Europe the World Order

1.5 Credits · Level: Graduate

The course aims at providing an understanding of the EU as an actor in the foreign, security and defense policy fields. This course will focus on the European Union’s approach to global order. It will start by defining what the “liberal international order” is and how it is gradually giving way to a multipolar world or to a “post-multilateralist” world order. It will then focus on “the geopolitical identity” of the European Union, which is the new grammar of the EU in a changing world. The course will apply this framework to various policies that have dominated the recent EU external action. Topics like defense and security, energy, trade, human rights and democracy, will be addressed to illustrate the new trends of the European foreign policy. The course will also look at challenges facing Europe in its “near abroad”, i.e. the Middle-East and North Africa and Russia-Ukraine. The aim of the course is to give students a thorough overview of contemporary security issues and the ability of European states and security.