EPIIC 2015-16: The Future of Europe Syllabus

 

EPIIC 2015-16

The Future of Europe

EXP 0091F

Tuesdays, Thursdays, 3:00-5:30pm, Crane Room, Paige Hall

And mandatory bi-monthly discussion sessions (times to be announced)

(Books should be bought or borrowed from the library;

handouts will either be copied and available at the IGL or sent out as links)

 

FIRST SEMESTER COLLOQUIUM REQUIREMENTS

(second semester requirements will be handed out in November, but class will meet at the same time and will be required)

A) Informed Class Attendance and Participation

Preparation and participation in class discussion, debates and simulation activities and in discussion sessions; prepare abstracts of colloquium readings on a rotating basis.  Each student will prepare 5 typed and edited questions derived from each class set of readings and email them to tuftsepiic@gmail.com before each class.  Also, there is mandatory attendance at the Outward Bound weekend, October 2-4, 2015.

B) Two Take-Home Essays

7 pages each. Due Dates: September 18 and October 21 by 3:00pm, emailed to Heather (the question or choice of questions will be distributed one week prior to each due date).  Late work will result in a half-grade deduction per day late.

C) In-Class Exam – Tuesday, September 29*

D) Mid-Term In-Class Exam – Tuesday, November 3*

E) Final Exam (2 parts)

Part I. In-Class, short answer exam -- Tuesday, December 22, 12:00pm

Part II. Choose 1 from the following 3 options -- Due Wednesday, December 23, 12:00pm

a. The Take-Home essay exam (answer 2 questions, 10 pages each) Questions distributed Tuesday, December 8

b. Research Paper – 20 pages, topic chosen in consultation with directors (please see attached for requirements and timeline)

c. Special Research Projects, e.g. a research internship with a guest lecturer or scholar or practitioner in residence, established in conjunction with the director and includes a paper

Late work will result in a half-grade deduction per day late.

Students interested in conducting an on-site (abroad or in the US) research project over winter intersession or in presenting at the symposium MUST do a research paper, follow the research process, and meet all prerequisites.

F) Inquiry Participation

Mentoring of an Inquiry high school delegation (please see attached for requirements)

All EPIIC students participate in Inquiry – All students must complete the “Sexual Misconduct: How Teachers and Other Educators Can Protect Our Children – Higher Ed Version” online training (see attached for information) and print certificate of completion and give to Heather no later than September 28, 2015.

G) Committee Participation (please see attached sheet)

H) Completion of CITI training -- by September 28, 2015 (http://www.tufts.edu/central/research/IRB/citi.htm) -- please print out and give Heather your certificate of completion

I) Class Fee

There is a class fee of $500 that defrays the copying and the Weekend Immersion expenses -- no one will be excluded from the class due to financial constraints, if you have concerns about the fee, please come and talk to Sherman or Heather privately.  The Class Fee will be added to your bursar bill.

It is mandatory to participate fully in all EPIIC forums on Europe throughout the year. Please also note the following second semester dates that are mandatory: the EPIIC symposium: February 17-21, 2016; and the Inquiry simulation: April 7-9, 2016; and class will be held throughout the second semester on the same days and at the same time as the first semester.

*While every effort will be made to keep these dates, they may be subject to change based on speaker availability.

 

SYLLABUS

 

Tuesday, September 8

 

Introduction to EPIIC

 

Thursday, September 10

 

Overview of “The Future of Europe” and EPIIC year

 

Tuesday, September 15

 

“Wilsonianism” and Europe

 

Guest Lecturer: Tony Smith

Tony Smith is the Cornelia M. Jackson Professor of Political Science at Tufts University, a senior fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.  His interests include United States foreign policy with special emphasis on relations with Europe. He has written several books including America’s Mission: The US and the Worldwide Struggle for Democracy in the Twentieth Century (1994) and Foreign Attachments: The Power of Ethnic Groups in the Making of US Foreign Policy (2000). Smith is also author of numerous articles on third world studies and US foreign policy, many with respect to transatlantic relations. His book entitled A Pact with the Devil: Washington’s Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise was published in early 2007. In early 2009 he published American Foreign Policy in Crisis with Anne-Marie Slaughter and others. This year, an expanded edition of his book, America’s Mission: the United States and the World-Wide Struggle for Democracy was published. He is currently working on a book on American democracy promotion from the first writings of Woodrow Wilson to today. His books include The French Stake in Algeria (1978); The Pattern of Imperialism (1981), and A Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise (2007).

 

Link to audio recording of lecture

 

Readings:

 

Books

• Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, from 1453 to the Present, Brendan Simms

           (begin reading, you will be responsible for up to page 380 for the first exam)

• Year Zero: A History of 1945, Ian Buruma

           (begin reading, you will be responsible for the whole book for the first exam)

• 1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe, Mary Sarotte

           (begin reading, you will be responsible for the whole book for the first exam)

 

Thursday, September 17

 

An Inquiry into Spain

 

Guest Lecturer: Sebastián Royo

Sebastián Royo is Vice Provost and Professor of Government at Suffolk University. His research focuses on comparative political economy in Southern Europe. At CES, he is Co-Chair of the Study Group A Center-Periphery Europe? Perspectives from Southern Europe. He is the author of several books, including Lessons from the Economic Crisis in Spain (2013), Portugal in the 21st Century (edited 2011), and Varieties of Capitalism in Spain (2008). He has published articles in Governance, Review of Political Economy and many other journals.

 

Link to audio recording of lecture

 

Readings:

Book

• Ghosts of Spain: Travels through Spain and its Silent Past, Giles Tremlett (all)

 

Tuesday, September 22

 

NO CLASS – YOM KIPPUR

 

Thursday, September 24

 

Austerity and the Future of the Euro

 

Guest Lecturer: Mark Blyth

Mark Blyth is Eastman Professor of Political Economy and faculty fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. He is based in political science but his research begs and borrows from multiple fields. He is particularly interested in how uncertainty and randomness impact complex systems, particularly economic systems, and why people continue to believe particular economic ideas despite buckets of evidence to the contrary. He was a member of the Warwick Commission on International Financial Reform that made an early case for macro-prudential regulation. He is the author of several books including Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2002, and most recently, Financial Times Books of the Year (economics List) Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea (Oxford University Press 2013), which questions the return to prominence of financial orthodoxy following the global financial crisis.

 

Link to audio recording of lecture

 

Readings:

 

Book

• Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea, Mark Blyth

 

Handouts

• chapters from The Future of the Euro (Matthias Matthijis and Mark Blyth, eds)

 

Tuesday, September 29

 

FIRST EXAM

Please note, all exams will be taken on computers (if you need one to work on, let us know) and we allow up to four hours for taking the exam, which you may or may not need

 

Thursday, October 1

 

Monnet’s Chain Reaction and the Future of Europe:

Reflections on the Political Economy of European Integration

 

Guest Lecturer: Enrico Spolaore

Enrico Spolaore is a Professor of Economics at Tufts University and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), where he is a member of the Political Economy Program. He is also a CESIfo Fellow at the University of Munich and an External Associate at the University of Warwick’s Centrefor Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE). His main research interests are in political economy, economic growth and development, and international economics. Among his publications are “On the Number and Size of Nations” (with Alberto Alesina, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1997), “Economic Integration and Political Disintegration” (with Alberto Alesina and Romain Wacziarg, American Economic Review, 2000),“On the Evaluation of Economic Mobility” (with Peter Gottschalk, Review of Economic Studies, 2002), “The Diffusion of Development” (with Romain Wacziarg, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2009), “How Deep Are the Roots of Economic Development?” (with Romain Wacziarg, Journal of Economic Literature, 2013), “What is European Integration Really About? A Political Guide for Economists” (Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2013), and several other articles and book chapters. Spolaore’s publications also include the monograph The Size of Nations (with Alberto Alesina, MIT Press, 2003 – paperback edition, 2005), and two edited volumes on Culture and Economic Growth (Edward Elgar, 2014). Before joining the Tufts faculty in 2004, Spolaore held faculty positions at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Ohio State University, Boston College, and Brown University. He also worked as a consultant for the Confederation of Italian Industries (Confindustria) and the European Commission. At Tufts he served as Chair of the Economics Department between 2006 and 2012.  Spolaore was born in Italy, and holds Italian and U.S. citizenships.

 

Listen to a recording of the class here! 

 

Readings:

 

Handouts

• “Monnet’s Chain Reaction and the Future of Europe,” Spolaore, E. (2015), Vox EU, July 2015 http://www.voxeu.org/article/monnet-s-chain-reaction-and-future-europe

• “The Political Economy of European Integration”, Spolaore, E. (2015), forthcoming as chapter 26 in the Routledge Handbook of the Economics of European Integration edited by H Badinger and V Nitsch, Routledge: London and New York, http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/centres/cage/manage/publications/221-2015_spolaore.pdf

• “What is European Integration Really About? A Political Guide for Economists,” Spolaore, E (2013), Journal of Economic Perspectives, 27(3): 125-44

 

Recommended

• The Economist (2014), “Goldilocks Nationalism,” 27 September http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21620204-size-and-homogeneity-countrys-population-has-big-bearing-its-economic

• Juncker, J-C, D Tusk, J Dijsselbloem, M Draghi and M Schultz (2015), Completing Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union, European Commission, Brussels http://ec.europa.eu/priorities/economic-monetary-union/docs/5-presidents-report_en.pdf    

• Guiso, L, P Sapienza and L Zingales (2014), “Monnet’s Error?” presented at the Fall 2014 BPEA conference http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Projects/BPEA/Fall%202014/Fall2014BPEA_Guiso_Sapienza_Zingales.pdf

• Eichengreen, Barry (2012), “European Monetary Integration with Benefit of Hindsight,” Journal of Common Market Studies, 50 (S1) 123-36 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-5965.2011.02231.x/abstract

 

Outward Bound Weekend Immersion: October 2-4, 2015

 

Guest Scholar: Mitchell Orenstein

Mitchell A. Orenstein is Professor of Central and East European politics in the Slavic Department at the University of Pennsylvania and an associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. His published work focuses on the political economy and international affairs of Central and Eastern Europe. Orenstein’s first book, Out of the Red: Building Capitalism and Democracy in Postcommunist Europe, won the 1997 Gabriel A. Almond Award of the American Political Science Association for the best dissertation in comparative politics. Professor Orenstein has also published two books on European social policy with the World Bank. Roma in an Expanding Europe: Breaking the Poverty Cycle, co-authored with Dena Ringold and Erika Wilkens, is a seminal study of Roma poverty, sociology, and public health. It won the Voter’s Choice Award for the most innovative analytical and advisory activity and the World Bank Europe/Central Asia Knowledge Fair in 2004. Pension Reform in Europe: Process and Progress, co-edited with Robert Holzmann and Michal Rutkowski, analyzes the political economy of pension reform throughout the European Union. Orenstein’s teaching encompasses the fields of comparative politics, European studies, and international political economy. He teaches an elective course on Russia and Eastern Europe in International Affairs at the undergraduate level, which analyzes the geopolitical competition between the European Union and Russia over the countries in between. Professor Orenstein also teaches political economy courses on Communism and Globalization at Penn. Prior to joining the faculty of University of Pennsylvania in 2015, Orenstein held appointments at Harvard, Yale, Brown, Northeastern, Syracuse, Johns Hopkins, and Moscow State Universities. Orenstein’s research has been recognized with fellowships from the MacAr- thur Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, and Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He has consulted for the World Bank, USAID, the government of Slovakia, and other organizations. Professor Orenstein has lived in Britain, France, Czech Republic, Poland, and Russia.

 

Don Thieme

A seasoned military diplomat, scholar, foreign policy practitioner and teacher, Don Thieme brings more than 25 years of global experience to the educational ‘classroom.’  Before retiring from the U.S. Marine Corps, Don served in various Marine infantry and Reconnaissance units that deployed to Southeast Asia, the Mediterranean, the Middle East and Horn of Africa.  When not deployed, Don was an Olmsted Scholar (Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Kraków), a Council on Foreign Relations Term Member, and an MIT Seminar XXI Fellow.  He was a personal advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs for NATO expansion, theater campaign plans chief for U.S. Central Command, and served seven years as a senior attaché in Warsaw and London, where he regularly analyzed foreign policy and recommended pragmatic actions to very senior U.S. and foreign leaders in the pursuit of U.S. strategic objectives.  

Don has taught in various fora from West Point classrooms to desolate train tracks at Auschwitz, focused on the art – and action – of learning more than just strings of facts, but the inherent complex inter-relationships of human-ness in chaotic environments.  He has lived more than a dozen years overseas, and visited more than 60 countries.  He has published several articles, and helped conceive and write the Harvard University Carr Center Mass Atrocity Response Operations Handbook.  Currently working on his PhD, Don is researching modern slavery and human trafficking in and via Europe. 

Don spends his ‘spare’ time helping raise four amazingly dynamic children, hunting and fishing, and leading a Boy Scout Troop.

 

Readings:

• Bruce Pitcairn Jackson. Europe’s East: A Turning Point. Policy Review Apr/May 2010, Issue 160. [Available through EBSCO]
• David Lane: Is Russia a Threat? (Part One)
• Karaganov: European Security
• Trenin: Then and Now (Articles 1; 2; 3) 
• Ron Asmus and Bruce Jackson, The Black Sea and the Frontiers of Freedom. Policy Review, 2004. [Available through EBSCO]
• Volody- myr Valkov, Expansionism: The Core of Russia’s Foreign Policy
• Vladislav Inozemtsev and Andrei Barabashin, “A Grand Bargain with Russia,” Foreign Affairs.

• Orenstein, Vladimir Putin: An Aspirant Metternich?
• Russia in Global Affairs: What Not to Do List
• Judith Kelley. New Wine in Old Wineskins: Promoting Political Reform through the European Neighborhood Policy. Journal of Common Market Studies, 2006. [Available through EBSCO]

• Heather Grabbe. How Does Europeanization Affect CEE Governance? Condition- ality, Diffusion, and Diversity, Journal of European Public Policy 8:6, 2001.

• Heather Grabbe. Europeanization Goes East: Power and Uncertainty in the EU Accession Process.
• Celeste Wal- lander, Russian Transimperialism and its Implications. Washington Quarterly, Spring 2007. [Available through EBSCO]
• Lilia Shevtsova, Putin’s New World Order, The Washington Post, May 9, 2014. [Available through Lexis-Nexis].
• Dmitri Trenin, Russia Reborn, Foreign Affairs, 2009. [Available through EBSCO]
• Bulgaria’s shift on Russia
• Daniel Freif- eld, “The Great Pipeline Opera,” Foreign Policy, 2009. [Available through EBSCO]
• Mark Leonard and Nicu Popescu, “A Power Audit of EU-Russia Relations.” European Council on Foreign Relations, 2007.

 

Tuesday, October 6

Greece

Guest Lecturer: Ioannis Evrigenis

Ioannis D. Evrigenis teaches courses on ancient and early modern political thought, the social contract, and ethics and international relations, as well as seminars on Plato, Machiavelli, Hobbes, and political theory methods.

Professor Evrigenis is co-editor of Johann Gottfried Herder's Another Philosophy of History and Selected Political Writings (Hackett, 2004).  He is also the author of articles on a wide range of topics in political theory, and of Fear of Enemies and Collective Action (Cambridge University Press, 2008), which received the 2009 Delba Winthrop Award for Excellence in Political Science. His most recent book is entitled Images of Anarchy: The Rhetoric and Science in Hobbes's State of Nature (Cambridge University Press, 2014).  At present, he is overseeing The Bodin Project at Tufts, aimed at an electronic variorum edition of Jean Bodin's Les six livres de la république, funded in part by a Tufts Innovates! grant.  He has received grants and fellowships from Princeton's University Center for Human Values, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, the Earhart Foundation, and the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, as well as five Certificates of Distinction in Teaching from Harvard University's Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning.

Reading:

Book
• Modern Greece What Everyone Needs To Know, Stathis Kalyvas

Thursday, October 8

The Greek Economic Crisis

Guest Scholar: Yannis Ioannides

Professor Ioannides joined the Tufts faculty in September 1995 as the Max and Herta Neubauer Professor in Economics. Previously he taught at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University where he served as Department Head from 1989-1995. He has also held an appointment as a Professor of Economics at the Athens School of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece, and was a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research from 1982-1993. His research interests are macroeconomics, economic growth and inequality, social interactions and networks, and housing markets. He is currently an Associate Editor of Regional Science and Urban Economics and of The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, second edition. He served as a member of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Social Interactions and Economic Inequality, and as a consultant to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, the European Investment Bank (Luxembourg), and other EU, US, and Greek institutions. He has participated widely in conferences and has published articles in many leading journals including: American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Economic Theory, International Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Economic Journal, Regional Science and Urban Economics, The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, and Review of Economics and Statistics. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and most recently by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Link to recording of lecture
Readings

Handouts/Links
• Is the Greek Crisis One of Supply or Demand?, Yannis M Ioannides and Christopher A. Pissarides
https://sites.tufts.edu/yioannides/files/2015/09/Ioannides-Pissarides-BPEA-Conference-draft-Sept-12-upd.pdf
• Why Productivity Enhancing Reforms Will Help Greece Exit the Crisis and Usher in Long Run Growth?, Yannis M. Ioannides
https://sites.tufts.edu/yioannides/files/2015/01/IoannidesJan242015MegaronPaperFigs.pdf
• The Eurozone Crisis: A Consensus View of the Causes and a Few Possible Solutions This is an e-book, free online.
http://www.voxeu.org/content/eurozone-crisis-consensus-view-causes-and-few-possible-solutions

 

 

Tuesday, October 13

Class Discussion

Reading

Book
• The New Old World by Pallavi Aiyar

Thursday, October 15

Europe from 1453

Guest Lecturer: Robert Cross
Robert Cross is a lecturer in the History Department of Tufts University working on his forthcoming book, To Counterbalance the World: Britain, Spain & Peace in Early Modern Europe.  He has lectured at a number of universities including Northeastern and Vanderbilt and is the recipient of a number of awards and fellowships, including the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies.

Listen to a recording of the class here! 

 

Reading

Book
• Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, from 1453 to the Present by Brendan Simms (review what you've read to date -- the rest of the book will be on the midterm but not discussed in this class)

Tuesday, October 20

Right-Wing Politics in Europe and The Politics of Memory

Guest Lecturer: David Art
David Art is Associate Professor of Political Science at Tufts University.  His field is comparative politics, with a regional focus on Europe. Professor Art's research interests include extremist political parties and movements, the politics of history and memory, and comparative historical analysis in the social sciences. He is the author of Inside the Radical Right: The Development of Anti-Immigrant Parties in Western Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and The Politics of the Nazi Past in Germany and Austria (Cambridge University Press, 2006). His articles have appeared in Comparative Politics, German Politics and Society, Party Politics, and West European Politics. Professor Art is Co-Convenor of the European Consortium for Political Research's (ECPR) Standing Group on Extremism and Democracy.  During the 2008-2009 academic year he was a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute.

 

Listen to the lecture here! 

Readings

Book
• Goodbye to All That? The Story of Europe since 1945 by Dan Stone

Handouts/Links
• “Memory Politics in Western Europe by David Art”, EUI Working Papers, 2010
• http://search.proquest.com/docview/1319255573?pq-origsite=gscholar
• “Fortuyn versus Wilders: An Agency-Based Approach to Radical Right Party Building” by Sarah L deLange and David Art, West European Politics, 2011
• Winter Is Coming. And So Is Ukraine’s Far Right. by Lev Golinkin, Foreign Policy, October 8, 2015

Thursday, October 22

Refugees and Migration in Europe

Guest Lecturer: Mark Miller
Mark J. Miller is the Emma Smith Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware.  He joined the Department in 1978. He specializes in Migration Studies, Comparative Politics, and European Politics. His research focuses on comparative immigration and refugee policies, global migration and migration and security.  His recent publications includeThe Age of Migration, 5th ed.; ‘Land of Immigration’, The Cairo Review of Global Affairs, 9/Spring 2013; and 'The Diffusion of Norms Concerning Trafficked and Battered Women: The Greek-US Evolution post-1990,' in A. Brysk and A. Choi-Fitzpatrick,eds. Human Trafficking and Human Rights:Rethinking Conemporary Slavery, with G. Wasileski.
Mark Miller was joined by Julia Stewart-David, a Fletcher EU Fellow, Kelly Greenhill, Associate Professor in the Tufts Political Science Department.

 

Listen to the class here! 

 

Readings

Handouts/Links (this will be coming as a wetransfer file -- keep an eye out)
• Chpt. 1 The Thesis of Foreign Worker Political Quiescence - Foreign Workers in Western Europe
• Industrial Policy and the Rights of Labor - Policy Perspectives on National Industrial Development
• Policy Ad-Hocracy The Paucity of Coordinated Perspectives and Policies
• Chpt. 6 Political Participation and Representation of Noncitizens - Immigration and the Politics of Citizenship in Europe and North America
• Towards Understanding State Capacity to Prevent Unwanted Migration
• Employer Sanctions French, German and US Experiences
• Chpt.1 Continuity and Change in Postwar French Legalization Policy - West European Immigration and Immigrant Policy
• International Migration Past, Present and Future
• Labor Mobility in European and North American Regional Integration
• Chpt. 6 U.S. Policy on Terrorism Before and After September 11 - Security, Economics and Morality in American Foreign Policy
• Chpt. 10 The State and International Migration The Quest for Control - The Age of Migration
• Old and New Worlds

Monday, October 26

Second Essays Due by midnight to Heather

Tuesday, October 27

Europe and Turkey

Guest Lecturer: Malik Mufti
Malik Mufti is Professor of Political Science at Tufts University. He teaches courses on international relations as well as the politics of the Middle East. He is the author of Sovereign Creations: Pan-Arabism and Political Order in Syria and Iraq (1996), and Daring and Caution in Turkish Strategic Culture: Republic at Sea (2009). He has also written shorter pieces on the domestic politics, international relations, and political thought of the Near East, including his latest two journal articles "Jihad as Statecraft: Ibn Khaldun on the Conduct of War and Empire" (History of Political Thought, Autumn 2009), and "The Many-Colored Cloak: Evolving Conceptions of Democracy in Islamic Political Thought" (American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, Spring 2010). His current projects include a study of Ibn Khaldun's concept of asabiyya, and a larger research project on realpolitik in Islamic political thought. He is a recipient of the Lillian and Joseph Leibner Award for Distinguished Teaching and Advising.

Readings
Handouts/Links
    •    Ziya Öniş. “Luxembourg, Helsinki and Beyond: Towards an Interpretation of Recent Turkey-EU Relations”, Government and Opposition, vol. 35, no. 4 (Autumn 2000), pp. 463-483.

    •    Soner Çağaptay. “European Union Reforms Diminish the Role of the Turkish Military”, WINEP PolicyWatch #781 (12 August 2003), 2 pp.

    •    Meltem Müftüler-Baç & Yaprak Gürsoy.  "Is There a Europeanization of Turkish Foreign Policy? An Addendum to the Literature on EU Candidates",  Turkish Studies, vol. 11, no. 3 (September 2010), pp. 405-427.

    •    Cerem I. Cenker Özek & Tarık Oğuzlu.  "Beyond the Institutional Logics: International Level Systemic Analysis of EU-Turkish Relations", Turkish Studies, vol. 14, no. 4 (2013), pp. 688-708.

    •    Ahmet Evin et al. "Getting to Zero: Turkey, Its Neighbors and the West", Transatlantic Academy Report (3 June 2010), 50 pp.

• Keridis, Demitris. “Domestic Developments and Foreign Policy: Greek Policy Toward Turkey”, Greek-Turkish Relations in the Era of Globalization, Dimitris Keridis and Dimitrios Triantaphyllou (2001) pp 2-18.

Thursday, October 29

Cody Valdes and Kai Keller
Part I: "The idea of European civilization: the permanent regime founded on corruption"
 

Listen to a recording here!

 

Readings

Handouts/Links

• Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History. 1377. pp. 249-61, 282-83.  
• G.W.F. Hegel, The Philosophy of History. 1820s. pp. 71-79, 324-28, 332-35. (PDF)
• Charles Louis Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws (L'Esprit des Lois). 1748. 20.1-3, pp. 338-39.
• Immanuel Kant, "Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Intent." 1784. pp. 29-40.
• Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America. 1835-40. II.2.13, pp. 511-12; II.3.17, pp. 587-88; II.3.21, pp. 616-17.
• Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power. 1880s. Preface-12a.
• Joshua Mitchell, 'Age of Exhaustion.'The American Interest. 2015.
• James Kurth, "The Adolescent Empire:
•  America and the Imperial Idea," The National Interest (1997): 3-15.
• Mark Lilla, “The Truth about our Libertarian Age,” The New Republic. June 2014.

Relevant pages from Stone one could revisit: 58, 97, 112, 153, 165, 186, 188, 249, 256

Suggested Reading

• Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Prize 2009 lecture, "A Just and Lasting Peace."
• European Union, Nobel Peace Prize 2012 lecture, "From War to Peace: A European Tale."
• David Brooks, “Enter the Age of the Outsiders,” The New York Times. 20 October 2015.

Part II: China and Europe

Readings

Handouts (at the IGL)
China-Europe Relations - Perceptions, policies and prospects , Shambaugh et al., Routledge, 2007
• The Sino-European Encounter; Michael Yehuda
• Europe's commercial relations with China; Robert Ash
• China's eyes Europe in the world; David Shambaugh
• China's commercial relations with Europe; Zhang Zuqian
• From honeymoon to marriage - Prospects for the China-Europe relationship; David Shambaugh, Eberhard Sandschneider, and Zhou Hong                                                     '

Europe and China - Strategic Partners or rivals, Vogt et al., HK University Press, 2012
• Limitations for Europe's Partnership with China; Roland Vogt
• From Client Status to Strategic Partnership: China's Changing Perceptions of Europe; Li Wang
• An Anatomy of European and American Perspectives on China in the International System; by Ruben Wong
• Human Rights and EU-China Relations; Ring Wai

Remaking Global Order: The Evolution of Europe-China Relations and Its Implications for East Asia and the united States by Nicola Casarini
• From Cold War Constraints to New Possibilities
• The Interplay of Business and Politics

Tuesday, November 3 & Thursday, November 5

Evolving Role of NATO in the European Security Environment

Guest Lecturer: Ethan Corbin
Ethan Corbin is the Director of the Defence and Security Committee at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.  He completed his doctorate in international relations at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in May, 2013.  Prior to joining the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, Ethan was a Lecturer in political international relations at Tufts University teaching courses on U.S. foreign policy and international security studies.  His research interests include U.S. foreign policy, international security, international organizations, and Middle Eastern politics.  From 2011-2013, Ethan was a Research Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Ethan has published on topics ranging from Syrian foreign policy, peacekeeping operations, and insurgency and counter-insurgency warfare. Ethan has also worked for the State Department and the Department of Defense.  Other past fellowships include: Earhart Foundation, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences-Po), and The Eisenhower Institute.

Readings

Handouts/Links
• Mearsheimer, John J. “Back to the Future: Instability in Europe After the Cold War” International Security, Summer 1990 (Vol. 15, No. 1)
• Goldgeier, James M. “The Future of NATO” Council on Foreign Relations (Council Special Report No. 51), February 2010.
• Kuperman, Alan J. “A Model Humanitarian Intervention? Reassessing NATO’s Libya Campaign” International Security, Vol. 38, No. 1 (Summer 2013) pp. 105-136.
• Heisbourg, François, “Preserving Post-Cold War Europe” Survival (57:1), pp. 31-48.
• Kroenig, Matthew “Facing Reality: Getting NATO Ready for a New Cold War” Survival (57:1), pp. 49-70.
• Zadra, Roberto “NATO, Russia and Missile Defence” Survival (56:4), pp. 51-61.
• Wickette, Xenia and McInnis, Kathleen J. “NATO: Charting the Way Forward” Chatham House, US Project, July 2014.
• Simon, Luis “Understanding US Retrenchment in Europe” Survival, (57:2) pp. 157-172.
• Simon, Luis “NATO’s Rebirth: Assessing NATO’s Eastern European ‘Flank’” Parameters 44 (3), Autumn 2014.
• Giles, Keir, et. al. “The Russia Challenge” Chatham House Report, June 2015.
• Roberts, Peter, “Militarising the EU Migration Plan: A Flawed Approach” RUSI Newsbrief, 7 July 2015.
• Barrett, Richard, “Foreign Fighters in Syria” The Soufan Group, June 2014.
• Park, Jeanne, “Europe’s Migration Crisis” Council on Foreign Relations (CFR Backgrounder), September 23, 2015.
• Chapter 5 “United Germany and NATO: The Kremlin Decides” in Stent, Angela E. Russia Reborn: Unification, The Soviet Collapse, and the New Europe, Princeton University Press, 1999.  (Skim the first 4 chapters for relevant context, if possible.)
 
Suggested Reading for background and context:
• Lieven, Dominic, Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia, Allen Lane, 2015
• Snyder, Timothy, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, Basic Books, 2013
• Stent, Angela E., Russia Reborn: Unification, The Soviet Collapse, and the New Europe, Princeton University Press, 1999.

Tuesday, November 10

NO CLASS -- WEDNESDAY’s Schedule

Thursday, November 12

MID TERM EXAM
Please note, all exams will be taken on computers (if you need one to work on, let us know) and we allow up to four hours for taking the exam, which you may or may not need

 

Tuesday, November 17

German Power

Guest Lecturer: Karl Kaiser
Karl Kaiser is Adjunct Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School and Director of the Program on Transatlantic Relations of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. He was educated at the Universities of Cologne, Grenoble and Oxford and taught at the Universities of Bonn, Johns Hopkins (Bologna), Saarbruecken, Cologne, the Hebrew University, and the Departments of Government and Social Studies of Harvard. He was a Director of the German Council on Foreign Relations, Bonn/Berlin and an advisor to Chancellors Brandt and Schmidt. He was a member of the German Council of Environmental Advisors. He serves on the Board of Foreign Policy, Internationale Politik, the Advisory Board of the American-Jewish Committee, Berlin, and the Board of the Federal Academy of Security Policy, Berlin. He is a recipient of the Atlantic Award of NATO. Professor Kaiser is the author or editor of several hundred articles and about fifty books in the fields of world affairs, German, French, British and US foreign policy, transatlantic and East-West relations, nuclear proliferation, strategic theory, and international environmental policy. He holds a Ph.D. from Cologne University and an Honorary Doctorate of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

 

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