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The EU and other global powers- Lecturer
- Prof. Dr. Stefan Fröhlich
- Details
- Hauptseminar
Online
2 cred.h, ECTS studies, ECTS credits: 5
für Anfänger geeignet, Bachelor, Sprache Deutsch und Englisch, Das Seminar beginnt erst in der zweiten Woche! Bitte kontaktieren Sie Herrn Ammon (ferdinand.ammon@t-online.de), falls Sie die Zugangsdaten nicht über Studon erhalten haben.
Zeit: Wed 8:15 - 9:45, Zoom-Meeting
- Prerequisites / Organisational information
- Die regelmäßige Teilnahme an der Veranstaltung ist für alle Studierende verpflichtend. Der Leistungsnachweis erfolgt durch ein Referat und eine abschließende Hausarbeit. Für diese Lehrveranstaltung ist eine Anmeldung über Studon erforderlich.Auf Studon findet sich der Seminarplan und eine Doodle-Liste zur Abgabe von Themenpräferenzen. Die endgültige Themenvergabe erfolgt in der konstituierenden Sitzung.
- Contents
- After an introduction into the EU’s own global actorness qualities analysing its geostrategic outlook and its economic and political potential this course examines the EU’s most relevant strategic partnerships.
In a first step, it analyses the long-standing and still most relevant relationship with the US, tracing its close economic ties and the most relevant political issues on the transatlantic agenda. After a brief introduction into the structural changes and paradigm shifts in the relationship from the implosion of the Soviet Union in 1989/90 until today.
In a second step, the course will examine the EU’s relationship with Russia. It will be argued that Russia (as well as China) poses a significant challenge to the EU in at least three ways: as a power which tries to create new geopolitical realities in its own and the EU’s neighbourhood; economically as the EU remains dependent on Russia for its energy needs; and as an autocratic and revisionist power that challenges the EU’s support of a multilateral, rule-based system.
In a third step, the course will first of all analyse the EU’s role in Asia-Pacific in general before looking at China’s economic and political rise and its implications for the EU in particular. It will be argued that despite all commonalities in terms of how both sides see the world (multipolar, following a rules-based system etc.), China today not only confronts the EU with the negative sides of globalization, but also with new geostrategic challenges emanating from its aggressive development and infrastructure politics in Africa and other parts of the world, and the expansion of its maritime activities in the South China Sea and the Pacific. The crucial question is whether the EU should develop a more strategic relationship with China beyond its traditional economic and trade-oriented approach.
- ECTS information:
- Title:
- The EU and other global powers
- Credits: 5
- Additional information
- Maximale Teilnehmerzahl: 25
www: https://www.studon.fau.de/crs3254543.html
Registration is required for this lecture.
Registration starts on Tuesday, 1.9.2020 and lasts till Sunday, 15.11.2020 über: StudOn.
- Department: Institute of Political Science
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