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The European Union as a Global Actor

The European Union as a Global Actor

Code	15681
Year	1
Semester	S2
ECTS Credits	6
Workload	TP(45H)
Scientific area	Relações Internacionais
Entry requirements	without pre requisites
Learning outcomes	The UC debates the role of the EU in the reform of the global governance system (SGG). The global order is in a state of flux nourished by geopolitical and geoeconomic changes of complex interconnectivity. At the end of the course, students should be able to: 1. Understand relevant aspects of the transformation of the SGG and the power of influence of the EU in its configuration: 2. Analyze EU foreign policy in its relationship with relevant actors and challenges that mark the regional and global agendas; 3. Examine Common Security and Defense Policy instruments and their adequacy to current challenges and geostrategic consistency; 4. Discuss the relationship between internal and external factors that condition the role of the EU as a real normative power in the reform of the institutions of the SGG; 5. Discuss how the EU's market and economic power plays out in terms of relative economic performance and in addressing global economic imbalances.
Syllabus	In choosing the subjects that make up the syllabus of the curricular unit, the objective of providing students with an understanding of the European Union as a global actor in geopolitical and geoeconomic dimensions was taken into account. Thus, the discipline focuses on the study of the political and economic actor that currently constitutes the EU. The intentional choice of delimiting the Study of the European “actorness” to these two dimensions corresponds to what we consider to be essential knowledge. In this context, the curricular unit includes the syllabus necessary to understand the EU in a global world, that is, if the potential of normative and economic power recognized to the EU is projected in the reconfiguration of the International System.
Main Bibliography	Emerson, M. et al. (2011) Upgrading the EUs Role as Global Actor. Brussels: CEPS.Bretherton, Charlotte e Vogler, John (1999), The European Union as a global actor. London : Routledge. Ginsberg, Roy H. (1999), “Conceptualizing the European Union as an InternationalActor.Dannreuther, Roland (ed). (2004), European Union Foreign and Security Policy. Towards a Neighbourhood Strategy. London: Routledge. Serra, N and Stiglitz, J. (eds.) (2008) The Washington Consensus Reconsidered: Towards a New Global Governance, Oxford: Oxford University Press.Rodrik, Dani (2011) The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy, W. W. Norton & Company. Lamy, P. (2004). Europe and the Future of Economic Governance. Journal of Common Market Studies 42 (1): 5-21. Reis, Liliana (2017) A Construção do Ator Secutitário Europeu: a Hora das Escolhas. Lisboa: Chiado. .
Language	Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.