European Foreign Policy (IR 405)

2024 Spring
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
International Relations(IR)
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Senem Aydın Düzgit saduzgit@sabanciuniv.edu,
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English
Undergraduate
SPS101 SPS102
Formal lecture
Communicative,Discussion based learning
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Programs\Type Required Core Elective Area Elective
International Studies *
International Studies *
International Studies Minor *
Political Science *
Political Science and International Relations *
Political Science and International Relations *
Political Science (Previous Name: Social and Political Sciences) *

CONTENT

This course is designed to familiarize the students with the basic concepts of the European Union's foreign policy. It provides a theoretical and analytical basis for students to asses the EU's performance as an international actor. The course addresses the main European Foreign Policy actors, tools, institutions, objectives and issues. Topics to be discussed include the EU's response to contemporary challenges in world politics.

OBJECTIVE

The objective of this course is to offer an all-round introduction into the nature of EU foreign policy, the actors, instruments and the interaction with the wider international context. The course will cover basic terminology, history, the institutional framework, and foreign policy issue areas. In addition, the topics of the EU?s identity as an international actor and of Europeanisation of foreign policies are addressed. MA students enrolled in the course will learn to apply this knowledge through an in-depth analysis of EU relations with a third country.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

  • At the end of the module, the students should acquire the ability to analyse the issues above, both empirically and theoretically. They will have a broad understanding of the relevant theoretical work on European foreign policy and foreign policy analysis. The course will enrich students? knowledge of the history, institutions and actors in the EU?s external relations as well as the various theoretical frames used in explaining EU?s international relations; enlargement and the European Neighbourhood Policy, EU?s relations with the wider world and the assessment of its `actorness? on the global stage. It will also sharpen graduate students? analytical skills by requiring MA students to conduct further research and write a paper on the basis of the knowledge they acquire in clas

PROGRAMME OUTCOMES

1. Understand the world, their country, their society, as well as themselves and have awareness of ethical problems, social rights, values and responsibility to the self and to others. 5

2. Understand different disciplines from natural and social sciences to mathematics and art, and develop interdisciplinary approaches in thinking and practice. 3

3. Think critically, follow innovations and developments in science and technology, demonstrate personal and organizational entrepreneurship and engage in life-long learning in various subjects; have the ability to continue to educate him/herself. 4

4. Communicate effectively in Turkish and English by oral, written, graphical and technological means. 5

5. Take individual and team responsibility, function effectively and respectively as an individual and a member or a leader of a team; and have the skills to work effectively in multi-disciplinary teams. 3

1. Develop knowledge of theories, concepts, and research methods in humanities and social sciences. 5

2. Assess how global, national and regional developments affect society. 5

3. Know how to access and evaluate data from various sources of information. 5

1. Analyze global affairs from international relations and economics perspectives. 5

2. Demonstrate theoretical and practical knowledge of the international affairs. 5

3. Compete for increasing opportunities in careers within the newly emerging global institutions. 5

4. Evaluate the international political events and present their views and positions on international affairs with advanced oral and written skills. 5

1. To analyze national and global events from various social science perspectives. 5

2. To demonstrate theoretical and practical knowledge on political science and international relations and to state views and positions with advanced oral and written skills. 5

3. To compete for increasing career opportunities in national and global institutions. 5

4. To (be able to) understand and follow the changes in political behaviours, opinions and structures. 4

5. To gain the ability to make logical inferences on social and political issues based on comparative and historical knowledge. 5

1. Understand and follow changes in patterns of political behavior, ideas and structures. 4

2. Develop the ability to make logical inferences about social and political issues on the basis of comparative and historical knowledge. 5

ASSESSMENT METHODS and CRITERIA

  Percentage (%)
Final 50
Midterm 40
Participation 10

RECOMENDED or REQUIRED READINGS

Readings

22/23-Feb-21 - Presentation of Syllabus and Introduction to the Course
?European Integration and Foreign Policy: Historical Overview? in The Foreign Policy of the
European Union, pp. 35-60.
?International Relations and the EU: Themes and Issues? in International Relations and the
European Union, pp. 3-23 (Hill et. al.)
1/2-Mar-21- Actors, Institutions and Instruments
?The Institutional Framework? in International Relations and the European Union, pp. 97-
121 (Vanhoonacker and Pomorska).
?The EU?s Foreign Policy System: Actors? in The Foreign Policy of the European Union,
61-94.
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?The EU?s Foreign Policy System: Policy Making? in The Foreign Policy of the European
Union, pp. 94-116.
See also S. Keukeleire and T. Delreux note on ?Actors in the EU?s Foreign Policy System:
New Faces, Some New Approaches, but No Fundamental Changes?, April 2017.
Please also check the website of the European External Action Service:
http://eeas.europa.eu/index_en.htm
8/9-Mar-21: Europeanisation of National Foreign Policies
?The Role of the Member States? The Europeanization of Foreign Policy?? in International
Relations and the European Union, pp. 143-165 (Wong).
?Introduction: Conceptualising the Foreign Policies of EU Member States? in Amelia
Hadfield et. al. (2017) Foreign Policies of EU Member States: Continuity and Europeanisa-
tion, London & New York: Routledge.
15/16-Mar-21: Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP)/Common Security and
Defence Policy (CSDP)
?The Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP)? in The Foreign Policy of the European
Union, pp. 156-172.
?The Common Security and Defence Policy? in The Foreign Policy of the European Union,
pp. 172-197.
Sven Biscop (2018), ?European Defence: Give PESCO a Chance?, Survival 60 (3): 161-180.
22/23-Mar-21: EU and its Neighbourhood Policies I - Western Balkans and Turkey
?EU Foreign Policy towards the Neighbourhood? in The Foreign Policy of the European
Union, pp. 242-250.
?Enlargement, the Neighbourhood and European Order? in International Relations and the
European Union, pp. 316-341 (Smith).
Senem Aydın-Düzgit and Alper Kaliber (2016), ?Encounters with Europe in an Era of
Domestic and International Turmoil: Is Turkey a De-Europeanising Candidate Country??,
South European Society and Politics 21 (1): 1-14.
Solveig Richter and Natasha Wunsch (2020), ?Money, Power, Glory: The Linkages between
EU Conditionality and State Capture in the Western Balkans?, Journal of European Public
Policy 27(1): 41-62.
29/30-Mar-21: EU and its Neighbourhood Policies II ? Eastern and Southern Neigh-
bourhood
?EU Foreign Policy towards the Neighbourhood? in The Foreign Policy of the European
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Union, pp. 250-273.
C. Nitoiu and M. Sus (2019), ?Introduction: The Rise of Geopolitics in the EU?s Approach to
its Eastern Neighbourhood?, Geopolitics 24 (1): 1-19.
5/6-Apr-21- TAKE HOME MID-TERM EXAM
12/13-Apr-21- EU Trade Policy
?The European Union as a Trade Power? in International Relations and the European Union,
pp. 209-235 (Meunier and Nicolaidis).
Andreas Dur and Manfred Elsig (2011) ?Principals, Agents, and the European Union's
Foreign Economic Policies? Journal of European Public Policy 18 (3): 323-338.
19/20-Apr-21: EU-US Relations
?The European Union and the USA? in International Relations and the European Union, pp.
388-418 (Smith and Steffenson).
B. Burgoon et al. ?Globalization, Domestic Politics, and Transatlantic Relations?, Interna-
tional Politics 54 (4): 420-433, 2017.
26/27-Apr-21: EU and the Developing World
?The European Union and International Development? in International Relations and the
European Union, pp. 292-316 (Carbone).
Maurizio Carbone (2010) ?The European Union, Good Governance and Aid Co-ordination?.
Third World Quarterly 31 (1): 13-29
T. Bodenstein et. al. (2016) ?European Union Development Policy: Collective Action in
Times of Global Transformation and Domestic Crisis?, Development Policy Review 35 (4):
441-453, 2017.
3/4-May-21: EU and the BRICs
?The European Union, the BRICs, and other Emerging Powers: A New World Order?? in
International Relations and the European Union, pp. 418-443 (Keukeleire and De Bruyn).
Gustaaf Geeraerts (2019), ?The EU-China Partnership: Balancing between Divergence and
Convergence?, Asia Europe Journal 17 (3): 281-294.
10/11-May-21: NO CLASS
17/18-May-21: The EU on the International Scene: What Kind of Power?
Ian Manners. ?Normative Power Europe: A Contradiction in Terms?? Journal of Common
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Market Studies, 40 (2) 2002: 235-258.
Adrian Hyde-Price. ??Normative? Power Europe: a Realist Critique,? Journal of European
Public Policy 13 (2) (2006): 217-234.
?Conclusions: Theorising EU Foreign Policy? in The Foreign Policy of the European Union, pp. 321-334.