US Perspectives on Current European Security and Development Issues
US Perspectives on Current European Security and Development Issues
Ambassador Donald J. Planty
Chair, International Relations Program
Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
Syracuse University, Greenberg House
2301 Calvert Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C.
January 10-16, 2010
Sunday, January 10
5:30 p.m.Class session, Greenberg House
Before this initial meeting, students are required to read Joseph Nye, Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics and be prepared to discuss the reading at this session. The discussion will focus on the main arguments/conclusions of the book and probe the strengths/weaknesses of the analysis.
Other texts required for the seminar will be Lawrence S. Kaplan, The Long Entanglement: NATO’s First Fifty Years, Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999; Andrew A. Mitcha, The Limits of Alliance: the United States, NATO and the EU in North and Central Europe, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006; Davis S. Yost, NATO Transformed: The Alliance’s New Roles in International Security, Washington, D.C.: US Institute of Peace Press, 1998; John McCormick, The European Union: Politics and Policies, Westview Press, 2008; Tom Lansford and Blagovest Tashev, Old Europe, New Europe and the US, Ashgate Publishing, 2005. There are also special readings for each session identified below.
Monday, January 11
8:30-9:00 a.m.Discussion/Questions
9:00-10:30 a.m.NATO at 60: A Retrospective View
Ambassador Planty
Required Reading
Kaplan, 1-203
Recommended Reading
Yost pp. 27-90
10:30-11:00 a.m.Break
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.NATO Post-Cold War: Where is it Headed?
Ambassador Planty
Required Reading
Kaplan pp. 203-237
Yost pp. 91-188
Recommended Reading
Stanley W. Sloan, NATO’s Future: Beyond Collective Defense, Washington, D.C.: National Defense University Press, 1995.
12:30-1:30 p.m.Lunch
2:00-4:00 p.m.Implications of NATO & EU Expansion
Dr. Simon Serfaty, CSIS
Required Reading
Yost pp. 269-301
Recommended Reading
Esther Brimmer and Stefan Froelich, The Strategic Implications of European Union Enlargement, Center for Transatlantic Relations, Washington, D.C., 20005
Tuesday, January 12
8:30-9:00 a.m.Discussion/Questions
9:00-10:30 a.m.NATO and Russia: A New Confrontation?
Dr. James Keagle, National Defense University
Required Reading
Michta pp. 73-98
Lansford & Tashev pp. 57-78
Recommended Reading
Reading Packet
10:30-11:00 a.m. Break
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.The US Role in NATO: How Has it Changed?
Mr. Bruce Turner, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, US Department of State
Note: This session will take place at the Department of State, 2201 C Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.
Required Reading
Mitcha, pp. 99-124
Yost, pp. 189-267
Recommended Reading
Ted Galen Carpenter, A search for enemies: America’s Alliances after the Cold War, Washington, D.C.: CATO Institute, 1992
12:30-1:30 p.m.Lunch
2:00-4:00 p.m.European Defense Organizations: An Alternative to NATO?
Ambassador Planty
Required Reading
McCormick, pp.37-55; 341-345; Lansford & Tashev, pp. 85-95
Recommended Reading
William I. Hitchcock, The Struggle for Europe: The Turbulent History of a Divided Continent, New York: Anchor Books, 2004
Wednesday, January 13
8:30-9:00 a.m.Discussion/Questions
9:00-10:30 a.m.The EEC: Birth of a Dream
Ambassador Planty
Required Reading
McCormick, pp. 15-32; 59-79
Recommended Reading
Ernst B. Haas, The Uniting of Europe: Political, Social and Economic Forces, 1950-57, Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame press, 2004
10:30-11:00 a.m.Break
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.EEC Becomes EU: Consolidation, Expansion or Both?
Ambassador Planty
Required Reading
McCormick, pp. 83-103; 247-67
Recommended Reading
Neill Nugent, ed., European Union Enlargement, Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004
12:30-1:30 p.m.Lunch
2:00-4:00 p.m.EU and the Challenges of Integration
Ambassador Planty
Required Reading
McCormick, pp. 247-267; 271-290
Recommended Reading
Steve Wood & Wolfgang Quaisser, The New European Union: Confronting the Challenges of Integration, Lynne Rienner, 2008.
Thursday, January 14
9:30-11:00 a.m.EU-US Relations
Hon. Angelos Pangratis, Charge d’Affaires, Delegation of the European Commission, Washington, D.C.
Note: This session will take place at the offices of the European Delegation, 2300 M Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.
Required Reading
McCormick, pp. 361-380
Recommended Reading
Geir Lundestad, The United States and Western Europe Since 1945, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.Lunch
1:00-2:00 p.m.Discussion/Questions (Greenberg House)
Friday, January 15
Note: The January 15 and 16 sessions will take place at the Carnegie Building, 1779 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 810, Washington, D.C. 20036
8:30-9:00 a.m.Discussion/Questions
9:00-10:30 a.m.The Lisbon Treaty and the EU as External Actor
Dr. Christine Mahoney, Director, Center for European Studies and European Union Center, Maxwell School
Required Reading
McCormick, pp. 337-357
Recommended Reading
Charlotte Bretherson & John Volger, The European Union as a Global Actor, Routledge, 2006
10:30-11:00 a.m.Break
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.NATO’s “Out-of-Area” Role: Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan
Dr. Jeremy Shapiro, Senior Advisor, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, US Department of State
Required Reading
Lansford & Tashev, pp. 20-39; 57-77; 281-303
Recommended Reading
Reading Packet
12:30-1:30 p.m.Lunch
2:00-4:00 p.m.NATO and the “New Europe”
Ambassador Planty
Required Reading
Lansford & Tashev, pp. 127-280
Recommended Reading
Reading Packet
Saturday, January 16
9:00-10:30 a.m.Looking Ahead: Trends in European Security and Development
Ambassador Planty
10:30-11:00 a.m.Break
11:00 a.m.-12:00 NoonConclusion and Requirements for Final Paper
Final Paper
The final paper shall be no more than 10 pages single spaced and will be due June 30, 2010. For the purposes of the paper, the student will assume the role of the US Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs who is drafting a strategy paper for the Secretary of State analyzing the state of US-European Relations and making recommendations for future US security and development policy in Europe.
The paper should have a summary at the beginning, include an assessment of key current issues and developments in the region and discuss how these issues/developments impact on US interests (defining US interests in the process), concluding with suggestions for future US policies.
As of cob 1/5/10