COURSE INTRODUCTION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION

Course Name
Neighbourhood Policy of the EU
Code
Semester
Theory
(hour/week)
Application/Lab
(hour/week)
Local Credits
ECTS
PSIR 350
Fall/Spring
3
0
3
6
Prerequisites
None
Course Language
English
Course Type
Elective
Course Level
First Cycle
Mode of Delivery -
Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course
Course Coordinator -
Course Lecturer(s)
Assistant(s) -
Course Objectives By the end of this course, the students are expected to be able to identify, analyse and evaluate political developments related to the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) of the European Union (EU).
Learning Outcomes The students who succeeded in this course;
  • To discuss and explain the origins and development of the ENP within the broader context of the EU’s external relations
  • To identify and explain the fundamental values of and motivations behind the EU’s foreign policy and ENP
  • To discuss the origins and development of the ENP within the broader context of the EU’s external relations
  • To identify the fundamental values of and motivations behind the EU’s foreign policy and ENP
  • To discuss the institutional evolution of the ENP
  • To explain the overall foreign policy strategy of the EU regarding the ENP within the broader context of EU’s external relations
  • To discuss the security component of the ENP
Course Description The course is designed as to refine student’s training in the field of European studies through familiarisation with political developments in the EU neighbourhood. The focus of the course is on the developments related to the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP). The students are expected (1) to read the assignments, (2) get involved in the debates on the course themes, (3) prepare detailed presentations on topics indicated by the instructor and (4) produce high-quality papers for the midterm and final exams (take-home exams) on the basis of the information provided throughout the course about the ENP.
Related Sustainable Development Goals

 



Course Category

 Core Courses
Major Area Courses
X
Supportive Courses
Media and Managment Skills Courses
Transferable Skill Courses

 

WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATION STUDIES

Week Subjects Required Materials
1 Introduction – syllabus presentation and explanation. Syllabus and course bibliography
2 ENP in the broader context of the EU’s external relations Instructor’s PPT presentation. BACHE, Ian and GEORGE, Stephen, 2006. Politics in the European Union, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2nd Edition (Chapters 29 and 30). Sources indicated in the PPT presentation.
3 The logic of the ENP in the region and the world (I) WHITMAN, Richard G. and Stefan WOLFF, eds., 2010. The European Neighbourhood Policy in Perspective: Context, Implementation and Impact, Basingstoke and New York, Palgrave Macmillan. EMERSON, Michael and NOUTCHEVA. Gergana. 2005. “From Barcelona Process to Neighbourhood Policy: Assessments and Open Issues”, CEPS Working Document 220/March 2005. JOHANSSON-NOGUES, Elisabeth. 2004. “A ‘ring of friends’? The implications of the European Neighbourhood Policy for the Mediterranean”, Mediterranean Politics, 9(2), pp. 240-247 [Available from EBSCO]. Sources indicated in the PPT presentation.
4 The logic of the ENP in the region and the world (II) WHITMAN, Richard G. and Stefan WOLFF, eds., 2010. The European Neighbourhood Policy in Perspective: Context, Implementation and Impact, Basingstoke and New York, Palgrave Macmillan. VARWICK, Johannes and Kai Olaf LANG (eds.), 2007. European Neighbourhood Policy: Challenges for the EU Policy Towards the New Neighbours, Opladen: Barbara Budrich Publishers. EUROPEAN COMMISSION. 2003. Wider Europe— Neighbourhood: A New Framework for Relations with our Eastern and Southern Neighbours, COM(2003) 104 final [Available from the instructor in the course web file]. JOHANSSON-NOGUES, Elisabeth. 2004. “A ‘Ring of Friends’? The Implications of the European Neighbourhood Policy for the Mediterranean”, Mediterranean Politics, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 240-7. EMERSON, Michael and Gergana NOUTCHEVA. 2005. “From Barcelona Process to Neighbourhood Policy: Assessments and Open Issues”, CEPS Working Document 220/March 2005. Sources indicated in the PPT presentation.
5 ENP and EU Enlargement WHITMAN, Richard G. and Stefan WOLFF, eds., 2010. The European Neighbourhood Policy in Perspective: Context, Implementation and Impact, Basingstoke and New York, Palgrave Macmillan. VARWICK, Johannes and Kai Olaf LANG (eds.), 2007. European Neighbourhood Policy: Challenges for the EU Policy Towards the New Neighbours, Opladen: Barbara Budrich Publishers. BACHE, Ian and GEORGE, Stephen, 2006. Politics in the European Union, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2nd Edition (Chapter 31). DANNREUTHER, Roland. 2006. Developing the Alternative to Enlargement: The European Neighbourhood Policy. European Foreign Affairs Review, 11, 183-201 [Available from EBSCO]. Sources indicated in the PPT presentation.
6 ENP and the projection of European values WHITMAN, Richard G. and Stefan WOLFF, eds., 2010. The European Neighbourhood Policy in Perspective: Context, Implementation and Impact, Basingstoke and New York, Palgrave Macmillan. VARWICK, Johannes and Kai Olaf LANG (eds.), 2007. European Neighbourhood Policy: Challenges for the EU Policy Towards the New Neighbours, Opladen: Barbara Budrich Publishers. LEINO, Päivi and PETROV, Roman. 2009. Between ‘common values’ and competing universals—the promotion of the EU’s common values through the European Neighbourhood Policy. European Law Journal, 15(5), 654–671 [Available from EBSCO via WILEY SCIENCE]. MANNERS, I., 2010. As you like it: European Union normative power in the European Neighbourhood Policy. In: R.G. WHITMAN and S. WOLFF, eds., The European Neighbourhood Policy in perspective: context, implementation and impact, 2010, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 29-50. HAUKKALA, H., 2010. Explaining Russian reactions to the European Neighbourhood Policy. In: R.G. WHITMAN and S. WOLFF, eds., The European Neighbourhood Policy in perspective: context, implementation and impact, 2010, London: Palgrave Macmillan. Sources indicated in the PPT presentation.
7 ENP and transatlantic relations Sten Rynning and Christine Pihlkœr Jensen, ‘The ENP and Transatlantic relations’. In: R.G. WHITMAN and S. WOLFF, eds., The European Neighbourhood Policy in perspective: context, implementation and impact, 2010, London: Palgrave Macmillan. Sources indicated in the PPT presentation.
8 Explaining Russian reactions to ENP HAUKKALA, H., 2010. Explaining Russian reactions to the European Neighbourhood Policy. In: R.G. WHITMAN and S. WOLFF, eds., The European Neighbourhood Policy in perspective: context, implementation and impact, 2010, London: Palgrave Macmillan. WILSON, Andrew and Nicu POPESCU, 2009, ‘Russian and European neighbourhood policies compared’, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, Vol. 9, No. 3, 317–331. De WILDE, T. and PELLON, G., 2006. The implications of the ENP on the EU-Russia ‘Strategic Partnership’. Helsinki Monitor, 17(2), 119-132 [Available from EBSCO]. Sources indicated in the PPT presentation.
9 ENP at work in Ukraine, Moldova and Southern Caucasus WHITMAN, Richard G. and Stefan WOLFF, eds., 2010. The European Neighbourhood Policy in Perspective: Context, Implementation and Impact, Basingstoke and New York, Palgrave Macmillan (chapters by Sasse and Ghazaryan). SASSE, Gwendolyn. 2009. The European Neighbourhood Policy and conflict management: a comparison of Moldova and the Caucasus. Ethnopolitics, 8(3-4), 369-386 [Available from EBSCO]. VARWICK, Johannes and Kai Olaf LANG (eds.), 2007. European Neighbourhood Policy: Challenges for the EU Policy Towards the New Neighbours, Opladen: Barbara Budrich Publishers. Sources indicated in the PPT presentation.
10 ENP in North Africa and the Middle East WHITMAN, Richard G. and Stefan WOLFF, eds., 2010. The European Neighbourhood Policy in Perspective: Context, Implementation and Impact, Basingstoke and New York, Palgrave Macmillan (chapters by Bicchi and Echeverria Jesus). VARWICK, Johannes and Kai Olaf LANG (eds.), 2007. European Neighbourhood Policy: Challenges for the EU Policy Towards the New Neighbours, Opladen: Barbara Budrich Publishers. HERMAN, Lior. 2006. An action plan or a plan for action? Israel and the European Neighbourhood Policy. Mediterranean Politics, 11(3), 371-394 [Available from EBSCO]. TOCCI, Nathalie. 2009. Firm in rhetoric, compromising in reality: the EU in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Ethnopolitics, 8(3-4), 387-401 [Available from EBSCO]. SEEBERG, Peter. 2009. The EU as a realist actor in normative clothes: EU democracy promotion in Lebanon and the European Neighbourhood Policy. Democratization, 16(1), 81-99 [Available from EBSCO]. Sources indicated in the PPT presentation.
11 The Revised ENP after 2011 SCHUMACHER, Tobias and Dimitris BOURIS, 2017, “The 2011 Revised European Neighbourhood Policy: Continuity and Change in EU Foreign Policy”, in Dimitris BOURIS and Thomas SCHUMACHER, eds., The Revised European Neighbourhood Policy: Continuity and Change in EU Foreign Policy, London, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-34. European Commission. (2011). A new response to a changing neighbourhood , COM (2011) 303 final. All information at https://eeas.europa.eu/diplomatic-network/european-neighbourhood-policy-enp_en Sources indicated in the PPT presentation.
12 Students’ PPT presentations on an ENP case The entire course bibliography.
13 Students’ PPT presentations on an ENP case The entire course bibliography.
14 Students’ PPT presentations on an ENP case The entire course bibliography.
15 Review of the Semester  
16 Review of the Semester  
Course Notes/Textbooks

Books and journal articles (see above), power point presentations, official webpages of relevant institutions as indicated in this syllabus and by the instructor in class.

 

*All course readings are available at the University Library and as open sources.
Suggested Readings/Materials

Databases from various relevant international, EU/NATO delegations in the region and EU institutions (e.g. European Commission, European Parliament); relevant local, European and world news sources (e.g. BBC, Reuters, France Press, Deutsche Welle, Financial Times, EUobserver.com, updated versions of the European Neighbourhood Policy website at http://ec.europa.eu/world/enp/index_en.htm). 

ACADEMIC HONESTY:

Honesty and trust are the most fundamental pillars of learning and are necessary foundation for success and academic freedom in a university. Hence, any behavior that jeopardizes the learning environment by violating the rules of academic honesty will not be tolerated or condoned:

Violations of academic honesty include but are not limited to:

  • Cheating or facilitating cheating
    • looking or attempting to look at  another student's answers or allowing others to copy one's answers
    • copying other student’s in-class or take-home exam answers or letting others use take-home exam answers
    • using "cheat sheet," pre-programmed calculator if not allowed by the instructor
    • having someone else prepare the term project or homework or letting others use one’s homework/term project/paper
    • Assistance of another person in preparation of a tem paper/homework/project if not allowed by the instructor
    • Taking an exam for another student
    • Purchasing term projects or homework or other assignments
    • Signing in place of another student using their name/signature/student id number
  • Plagiarism
  • showing the work of another as one's own
  • Not properly citing an earlier own work
  • Submitting the same homework/paper/term project in one more one course if not allowed by the instructor
  • Inaccurately or inadequately citing sources including those from the Internet

Violations of academic honesty can result in disciplinary action, as stated in the "Student Disciplinary Rules and Regulation" of the University. http://www.ieu.edu.tr/en/bylaws/type/read/id/13 and http://kariyer.ieu.edu.tr/en/bylaws/type/read/id/81

By enrolling in the University, each student is assumed to have read the rules and regulations regarding academic dishonesty, and lack of knowledge of this policy is not an acceptable defense. 

 

 

EVALUATION SYSTEM

Semester Activities Number Weigthing
Participation
1
10
Laboratory / Application
Field Work
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
Portfolio
Homework / Assignments
Presentation / Jury
1
20
Project
Seminar / Workshop
Oral Exam
Midterm
1
30
Final Exam
1
40
Total

Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade
3
60
Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade
1
40
Total

ECTS / WORKLOAD TABLE

Semester Activities Number Duration (Hours) Workload
Course Hours
(Including exam week: 16 x total hours)
16
3
48
Laboratory / Application Hours
(Including exam week: 16 x total hours)
16
Study Hours Out of Class
12
3
36
Field Work
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
Portfolio
Homework / Assignments
Presentation / Jury
1
20
Project
Seminar / Workshop
Oral Exam
Midterms
1
30
Final Exams
1
35
    Total
169

 

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS RELATIONSHIP

#
 Program Competencies/Outcomes
* Contribution Level
1
2
3
4
5
1

To be able to use the theoretical and practical knowledge acquired in the areas of Political Science and International Relations.

 X
2

To be able to have the basic knowledge of, and make use of other disciplines which contribute to the areas of Political Science and International Relations.

 X
3

To be able to distinguish the differences between classical and contemporary theories and to assess their relationship.
4

To be able to recognize regional and global issues, and develop solutions based on research.

 X
5

To be able to assess the acquired knowledge and skills in the areas of Political Science and International Relations critically.
6

To be able to transfer ideas and proposals on issues in the areas of Political Science and International Relations to other people and institutions verbally and in writing.

 X
7

To be able to identify the historical continuity and changes observed in the relations between the actors and institutions of national and international politics.

 X
8

To be able to examine concepts, theories, and developments with scientific methods in the areas of Political Science and International Relations.

 X
9

To be able to take responsibility as an individual and as a team member.

 X
10

To be able to act in accordance with the scientific and ethical values in studies related to Political Science and International Relations.
11

To be able to collect data in the areas of Political Science and International Relations and communicate with colleagues in a foreign language ("European Language Portfolio Global Scale", Level B1).
12

To be able to speak a second foreign at a medium level of fluency efficiently.
13

To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout human history to their field of experience.

*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest