EUROPEAN SECURITY AND DEFENCE POLICY
Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: DANILO DI MAUROExpected Learning Outcomes
Expected learning results include:
- Understanding as EU foreign and security policy was born and hot it works
-learning basic concept of Public policies analysis and Multilevel Governance systems
- Have a critical engagement with the literature on the EU and its foreign and security policy.
- Framing the EU role in foreign and security policy within Grand Theories of EU integration
- Framing the EU role in foreign and security policy within IR theories.
- Understanding the EU engagement through military and civilian interventions
- A proactive engagement and interaction during the discussions and joint thinking on all topics that
the seminar covers.
Course Structure
Required Prerequisites
Attendance of Lessons
Detailed Course Content
- Theories of EU integration
- Policy Cycle
- Multilevel Governance
Textbook Information
EU integration
Hooghe, Liesbet, and Gary Marks. "Grand theories of European integration in the twenty-first
century." Journal of European Public Policy 26, no. 8 (2019), pp. 1113-1133.
MLG
Hooghe, L., & Marks, G. (2003). Unraveling the central state, but how? Types of multi-level governance. (Reihe Politikwissenschaft / Institut für Höhere Studien, Abt. Politikwissenschaft, 87). Wien: Institut für Höhere Studien (IHS), Wien. https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-246200
Policy Cycle
Hill, M. (1997). The policy process. Harlow, UK: Prentice Hall/Harvester Wheatsheaf. Ch. 4 pp. 43-63
EU foreign and security policies
The European Union’s Foreign, Security, and Defence Policies
Ana E. Juncos, and Anna Maria Friis
https://doi.org/10.1093/hepl/9780198862239.003.0019
Elie Perot, Klose Stephan, “Differentiation in EU Security and Defence Policy,” in The Routledge Handbook
of Differentiation in the European Union (Routledge, 2022).
(accessed from here https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429054136-
29/differentiation-eu-security-defence-policy-elie-perot-stephan-klose )
EU as a foreign policy actor ( Eu role in global politics, trans-Atlantic relations)
Ulrich Krotz, “Momentum and Impediments: Why Europe Won’t Emerge as a Full Political Actor on the
World Stage Soon,” Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 47, No. 3 (May 2009), pp. 555-578.
Christopher Hill, “The capability-expectations gap, or conceptualizing Europe’s international
role,” Journal of Common Market Studies 31, no. 3: pp. 305-328.
Ulrich Krotz and Richard Maher, “International Relations Theory and the Rise of European Foreign and
Security Policy,” World Politics, Vol. 63, No. 3 (July 2011), pp. 548-579.
Wallace, W. (2017). European foreign policy since the Cold War: How ambitious, how inhibited?. The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 19(1), 77-90.
Tocci, N. (2020). Resilience and the role of the European Union in the world. In Resilience in EU and International Institutions(pp. 25-43). Routledge.
Ulrich Krotz and James Sperling, “The European Security Order between American Hegemony
and French Independence,” European Security, Vol. 20, No. 3 (September 2011), pp.
305-335.
Pernille Rieker and Marianne Riddervold, ‘Not so Unique after All? Urgency and Norms in EU Foreign and
Security Policy’, Journal of European Integration 44, no. 4 (19 May 2022): 459–73,
https://doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2021.1977293
Xue Mi, ‘Strategic Cultures between the EU Member States: Convergence or Divergence?’, European
Security 0, no. 0 (31 December 2022): 1–25, https://doi.org/10.1080/09662839.2022.2159384.
Defense and security
Danilo Di Mauro, Jonas J. Driedger und Ulrich Krotz, "Military and Civilian Crisis
management," in Handbook on Governance and the EU, edited by Sonia
Lucarelli and James Sperling. Northhampton: Edward Elgar, forthcoming in 2023.
Juncos, A. E., & Blockmans, S. (2018). The EU’s role in conflict prevention and peacebuilding: four key challenges. Global Affairs, 4(2-3), 131-140.
Tocci, N. (2017). From the European Security Strategy to the EU Global Strategy: explaining the journey. International Politics, 54, 487-502.
Landman, L. (2015). The EU Maritime Security Strategy: Promoting or Absorbing European Defence Cooperation?.
Data: https://cadmus.eui.eu/handle/1814/48944
DI MAURO, D., KROTZ, U., & WRIGHT, K. (2017). EU's global engagement: a database of CSDP military operations and civilian missions worldwide: codebook: version 2.0. 2003-2017.
And new Edition (forthcoming).
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
Course participants are expected to come to class fully prepared and to actively participate in class
discussions
The final exam is a test with open questions about some selected topics of the course.
Grading breakdown: course participation 30%; final exam 70%.