EI507 SOCIAL POLICY IN EUROPE
| Course Code: |
8380507 |
| 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: |
Assoc.Prof.Dr. ÝPEK EREN VURAL |
| Offered Semester: |
Fall or Spring Semesters. |
Course Content
The objective of this course is to provide students with analytical understanding of the background of the subject, to analyse the subject in a global context and to put it into a theoretical framework. The course is designed in the first place to examine historical background and the process of the making of European security, such as the tendencies after the World War II, the US tutelage over the European security as well as responses of France and Germany and the strategies produced and implemented during the Cold War period. Second is to analyze architectural debate that took place in the early 1990s and the formation and evolution of European Security and Defence Identity (ESDI) and the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) as well as analysing the transformation from being under the US tutelage to a global role that the EU aspires for. Third is to discuss whether the EU’s hegemonic project is likely to turn into a historic bloc and whether the EU is to sustain its hegemonic project or to revise it. Finally, the course is designed to examine the changing place and stances of Turkey, whether Turkey is to be kept at arm’s length or to be integrated into the Common European Security and Defence Policy (CESDP), and the reservations of Turkey.
