33062 - SECURITY BUILDING IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE: NATO, RUSSIA AND THE EU

Anno Accademico 2008/2009

  • Docente: Sonia Lucarelli
  • Crediti formativi: 4
  • SSD: SPS/04
  • Lingua di insegnamento: Inglese
  • Modalità didattica: Convenzionale - Lezioni in presenza
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: Laurea Magistrale in Interdisciplinary research and studies on eastern europe (cod. 8049)

Contenuti

These are the main topics investigated:

 

1.  European security during the Cold War(CW)

2. European security after the end of the CW - The new scenario; transformation of the main IOs 

2. Developments in the field of security studies

3. Nato: origin, development and transformation; its relations with Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Russia after the end of the CW

4. The EU and its relations with CEE after the end of the CW

5. The OSCE and its relations with CEE after the end of the CW

Testi/Bibliografia

R.O. Keohane, S. Hoffmann “Conclusion”, in Keohane R.O., Nye J.S., Hoffmann S. (eds.), After the Cold War. International Institutions and State Strategies in Europe, 1989--1991, Cambridge (MA), Harvard University Press, 1993.

Müller H., “Security Cooperation”, in W. Carlsnaes, T. Risse, B.A. Simmons, Handbook of International Relations, Sage, 2001, pp. 369-391.

C. A.Wallander “Institutional Assets and Adaptability: NATO After the Cold War”, International Organization, 54(4), 2000, pp. 705-735.

Trine Flockhart, Socializing Democratic Norms. The Role of International organizations for the Construction of Europe,  Palgrave2005, Chapters 4, 5, 6.

13th Oct

TOPIC World War I, Wilson and the Making of “Eastern Europe” (lecture)

READING MATERIAL

14th Oct

TOPIC The Cold War, Containment and the Making of Eastern Europe (lecture)

READING MATERIAL

20th Oct

TOPIC The Warsaw Pact vs. NATO (seminar)

READING MATERIAL

  1. 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

at RUFFILLI LIBRARY on line      http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1162/152039799316976814

  1. Vojtech Mastny, New History of Cold War Alliances, “Journal of Cold War Studies”, 2, Spring 2002, pp. 55-84

on line at RUFFILLI LIBRARY

http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1162/152039702753649647

21st Oct

TOPIC The European integration process and Eastern Europe during the Cold War (seminar)

READING MATERIAL

1.      C. Archer, The European Union,  Routledge 2008, pp. 19-32

      RUFFILLI LIBRARY

      Shelfmark:  DEWEY 341.2422 ARCC

2.      GEIR LUNDESTAD, The European Role at the Beginning and Particularly the End of the Cold War, in O. NJØLSTAD (ed.), The Last Decade of the Cold War, Londra,Frank Cass, 2004, pp-60-81

      RUFFILLI LIBRARY

      Shelfmark:  DEWEY 909.828 LASD

27th Oct

TOPIC Détente, Helsinki and the fake geopolitical stabilization of the 1970s (seminar)

READING MATERIAL

  1. Helsinki Final Act

Available on line (try google)

  1. Raymond Garthoff, Détente and Confrontation, Brookings Institution Press, 1994, pp.473-501

RUFFILLI LIBRARY

Shelfmark:   DEWEY 327.73047 GARR

28th Oct

TOPIC Reagan and the last phase of the Cold War in Eastern Europe (seminar)

READING MATERIAL

  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 RUFFILLI LIBRARY

http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/15203970260209518

  1. Daniel C. Thomas, Human Rights Ideas, the Demise of Communism, and the End of

the Cold War, Journal of Cold War Studies, Volume 7, Number 2, Spring 2005, pp. 110-141

on line at RUFFILLI LIBRARY

http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/1520397053630600

3rd Nov

TOPIC The End of the Cold War and its impact in European security (seminar)

READING MATERIAL

1.      R.O. Keohane, S. Hoffmann “Conclusion”, in Keohane R.O., Nye J.S., Hoffmann S. (eds.), After the Cold War. International Institutions and State Strategies in Europe, 1989--1991,Cambridge (MA), Harvard University Press, 1993

RUFFILLI LIBRARY

Shelfmark:  LTPRE-SP FP00 02690 08/09  LT 08/09 320.94 AFTT LTPRE-SP FP00 02691 08/09

2.      John J Mearsheimer, 1994, The False Promise of International Institutions, International Security, 19, 3, 5-49

      on line at RUFFILLI LIBRARY  (JSTOR)

      http://www.jstor.org/page/termsConfirm.jsp?redirectUri=/stable/pdfplus/2539078.pdf

3.      Robert O Keohane,  Lisa L Martin, 1995, The Promise of Institutionalist Theory,International Security, 20, 1, 39-51

      on line at RUFFILLI LIBRARY  (JSTOR)

      http://www.jstor.org/page/termsConfirm.jsp?redirectUri=/stable/pdfplus/2539214.pdf

4th Nov

TOPIC The End of the Cold War and its impact in European security (seminar)

READING MATERIAL

  1. S. Huntington, «The Clash of Civilizations?», Foreign Affairs, LXXII, 3, 1993, pp. 22-49.

on line at RUFFILLI LIBRARY

http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/viewarticle?data=dGJyMPPp44rp2%2fdV0%2bnjisfk5Ie46bFLtqewTbGk63nn5Kx95uXxjL6nrkewrq1Krqa2OLSwsE64qLQ4v8OkjPDX7Ivf2fKB7eTnfLujsku1qbROtK%2bvPurX7H%2b72%2bw%2b4ti7ebfepIzf3btZzJzfhruvsUi2p69Ntqy2PuTl8IXf6ruI4tzEjeri0n326gAA&hid=8

  1. Christopher Layne, 2006, The Unipolar Illusion Revisited: The Coming End of the

United States' Unipolar Moment, International Security, 31, 2, 7-41

on line at RUFFILLI LIBRARY  (JSTOR)

http://www.jstor.org/page/termsConfirm.jsp?redirectUri=/stable/pdfplus/2539020.pdf

10th Nov

TOPIC The Impact of the Yugoslav crisis on the post-Cold War security architecture of Europe (seminar)

READING MATERIAL

  1. Background: S. Lucarelli,  Europe and the breakup of Yugoslavia : a political failure in search of a scholarly explanation, 2000, pp. 11-74

RUFFILLI LIBRARY

Shelfmark: LT 08/09 949.703 LUCS

  1. Debate on national perspectives: 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.

Forthcoming in Ruffilli (in case of problems Prof Lucarelli will bring a copy)

11th Nov

TOPIC The Impact of the Yugoslav crisis on the post-Cold War security architecture of Europe II (seminar)

READING MATERIAL

  1. Anderson S., 1995, ‘EU, NATO, and the CSCE Responses to the Yugoslav Crisis: Testing

      Europe's New Security Architecture', European Security, IV, 2:328--352.

      Available at the FACULTY – Ufficio didattico

  1. Leurdijk D.A., 1997, ‘Before and After Dayton: The UN and NATO in the Former Yugoslavia',  Third World Quarterly, XVIII, 3: 457--470.

on line at RUFFILLI LIBRARY

http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/viewarticle?data=dGJyMPPp44rp2%2fdV0%2bnjisfk5Ie46bFLtqewTbGk63nn5Kx95uXxjL6nrkewrq1Krqa2OLSws0i4q7U4v8OkjPDX7Ivf2fKB7eTnfLuntk21qa5Lr6a1PurX7H%2b72%2bw%2b4ti7ebfepIzf3btZzJzfhruvtUi1qLdIt66uPuTl8IXf6ruI4tzEjeri0n326gAA&hid=16

17th Nov

TOPIC  The United States and the Beginning of the Post-Cold War Transition (seminar)

READING MATERIAL

  1. John G. Ikenberry, The Myth of Post-Cold War Chaos, “Foreign Affairs”, 3, May/June 1996, pp.79-91.

on line at RUFFILLI LIBRARY 

http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdf?vid=4&hid=8&sid=c76aec11-e30a-4d23-b408-334e257d4417%40sessionmgr2

  1. Anthony Lake, From Containment to Enlargement, Speech at the School of Advanced

International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, 21 September 1993.

Available on line (try google)

  1. John Gerard Ruggie, Third Try at World Order? America and Multilateralism after the Cold War, “Political Science Quarterly”, 4 Autumn, 1994, pp. 553-570.

on line at RUFFILLI LIBRARY

http://www.jstor.org/page/termsConfirm.jsp?redirectUri=/stable/pdfplus/2151838.pdf

18th Nov

TOPIC The United States and the Beginning of the Post-Cold War Transition (seminar)

READING MATERIAL

24th Nov

TOPIC  The United States and NATO's enlargement: the strategic and diplomatic dimensions (seminar)

READING MATERIAL

  1. John Lewis Gaddis, History, Grand Strategy and NATO Enlargement, “Survival”, 1,Spring 1998, pp.145-151;

on line at RUFFILLI LIBRARY

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/ftinterface~content=a780011901~fulltext=713240930

     2.  Dan Reiter, Why NATO Enlargement Does Not Spread Democracy, “International Security”, 4, Spring 2001, pp. 41-67

on line at RUFFILLI LIBRARY

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/international_security/v025/25.4reiter.pdf

  1. Exchange between Dan Reither, Harvey Waterman and Dessie Zagorcheva, NATO

and Democracy, “International Security”, 3, Winter 2001-2002, pp. 221-235.

on line at RUFFILLI LIBRARY

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/international_security/v026/26.3waterman.pdf

25th Nov

TOPIC  The United States and NATO's enlargement: the domestic debate (seminar)

READING MATERIAL

1st Dec

TOPIC  The EU and the “New Europe” (seminar)

READING MATERIAL

  1. C. Archer, The European Union,  Routledge 2008, pp. 33-141

RUFFILLI LIBRARY

Shelfmark:  DEWEY 341.2422 ARCC

  1. F. Schimmelfennig, “The EU: Promoting Liberal democracy through

Membership Conditionality”, in Trine Flockhart, Socializing Democratic Norms.

Palgrave 2005, pp. 106-126.

RUFFILLI LIBRARY

Shelfmark:  LT 08/09 320.947 SOCD

2nd Dec

TOPIC NATO, Russia and CEE countries (seminar)

READING MATERIAL

1.      C. A.Wallander “Institutional Assets and Adaptability: NATO After the Cold War”,

International Organization, 54(4), 2000, pp. 705-735.

on line at RUFFILLI LIBRARY

            http://www.jstor.org/page/termsConfirm.jsp?redirectUri=/stable/pdfplus/2601379.pdf

  1. S. Lucarelli, “Nato and the European System of Liberal-Democratic Security

Communities” in Trine Flockhart, Socializing Democratic Norms. Palgrave 2005, pp. 85-105

RUFFILLI LIBRARY

Shelfmark:  LT 08/09 320.947 SOCD

9th Dec

TOPIC  A View form the East (seminar)

READING MATERIAL

1.      Trine Flockhart, Socializing Democratic Norms. Palgrave 2005, Chr. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 (pp. 149-248)

      RUFFILLI LIBRARY

      Shelfmark:  LT 08/09 320.947 SOCD

  1. Eurobarometer 69, pp. 1-64

( http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/eb/eb69/eb_69_first_en.pdf

3.      Transatlantic Trends 2008: (i) Key Findings

 (http://www.transatlantictrends.org/trends/doc/2008_English_Key.pdf); (ii) Topline Data ( http://www.transatlantictrends.org/trends/doc/2008_English_Top.pdf)

16th Dec

TOPIC  The Georgian Crisis (seminar)

READING MATERIAL

Assessment Essays Deadlines: November 15 and December 17.

Later assessment essays will not be marked.

Metodi didattici

This is a lecture and seminar course

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

Class participation and a final 3,000-word paper

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

power point

Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Sonia Lucarelli