Structure: - Basic notions (e.g. Common Foreign and Security Policy - CFSP, enlargement, integration, deepening, association, effective multilateralism, frontier securitisation, Arab Spring, frozen conflicts, strategic autonomy, energy and rare earth elements dependence, Eastern Partnership, Union for the Mediterranean, Putinisation, New Ottomanism, New Islamism, Weimarisation, New Cold War and Containment, Preemption and Prevention, Agression and Special Military Operation etc.) - EU strategic assets, interests and priorities - EU enlargement and partnership perspectives and problems - Regional and global dynamics affecting EU Security - Asymmetrical Risks and Threats to EU Security - The Transatlantic link under the pressure of MAGA-like American Neo-conservatism - Russian alternative scenarios of regional reconquest and leadership of its Near Abroad - The War in Ukraine and its spillover effects - The Failed promises of the Arab Spring - The Israeli-Palestinian conflict non-resolution as accelerator for Near and Middle East instability - The Russian revisionism and the impact of US-China big power competition on EU new security approaches (e.g. Inbound and outbound investment screening) Key questions: 1. Is CFSP a tool for either EU regional hegemony, or export of peace, stability, democracy and market economy? 2. Which are the limits of EU and NATO enlargement processes? 3. Which are the perspectives of the Transatlantic link in the age of assertive leaders like Putin, Trump and Xi? 4. Which external risks and threats are affecting EU security? 5. Which are the vulnerabilities of EU security? 6. Which are the perspectives for CFSP deepening? 7. How to contain Russian expansionism, interference and subversion? 8. How to contribute to peace and stability in the anarchy-prone Near and Middle East? 9. Are new EU smart power tools efficient and effective? 10. Is there a third, EU way of security in between US and China in global affairs? Selective Bibliography: 1. 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) 2. Tobias Schumacher, Andreas Marchetti, Thomas Demmelhuber (eds.), 2018, The Routledge Handbook on the European Neighbourhood Policy, London: Routledge 3. Agnieszka K. Cianciara, 2020, The Politics of the European Neighbourhood Policy, London: Routledge 4. George Anglitoiu, (2005-2024) – The Transdniestr Conflict, EUBAM, EU Security Strategy, EU Intelligence Service Dilemma, Putinisation and Neo-containment, Putinisation and the European Union of Insecurity, 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, investment control etc. 5. CFSP Official Documents 6. Other important documents issued by or about EU main partners, competitors and adversaries 7. Foreign Affairs (journal) post-Cold War archive 8. EUISS - EU Institute for Security Studies // Other Western think-tank archives (e.g. SWP - German Institute for International and Security Affairs, IFRI – French Institute of International Relations, George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Clingeldael, RUSI – Royal United Services Institute, ISW - Institute for the Study of War, Norwegian Nobel Institute, SIPRI – Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, CSIS – Center for Strategic and International Studies, Brookings Institute, Heritage Foundation etc.) Evaluation requirements: Studienleistung = 50% active attendance + 1 participation in debate or 1 short paper of approx. 2,000 words (e.g. SWOT analysis) Prüfungsleistung = 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 a short paper (SWOT analysis): 31 July 2026, 23:59. Deadline for submission of final papers: 30 September 2026, 23:59.

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