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§ 5 (1) 10 European Integration - Enhanced Level

Students are able to explain the functionality and differentiation of the political system of the EU. They discuss and answer questions illustrated by individual organs and institutions of internal and institutional decision-making processes and the characteristics of individual political fields.

The EU as a Global Player: the  Indo-Pacific as a challenge against the background f the Sino-US Rivalry

The EU strives to position itself as a global player despite the ongoing war in the Ukraine at its borders. Since 2016 the Asia-Pacific and now the Indo-Pacific has moved into focus, for economic, political and security reasons as well as the ongoing competition/rivalry between the US and China. The hotspots Hongkong, Taiwan, South and East China Sea, the Korean Peninsula have potentially global implications. India seeks to find its position in the Indo-Pacific as well as in the triangle with China and Russia. Solving the global threats like climate change, the re-organisation of value, production chains as well as the competition about emerging technologies takes place in this region. Mini- and plurilateral agreements in trade and security cooperation risk the multilateral system and cooperation is key to adapt the present world order, under duress because of the war of aggression by Russia.

After the kick-off by the professor, groups will present each time a topic (PPP, 300 summary); final essay max 2000 words of a topic related to the course – ideally the totality of the essays adds up to a coherent volume.

Group presentation: 40%
Final essay: 40%
Active in class participation: 20%

Weiqing Song/ Jianwei Wang (eds.) The European Union in the Asia Pacific: Rethinking Europe’s Strategies and Policies. Manchester University Press (2019).
Thomas Christiansen, Emil Kirchner, See Seng Tan (eds). The European Union’s Security Relations with Asian Partners. Palgrave Macmillan 2021.
Kevin Rudd. The Avoidable War. Public Affairs, 2022.
Specific literature will be provided for thematic sessions.

successful completion of the compulsory modules 1, 2, 3 and 5

Basic knowledge about international relations; interest in the Asia and Indo-Pacific area; good knowledge of English for research and presentation, writing  to be able to follow the seminar.

In order to allow interactive conduct of the seminar, limitation to 20 participants.