KOC UNIVERSITY
College of Administrative Sciences and Economics
INTL 534 – EUROPE in the GLOBAL CONTEXT
Dr. Suhnaz Yilmaz
Spring 2009
Class meets: Tues. 14:00-17:00
Office: CAS 146 – Phone: 338-1668
E-mail:
Office hours: Tues. 10:00-12:00 and by appointment
Course Overview
This course aims to provide an in-depth assessment of the ideas and issues related to the EU’s role in global affairs. After a brief survey of the role played by various EU institutions in foreign policy making, the dynamics enabling the Union’s emergence as an international actor will be examined. In this context, seven different yet inter-related aspects of the EU’s engagement in foreign policy will be analyzed: Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), human rights and international development, Common European Security and Defense Policy (CESDP), conflict prevention and resolution, transatlantic relations and relations with the periphery, and enlargement. We will finish by assessing the forces behind EU’s foreign policy (i.e. how much is policy driven by member states) and by presenting an overall critique of the EU as an international actor.
Course Requirements
q Informed class discussion (20%)
q Presentations (20%)
q Critical Review/Policy Papers (30%)
q Final Paper Project (30%)
This is only partly a lecture course. Students will be expected to be able to summarize positions, explicate certain points, and offer interpretations. Chronic absences or lack of preparation will seriously affect your final grade.
Readings
Students are expected to do all readings as assigned and to be prepared for each class. The required text will be Karen E. Smith (2003) European Union Foreign Policy in a Changing World, which is available at the bookstore and the library. There is also a comprehensive course-pack containing relevant articles for the course.
Academic Honesty
Students and faculty at Koc University adhere to these principles of academic honesty:
1. Individual accountability for all individual work, written, and oral. Copying from others or providing answers or information, written or oral to others, is cheating.
2. Providing proper acknowledgement of original author. Copying from another student’s paper or from another text without written acknowledgement is plagiarism.
3. Study or project group activity is effective and authorized teamwork. Unauthorized help from another person or having someone else write one’s paper or assignment is collusion.
Cheating, plagiarism, and collusion are serious offences resulting in an F grade and disciplinary action.
COURSE OUTLINE
Week 1 Introduction – The EU as an International Actor
Karen Smith, Chapter 1 (pp. 1-23)
Week 2 Institutional Framework and Instruments of Foreign Policy
Karen Smith, Chapter 2 (pp. 24-51)
The EU’s Foreign Policy Instruments
Karen Smith, Chapter 3 (pp. 52-67)
Week 3 Common Foreign and Security Policy
Michael E. Smith, “Toward a theory of EU foreign policy making: multi-level governance, domestic politics, and national adaptation to Europe’s common foreign and security policy,” Journal of European Public Policy, Aug, 2004, vol. 11, no.4, 19p.
Philip Gordon, “Europe’s Uncommon Foreign Policy,” International Security, vol.22, no.3, (winter 1997/1998), pp. 74-100.
Christopher Hill, “Convergence, Divergence and Dialectics: The National Foreign Policies and the CFSP,” Jan Zielonka (ed.), Paradoxes of European Foreign Policy, (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 1998), pp. 35-52.
Week 4 Common European Security and Defense Policy
Javier Solana, “A Secure Europe in a Better World”, European Security Strategy, December 2003.
Fraser Cameron, “The Future of the Common Foreign and Security Policy,” Brown Journal of World Affairs, Winter/Spring 2003, vol.9, no.2, 10p.
Gerhard Kummel, “Public Opinion on European Security and Defense: A Survey of European Trends and Public Attitudes Toward CFSP and ESDP,” Armed Forces and Society, Fall 2003, vol. 30, no.1, 3p.
Anand Menon, “From Crisis to Catharsis: ESDP after Iraq,” International Affairs, Jul 2004, vol.80, no.4, p18p.
Week 5 Human Rights and International Development
Karen Smith, Chapter 5 (pp. 97-121)
Appendix 1-3, (pp. 202-216)
Janne Haaland Matlary, “Human Rights,” Walter Carlsnaes, Helene Sjursen, and Brian White (eds.), Contemporary European Foreign Policy, (Sage Publications, 2004), pp. 141-154.
Week 6 Conflict Prevention and Resolution
Karen Smith, Chapter 7 (pp. 145-170)
Case Study: Bosnia-Herzegovina
Annika S. Hansen, “Security and Defence: The EU Police Mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina,” Contemporary European Foreign Policy, pp. 173-185.
Week 7 Transatlantic Relations
Robert Kagan, “Power and Weakness,” Policy Review, no.113, 19p.
Simon Serfaty, “The Transatlantic Dimension,” Fraser Cameron (ed.)
The Future of Europe: Integration and Enlargement, (Routledge, 2004), pp. 135-148.
William Wallace, “Europe, the Necessary Partner,” Foreign Affairs, May/June 2001, vol.80, no.3, 19p.
Dominique Moisi, “Reinventing the West,” Foreign Affairs, Nov./Dec 2003, vol. 82, no.6, 7p.
Week 8 Euro-Mediterranean Relations
Neville Waites and Stelios Stavridis, “The European Union and the Mediterranean,” The Foreign Policies of the European Union’s Mediterranean States and Applicant Countries in the 1990’s, Stelios Stavridis, Theodore Couloumbis, Thanos Veremis, Neville Waites (eds.), (St. Martin’s Press, 1999), pp.22-39.
Ricardo Gomez and George Christou, “Economic Foreign Policy: The EU and the Mediterranean,” Contemporary European Foreign Policy, pp.186-197.
Michelle Pace, “Imagining Co-presence in Euro- Mediterranean Relations: The Role of ‘Dialogue’, Mediterranean Politics, 2005, vol.10, no.3, pp. 291-312.
Week 9 Spring Break (April 6-10)
Week 10 EU and the Middle East
Geoffrey Kemp, “Europe’s Middle East Challenges,” Washington Quarterly, winter 2004, vol.27, no.1, 15p.
America’s “Greater Middle East” and Europe: Key Issues for Dialogue, Middle East Policy, Fall 2004, vol.11, no. 3, 13p.
Anouar Boukhars and Steve A.Yetiv, “9/11 and the Growing Euro-American Chasm over the Middle East,” European Security, Spring 2003, vol.12, no.1.
Bill Park, “Between Europe, the United States and the Middle East: Turkey and European Security in the Wake of the Iraq Crises”, Perspectives on European Politics and Society, 2004, vol.5, no.3, pp. 493 -516.
Week 11 EU and the World: China, Russia and East Asia
Joakim Kreutz, “Reviewing the EU Arms Embargo on China: the
Clash between Value and Rationale in the European Security
Strategy”, Perspectives, 2004, vol. 22, pp. 43-58.
Vassily Likhachev, “Russia and the European Union”,
International Affairs: A Russian Journal of World Politics, Diplomacy and International Relations, 2006, vol. 52, no. 2, pp. 102-114.
Julie Gilson, “New Interregionalism? The EU and East Asia”,
Journal of European Integration, September 2005, vol. 27, no. 3,
pp. 307-326.
Week 12 Dynamics of Enlargement
Fraser Cameron, “Widening and Deepening,” The Future of Europe: Integration and Enlargement, pp. 1-17.
Graham Avery, “The Enlargement Negotiations,” The Future of Europe: Integration and Enlargement, pp. 35-62.
Heather Grabbe, “The Newcomers,” The Future of Europe: Integration and Enlargement, pp. 63-79.
Geoffrey Harris, “The Wider Europe,” The Future of Europe: Integration and Enlargement, pp. 98-113.
Week 13 Case of Eastern Europe
Karen Smith, The Making of EU Foreign Policy: The Case of Eastern Europe, 2nd ed., (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), chap. 7,8,9, pp. 135-206.
Week 14 Turkey-EU Relations
Ziya Öniş, “Domestic Politics, International Norms and Challenges to the State: Turkey-EU Relations in the Post-Helsinki Era, Turkish Studies, vol.4, no.1, 2003, pp. 9-35.
Atila Eralp, “Turkey and the European Union,” in Leonore Martin and Dimitris Keridis, (eds.), The Future of Turkish Foreign Policy, (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004), pp. 63-82.
Ziya Öniş and Şuhnaz Yılmaz, “The Triangle of Turkey-US-EU Relations: Transformation or Continuity?” Middle East Journal, vol.59, no.2 , pp. 265-284.
Short Presentations
Week 15 The Future of EU’s International Identity
Karen Smith, Chapter 9 (pp. 95-201)
Fraser Cameron, “Europe’s Future,” The Future of Europe: Integration and Enlargement, pp. 149-161.