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EU External Economic Relations

Summary

The subject deals with the European Union's external links to other clusters within economic, security, development and humanitarian cooperation. It not only illuminates the current external aspects of the European integration project but is also devoted to their transformations over time. The interpretation is continuously supplemented by explanations of new economic policy mechanisms (eg European Semester) related to overcoming external macroeconomic imbalances.
Warp:
1. External economic relations, the European Union as a subject of international relations
2. Development of foreign security cooperation of the European Communities
3. The second and third pillars of the European Union, the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy, the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy
4. Key changes in the CFSP and the external relations of the EU in the 21st century, the current state of the EU CFSP
5. The European Union and the Western Balkans, relations with Turkey
6. European Neighbourhood Policy - Eastern Partnership, Union for the Mediterranean
7. Transatlantic relations of the European Union with the USA and Canada
8. European Union relations with Russia and China
9. Economic cooperation of the European Union with selected countries of South - East Asia
10. External relations of the European Union with African, Caribbean, and Pacific countries
11. Economic cooperation of the European Union with the countries of Latin America
12. The participation of the European Union in solving global problems, the approach of the EU to conflict resolution in external relations, the ethical dimension of the EU's external relations
13. EU membership and cooperation with international organisations and forums, EU and international coordination
14. The European Semester and Alert Mechanism Report

Literature

BINDI, Federiga. The Foreign Policy of the European Union: Assessing Europe's Role in the World. Third edition. Washinghton. DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2022. ISBN 978-0-81-573811-4 .
KEUKELEIRE, Stephan a DELREUX, Tom. The Foreign Policy of the European Union. Third edition. London: Bloomsbury academic, 2022. ISBN 978-1-35-093048-3 .
BAYLIS, John, Steve SMITH a Patricia OWENS. The Globalization of World Politics: an Introduction to International Relations. Eight edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. ISBN 978-0-19-882554-8.

Advised literature

BALDWIN, Richard a WYPLOSZ, Charles. The Economics of European Integration. Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill Education, 2022. ISBN 9781526849434
POMFRET, Richard. The Economic Integration of Europe. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2021. ISBN 978-0-674-24413-9.
BISCOP, Sven. European Strategy in the 21st Century. Abingdon: Routledge, 2019. ISBN 978-1-138-38472-9.


Language of instruction čeština
Code 120-0372
Abbreviation VEV EU
Course title EU External Economic Relations
Coordinating department Department of International Economic Relations
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Michaela Melecká Staníčková, Ph.D.