EUROPEAN SECURITY AND DEFENCE POLICY

Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: DANILO DI MAURO

Expected 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

Interactive lessons and data analysis. 

Required Prerequisites

None. 

Attendance of Lessons

Not required. 

Detailed Course Content

- Theories of EU integration

- Policy Cycle

- Multilevel Governance

- EU foreign and security policy: history and main characteristics  

- EU role in world order

- EU missions and operations 

- EU in Ukraine war

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.


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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?.

https://pure.rug.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/33438924/Landman_The_EU_Maritime_Security_Strategy_2015.pdf

 

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%.

Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises

What is MLG? 


Which are the main arguments of post-functionlist theory of EU integration? 

Describe a trend in CSDP interventions worldwide.