16/09/2009 Please note that the office hours of Prof. Hofmann has been changed to Thursdays 14:00-16:00.
14/09/2009 Syllabus updated. You may download the latest version from this webpage.
E796
Course Organization
Professor:
Stephanie Hofmann
Course Description
Over the last decades the EU has become an international actor, extending its reach from economics into security and foreign policy. What led EU member States to create a European foreign and security policy? What is the relationship of the EU to its neighbours? And how has the US responded to the rise of the EU, and what implications does the transatlantic relationship have for international relations? These are some of the questions we will be asking in this course. The purpose of the course is to discuss the EU as an actor in international relations as well as its various relationships to States and other international organisations.
Students are required to prepare two “memos” and a polished research paper. The grade will be based on the memos, student participation and the research paper according to the following breakdown:
Participation - 20%
I expect the readings to provoke questions that we can discuss in class. Of course, this requires completing the readings before class. Needless to say, one cannot participate if absent.
Discussion papers - 30%
Twice during the semester each student will write a discussion paper or “memo.” The first memo should either present all the strengths or all the weaknesses of the readings for a given week.
The second memo should discuss the empirical evidence in relation to the argument of the articles, evaluate whether the author succeeds in his/her goals, and draw connections to other seminar themes.
The memo writers will serve as “resident experts,” opening up the issues for the class. You can be called on to explain or clarify questions other students or the instructor may have about the readings.
Discussion papers should be distributed to all class members by 2 pm on Wednesday, the day before we meet. The papers should be sent by email attachment and also within the body of an email message in case there are problems reading the attachment. They should be the equivalent of 2-3 double-spaced pages. Students are required to read their colleagues’ papers before the seminar meets. Reading the papers in advance is essential for the seminar to function properly. This system precludes the acceptance of any late papers.
Research Paper - 50%
The format is 20-25 pages including references and bibliography, using both course materials and other sources.The reading is designed to give you plenty of theoretical ideas (to test or build upon) and plenty of empirical information that you can use as a starting point for your research.The paper should have theoretical implications or it should test observable implications of some extant theory. It is intended to reflect your understanding of particular debates or issues in the field combined with original research and ideas. The topic of the final paper must be discussed with the instructor and approved in advance.
Week 1: Introduction
European Security Strategy. 2003. “A Secure Europe in a Better World.”
Moravcsik, Andrew. 1993. “Preferences and Power in the European Community: A Liberal Intergovernmentalist Approach.” Journal of Common Market Studies 31, 4: 473-523.
Collard-Wexler, Simon. 2006. “Integration Under Anarchy: Neorealism and the European Union.” European Journal of International Relations 12, 3: 397- 432.
Smith, Michael E. 2004. Europe’s Foreign and Security Policy. The Institutionalization of Cooperation. New York: CambridgeUniversity Press, Introduction.
Week 3: The EU and Its International Environment
Paul, T.V. 2005. “Soft Balancing in the Age of
U.S. Primacy.” International Security 30, 1: 46-71.
Alter, Karen and Sophie Meunier, eds. 2007. “The Politics of International Regime Complexity Symposium.” Perspectives on Politics 7, 1: 13-24
Schimmelfennig, Frank. 2001. “The Community Trap: Liberal Norms, Rhetorical Action, and the Eastern Enlargement of the European Union.” International Organization 55, 1: 47-80
Cremona, Marisa. 2004. “The Union as a Global Actor: Roles, Models and Identity.” Common Market Law Review 41, 2: 553-573.
Ginsberg, Roy H. 1999. “Conceptualizing the European Union as an International Actor: Narrowing the Theoretical Capability-Expectations Gap.” Journal of Common Market Studies 37, 3: 429-454
Week 4: Capabilities and Power
Barnett, Michael and Raymond Duvall. 2005. “Power in International Politics.” International Organization 59, 1: 39-75.
Hill,Christopher. 1998. “Closing the capabilities - expectations gap?” In John Peterson and Helene Sjursen, eds. A Common Foreign Policy for Europe? Competing Visions for the CFSP. London: Routledge, pp. 18-38.
Manners, Ian. 2002. “Normative Power Europe: a Contradiction in Terms?” Journal of Common Market Studies 40, 2: 235-258.
Meunier, Sophie and Kalypso Nicolaïdis. 2006. “The European Union as a conflicted trade power.” Journal of European Public Policy 13, 6: 906-925
Week 5: Is the (Study of the) EU Special?
Tonra, Ben and Christiansen, Thomas. 2004. “The Study of EU Foreign Policy: Between International Relations and European Studies.” In Ben Tonra and Thomas Christiansen, eds. Rethinking European Union Foreign Policy.Manchester: ManchesterUniversity Press, pp. 1-9.
Caporaso, James A. 1996. “The European Union and Forms of the State: Westphalian, Regulatory or Post-Modern?” Journal of Common Market Studies 34, 1: 29-5
Hix, Simon. 1994. “The Study of the European Community: The Challenge to Comparative Politics.” West European Politics 17, 1: 1-30
Moravcsik, Andrew. 2002. “Reassessing Legitimacy in the European Union.”Journal of Common Market Studies 40: 603-624
Part II. Acting Outside its Own Borders. What Explains EU (In)Action?
Week 6: TradePolicy
Hanson, Brian. 1998. “What Happened to Fortress Europe? External Trade Policy Liberalization in the European Union.” International Organization 52, 1: 55-85.
Meunier, Sophie. 2000. “What Single Voice? European Institutions and E.U.-U.S. Trade Negotiations.” International Organization 54, 1: 103-136.
Young, Alasdair R. 2000. “The Adaptation of European Foreign Economic Policy: From Rome to Seattle.” Journal of Common Market Studies 38, 1: 93-116.
Baldwin, Matthew. 2006. “EU trade politics — heaven or hell?” Journal of European Public Policy 13, 6: 926-942
Week 7: Development Policy
Forwood, Genevra. 2001. “The Road to Cotonou: Negotiating a Successor to Lomé,” Journal of Common Market Studies 39, 3: 423-442
Elgström, Ole. 2000. “Norm negotiations: The construction of new norms regarding gender and development in EU foreign aid policy.” Journal of European Public Policy 7, 3: 457-476
Bayart, Jean-François. 2004. “Commentary: Towards a new start for Africa and Europe.” African Affairs 103, 412: 453‑458
Scheipers, Sibylle and Daniela Sicurelli, 2008. "Empowering Africa: Normative power in EU-Africa relations" in Journal of European Public Policy, 15, 4: 607-623
Week 8: Human Rights Policy
Clapham, Andrew. 1999. “Where is the EU’s Human Rights Common Foreign Policy and How is it Manifested in Multilateral Fora?” In Philip Alston, Mara R. Bustelo and James Heenan, eds. The EU and Human Rights. Oxford: Oxford University Press, ch.19.
Simma, Bruno, Jo Beatrix Aschenbrunner, and Constanze Schulte. 1999. “Human Rights Considerations in the Development Co-operation Activities of the EC.” in Philip Alston, Mara R. Bustelo and James Heenan, eds. The EU and Human Rights. Oxford: Oxford University Press, ch.18
Youngs, Richard. 2004. “Normative Dynamics and Strategic Interests in the EU’s External Identity.” Journal of Common Market Studies 42, 2: 415-436.
Smith, Karen E. 2006. “Speaking with One Voice? European Union Co-ordination on Human Rights Issues at the United Nations.” Journal of Common Market Studies 44, 1: 113-137.
RevisitManners, Ian. 2002. “Normative Power Europe: a Contradiction in Terms?” Journal of Common Market Studies 40, 2: 235-258.
Week 9: Tackling Terrorism
Hülsse, Rainer and Alexander Spencer. 2008. “The Metaphor of Terror: Terrorism Studies and the Constructivist Turn.”Security Dialogue 39, 6: 571-592.
De Goede, Marieke. 2008. “The Politics of Preemption and the War on Terror in Europe.” European Journal of International Relations 14, 1: 161-185.
Wiener, Antje. 2008. “European Responses to International Terrorism: Diversity Awareness as a New Capability?” Journal of Common Market Studies 46, 1: 195-218.
Müller-Wille, Björn. 2008. “The Effect of International Terrorism on EU Intelligence Co-operation.” Journal of Common Market Studies 46, 1: 49-73.
Keohane, Daniel. 2008. “The Absent Friend: EU Foreign Policy and Counter-Terrorism.” Journal of Common Market Studies 46, 1: 125-146
Week 10: Neighborhood and Enlargement
Schimmelfennig, Frank and Ulrich Sedelmeier. 2004. “Governance by Conditionality: EU Rule Transfer to the Candidate Countries of Central and Eastern Europe.” Journal of European Public Policy 11, 4: 661-679.
Diez, Thomas Stephan Stetter and Mathias Albert. 2006. “The European Union and Border Conflicts: The Transformative Power of Integration.” International Organization 60, 3: 563-593.
Kelley, Judith. 2006. “New Wine in Old Wine Skins: Policy Adaptation in the European Neighbourhood Policy.” Journal of Common Market Studies 44, 1: 29-55.
Browning, Christopher S. and Pertti Joenniemi. 2008. “Geostrategies of the European Neighbourhood Policy.”European Journal of International Relations 14: 519-551.
Week 11: Transatlantic Relations
Kagan, Robert. 2002. “Power and Weakness: Why the United States and Europe See the World Differently.” Policy Review 113: 1-18
Jones, Erik. 2004. “Debating the Transatlantic Relationship: Rhetoric and Reality.” International Affairs 80, 4: 595-612
Posen, Barry R. 2006. “European Union Security and Defense Policy: Response to Unipolarity?” Security Studies 15, 2: 149-186.
Risse-Kappen, Thomas. 1996. “Collective Identity in a Democratic Community: The Case of NATO.” in Peter Katzenstein, ed. The Culture of National Security. New York: Columbia University Press, ch.10.
Kupchan, Charles. 2003. “The Rise of Europe, America's Changing Internationalism, and the End of U.S. Primacy.” Political Science Quarterly 118: 205-231.
Week 12: EU Relations to China and Russia
Callahan, William A. 2007. “Future Imperfect: The European Union’s Encounter with China (and the United States).” The Journal of Strategic Studies 30, 4-5: 777-807.
Shambaugh, David. 2005. “The New Strategic Triangle: US and European Reactions to China’s Rise.” The Washington Quarterly 28, 3: 7-25.
Haukkala, Hiski. 2008. “The EU’s Common Strateg on Russia: Four Lessons Learned About Consensus Decision-Making in Foreign Policy" in European Foreign Affairs Review, 13, 3: 317-331
Hughes, James. 2006. “EU Relations with Russia: Partnership or Asymmetric Interdependency?” In Nicola Casarini and Constanza Musu, eds. The EU’s Foreign Policy in anEvolving International System: The Road To Convergence. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Week 13: Relations with other IOs and Regions
Groenleer, Martijn L.P. and Louise G. van Schaik. 2007. “United We Stand? The European Union's International Actorness in the Cases of the International Criminal Court and the Kyoto Protocol.” Journal of Common Market Studies 45, 5: 969-998.
Ojanen, Hanna. 2006. “The EU and NATO: Two Competing Models for a Common Defence Policy.” Journal of Common Market Studies 44, 1: 57-76
Jakobsson, Ulf. 2009. “An International Actor Under Pressure: The Impact of the War on Terror and the Fifth Enlargement on EU Voting Cohesion at the UN General Assembly 2000-05.” Journal of Common Market Studies 47, 3: 531-554.
Reiterer, Michael. 2006. “Interregionalism as a New Diplomatic Tool: The EU and East Asia.” European Foreign Affairs Review 11: 223-243.
Billiet, Stijn.2006. “From GATT to the WTO: The Internal Struggle for External Competences in the EU.” Journal of Common Market Studies 44, 5: 899-919
Week 14: The EU as a Global Model? Dilemmas of Multilateralism
Eriksen, Erik O. 2006. “The EU – A Cosmopolitan Polity?” Journal of European Public Policy 13, 2: 252-269.
Leonard, Mark. 2005. Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century. New York: Fourth Estate, pp. 135-143.
Warleigh, Alex. 2006. “Learning from Europe? EU Studies and the Re-thinking of ‘International Relations’.” European Journal of International Relations 12: 31-51.
Krotz, Ulrich. 2009. “Momentum and Impediments: Why Europe Won't Emerge as a Full Political Actor on the World Stage Soon.” Journal of Common Market Studies 47, 3: 555-578.
