- Docente: Sonia Lucarelli
- Credits: 8
- SSD: SPS/04
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in International relations and diplomatic affairs (cod. 8783)
Learning outcomes
Students are expected to learn the evolution of security dynamics in the pan-European space. In particular, they will be expected (i) to develop an understanding of some key turning points in Soviet/Russian-American-European relations (early Cold War, Détente, post-Cold War) and of how they shaped and influenced security in Europe during the Cold War and after; (ii) to learn about the evolution of the main international organizations active in European security both during and after the Cold War; and (iii) to learn about the evolution of the concept of security particularly since the end of the Cold War.
Course contents
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Introduction to the course
The World War, Containment and the Making of Eastern Europe
Central and Eastern Europe in the 1950s
The 1960s and ‘70s
The end of the Cold War: the academic debate
The Post-Cold War Transition
First challenges to European security in the post-Cold War Era: the breakup of Yugoslavia
NATO 1: history and functioning
NATO 2: Partnerships, operations and relations with Russia
Security in the South Caucasus and the Caspian Sea Region
The European Union 1: EU's structural foreign policy
The EU 2: The European Union's Common Security and Defence Policy
EU migration policy as a security policy
The European Union 3: Non-CSDP Security-building policies of the EU
Other Organizations: The OSCE, The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and CSTO
Theorizing Security (1): Realism and Liberalism
Theorizing Security (3): Constructivism and Post-Positivism
Pan-European Security Governance
Nonproliferation and Energy security
Cyberspace, Transnational criminality and Counter-terrorism
Debating Pan-European Security
Readings/Bibliography
Pan-European Security
2014-2015
March 2
Introduction to the course
PART ONE: HISTORICAL ROOTS
March 3
The World War, Containment and the Making of Eastern Europe
Seminar
Reading:
1) Norman Naimark, “The Sovietization of Eastern Europe, 1944–1953”, in M. Leffler & A. Westad (eds.), The Cambridge History of the Cold War, 2010- Volume I [course material]
2) Melvyn P. Leffler “The emergence of an American grand strategy, 1945–1952”, in M. Leffler & A. Westad (eds.), The Cambridge History of the Cold War, 2010- Volume I [course material]
March 9
Central and Eastern Europe in the 1950s
Seminar with students' presentation*
Reading:
1) Csaba Békés “East central Europe, 1953–1956” in M. Leffler & A. Westad (eds.), The Cambridge History of the Cold War, 2010- Volume I [course material]
2) Laszlo Borhi, Rollback, Liberation, Containment, or Inaction?: U.S. Policy and Eastern Europe in the 1950s, ”Journal of Cold War Studies”, 3, Fall 1999, pp. 67-110 [course material ].
* Students' presentations on: (i) the creation of NATO; (ii) the creation of the Warsaw Pact
March 10
The 1960s and ‘70s
Seminar
Reading:
1) Costigliola – “US Foreign Policy From Kennedy to Johnson” (ch 6) of M. Leffler & A. Westad (eds.), The Cambridge History of the Cold War, 2010- Volume II [course material]
2) Savranskaya and Taubman, “Soviet Foreign Policy, 1962-1975”(ch 7) of M. Leffler & A. Westad (eds.), The Cambridge History of the Cold War, 2010- Volume II [course material]
3) Vladislav Zubok, Soviet Foreign Policy from détente to Gorbachev, 1975-1985, in M. Leffler & A. Westad (eds.), The Cambridge History of the Cold War, Vol.III: 2010 [course material]
March 16
The end of the Cold War: the academic debate
Seminar
Reading:
1) Jeremi Suri, Explaining the End of the Cold War: a New Historical Consensus?, “Journal of Cold War Studies”, 4, Fall 2002, pp. 60-92 on line at [course material]
2) Michael Cox, "Another Transatlantic Split? American and European Narratives and the End of the Cold War," Cold War History, Vol. 7 No 1, February 2007, p. 121-146. [course material]
3) Adam Roberts, An 'Incredibly Swift Transition': reflections on the end of the Cold War, in M. Leffler & A. Westad (eds.), The Cambridge History of the Cold War, Vol.III: 2010 [course material]
March 17
The Post-Cold War Transition
Seminar with students' presentations*
Reading:
1) John Ikenberry, “The restructuring of the international system after the Cold War”, in M. Leffler & A. Westad (eds.), The Cambridge History of the Cold War, Vol. III: 2010 [course material]
2) Antony Best et al., International History of the Twentieth Century and Beyond , London and New York, Routledge, 2009, 2nd edition, Chapters 20 and 22 [course material].
* Students' presentations on: (i) The transformation of US's role after the Cold War and (ii) The transformation of Russia after the Cold War
March30
First challenges to European security in the post-Cold War Era: the breakup of Yugoslavia
Seminar with students' presentations*
Reading:
1) Background Reading: S. Lucarelli, Europe and the breakup of Yugoslavia : a political failure in search of a scholarly explanation, 2000, pp. 11-74 [materiale online ]
* Students' presentations on the position of (i) Serbia, (ii) Russia and (iii) the US [reading: T. Halverson “American Perspectives”, A. Edemskii “Russian perspectives”, Ivan Vejvoda “Serbian Perspectives”, all in A. Danchev and T. Halverson (eds) International Perspectives on the Yugoslav Conflict, Macmillan, 1996. - Library Desk – course material]
PART TWO: THE ACTORS
March31 – 3-5 PM: MID TERM EXAM (at Labic)
March 31 - 5-7 PM (NB NOTE CHANGE OF TIME!)
NATO 1: history and functioning
Seminar with students' presentation*
Reading:
1) David Yost, “NATO's evolving Purpose and the next geo-strategic Concept,” International Affairs 86:2 (March 2010), pp.489-522 . Online at RUFFILLI LIBRARY : http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2346.2010.00893.x/pdf
2) Andreaw Cottey, “NATO”, in James Sperling (ed) Handbook of Governance and Security, Edward Elgar, Northampton USA, 2014, pp. 638-655.
* Students presentation on: (i) historical developments (main steps); (ii) NATO's institutional structure, (iii) enlargements, (iv) Strategic concepts.
April 13
NATO 2: Partnerships, operations and relations with Russia
Seminar with students' presentation*
Reading:
same as above plus:
1) Gülnur Aybet, “The Four Stages of NATO's Partnership Frameworks: Rethinking Regional Partnerships with the Middle East and North Africa”, Paper presented at the conference DYNAMIC CHANGE. Rethinking NATO's Capabilities, Operations and Partnerships , University of Bologna, October 26-27, 2012 [available at: http://www.act.nato.int/academic-conference-2012 ].
* Students presentation on: (i) NATO's partnerships; (ii) NATO-Russia relations; (iii) NATO's operations.
April 14, 3-5 PM– Mirees Open Roudtable on "Security in the South Caucasus and the Caspian Sea Region" [Roudtable in occasion of the publication of the volume M. Valigi (ed.) Caspian Security Issues. Conflicts, cooperation and energy supplies, Epoké editions, 2014].
April 20
The European Union 1: EU's structural foreign policy
Lecture with students' presentation*
Reading:
1) Background reading on the EU: C. Archer, The European Union, Routledge 2008, pp. 19-32 [course material ]
2) Keukeleire, S. & T. Delreux, The Foreign Policy of the European Union, 2nd edition, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, Chapters 1 and 2. [course material]
* students' presentations: (i) The integration process in historical perspective (main steps); (ii) The EU as a special type of power (civilian, normative, soft…) and the concept of “structural foreign policy”.
April 21
The EU 2: The European Union's Common Security and Defence Policy
Seminar with students' presentation*
Reading:
1) Keukeleire, S. & T. Delreux, The Foreign Policy of the European Union, 2nd edition, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, Chapters 7, 8. [course material]
2) Chris Bickerton, Bastien Irondelle, Anand Menon, “Security co-operation beyond the Nation-State: The EU's Common Security and Defence Policy”, JCMS 2011 Volume 49. Number 1. pp. 1–21; [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-5965.2010.02126.x/pdf]
* students' presentation on: (i) EU missions: the debate.
April 27
Guest Lecture: Dr Michela Ceccorulli
EU migration policy as a security policy
April 28
The European Union 3: Non-CSDP Security-building policies of the EU
Seminar with students' presentations*
Reading:
1) Keukeleire, S. & T. Delreux, The Foreign Policy of the European Union, 2nd edition, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, Chapters 9, 11. [course material]
2) James Sperling, “European Union” in James Sperling (ed) Handbook of Governance and Security, Edward Elgar, Northampton USA, 2014, pp. 588-617 [course material]
* Students' presentations: (i) EU trade policy as a security instrument; (ii) enlargement as a security instrument; (iii) neighbourhood policy as a security instrument; (iv) Development cooperation and (v) humanitarian aid as security instruments.
May 4
Other Organizations: The OSCE, The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and CSTO
Seminar with students' presentations*
Reading:
1) Andrew Cottey, “”The other Europe. Regional security governance in Europe's East”, in S. Breslin and S. Croft eds) Comparative Regional Security Governance, Routledge 2012. [course material]
2) David Galbreath and Aynur Seidyusif, “Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe”, in James Sperling (ed) Handbook of Governance and Security, Edward Elgar, Northampton USA, 2014, pp. 656-670. [course material]
· students' presentation on: (1) sub-regional cooperation in Europe (reference: http://www.cris.unu.edu/fileadmin/workingpapers/BRIGG_papers/BRIGG_3-2009__revised_version.pdf ; (ii) SCO and (iii) CSTO (see chapter in Sperling (ed) 2014)
PART THREE: CONCEPTUALIZING SECURITY
May 5
Theorizing Security (1): Realism and Liberalism
Seminar with students' presentation*
Paul D. Williams “Security Studies : an Introduction”, Routledge 2013 (2nd ed): chapters 2 (Realism) and 3 (Liberalism); (Ruffilli Library 355.033. NB also the 2008 edition is fine and is available online: http://hamdoucheriad.yolasite.com/resources/security%20studies.pdf).
* Students' presentation on a case study in a Realist and Liberal perspective
May 11
Theorizing Security (3): Constructivism and Post-Positivism
Seminar with students' presentation*
Paul D. Williams “Security Studies : chapters: 5 (Constructivism); 7 (Critical Theory) (Ruffilli Library 355.033. NB also the 2008 edition is fine and is available online: http://hamdoucheriad.yolasite.com/resources/security%20studies.pdf).
* Students' presentation on a case study in a Constructivist perspective and in a Post-positivist perspective
PART FOUR: SECURITY GOVERNANCE
May 12 3-5 PM Guest Lecture Prof. James Sperling (Akron University, US)
Lecture: NATO and the Visegrad 4
May 12 5-7 PM Nonproliferation and Energy security
1) Mark Webber , “Security Governance”, in James Sperling (ed) Handbook of Governance and Security, Edward Elgar, Northampton USA, 2014, pp. 17-40. [course material]
2) Sebastian Harnish, “Nonproliferation”, in James Sperling (ed) Handbook of Governance and Security, Edward Elgar, Northampton USA, 2014, pp. 408-426. [course material]
3) Gawdat Bahgat, “Energy”, in James Sperling (ed) Handbook of Governance and Security, Edward Elgar, Northampton USA, 2014, pp. 360-374. [course material]
* students' presentations of each of the areas: (i) nonproliferation; (ii) energy security, bringing examples of contemporary issues at stake (e.g. energy security in the Ukranian crisis; etc…)
May 18 Cyberspace, Transnational criminality and Counter-terrorism
Seminar with students' presentations*
Reading:
1) Scott Jasper, “Cyberspace”, in James Sperling (ed) Handbook of Governance and Security, Edward Elgar, Northampton USA, 2014, pp. 343-359. [course material]
2) John Occhipinti, “Transnational Criminality”, in James Sperling (ed) Handbook of Governance and Security, Edward Elgar, Northampton USA, 2014, pp. 408-451. [course material]
3) Wyn Rees, “Counter-terrorism”, in James Sperling (ed) Handbook of Governance and Security, Edward Elgar, Northampton USA, 2014, pp. 452-474. [course material]
* students' presentations of each of the areas: (i) cyberspace; (ii) counter-terrorism; (iii) Transnational criminality bringing examples of contemporary issues at stake (e.g. European cooperation on counter-terriorism; or NATO's cyber-security tasks; or…)
Guest Lecture: “NATO – the Road to Warsaw and Beyond”
Mr Dick Bedford
Director Strategic Engagement
DCOS SPP
NATO Allied Command Transformation (Norfolk, USA)
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REFERENCE TEXTS
NB: this is not compulsory reading but material for those who feel they need to gain background information on topics addressed in the course
HISTORY:
Antony Best et al., International History of the Twentieth Century and Beyond , London and New York, Routledge, 2009, 2nd edition [course material].
EU:
Christopher Hill and Michael Smith (eds) International relations and the European Union Oxford university press, 2011 (2nd ed.). RUFFILLI: 327.094 Relazioni internazionali; 327.4 Europa.
Keukeleire, S. & T. Delreux, The Foreign Policy of the European Union, 2nd edition, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Security :
Paul D. Williams “Security Studies : an Introduction”, Routledge 2012 (2nd ed) [1st ed available at: http://hamdoucheriad.yolasite.com/resources/security%20studies.pdf ]
Myriam Dunn Cavelty and Victor Mauer (eds), Routledge Handbook of security studies - London : Routledge, 2010. [course material]
James Sperling (ed) Handbook of Governance and Security, Edward Elgar, Northampton USA, 2014 [library]
Teaching methods
lectures and seminars
Assessment methods
NB: Class attendance in compulsory
Students will be evaluated on the basis of:
- class participation (33%)
- mid-term written exam (33%)
- final oral exam (33%)
LIST OF THEMES FOR STUDENTS' PRESENTATIONS:
March 9
Central and Eastern Europe in the 1950s
(i) ** the creation of NATO --
(ii) ** the creation of the Warsaw Pact --
March 17
The Post-Cold War Transition
(i) ** The transformation of US's role after the Cold War --
(ii) ** The transformation of Russia after the Cold War --
March30
First challenges to European security in the post-Cold War Era: the breakup of Yugoslavia
(i) The position of Serbia in the Yugoslav conflict --
(ii) The position of Russia --
(iii) The position of the US --
March 31
NATO 1: history and functioning
(i) NATO's historical developments (main steps) --
(ii) NATO's institutional structure --
(iii) ** NATO's enlargements --
(iv) ** NATO's Strategic concepts --
April 13
NATO 2: Partnerships, operations and relations with Russia
(i) NATO's partnerships --
(ii) NATO-Russia relations --
(iii) ** NATO's operations --
April 20
The European Union 1: EU's structural foreign policy
(i) The integration process in historical perspective (main steps) --
(ii) The EU as a special type of power (civilian, normative, soft…) --
April 21
The EU 2: The European Union's Common Security and Defence Policy
(i) ** EU missions: the debate.
April 28
The European Union 3: Non-CSDP Security-building policies of the EU
(i) EU trade policy as a security instrument --
(ii) enlargement as a security instrument --
(iii) neighbourhood policy as a security instrument --
(iv) Development cooperation as a security instrument --
(v) humanitarian aid as security instruments --
May 4
Other Organizations: The OSCE, The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and CSTO
(i) sub-regional cooperation in Europe
(ii) The Shanghai cooperation organization
(iii) The Collective Security Treaty Organization
May 5
Theorizing Security (1): Realism and Liberalism
(i) ** a case study in a Realist perspective
(ii) ** a case study in a Liberal perspective
May 11
Theorizing Security (3): Constructivism and Post-Positivism
(i) ** a case study in a Constructivist perspective
(ii) ** a case study in a Post-positivist perspective
May 12 Nonproliferation and energy security
Security governance in:
(i) nonproliferation;
(ii) energy security
bringing examples of contemporary issues at stake (e.g. energy security in the Ukranian crisis; etc…)
May 18 Cyberspace, Transnational criminality and Counter-terrorism
Security governance in:
(i) cyberspace
(ii) counter-terrorism
(iii) Transnational criminality
bringing examples of contemporary issues at stake (e.g. European cooperation on counter-terriorism; or NATO's cyber-security tasks; or…)
May 19 Debating Pan-European Security
Each student prepares one page on Pan-European security focussing on the issue that s/he considers to be the most important (e.g. a specific challenge; intr-institutional coordination; geopolitica concernes; alternative interprepattions of security; transnational actors….)
Office hours
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