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The seminar aims at studying the impact of the external policies of the EU on both a global and regional scale. It will provide students with a theoretically guided and empirically supported understanding of the EU's role as a global actor. The seminar will analyze the complex institutional architecture of foreign policy making in the EU and will explore different instruments and mechanisms deployed by the EU to achieve its foreign policy objectives. Although its main focus is on the EU, the seminar will be comparative in nature and will analyze the nature of the EU as a global actor in comparison to other state- and non-state global players, including the USA, China, Russia, NATO, and others.
The seminar is divided into two parts. The first part will explore the nature of the EU as a sui generis entity in international politics. A number of the EU's conflicting identities will be analyzed in great detail: EU as a normative power, EU as an economic power/market power, EU as a regional power, and EU as a military and political union. In the second part, the relations of the EU with other global players and regional blocks will be explained. In particular, the EU’s relations with Russia, China/East Asia, the USA, Africa, the MENA region, and the developing world/BRICS will be discussed. Each lecture will also have a narrow thematic focus, which will correspond to current developments in the world. |
