INRE635 - ISSUES IN EURO

Course Description

This course aims to develop the theoretical and empirical background of the students about the political, cultural, economic and security affairs of the countries which are members of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership. Thus and so the project of Euro-Mediterranean Partnership will be analyzed within the framework of both traditional and critical theories by referring to the three constitutive phases (security and political cooperation, economic cooperation and cultural dialogue) as well as by assessing certain case studies.

ISSUES IN EURO - MED POLITICS

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Course outcomes

01 To gain awareness of the ways in which mainstream views of security issues at local, national, regional and international levels interrelate with each other.
02 To understand the interelationship between the political, security, socio-economic, and cultural “Partnership”.
03 To understand distinction between governmental, media and scholarly discourse on the Mediterranean area.
04 The ability to assess the contending interpretations of apparent and claimed reasons for conflict and instability in the Mediterranean area.
05 To be able to Identify the inter-twinning between domestic and external determinants in shaping regional order in connection with world politics.
06 To Link the process of regional building with the political agenda of the interested actors.
07 Critical understanding of the prospects for regional cooperation and the building of multifaceted and balanced security strategies.
08 To understand the ultimate goals of EU foreign policy, the aspirations of the Mediterranean people, and the role played by extra-regional powers and non-state stake-holders.
09 To develop analytical, writing skills with competence to generalize, hypothesize, criticize, theorize.
10 To develop critical objectives in order to improve communication skills for in-class presentations.

Course Syllabus

Week	Topic
Week 1	Introduction. Theoretical Framework of the European Foreign Policy. Which Mediterranean is being constructed? De-Constructing the Political Discourse on the Mediterranean Area by confronting it to its policy practice and the World Order. Required: Calleya, 2005. Evaluating Euro-Mediterranean Relations. Introduction & Ch. 1 pp. 1-34; Barcelona Declaration.
Week 2	Euro-Mediterranean Relations in Historical Perspective. Required: Calleya, 2005. Evaluating Euro-Mediterranean Relations. Ch. 1 pp. 35-60; Calleya. 2013. Security Challenges in the Euro-Med area in the 21st Century. See: 3. Regional security initiatives in the Euro-Med area pp. 57-72; Paris summit for the med. Joint declaration 2008; Anna Lindh foundation euromed Corporate plan 2018-2020; Bicchi, 2006. "Our size fits all". EURO-MED RIGHTS: https://euromedrights.org/
Week 3	Euro-Mediterranean Regional Dynamics. Region Building and Political Agenda: Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East. Required: Gillespie and Volpi, 2017. Chapter 4. Regionalism and the Mediterranean: Long history, odd partners. By Bicchi.
Week 4	Southern Europe, the Mashreq and the Maghreb: The Euro-Mediterranean Summits from Barcelona and onwards. Required: Morin, 2005. The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership tries to find its second wind.; Dempsey, 2016. Europe Still Looking Backward at Its Southern Neighbors.; Youngs, 2015 article 20 Years of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership
Week 5	European Foreign Policy and Mediterranean Politics: The Political and Security Dimension. Required:1. Calleya. 2013. Security Challenges in the Euro-Med area in the 21st Century. Introduction pp. 5-13; Chpt. 1 pp. 14-21. (see textbooks); 2. Youngs, 2015 article 20 Years of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (usefull throughout the semester) https://carnegieeurope.eu/publications/?fa=60337
Week 6	Stage I: OUTLINE OF RESEARCH PAPER DUE. The Socio-Economic and Cultural Relations and “Partnership”. Required: 1.Zielonka, 2011 The Ideology of Empire. 2. Del Sarto, 2016. Normative Empire Europe: The European Union, its Borderlands, and the ‘Arab Spring’. Recommended: 1. L. Poletti, 2021. Kant, Doyle, and the Democratic Peace Thesis: A Postcolonial Critique. 2. D. Hardwick, 2011. Is the EU a Normative Power? 3. Gillespie and Volpi, 2017. Routledge Handbook of Mediterranean Politics. Chpt. 6. From imperialism to failed liberal peace: How Europe contributed to MENA’s failing states system and how MENA blowback threatens Europe. By Hinnebusch. 4. B. T. Powel, 2009. A clash of norms: normative power and EU democracy promotion in Tunisia. 5. Manners, 2002. Normative Power Europe A Contradiction in Terms.
Week 7	The role of extra-regional powers in the Euro-Mediterranean area. Required: 1. Calleya. 2013. Security Challenges in the Euro-Med area in the 21st Century. Chapt. 1 continued: Security dynamics in Southern Europe. pp. 20-39 (see textbooks) 2. Calleya. 2013. Security Challenges in the Euro-Med area in the 21st Century. Ch. 2. Security challenges in the Mediterranean. pp. 40-56 (see textbooks) 3. Donatella Scatamacchia, article "NATO and the Greater Middle East:…" 4. The Open Society Foundations… https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/
Week 8	Participation Debate. 1. Calleya, 2005. Evaluating the Euro-Mediterranean Relations.Ch. 4. The role of extra-regional powers in the Euro-Mediterranean area: The role of a superpower: the United States 110 The role of international organizations and the case ofNATO Pp.108-125 (see textbooks) 2. Calleya. 2013. Security Challenges in the Euro-Med area in the 21st Century. Ch. 4. Prospects for Euro-Mediterranean security in the twenty-first century. Pp. 72-83 (see textbook) 3. Del Sarto & Schumacher, 2005. From EMP to ENP: What's at Stake with the European Neighborhood Policy towards the Southern Mediterranean?
Week 9	IN CLASS TEST 20% Required: 1. Finish week 8. 2. Del Sarto & Schumacher, 2005. From EMP to ENP: What's at Stake with the European Neighborhood Policy towards the Southern Mediterranean? Recommended: Pace, 2006. The Politics of Regional Identity: Meddling with the Mediterranean. Ch. 4 EU foreign policy as a discursive practice of the Mediterranean’.
Week 10	Stage II: Draft of Research Paper due. Required: 1. Calleya. 2013. Security Challenges in the Euro-Med area in the 21st Century. Continue Ch. 4. Prospects for Euro-Mediterranean security in the twenty-first century. Pp. 84-95. (see textbooks) 2. Gillespie, 2008. A 'Union for the Mediterranean' ... or for the EU? 3. Muasher et. al., 2016. Between Peril and Promise: A New Framework for Partnership with Tunisia. https://carnegieendowment.org/2016/04/14/between-peril-and-promise-new-framework-for-partnership-with-tunisia-pub-63269 Recommended: Powel and Sadiki 2010. 'Europe and Tunisia: Democratization via association.' Chapters 3, 4 & 5.
Week 11	Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network: Challenges and Achievements. Case Studies: Required: 1. Horst, 2013. Euro-Mediterranean Relations after the Arab Spring: Persistence in Times of Change. Chapter 3. Facing a Dilemma: The EUs Promotion of Gender-Democracy after the ‘Arab Spring”, by Annette Junemann. 2. L. Fawcett and H. Gandois, 2010. Regionalism in Africa and the Middle East: Implications for EU Studies. 3. Daniel Ziblatt, 2006. Review: How Did Europe Democratize? Recommended: Fredrik Söderbaum, 2015. Early, Old, New and Comparative Regionalism: The Scholarly Development of the Field. Stefania Panebianco, 2003. A New Euro-Mediterranean Cultural Identity. Especially parts I & 4.
Week 12	Holiday No Class.
Week 13	RESEARCH PAPERS DUE. Required: Calleya and Kuehnhardt, 2013. ‘How to ride the Revolutionary Arab Lion _ Conflict Resolutions and World Security Solutions’. Finish Program
Week 14	Oral questioning of Research Papers
Week 15	Finish student presentations/ ONLINE EXAM.

Reference Books & Course Materials

01 S. C. Calleya. 2005. Evaluating Euro-Mediterranean Relations. N Y: Routledge. ISBN 0415-34792-0.
02 S. C. Calleya. 2005. Evaluating Euro-Mediterranean Relations. N Y: Routledge.
03 Richard Gillespie and Frédéric Volpi 2008. Routledge Handbook Of Mediterranean Politics.
04 Articles and chapters on Moodle.

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