course Description:
Lecture:
- Introduction to foreign policy analysis: approaches, models, technics and methods;
- Europeanisation of foreign policy – theoretical framework of analysis
- Foreign Policy of selected Member States (Germany, France, United Kingdom, Poland Italy, Spain, Foreign Policy of V4 (Czech Republic Hungary and Slovakia).
Workshop:
European integration as an evolutionary process: most important events and processes which led to the intuitional development of the organization; supranationality vs. intergovernmentalism in the context of Europeanisation of foreign policy;
- EU’s foreign policy legal basis, objectives, instruments. Institutionalization of EU foreign policy;
- European External Action Service – EU Diplomatic corps. Legal basis, structure, competencies
- European Neighbourhood Policy. General overview; philosophy and methodology of work, main directions and goals; Achievements and failures
- EU energy policy (external dimension);
EU development policy and humanitarian aid;
Aims of the course:
- Presentation of the possible theoretical framework for foreign policy analisys - description and analysis of the dynamic of the of EU and Member States foreign policy - analysis of processes and events shaping the foreign policy in the EU |
Teaching methods:
Academic lecture, seminar, text analysis, discussion, case studies analysis, work in groups, presentation, paper
Evaluation & Completion:
Lecture:
- oral examination,
Workshop:
- mini-test
- oral presentation (individual or group),
Basic Literature:
- F. Bindi [ed.], The Foreign Policy of the European Union. Assessing Europe’s Role in the World, pp. 13-40, http://hist.asu.ru/aes/FPEU_0815701403.pdf
- J. Dyduch, M. Klimowicz, M. Michalewska-Pawlak, Selected Policies of the European Union Evolution in the Context of the Treaty of Lisbon and the Europe 2020 Strategy, Oficyna Wydawnicza ASPRA.
- J. Dyduch, Europeanization of the Energy Policy within the European Union’s System of Governance (chapter 10), [w:] P. Stanek, K. Wach (eds.), “Europeanization Processes from the Mesoeconomic Perspective: Industries and Policies”, Cracow University of Economics, Krakow 2015, s. 193-219.
- S. Keuleleire, T. Delreux, The Foreign Policy of the European Union, Palgrave Macmillan, 2nd edition
- A. Hadfield, I. Manners, R. G. Whitman [ed.], Foreign Policies of EU Member States, Continuity and Europeanisation, Routledge, 2017.
