| CODE | EST2232 | ||||||||
| TITLE | The EU in the World | ||||||||
| 今日黑料 LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||
| EQF/MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | European Studies | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | Over the past decades, the European Union has evolved into an actor that plays a limited but relevant role on the global stage. Each revision of the treaties provided the Union with new foreign policy institutions and instruments. Coming into force in 2009, the most recent treaty revision established a diplomatic service, created a de-facto foreign minister, and allowed the Union to sign international treaties and join international organisations. Against the backdrop of new security challenges and the decline of the rules-based international order, EU citizens and elites are increasingly sympathetic to further upgrades to the EU’s role in world politics. This has started to translate into efforts to enhance the EU’s capacity to act independently on the global stage, a process that is on-going. Study-unit Aims: This study-unit examines the European Union’s role as an actor on the global stage. It introduces the EU’s foreign policy architecture and its internal workings, discusses the actors involved in EU external action and examines how they are shaping it. In doing so, the study unit traces the on-going evolution of key tools and instruments that the EU institutions have at their disposal. Drawing upon concepts and theories from the discipline of International Relations, the study unit discusses what kind of an actor the EU is, as well as to what extent and how it exerts influence in the international arena. This involves analysing what the EU’s foreign policy objectives are, whether or to what extent it meets them as well as what determines whether it does. To address this, the study-unit explores key areas of EU external action, and examines its relationships with the United States, Russia, China, Africa, Latin America as well as its Eastern and Southern neighbourhoods. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Understand the EU’s role in contemporary global politics; - Assess the EU’s relations with other world regions and major global actors; - Apply theories of International Relations to understand the development and functioning of EU foreign policy. 2. Skills By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Understand, analyse, and comment on the EU’s role on the global stage; - Apply theoretical and conceptual frameworks from the discipline of International Relations to make sense of the EU in the world; - Draw relevant conclusions for policy-making. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Ragnar Weilandt |
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2026/7. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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