KOC UNIVERSITY
College of Administrative Sciences and Economics
INTL 534 – ADVANCED TOPICS in EUROPEAN STUDIES
Dr. Suhnaz Yilmaz
Spring 2005
Class meets:
Office:
E-mail:
Office hours:
Wed. 14:00-17:00
CAS 146 – Phone: 338-1668
syilmaz@ku.edu.tr
Wed. 10:00-12:00 and by appointment
Course Overview
This course aims to provide an in-depth assessment of the ideas and issues related to the
EU’s role in global affairs. After a brief survey of the role played by various EU
institutions in foreign policy making, the dynamics enabling the Union’s emergence as an
international actor will be examined. In this context, seven different yet inter-related
aspects of the EU’s engagement in foreign policy will be analyzed: Common Foreign and
Security Policy (CFSP), human rights and international development, Common European
Security and Defense Policy (CESDP), conflict prevention and resolution, transatlantic
relations and relations with the periphery, and enlargement. We will finish by assessing
the forces behind EU’s foreign policy (i.e. how much is policy driven by member states)
and by presenting an overall critique of the EU as an international actor.
Course Requirements
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Informed class discussion (20%)
Presentations (25%)
Critical Review Paper (25%)
Final Paper Project (30%)
This is only partly a lecture course. Students will be expected to be able to summarize
positions, explicate certain points, and offer interpretations. Chronic absences or lack of
preparation will seriously affect your final grade.
Readings
Students are expected to do all readings as assigned and to be prepared for each class.
The required text will be Karen E. Smith (2003) European Union Foreign Policy in a
Changing World, which is available at the bookstore and the library. There is also a
comprehensive course-pack containing relevant articles for the course.
Academic Honesty
Students and faculty at Koc University adhere to these principles of academic honesty:
1. Individual accountability for all individual work, written, and oral. Copying from
others or providing answers or information, written or oral to others, is cheating.
2. Providing proper acknowledgement of original author. Copying from another
student’s paper or from another text without written acknowledgement is
plagiarism.
3. Study or project group activity is effective and authorized teamwork.
Unauthorized help from another person or having someone else write one’s paper
or assignment is collusion.
Cheating, plagiarism, and collusion are serious offences resulting in an F grade and
disciplinary action.
COURSE OUTLINE
Week 1
(Feb. 7-13)
Introduction – The EU as an International Actor
Karen Smith, Chapter 1 (pp. 1-23)
Week 2
(Feb. 14-20)
National Foreign Policy Patterns and Styles
Ben Soentendorp, Foreign Policy in the European Union: Theory,
History, and Practice, (NY: Longman, 1999), chap. 1-3, 5, pp.149, pp. 68-90.
Week 3
(Feb.21-27)
Institutional Framework and Instruments of Foreign Policy
Karen Smith, Chapter 2 (pp. 24-51)
The EU’s Foreign Policy Instruments
Karen Smith, Chapter 3 (pp. 52-67)
Simon J. Nuttall, “The ‘new European architecture,’” European
Foreign Policy, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp.
32-75.
Week 4
(Feb. 28-Mar. 6)
Common Foreign and Security Policy
Michael E. Smith, “Toward a theory of EU foreign policy making:
multi-level governance, domestic politics, and national adaptation
to Europe’s common foreign and security policy,” Journal of
European Public Policy, Aug, 2004, vol. 11, no.4, 19p.
Philip Gordon, “Europe’s Uncommon Foreign Policy,”
International Security, vol.22, no.3, (winter 1997/1998), pp. 74100.
Rheinhardt Rummel, “Identifying Institutional Paradoxes of
CFSP,” Jan Zielonka (ed.), Paradoxes of European Foreign
Policy, (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 1998), pp. 53-66.
Christopher Hill, “Convergence, Divergence and Dialectics: The
National Foreign Policies and the CFSP,” Jan Zielonka (ed.),
Paradoxes of European Foreign Policy, pp. 35-52.
Week 5
(Mar. 7-13)
Human Rights and International Development
Karen Smith, Chapter 5 (pp. 97-121)
Appendix 1-3, (pp. 202-216)
Janne Haaland Matlary, “Human Rights,” Walter Carlsnaes,
Helene Sjursen, and Brian White (eds.), Contemporary European
Foreign Policy, (Sage Publications, 2004), pp. 141-154.
Week 6
(Mar. 14-20)
Common European Security and Defense Policy
Fraser Cameron, “The Future of the Common Foreign and Security
Policy,” Brown Journal of World Affairs, Winter/Spring 2003,
vol.9, no.2, 10p.
Neil Winn, “CFSP, ESDP, and the Future of European Security:
Whither NATO?” Brown Journal of World Affairs, Winter/Spring
2003, vol.9, no.2, 12p.
Gerhard Kummel, “Public Opinion on European Security and
Defense: A Survey of European Trends and Public Attitudes
Toward CFSP and ESDP,” Armed Forces and Society, Fall 2003,
vol. 30, no.1, 3p.
Anand Menon, “From Crisis to Catharsis: ESDP after Iraq,”
International Affairs, Jul 2004, vol.80, no.4, p18p.
Ali Karaosmanoğlu, “Avrupa Güvenlik ve Savunma Kimliği Açısından
Türkiye-Avrupa Birliği İlişkileri,” Doğu-Batı, 2001, vol.4, no.14, pp 156166.
Week 7
(Mar. 21- 27)
Conflict Prevention and Resolution
Karen Smith, Chapter 7 (pp. 145-170)
Case Study: Bosnia-Herzegovina
Annika S. Hansen, “Security and Defence: The EU Police Mission
in Bosnia-Herzegovina,” Contemporary European Foreign Policy,
pp. 173-185.
Week 8
(Mar. 28-Apr. 3)
Transatlantic Relations
Robert Kagan, “Power and Weakness,” Policy Review, no.113, 19p.
Simon Serfaty, “The Transatlantic Dimension,” Fraser Cameron (ed.)
The Future of Europe: Integration and Enlargement, (Routledge, 2004),
pp. 135-148.
William Wallace, “Europe, the Necessary Partner,” Foreign Affairs,
May/June 2001, vol.80, no.3, 19p.
Dominique Moisi, “Reinventing the West,” Foreign Affairs, Nov./Dec
2003, vol. 82, no.6, 7p.
Week 9
Spring Break
(April 4-10)
Week 10
(Apr. 11-17)
Euro-Mediterranean Relations
Neville Waites and Stelios Stavridis, “The European Union and the
Mediterranean,” The Foreign Policies of the European Union’s
Mediterranean States and Applicant Countries in the 1990’s,
Stelios Stavridis, Theodore Couloumbis, Thanos Veremis, Neville
Waites (eds.), (St. Martin’s Press, 1999), pp.22-39.
Ricardo Gomez and George Christou, “Economic Foreign Policy:
The EU and the Mediterranean,” Contemporary European Foreign
Policy, pp.186-197.
Kemal Kirişçi, “Turkey and the Mediterranean,” The Foreign
Policies of the European Union’s Mediterranean States and
Applicant Countries in the 1990’s, pp.250-294.
Week 11
(Apr. 18-24)
EU and the Middle East
Geoffrey Kemp, “Europe’s Middle East Challenges,” Washington
Quarterly, winter 2004, vol.27, no.1, 15p.
America’s “Greater Middle East” and Europe: Key Issues for
Dialogue, Middle East Policy, Fall 2004, vol.11, no. 3, 13p.
Anouar Boukhars and Steve A.Yetiv, “9/11 and the Growing EuroAmerican Chasm over the Middle East,” European Security, Spring 2003,
vol.12, no.1.
Week 12
(Apr. 25- May 1)
Dynamics of Enlargement (I)
Fraser Cameron, “Widening and Deepening,” The Future of
Europe: Integration and Enlargement, pp. 1-17.
David Allen, “The Convention and Draft Constitutional Treaty,”
The Future of Europe: Integration and Enlargement, pp.18-34.
Graham Avery, “The Enlargement Negotiations,” The Future of
Europe: Integration and Enlargement, pp. 35-62.
Week 13
(May 2-8)
Impact of Enlargement (II)
Heather Grabbe, “The Newcomers,” The Future of Europe:
Integration and Enlargement, pp. 63-79.
Geoffrey Harris, “The Wider Europe,” The Future of Europe:
Integration and Enlargement, pp. 98-113.
Andrew Scott, “The Political Economy of Enlargement,” The
Future of Europe: Integration and Enlargement, pp. 80-97..
Week 14
(May 9-15)
Case of Eastern Europe
Karen Smith, The Making of EU Foreign Policy: The Case of
Eastern Europe, 2nd ed., (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), chap. 7,8,9,
pp. 135-206.
Week 15
(May 16-22)
Turkey-EU Relations
Ziya Öniş, “Domestic Politics, International Norms and Challenges to
the State: Turkey-EU Relations in the Post-Helsinki Era, Turkish Studies,
vol.4, no.1, 2003, pp. 9-35.
Atila Eralp, “Turkey and the European Union,” in Leonore Martin and
Dimitris Keridis, (eds.), The Future of Turkish Foreign Policy,
(Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004), pp. 63-82.
Ziya Öniş and Şuhnaz Yılmaz, “The Triangle of Turkey-US-EU
Relations: Transformation or Continuity?” Middle East Journal,
forthcoming Spring 2005.
Week 16
(May 16-29)
The Future of EU’s International Identity
Karen Smith, Chapter 9 (pp. 95-201)
Fraser Cameron, “Europe’s Future,” The Future of Europe: Integration
and Enlargement, pp. 149-161.