90905 - Workshop 1 (WS3)

Learning outcomes

Workshops are designed to provide students with transversal skills that can prove useful in their future careers. The objective of the workshop is to help students to practice skills through application of information technology, data analysis, decision-making techniques (e.g. simulation) in complex organizations.

Course contents

- The first weeks (W1 and W2) will be dedicated to: 1) introducing the workshop, 2) introducing the foreign policy analysis approach to be applied to the EU, 3) introducing the theoretical perspectives of bureaucratic politics, the new institutionalism and the principal-agent model to be applied to EU foreign policy.

- The following weeks (W3, W4, W5, W6, W7, W8, W9) will be split into to parts. During the first part, students will have about 5 minutes to present to the class on current developments in EU foreign policy. This presentation will be followed by a class debate (about 30 minutes). During the second part, students will have to present on selected EU foreign policy issues of the new institutional cycle. For each of this issue, they will have to apply the foreign policy analysis approach and to test existing hypotheses from bureaucratic politics, the new institutionalism, and the principal-agent model.  

- The last week (W10) will be dedicated to the review in view of the final take-home paper on EU foreign policy making in the new institutional cycle.

- Detailed instructions on the students' presentations and on the final paper will be provided at the beginning of the course.

 

Readings/Bibliography

- White, B. (1999), 'The European Challenge to Foreign Policy Analysis', European Journal of International Relations, 5(1), pp. 37-66

- White, B. (2004), 'Foreign policy analysis and European foreign policy', in B. Tonra and T. Christiansen (eds), Rethinking European Union foreign policy, Manchester University Press, pp. 45-61

- Baracani, E. (2017), 'Graham Allison: Conceptual Frameworks of Foreign Policy Decision Making', in F. Andreatta (ed.) Classic Works in International Relations, Bologna, Il Mulino, pp. 127-154

- Del Reux, T. (2015), 'Bureaucratic Politics, New Institutionalism and Principal-Agent Models', in Jørgensen K., Aarstad A., Drieskens E., Laatikainen K., Tonra B., The SAGE Handbook on European Foreign Policy, pp. 152-165

Teaching methods

- Students' presentations  (individually or in groups)

- Class debates

- This workshop is only for attending students

- Please, subscribe to the distribution list of the workshop(elena.baracani.WS3_2020) in order to facilitate the process of collecting your presences in class

Assessment methods

- Students are expected to attend every session regularly and to participate in class debate

- In addition, each student will have to make power point presentations during the workshop, and submit, at the end of the workshop during the selected exam session, a short final paper (approximately 4,500 words, references and notes included)

- Accordingly, 20% of the course grade is based on class participation, 40% on the power point presentation, and 40% on the final paper  

Teaching tools

- Power point presentations as well as additional material will be available on Insegnamenti Online

Office hours

See the website of Elena Baracani