Structure:

 

  • Basic notions (enlargement, integration, deepening, association, effective multilateralism, frontier securitisation, Arab Spring, frozen conflicts, energy dependence, Eastern Partnership, Union for the Mediterranean, Putinisation, Neo-Ottomanism, Neo-Islamism, Weimarisation, “ring of friends/ring of fire”, “Euro-skepticism of prosperity” etc.)
  • Analysis of ENP states and regional dynamics
  • EU interests and priorities in its neighbourhoods
  • Assymetrical Risks and Threats to EU Security
  • EU-NATO relationship and common border management
  • Russian alternative scenarios of regional preeminence and fragmentation of its near abroad
  • EU enlargement perspectives and challenges

 

 

Key questions:

  1. Is ENP a tool for EU regional hegemony, or export of democracy and market economy?
  2. Which are the limits of EU enlargement process?
  3. Which external risks and threats are affecting the EU security?
  4. Are the EU smart power tools working in/for the neighbourhoods?
  5. How and to which end to assess the EU policies, programmes, projects and initiatives?

 

Selective Bibliography:

  1. Stefan Gänzle, (2009) - ‘EU Governance and the European Neighbourhood Policy: A Framework for Analysis’, Europe-Asia Studies, 61(10), pp. 1715–1734. doi: 10.1080/09668130903278926
  2. Richard G. Whitman, Stephan Wolff (eds.), 2012 - The European Neighbourhood Policy in Perspective, London: Palgrave
  3. Hrant Kostanyan (ed.), 2017 – Assessing European Neighbourhood Policy. Perspectives from the Literature, Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, London: Roman and Littlefield International
  4. Helen Wallace, Mark A. Pollack, Christilla Roederer-Rynning, Alistair R. Young (eds.), 2020 – Policy Making in the European Union, 8th edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, Chapters 17 (Bastian Giegerich, Foreign and Security Policy) and 19 (Ulrich Sedelmeier, Enlargement)
  1. George Anglitoiu, (2005-2020) – The Transdniestr Conflict, EUBAM, EU Security Strategy, EU Intelligence Service Dilemma, Neo-containment and Putinization, The Case of the Islamic State as a Renovative Totalist Movement, and other essays on Republic of Moldova, Turkey, EFTA, CFSP/FASP, terrorism and organised crime etc.
  2. ENP Official Documents

 

 

Evaluation requirements:

Studienleistung = 50% active attendance + 1 participation in debate or 1 short paper of approx. 2,000 words (e.g. SWOT analysis)

 

Prufungsleistung = 50% active attendance + 1 participation in debate or 1 short paper of approx. 2,000 words (e.g. SWOT analysis) + 1 final paper of approx. 5,000 words

 

 

Deadline for submission of papers – 30 September 2022

 

 

 

Kurs im HIS-LSF

Semester: SoSe 2022