32298 - REGIONAL POLICIES AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN EAST CENTRAL EUROPE

Contenuti

The objective of the module is to offer complex, descriptive and analitical knowledge about the historical conditions under which the new democracies of East-Central Europe (ECE) have been adjusting to the global world order in the first two decades after the change of regimes, while developing their new foreign policies. Due attention will be devoted to the inter-relation between historical heritage, geo-political and socio-economic endowements of ECE region on the one hand and the new options of foreign policies, on the other. The new attitudes and roles of ECE countries in international institutions as e.g. UN, OECD, WTO, IMF/IBRD and NATO will also be highlighted.

 Beside the effects of global environment the course will focus on the regional aspects of cooperation between the countries of the region. Factors of regional cohesion along with traditions of regionalism will be explained, with special regard to national and sub-national actors as well as various forms of regional, inter-regional and sub-regional cooperation. Within the course's structure, certain lectures will cover regional policies of the European Union, regional dimensions of the doctrines and activities of other European institutions as the Council of Europe and OSCE, while in seminars, particular case studies will be presented by students about regional and sub-regional initiatives (CEI, Alps-Adria WG, Visegrad Four, Quadrilaterale, etc.) as well as a variety of cross-border cooperation networks between neighbouring nation states and sub-national entities.

Testi/Bibliografia

Books:

·        Zucconi, Mario (ed), Post-Communist Transition in Europe and its Broader International Implications, Europe Balkans International Network,University of Bologna, Longo Editore Ravenna, 2004

·      Gorzelak, Gregorz, The Regional Dimension of Transformation in Central Europe, Kingsley, London, 1996

 Studies, articles

·       Losoncz, Miklós, Energy, Dependence and Supply in Central and Eastern Europe, The Analyst, March 2006, pp. 73-88.

·       Tálas, Péter, The American Missile Shield – Central European Debates, The Analyst, March 2007, pp. 5-14.

·       Kobrinskaya, Irina, Russia and Central Eastern Europe – fifteen years later, The Analyst, March 2006, pp. 5-18.

·       Kiss, J. Laszlo, Foreign Policy and National Identity in East-central Europe, Foreign Policy Review, 2/2004

·       Mansfield, Edward D., Milner, Helen V., The new wave of  regionalism. International Organisation, Summer 1999 Vol 53 Nr 9, University of California, San DiegoMonaghan, Andrew, An enemy at the gates or „from victory to victory”. Russian foreign policy. International affairs July 2008.

·       Larrabee, Stephen, Danger and Opportunity in Eastern Europe, Foreign Affairs November-December 2006, pp. 117-132.

·       Jerzy J. Wiatr, Central Europe and the New World Order, Central European Political Science Review, September 2000, pp. 5-13.

Metodi didattici

lectures and seminars

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

assignment paper, in-class presentations

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

Overhead projector

Orario di ricevimento

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