EU and Global Governance (EU) - JPM954

• Title: EU and Global Governance (EU)
• Guaranteed by: Department of International Relations (23-KMV)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2023 to 2024
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/1, MC [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / 24 (24)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Jan Karlas, Ph.D., M.A.
• Teacher(s): doc. PhDr. Jan Karlas, Ph.D., M.A.
• Is complex co-requisite for: JPM665, JPM947

Annotation

Last update: doc. PhDr. Jan Karlas, Ph.D., M.A. (14.02.2024)

Global cooperation constitutes a crucial goal and tool of the European Union (EU). By its statements and deeds, the EU has demonstrated a very strong interest in this cooperation in the last three decades. The “Global Strategy for the European Union's Foreign and Security Policy” as the major contemporary programmatic document continues to regard the strengthening and transformation of the global governance as one of the main five priorities of the EU in its external relations. In this Strategy, the EU states that “without global norms and the means to enforce them, peace and security, prosperity and democracy – our vital interests – are at risk.”

However, not only is global cooperation important for the EU; the EU is also very important for global cooperation. Its positions and actions play a key role in the maintenance of global institutions. Although the other major powers, namely the United States and the so-called emerging powers, also have a basic interest in the persistence of the contemporary global institutions, their behaviour shows that their willingness to support these institutions has significant limitations. Therefore, the preservation and a further development of global institutions considerably depends on the activities and initiatives of the EU.

Given the crucial relationship between the EU and global governance, we will analyse in this course this relationship in depth. We will primarily focus on two important issues: i) the goals that the EU pursues in global institutions, and the motivations that influence these goals, and ii) the performance of the EU in global institutions, i.e. the extent to which the EU behaves actively in these institutions, and the degree to which it is able to reach its goals, and the factors that determine the level of the EU’s performance. The course will consist of a mix of lectures and seminars.

For more information, see the Moodle site of the course at https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=15825

Literature

Last update: doc. PhDr. Jan Karlas, Ph.D., M.A. (20.01.2024)

See the syllabus attached in the pdf.

Syllabus

Last update: doc. PhDr. Jan Karlas, Ph.D., M.A. (20.01.2024)

See the attached pdf.