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European Foreign and Security Policies in a post-Western World (STG-MA-ECM-EFS)

STG-MA-ECM-EFS

Description

This course provides a mainly applied perspective on EUropean foreign and security policies. It complements the course provided in the third semester by Trine Flockhart and Nathalie Tocci in being more focused and hands-on and thus suitable for students to practice and train in situations and scenarios relevant to their future professional endeavours. The course departs from a knowledge and understanding of Europe’s (both institutions, individual member states and third countries) foreign and security policies, institutions, and mechanisms. Taking those as the basis, it centres on how these policies are applied in real-life cases, as well as how they are perceived by selected counterparts outside Europe and the liberal international order. The course focuses on concrete situations in which the instructors have been directly involved, in most cases at the highest levels of diplomacy. To most of these cases, a specific tool and skill will be attached, demonstrated or trained in class. 

This course aims to prepare students for real-life assignments within the broad area of foreign and security policies. It will place them in concrete situations where they must analyse, observe, make choices, and solve problems that will likely occur in the professional careers that they might enter in the broad field of foreign and security policy. 

Within this context, the course will have three main objectives:

-    It will provide a perspective from an angle that is unique and yet relevant for any security analysis. The angle is EUropean foreign and security policy, from the perspective of how policy is perceived, received, and the responses and reactions that it generates.
-    It will offer real-life, sometimes extreme cases, in which EUropean foreign and security policy has been put into practice. Wherever possible, we will strive to have the cases told by the individuals who have had an active role in relevant areas.
-    We will attach to the cases a specific skill, tool or task that could be relevant when policy makers must respond to similar situations.

The course will be of benefit to students who plan to pursue a career in policymaking and analysis in areas related to European foreign and security and who wish to train the practical application of conceptual and theoretical knowledge.
 

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