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Termine: Seminar: 03.12.-07.12.2001 im Franz-Hitze-Haus
Cooperative Seminar in association with the Faculty of European Studies, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, and the Franz-Hitze-Haus Münster,
3 SWS, 8 LP
The seminar, which will be run jointly with academic staff and students from the Faculty of European Studies, BBU Cluj, will look at the major problem areas to be overcome on the way to the EU’s Eastern Enlargement – reform of the Common Agricultural Policy, funding EU enlargement in view of some EU member states‘ insistence on continuing unaltered pay-outs under the structural and cohesion policy schemes, labour migration and immigration/settlement policy, and successful adoption of the acquis communautaire by Eastern, Central, and South Eastern European accession candidates. The seminar will end with a role game most likely simulating a conflict over the future distributioon of resources amongst the haves and have-nots of European integration.
The seminar is of course open to students on the traditional magister course as well as to students on the respective double diploma courses offered by the Department. Application for places by e-mail to meyersr@uni-muenster.de, please. An electronic reader will be available to participants well in time; depending on the availability of resources, it may be augmented by a print version as well. There will be a charge of ca.DM 100.- levied by the Hitze Haus for board and (if so intended) lodging. In view of the limited number of places available, early application is thoroughly recommended.
General information:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/enlargement
Introductory literature:
Karen Henderson (ed.): Back to Europe. Central and Eastern Europe and the European Union. Leicester: University of Leicester Press 1999.; Barbara Lippert (ed.): Osterweiterung der Europäischen Union – die doppelte Reifeprüfung. Bonn: Europa-Union Verlag 2000.; Marc Maresceau/Erwan Lannon (eds.): The EU’s Enlargement and Mediterranean Strategies. A Comparative Analysis. Basingstoke: Palgrave 2001.; Alan Smith: The Return to Europe. The Reintegration of Eastern Europe into the European Economy. Basingstoke: Macmillan 2000.
Meyers, R. / de Wilde, J.
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(Sowi SI/SII: A3)
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Zeit: Mo 14-18
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Raum: R. 213
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Beginn: 03.09. in Münster, 14-18
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Bitte die gesonderten Anfangszeiten beachten. Das Seminar beginnt in der ersten Septemberwoche und endet in der vorletzten Dezemberwoche. Seminarort ist sowohl Münster als auch Enschede.
2 SWS 7 LP
Course outline & objectives
The study of international relations (IR) can be defined as the thinking about the relations between political units in anarchical structures. A rough outline starts with concepts of ‘theory’ and their different epistemological validity criteria and methodological functions for understanding international relations. It then deals with the different ontologies IR theories produce; their premises, characteristics, and consequences. Hermeneutic, empirical, normative and critical approaches will be covered. In view of the intellectual history of IR as a Social Science the following theories and debates will be dealt with more extensively:
The first debate: Idealism versus Classical Realism;
The second debate: Behaviourism versus Realism;
The third debate: Pluralism versus Realism versus Radicalism;
Syntheses and perfections: Neorealism; Neoliberalism & Globalism; Foreign Policy Analysis & the Agency/Structure debate; International Political Economy (IPE); the English School; Gender Studies;
The fourth debate: Constructivism versus Positivism; Post-modern Approaches.
Students should gain a thorough knowledge of the epistemological premises, methodological ramifications, and ontological consequences of the grand theories of international relations. With Popper, theories are seen here as the fishing net in which the world is caught in order to make it accessible, analysable and understandable. Thus, different (theoretical) nets represent different (segments of) worldviews. Students will learn that theories influence, if not determine the way both academics and political actors see, explain, and operate in the world; also, that different theories offer different methods of and grounds for the legitimisation of the setting of goals, the choosing of goal-attaining instruments and behaviour processes, and the justification of action outcomes.
Literature
Selected texts from: Baylis, John and Steve Smith, Eds. (1997), The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations, Oxford: Oxford University Press. [2nd ed. forthcoming in 2001 – if it appears in time, the seminar will use this as a standard text]; Burchill, Scott and Andrew Linklater, Eds. (1996), Theories of International Relations, Basingstoke: Macmillan.; Dougherty, James E. and Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr., Eds. (1996), Contending Theories of International Relations: A Comprehensive Survey, New York: Longman, 4th ed.; George, Jim (1994), Discourses of Global Politics: A Critical (Re)Introduction to International Relations, Boulder, Col.: Lynne Rienner.; Menzel, Ulrich und Katharina Varga (1999), Theorie und Geschichte der Lehre von den Internationalen Beziehungen. Einführung und systematische Bibliographie, Hamburg: Deutsches Übersee-Institut; Vasquez, John A., Ed. (1996), Classics of International Relations, Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 3rd edition.
Course organisation
During the winter semester, 4-hour blocks of lectures and tutorials are scheduled every 14 days, alternating at the UT and the WWU. There will be oral presentations during the classes and a written examination. Alternatively, students may arrange to submit a more substantial seminar paper during or after the end of the seminar.
Please note:
The course starts during the first week of September 2001 and ends during the third week of December 2001! Die Veranstaltung steht auch Studierenden der Magister- und Lehramtsstudiengänge sowie der anderen Doppeldiplomstudiengänge offen!
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