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The course will be taught by Maria Raquel Freire, University of Coimbra. Please, address your queries about the course to rfreire@fe.uc.pt.
The teaching will take place in blocs, November 13-15, 2024. Please, consult the schedule option for the exact hours. https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=16920 Poslední úprava: Kazharski Aliaksei, Ph.D. (01.10.2024)
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The EU’s troubled neighbourhood and the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) The teaching will take place in blocs, November 13-15, 2024. Please, consult the schedule option for the exact hours.
Instructor: Maria Raquel Freire [rfreire@fe.uc.pt] Focusing on the central topic of EU Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), this course is broadband in terms of the way it addresses EU’s foreign and security relations from a conceptualization perspective, and specialized in its approach to the topic through a regional approach. The course starts by discussing the political and security dynamics of integration and enlargement in the process of building the EU internally, and crafting policies and actions, and the impact it has on its dimension as an international actor. The course focuses then on the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), looking at the main issues on the agenda, possibilities and limitations of the envisaged cooperative agenda, and challenges ahead. Moving on to the Eastern Partnership (EaP), the discussion takes into account the particular context where three of the Eastern Partners have applied for EU membership, namely Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, and there is a war in Europe, with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, challenging peace and the European security system. The EU’s response will be focus of attention, with a discussion on the west versus the rest regarding positionality towards Ukraine. The course finishes with reflections about developments on the CFSP and the troubled neighbourhood.
Main learning outcome: - analyse EU foreign and security policy from a conceptualization perspective, and specialized in its approach to the topic through a regional lens.
Specific learning outcomes and skills: - discuss dynamics of integration and enlargement in the process of building the EU internally and the impact it has on its dimension as an international actor; - critically analyse the enlargement policy and the European Neighbourhood Policy, with particular focus on the Eastern neighbourhood; - discuss different topics on the EU agenda, relations with the neighbours and with Russia; - study possibilities and limitations and discuss challenges to EU action.
Course requirements consist of
· Complete the readings and active participation in the seminar discussions and debates, e.g. contributing to addressing broader issues and questions underlying the readings, identifying strengths and problems with theory & research design.
· authors’ defendant (1x), that is, defend the merits of the week’s readings in class.
· short essay (1x) of 3,000 words.
Syllabus 1. CFSP: what’s in a name? 2. (In)security, identity and foreign policy: crafting EU policies and actions 3. European Neighbourhood Policy: from transformative diplomacy to resilience 4. Looking East: the end of the Eastern Partnership? 5. Russia’s war in Ukraine, the west and the rest 6. The troubled neighbourhood and EU’s CFSP: where to?
Link to the readings in Moodle https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=16920 Session 1. CFSP: what’s in a name?
Aggestam, Lisbeth e Bicchi, Federica (2019) New Directions in EU Foreign Policy Governance: Crossloading, Leadership and Informal Groupings, Journal of Common Market Studies, 57:3, 515-532.
Barbé, Esther & Pol Morillas (2019) The EU global strategy: the dynamics of a more politicized and politically integrated foreign policy, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 32:6, 753-770.
Costa, Oriol & Barbé, Esther (2023) A moving target. EU actorness and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Journal of European Integration, 45:3, 431-446.
Session 2. (In)security, identity and foreign policy: crafting EU policies and actions
Freire, Maria Raquel (2020) EU and Russia competing projects in the neighbourhood: an ontological security approach, Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional, 63, 1, 18pp.
Hebel, Kai and Lenz, Tobias (2016) The identity/policy nexus in European foreign policy, Journal of European Public Policy, 23:4, 473-449.
Manners, Ian (2002) Normative Power Europe: A Contradiction in Terms?, Journal of Common Market Studies, JCMS, 40:2, pp. 235-258.
Session 3. European Neighbourhood Policy: from transformative diplomacy to resilience
Casier, Tom (2019) The Unintended Consequences of a European Neighbourhood Policy without Russia, The International Spectator, 54:1, 76-88.
Góra, Magdalena (2021) It’s security stupid! Politicisation of the EU’s relations with its neighbours, European Security, 30:3, 439-463.
Petrova, Irina & Delcour, Laure (2020) From principle to practice? The resilience–local ownership nexus in the EU Eastern Partnership policy, Contemporary Security Policy, 41:2, 336-360.
Session 4. Looking East: the end of the Eastern Partnership?
Anghel, Veronica & Džankić, Jelena (2023) Wartime EU: consequences of the Russia – Ukraine war on the enlargement process, Journal of European Integration, 45:3, 487-501.
Cadier, David (2019) The Geopoliticisation of the EU’s Eastern Partnership, Geopolitics, 24:1, 71-99.
Freire, Maria Raquel (2024) Reconfiguring dynamics of bordering/debordering in EU-Eastern neighbours’ relations: The EU as locus of resistance, New Perspectives, https://doi.org/10.1177/2336825X241240984.
Session 5. Russia’s war in Ukraine, the west and the rest
Alden Chris (2023) The Global South and Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, LSE Public Policy Review, 3:1, 1–8.
Götz, Elias & Staun, Jørgen (2022) Why Russia attacked Ukraine: Strategic culture and radicalized narratives, Contemporary Security Policy, 43:3, 482-497.
Mälksoo, Maria (2022) The Postcolonial Moment in Russia’s War Against Ukraine, Journal of Genocide Research, DOI: 10.1080/14623528.2022.2074947.
Session 6. The troubled neighbourhood and EU’s CFSP: where to?
Fiott, Daniel (2023) In every crisis an opportunity? European Union integration in defence and the War on Ukraine, Journal of European Integration, 45:3, 447-462.
Flockhart, Trine & Korosteleva, Elena A. (2022) War in Ukraine: Putin and the multi-order world, Contemporary Security Policy, 43:3, 466-481.
Tocci, Nathalie (2023) Europe and Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: Where Does the EU Stand?, LSE Public Policy Review, 3:1, 1–7.
NOTE: Further readings will be suggested during the course, for those interested in researching further on these topics. Poslední úprava: Kazharski Aliaksei, Ph.D. (01.10.2024)
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