99984 - Negotiation Simulation for International Relations

Learning outcomes

The workshop consists of a simulation of an international crisis, in which participating students will have to impersonate the policymakers of the states involved. The first part of the lab involves explaining the rules of the simulation and describing the scenario, and assigning roles to the participants. In addition, students will be introduced to the foreign policy basics of their assigned states. The second part includes the simulation of the crisis. The workshop will conclude with a "debriefing" phase that will help reflect on the simulation experience and its dynamics of interaction. By the end of the lab, students will have demonstrated their ability to work in groups; they will have understood the complexity of strategic interaction between states during times of crisis; they will have demonstrated the ability to apply their theoretical and historical knowledge to the context of an international crisis; and they will have understood the impact of preferences, interests, and cultural-historical legacies in the interaction between states.

Readings/Bibliography

Negotiation theory:

Brigid A. Starkey and Elizabeth L. Blake. 2001. "Simulation in International Relations Education". Simulation & Gaming. 32:4, 537-551

Lewicki, R. J., Barry, B., & Saunders, D. M. (2016). Essentials of negotiation. New York: McGraw-Hill Education. Chicago, capitoli: 3, 5 e 7

Simulation:

Articles

Jelka Klemenc, Martin Hrabálek & Vladimir Đorđević (2021) “Regional security cooperation revisited: the Western Balkans as the future security provider”, European Security, 30:2, 285-304, DOI: 10.1080/09662839.2021.1872545

Roberto Belloni (2024) “Serbia between East and West: ontological security, vicarious identity and the problem of sanctions against Russia”, European Security, 33:2, 284-302, DOI: 10.1080/09662839.2023.2290048

Jasmin Hasić, Nedžma Džananović & Lejla Ramić Mesihović (2020): “Implicit” contestations of EU foreign policy norm-domestication in Bosnia and Herzegovina and North Macedonia”, Global Affairs, 6:4-5, 417-432, DOI: 10.1080/23340460.2021.1897952

Books

Rosa Balfour and Corina Stratulat (eds) 2015. EU member states and enlargement towards the Balkans, EPC ISSUE PAPER NO.79 (July). Chapters on Croatia, France, Germany, Italy Hungary. Available at: [https://www.epc.eu/en/Publications/EU-member-states-and-enlargeme~254ae0]

Roberto Belloni (2020). The Rise and Fall of Peace Building in the Balkans. Palgrave MacMillan Cham.DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14424-1

Stephan Keukeleire, Tom Delreux (2022). The Foreign Policy of the European Union. Bloomsbury, Third edition. Chapter 1, 3, 10.

Office hours

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