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EU External Economic Relations

Language of instruction čeština
Code 120-0472
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.

Anotace

1. The European Union as a subject of global international relations.
2. The development of the European Union's foreign security cooperation. External relations of the European Communities during the Cold War.
3. The second pillar and the third pillar of the European Union and its transformation in the 1990s. Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union, European Security Strategy. Common Security and Defense Policy - EU cooperation with the North Atlantic Alliance.
4. Lisbon Treaty - key CFSP and external relations changes in terms of institutional coherence.
5. The European Union and the Western Balkans, relations with Turkey.
6. European Neighborhood Policy - Eastern Partnership.
7. European Neighborhood Policy - Mediterranean Union.
8. The European Union's Transatlantic Relations with the US and Canada. Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement with Canada (CETA).
9. Relations of the European Union with Russia and China. Asia - Europe Meeting (ASEM).
10. Economic cooperation of the European Union with ASEAN, Japan, South Korea and India
11. External relations of the European Union - countries of Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific.
12. Economic cooperation of the European Union with the countries of Latin America.
13. White Paper on the future of the European Union - the EU and global challenges.
14. European Semester and Warning Mechanism Report - External Economic Imbalances of EU Countries.

Povinná literatura

BALDWIN, Richard a Wyplosz CHARLES. The Economics of European Integration. Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill Education, 2022. ISBN 9781526849434.
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.
HILL, Christopher, Michael SMITH a Sophie VANHOONACKER, ed. International Relations and the European Union. Third edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. The new European Union series. ISBN 978-0-19-873732-2.

Advised literature

ARDALAN, Kavous. Global Political Economy: A Multi-paradigmatic Approach. Cham: Springer, 2019. ISBN 978-3-030-10376-7.
BISCOP, Sven. European Strategy in the 21st Century. Abingdon: Routledge, 2019. ISBN 978-1-138-38472-9.
GSTÖHL, Sieglinde a Dirk DE BIEVRE. The Trade Policy of the European Union. London: Palgrave, 2018. ISBN 978-0-230-27197-5.