EI504 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF THE EU
| Course Code: |
8380504 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): |
3(3-0) |
| ECTS Credit: |
8.0 |
| Department: |
European Integration |
| Language of Instruction: |
English |
| Level of Study: |
Masters |
| Course Coordinator: |
Lecturer Dr. ÇÝÐDEM ÜSTÜN |
| Offered Semester: |
Fall or Spring Semesters. |
Course Content
Since the 1990s, there has been a steady expansion of the practical and scholarly interest in the international role of the EC/EU both as a partner to other major actors in world affairs and as an actor in its own right. The objective of this course is to give a broad introduction to ideas and issues related to the EU’s international role and identity in a globalizing world. The course commences with a conceptual and theoretical analysis of the international presence and actorness of the EU. Next, it overviews the legal bases and the institutional framework of EC/EU’s external relations, including the foreign economic policy and outlines various attempts to further develop EU’s foreign and security policy, beginning with European Political Cooperation, culminating in the Common Foreign and Security Policy and the recent move into the Common European Security and Defense Policy. Against this theoretical and historical background, the course assesses the Union’s relations with its peripheries to the east, south, and with the rest of the world. Finally, by way of conclusion, the challenges facing the EU foreign and security policy and the Union’s international role and identity are examined in the context of a wider Europe.
