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 Academic Year:
| 2012/3 |
| Owning Department/School:
| Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies |
| Credits:
| 6 |
| Level:
| Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7) |
| Period: |
Semester 2 |
| Assessment:
| CW 100% |
| Supplementary Assessment: | Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites:
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| Description:
| Aims: This unit aims to: * Give a critical understanding in the range of theories and perspectives used in the study of European foreign policy and the global role of the European Union. * To develop substantive knowledge on the range of policies developed by the EU that encompass the EU�s external relations, development policy and foreign and security policies. * To critically assess the developing global role of the EU both across time and across both the international political system. * To explain and understand the transformation of national foreign policy in an EU institutional context. Learning Outcomes: Students who complete the unit successfully will be able to demonstrate that they: * Can analyse a range of theories and perspectives that can be applied to the study of EU and Member States' foreign policies. * Critically assess the utility of different approaches to the study of the foreign and security policy-making and processes of the European Union. * Give a developed critical understanding of how European Union has developed and extended its presence in the international political system. * Select and apply concepts and theories on the EU's international role to specific research problems, and recognise the basic costs and benefits of those selections. Skills: The key skills the unit will hone and further develop are: * Advanced research skills in identifying, locating and exploiting a wide range of descriptive, evaluative and theoretical literature. * Intellectual skills of conceptual, original and independent thinking, critical analysis, synthesis and reasoned argument. * Skills of assessment and judgement in relation to the soundness of competing arguments and scenarios, including the reporting and assessing of qualitative and quantitative data. * Generic and transferable skills related to the oral and written presentation of ideas. * Skills of self-direction, self-evaluation and time management. Content: LECTURES 1: The Study of the International Role of the European Union: Contending Approaches 2. The EU as a Global Power: Actor and Instruments 3. The Europeanization of Foreign Policy 4. A Normative Power? Norms and Values in EU Foreign Policy 5. A Regional Power? Enlargement and the European Neighbourhood Policy 6. The European Union as an International Security Actor 7. The EU as an International Development Actor SEMINARS 1. What kind of power? 2. Effective multilateralism? The European Union at the UN 3. The Europeanization of Foreign Policy: Comparing Large and Small Member States 4. The EU and the Arab Spring: A Normative Power or a Political Dwarf? |
| Programme availability: |
PL50686 is Compulsory on the following programmes:Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies
PL50686 is Optional on the following programmes:Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies
PL50686 is available for Auditing on the following programmes:Department of Social & Policy Sciences
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