UP150009
Seminar
WiSe 21/22: Europäische Sicherheitspolitik im Zeitalter der Multipolarität
Timo Graf
Information for students
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Comments
The course offers a critical introduction to the European Union’s security policy in the age of multipolarity. The focus is on the European Union as a security provider and actor in international relations, which are increasingly shaped by big power rivalry. First, the students will be introduced to elementary concepts and institutional frameworks such as the European Union, NATO, multilateralism, and multipolarity. Second, the course participants will conduct an exercise in identifying the most pressing security challenges that the EU is facing currently and in the near future. The focus in this exercise will be on other major powers such as China, Russia, and the US. Exemplary topics are hybrid warfare, cyber warfare, and nuclear deterrence. Third, the course participants will review existing strategies (European Union Global Strategy), instruments (PESCO, EDF, European Peace Facility, EU Battle Groups), and alliance options (also looking at the Indo-Pacific) that are available to the EU in its effort to address the security challenges, which have been identified in the preceding exercise. This review will also look at some of the internal issues/politics that might hamper the EU’s effective response to the security challenges it is facing (for instance, divergent threat perceptions and differences in national strategic cultures). Finally, future prospects of the EU’s foreign, security, and defence policy will be explored such as the creation of a common European army and the formation of new multilateral (military) alliances. close
Suggested reading
Biscop, Sven (2018). The EU and Multilateralism in an Age of Great Powers. In: Christian Echle, Patrick Rueppel, Megha Sarmah, & Yea Lay Hwee (eds.), Multilateralism in a Changing World Order (pp. 39-48). Berlin: Konrad Adenauer Stiftung
Brinke, Lisa ten, & Martill, Benjamin (2019). Coping with Multipolarity: EU Values and the Stability of International Order. Dahrendorf Forum IV, Working Paper No. 11.
Bunde, Tobias, Hartmann, Laura, Stärk, Franziska et al. (2020). Zeitenwende – Wendezeiten. Sonderausgabe des Munich Security Report zur deutschen Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik. München: MSC.
European External Action Service (2016). Shared Vision, Common Action: A Stronger Europe. A Global Strategy for the European Union’s Foreign and Security Policy.
Hoijtink, Marijn, & Muehlenhoff, Hanna L. (2020). The European Union as a Masculine Military Power: European Union Security and Defence Policy in ‘Times of Crisis’. In: Political Studies Review, 18(3), 362-377.
Howorth, Jolyon (2018). EU-NATO Cooperation and Strategic Autonomy: Logical Contradiction or Ariadne’s Thread? KFG Working Paper Series No. 90. Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin.
Howorth, Jolyon(2020). Implementing a ‘Grand Strategy’. In: Álvaro de Vasconcelos (ed.), What ambitions for European Defence in 2020? (pp. 39-50). Paris: European Union Institute for Security Studies. close
15 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Tue, 2021-10-26 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2021-11-02 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2021-11-09 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2021-11-16 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2021-11-23 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2021-11-30 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2021-12-07 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2021-12-14 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2022-01-04 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2022-01-11 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2022-01-18 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2022-01-25 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2022-02-01 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2022-02-08 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2022-02-15 16:00 - 18:00