Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2500259 Political Science and Public Management | OT | 3 | 2 |
2500259 Political Science and Public Management | OT | 4 | 0 |
2503778 International Relations | OB | 3 | 1 |
This elective course is part of the major in International Relations of the Degree in Political Science and Public Management, as well as a mandatory course of the Degree in International Relations. Therefore, it is expected that the students attending this course will have a general knowledge on International Relations, the European process of integration, and contemporary international history. Also, the students attending this course should have the habit of reading and consulting multiple sources on European and international affairs. It is also expected that the students will have basic knowledge on searching sources in the internet, and on using word processing computer programs.
The students should have the ability to easily read and understand academic texts written in English.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: it will be mandatory for students enrolled in the English group of this course to do all their assignments (exams and group and individual exercises) in English.
This course is intended to develop and deepen the historical, theoretical and conceptual knowledge on the origins, external relations, and political process of the European Union (EU).
At the end of the course, the students should have the ability to:
Introduction
1. Evolution of the European order: towards a security community?
Part I. Construction and evolution of bipolar Europe
2. The partition of Europe
3. The creation of the Atlantic Alliance
4. The evolution of the Atlantic Alliance during the Cold War
5. The creation and consolidation of the Soviet Union sphere of influence
6. The evolution of the Eastern bloc
7. Evolution of bipolar Europe: tensions and cooperation
Part II. Construction and Evolution of Communitarian Europe
8. Pre Communitarian stage
9. The European Communities
10. The Gaullist re-interpretation of the European Community
11. Re-launching Europe: the enlargement of the EEC and the European Political Cooperation (EPC).
Part III. Europe in the post Cold War world
12. Proposals for the development of the European Union
13. The EU as an international political actor (Common Foreign and Security Policy)
Activities
The work of the students during this course is divided into different types of activities, each of them with a specific amount of working hours. This diversity of formats is reflected in the use of different working methodologies during the course. The course has 6 ECTS credits, therefore it is expected that the students devote 150 working hours for this course.
- Guided activities are activities done in the classroom with the presence of the teacher, and will include: lectures (with ICT support and the possibility of forming discussion groups for specific topics); seminars in smaller groups for discussing the required readings, for focusing on practical issues and for analysing specific cases, problems and examples related to the course’ syllabus. For these activities there will be specific readings, which will be announced well in advance. These activities represent one third of the total working hours required for the course (55 hours).
- Supervised activities are the ones carried out by the students outside the classroom, according to a work plan designed, supervised and evaluated by the lecturer. Also, during the course students will read short articles or documents, write short essays to analyze these materials, and will discuss them in class. Supervised activities also include individual tutorials and similar activities to asses each student’s progress. These activities represent approximately 10% of the required working hours (15 hours).
- Autonomous activities are all the activities that the students do on their own, and in accordance with the requirements of the course. These activities may include supplementary research and reading, study their class notes, and all the activities that supplement their work during the course. These activities account for half of the student’ working time (75hours).
The teaching methodology has been adequately prepared for the contents and activities of this course.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Guided activities are classroom activities, with the presence of the teacher, and that may include: lectures and seminars | 53 | 2.12 | 5, 6, 14, 27, 39, 7 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Supervised activities are the ones carried out by the students outside the classroom, according to a work plan designed, supervised and evaluated by the lecturer | 15 | 0.6 | 5, 6, 14, 13, 17, 30, 28, 26, 27, 39, 45, 44, 46, 42, 7 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Autonomous activities are all the activities that the students do on their own, and in accordance with the academic requirements of the course | 75 | 3 | 5, 14, 16, 15, 21, 28, 26, 27, 39, 44, 31, 7, 11 |
The evaluation of this course consists of two parts:
1. Continuous Evaluation during the semester (50% of the final grade) divided among the following activities:
1.1. An individual short essay about a topic from the program proposed by the professor. It represents 20% of the final grade.
1.2. Group assignment related to the contemporary international relations of the European Union, which consists in a group-written paper and its oral presentation (30% of the final grade). Submission of the paper and the oral presentation will take place at the end of the semester. The exact date and specific instructions will be announced during the first weeks of the course.
2. Two written exams on topics 1 to 13 (the midterm exam will include topics 1 to 7 of the programme, and the final exam will include topics 8 to 13). The exact date of each exam will be announced with enough time (each exam represents 25% of the final grade).
SUMMARY OF THE GRADING:
One individual short essay: 20%
Group assignment : 30%
Mid-term exam (topics 1-7): 25%
Final exam (topics 8-13): 25%
OTHER CONSIDERATIONS
To pass this course you will need to pass both written exams with a minimum grade of 5/10 in each exam.
The students that do not pass one or both written examination(s) will have the opportunity to retake them at the end of the semester, on the date established by the Academic Office of the Faculty. If the exam(s) are not passed in the second sitting, the final grade of the course will be FAILED (NO APROVAT). There will only be two opportunities to pass each exam. Clarification: once the student retakes the midterm or the final exam (or both), the grade that will count for the course final grade is the one obtained in the second exam.
Once both written exams have been passed,the average grade of all the activities of the semester (short essay, group assignment and exams) must reach, at least, a 5/10 grade to pass the course.
All the assignments will have to be submitted on the dates established by the professor. If this is not the case the professor will specify the penalty for these late submissions. IMPORTANT: neither the individual essay nor the group assignment will be retaken.
The cases of plagiarism or other irregular acts (copying in an exam or submitting to equal individual essays from two different students) will be graded with a zero (0) in the related activity. To avoid plagiarism students must (it's mandatory) include in-text citations (you can check the Faculty guide about plagiarism through the following link) as well as include a correctly referenced bibliography. IMPORTANT: any assignment that does not include a bibliography will automatically fail.
If a student submits the exercises representing 50% or more of the final grade, she/he will not have the right to have a final grade of NO SHOW (NO PRESENTAT).
VERY IMPORTANT. Exchange students will have to follow the same norms and rules that the students from the Degree (Grau).
VERY IMPORTANT: those students enrolled in the English group of the course will have to do all the assignments (exams, individual essay and group assignment) in English. That's mandatory
In accordance with article 117.2 of the UAB Academic Regulations, the evaluation of those students who have been enrolled before may consist of a single synthesis examination. This synthesis examination will include the contents and competences that belong to the three evaluation activitites that regular students will have to do during the course. The students who wish to be evaluated this way should contact the professor at the beginning ofthe semester.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Group presentation and debate on the contemporary international relations of the European Union | 30% | 1 | 0.04 | 1, 2, 5, 4, 6, 41, 8, 14, 13, 18, 17, 30, 29, 35, 28, 23, 26, 22, 25, 24, 27, 32, 33, 34, 36, 37, 39, 45, 44, 46, 42, 7, 19, 9, 43 |
One individual essay about one of the topics seen during the course | 20% | 2 | 0.08 | 10, 5, 3, 4, 6, 41, 8, 14, 13, 18, 20, 35, 28, 23, 26, 22, 27, 36, 37, 39, 31, 7 |
Written examination (Topics 1 to 13). There will be a midterm and a final exam. | 50% | 4 | 0.16 | 5, 3, 6, 8, 12, 14, 13, 16, 15, 18, 40, 21, 28, 27, 38, 39, 44, 31, 7, 11 |
IMPORTANT: the essential readings to follow the course will be available to students at Campus Virtual
Basic textbooks:
BACHE, Ian; BULMER, Simon; GEORGE, Stephen and PARKER, Owen (2015), Politics in the European Union, 4th Ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
BARBÉ, Esther (Dir.) (2014), La Unión Europea en las relaciones internacionales, Madrid: Tecnos.
DINAN, Desmond (Ed.) (2014), Origins and Evolution of the European Union, 2nd Ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press.
GIL PECHARROMÁN, Julio (2017), Historia de la Integración Europea, 2ª edició, Madrid: Editorial UNED.
HILL, Christopher; SMITH, Michael and VANHOONACKER, Sophie (eds.) (2017), International Relations and the European Union, 3r Ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press.
KEUKELEIRE, Stephan and DELREUX, Tom (2014), The Foreign Policy of the European Union, 2nd Ed., Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.
NUTALL, Simon J. (2011), European Foreign Policy, Oxford: Oxford Universtiy Press [electronic book available through the library catalogue]
General bibliography:
CALVOCORESSI, Peter (1991), Resilient Europe 1870-2000, Londres, Longman.
CAMBON CRESPO, Elia (1997), Seguridad y Cooperación en Europa: de Conferencia a Organización, Madrid, CEES Edic.
DIEZ DE VELASCO, Manuel (2001), Las organizaciones internacionales, Madrid, Tecnos, p. 426-449 (caps. OTAN i UEO) i p. 569-577 (cap. CSCE).
ELLWOOD, David W. (1992), Rebuilding Europe. Western Europe, America and Postwar Reconstruction, Londres, Longman.
HALLIDAY, Fred (1986), The making of the Second Cold War, Londres, Verso.
LAQUEUR, Walter (1992), Europe in Our Time. A History 1945-1992, Londres, Penguin.
LUNDESTAD, Geir (1999), East, West, North, South. Major Developments in International Politics 1945-1990, Oxford, Oxford U.P.
MAMMARELLA, Giuseppe (1995), Historia de Europa Contemporánea, Barcelona, Ariel.
OSIANDER, Andreas (1994), The States System of Europe1640-1990, Oxford, Clarendon Press.
PEREIRA, Juan Carlos (1989), Historia y presente delaguerrafría, Madrid, Istmo.
SAINZ, Nora (1993), La Conferència sobre la Seguretat i la Cooperació a Europa: De procés a institució paneuropea, Centre Unesco de Catalunya/Centre d'Estudis sobre la Pau i el Desarmement (UAB).
TAIBO, Carlos (1991), De la revolución de octubre a Gorbachov. Una aproximación a la Unión Soviética, Madrid, Fundamentos.
Specific bibliography for Part II:
ALDECOA LUZARRAGA, Francisco (2002), La integración europea. Análisis histórico-institucional con textos y documentos, Madrid, Tecnos.
DINAN, Desmond (2000), Encyclopedia of the European Union,Londres,Macmillan.
DINAN, Desmond (1999), Ever Closer Union? An Introduction to the European Community, Londres, Macmillan. (2ª. ed.)
GILBERT, Mark (2012), European Integration: A Concise History, Rowman & Littlefield
MARTIN DE LA GUARDIA, Ricardo i PEREZ SANCHEZ, Guillermo A. (2001), Historia de la integración europea, Barcelona, Ariel.
TRUYOL Y SERRA, Antonio (1999), La integración europea. Análisis histórico-institucional, Madrid, Tecnos.
URWIN, Derek (1992), The Community of Europe. A History of European Integration since 1945, Londres, Longman.
WALLACE, Helen., POLLACK, Mark A. and YOUNG, Alasdair (eds.) (2015), Policy making in the European Union, 7a edició, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Specific bibliography for Part III:
BARBÉ, Esther (1995), La seguridad en la nueva Europa. Una aproximación institucional: Unión Europea, OTAN y UEO,Madrid, Los Libros de la Catarata.
BARBÉ, Esther (1999), La política europea de España, Barcelona, Ariel.
BARBÉ, Esther (coord.) (2000), Política Exterior Europea, Barcelona, Ariel.
BARBÉ, Esther (ed.) (2005) ¿Existe la brecha transatlántica? Estados Unidos y la Unión Europea tras la crisis de Irak, Madrid, LosLibros de la Catarata.
BARBÉ, Esther (ed.) (2010), La Unión Europeamás allás de sus fronteras. ¿Hacia la transformación del Mediterráneo y Europa oriental?, Madrid: Tecnos.
DIALER, Doris; NEISSER, Heinrich, and OPITZ, Anja (eds.) (2013), The EU's External Action Service: Potentials for a one voice Foreign Policy, Innsbruck University Press [electronic book available through the library catalogue]
HILL, Christopher and SMITH, Karen E. (2000), European Foreign Policy. Key Documents. London: Routledge.
HOLMAN, Otto (2019), Global Europe: The External Relations of the European Union, Amsterdam University Press [electronic book available through the library catalogue]
JOHANSSON-NOGUÉS, Elisabeth; VLASKAMP, Martijn and BARBÉ, Esther (eds.) (2020), European Union Contested, Springer [electronic book available through the library catalogue]
KOUTRAKOS, Panos (ed.) (2011), European Foreign Policy:Legal and Political Perspectives, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar [electronic book available through the library catalogue]
MÉRAND, Frédéric (2008), European Defence Policy: Beyont the Nation State, Oxford: Oxford University Press [electronic book available through the library catalogue]
MORILLAS, Pol (2019), Strategy-making in the EU: from foreign and security policy to external action, Palgrave Macmillan
SMITH, Hazel (2002), European Union Foreign Policy: What It Is and What It Does, Londres: Pluto Press
SMITH, Karen E. (2008), European Union Foreign Policy in a Changing World,2a edición, Cambridge:Polity Press.
TAIBO, Carlos (1998), Las transiciones en la Europa Central yOriental, Madrid, Los Libros de la Catarata.
TONRA, Ben and CHRISTIANSEN, Thomas (eds.) (2004), Rethinking European Union Foreign Policy, Manchester: Manchester University Press [electronic book available through the library catalogue]
VAN VOOREN, Bart; BLOCKMANS, Steven, and WOUTERS, Jan (eds.) (2013), The EU's Role in Global Governance: The Legal Dimension, Oxford: Oxford University Press [electronic book available through the library catalogue]
WESTLAKE, Martin (Ed.) (2020), The European Union's New Foreign Policy, Palgrave Macmillan [electronic book available through the library catalogue]
Basic webpages:
Council of Europe: http://www.coe.int
European Documentation Center at UAB: http://www.uab.cat/web/centre-de-documentacio-europea/centre-de-documentacio-europea-1261383194655.html
European External Action Service: https://eeas.europa.eu/headquarters/headquarters-homepage_en
European Parliament: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/portal/en
EuropeanUnion: http://www.europa.eu
NATO: http://www.nato.int
Observatori de Política Exterior Europea: http://normcon.eu/es/
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe: http://www.osce.org
No need of any special software beyond the use of Moodle