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Module 4:
INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS OF THE EU INTEGRATION (short presentation of the subjects)


EU TRADE POLICY AND THE WORLD

The EU trade policy is the cornerstone of the EU integration as it is a prerequisite of the single market and its competitiveness with its effects to all the EU member states. The main intention of the course is to explain the core of the EU trade policy and its interaction with the World, i.e. EU trading partners. The basic of trade policies are explored in the initial stage of the course, including the economics of international trade and the international institutional settings. Students are then introduced to the fundamentals of the EU trade policy, including its history, its aims and its main mechanisms (including tariffs, non-tariff barriers, anti-dumping policies, safeguards, state aid and competition policy). Specific trade policies of the EU are explored within the framework of the relations between the EU and the WTO, emphasizing the Doha Development Agenda (Doha round) controversies, in which the EU protectionism in some of areas of trade policy provided to be one of the main obstacles for the successful conclusion of the Doha round. Furthermore, specific EU trade policy are thoroughly explored in the case of the USA (including recent EU v. US trade conflicts) and in the case of China (including recent anti-dumping cases). Students are introduced to the EU preferential trade agreements, their both economic and political rationale and enforcement mechanisms. Finally, the EU history of trade disputes and the mechanism that have been used for their settlement are reviewed.

EU NEIGHBORHOOD POLICY AND LAW

 

The course deals with a complex issue: the policy and relations of the EU with its neighbors, i.e. the counties in the geographical area of Eastern Europe (Russian Federation, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova), the so-called Western Balkan countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia - FYROM, Monte Negro and Serbia) and the Mediterranean countries (Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, The Palestinian Authorities and Syria). The relations of EU with its neighborhood represent a basic political, socio-economic, strategic and security issue for the EU. It is closely inter-related with the "EU trade policy and the world", the "Common foreign, security and defence policy of the EU" and the "Geopolitical perspectives and consequences of the EU enlargement". The course represents in fact the basic element of all the mentioned "foreign relations" of the EU.

The students will within this course, thus, receive complementary knowledge to other courses in the module. During the course they will have to take active part in the pedagogical process and to analyse and comprehend the complexity of the EU relations with its neighborhood, i.e. the strategic importance of all aspects of EU relations with the geographical area of the present and the future candidate states and of other states, which will remain outside the EU, but the good relations with which represent nevertheless a long term strategic interest of the EU.

GEOPOLITICAL PERSPECTIVE AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE EU ENLARGEMENT

 

This course is designed to provide students with an in-depth knowledge of the geopolitical perspectives and consequences of the EU enlargement towards the applicant countries and EU as a whole. New political, economic and social issues has been raised by the rapid and enormous EU enlargement within less than a decade, and the fact that the applicant countries are numerous and diverse. Therefore, this course should develop students' capabilities to understand different issues, such as the long term economic and geopolitical interests in the EU, the nature of EU borders, the process of negotiation, the degree of the growing regional gaps in Europe, the impact of migration, the benefits and disadvantages of the EU enlargement, and the consequences of non-enlargement in the near future.

During the course, students should analyse and evaluate the problems of integration of the new member states in the EU, especially in the context of the national and religious identity. Furthermore, they should understand the relationship between EU and the main geopolitical actors (US, Russia, China), as well as consequences of enlargement to the European foreign and security policies. Finally, after the completion of this course, students should be able to conduct independent research on different topics related to the EU enlargement and its geopolitical perspectives.

EU COMMON FOREIGN, SECURITY AND DEFENSE POLICY


This course is designed to provide students with an analytical knowledge of the EU Common Foreign Security and Defence Policy. The course should to develop students skills in understandings political and security aspects in our region especially in this moment. That means that we must pay attention to main problems which exist in this time. Before that we have to learn our students about institutional structure of EU Common Foreign Security and defense policy and to develop students capabilities to understand some basic principles in this field.

During the course, students should analyze and evaluate the problems EU Common Foreign Security and Defence Policy and especially in the context of the new position of Serbia. Furthermore, they should understand the relationship between EU and the main geopolitical actors (US, Russia, China), as well as consequences in cooperation with NATO. Finally, after the completion of this course, students should be able to conduct independent research on different topics related to the EU Common Foreign Security and Defence Policy