- Docente: Sonia Lucarelli
- Credits: 12
- SSD: GSPS-02/A
- Language: English
- Moduli: Sonia Lucarelli (Modulo 1) Michela Ceccorulli (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially) (Modulo 1); In-person learning (entirely or partially) (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in European Studies (cod. 6653)
Learning outcomes
By the end of the course, students will be able to: - assess the role of the EU from the perspective of IR Theory; - analyze and interpret the role played by the European Union in different foreign policy areas and regions; - evaluate the main challenges and opportunities of the EU's role in world politics; - compare the EU with other international actors.
Course contents
This course examines the European Union (EU) as an international actor in a rapidly changing global order. It combines International Relations (IR) theories, theories of European integration, and empirical analysis of the EU's external policies. The course explores how the EU understands its international role, how it exercises power across different policy domains, and how its external action is being transformed by geopolitical competition, the fragmentation of the liberal international order, and growing demands for strategic autonomy.
TOPICS
Part I. FRAMEWORKS
1. The EU as an international actor: concepts and brief historical overview.
2. Theorizing the EU in the world
Part II. The Machinery of EU External Action
3. Evolution and structure of the EU governance of external relations
Part III. POLICY AREAS
4. Trade and Economic Statecraft
5. Enlargement and Neighbourhood
6. Security and Defence
7. Climate, Development and Global Governance
8. Migration, Borders and External Governance
9. Science diplomacy
10. Digital Europe and Technological Sovereignty
Part IV. CONCLUSIONS
11. The EU in a Fragmenting International Order
12. Final debate: Can the EU become a genuine geopolitical actor?
Readings/Bibliography
TEXTBOOK:
Christopher Hill, Michael Smith, and Sophie Vanhoonacker (2023), International Relations and the European Union, 4Th edition.
ADDITIONAL READING:
to be distributed at the beginning of the course
Teaching methods
Introductory lectured by the teacher; debates and class exercises with the students; student's presentations.
Assessment methods
15% class participation
15% presentation or other assigned task
70% oral exam
Office hours
See the website of Sonia Lucarelli
See the website of Michela Ceccorulli