33062 - SECURITY BUILDING IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE: NATO, RUSSIA AND THE EU

Contenuti

Syllabus  for the Mirees Course:
"Security Building in Central and Eastern Europe: Nato, Russia and the EU"
Academic year 2010- 2011
Proffs. Mario Del Pero & Sonia Lucarelli


1 March, 3-5 PM World War I, Wilson and the Making of “Eastern Europe” (lecture) MDP
2 March, 9-11 AM The Cold War, Containment and the Making of Eastern Europe (lecture) MDP

8 March, 3-5 PM The European integration process and Eastern Europe during the Cold War (seminar)
SL
Reading:
1. C. Archer, The European Union, Routledge 2008, pp. 19-32
RUFFILLI LIBRARY, Shelfmark: DEWEY 341.2422 ARCC

2. GEIR LUNDESTAD, The European Role at the Beginning and Particularly the End of the Cold War, in O. NJØLSTAD (ed.), The Last Decade of the Cold War, Londra, Frank Cass, 2004, pp-60-81
RUFFILLI LIBRARY, Shelfmark: DEWEY 909.828 LASD

9 March, 9-11 AM The Warsaw Pact vs. NATO (seminar)
SL
Reading:
1) Laszlo Borhi, Rollback, Liberation, Containment, or Inaction?: U.S. Policy and Eastern
Europe in the 1950s, ”Journal of Cold War Studies”, 3, Fall 1999, pp. 67-110
at RUFFILLI LIBRARY on line http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1162/152039799316976814

2) Vojtech Mastny, New History of Cold War Alliances, “Journal of Cold War Studies”, 2, Spring 2002, pp. 55-84
on line at RUFFILLI LIBRARY: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1162/152039702753649647


15 March, 3-5 PM Détente, Helsinki and the fake geopolitical stabilization of the 1970s (seminar)
MDP
Reading:
1) Helsinki Final Act - Available on line (http://www.hri.org/docs/Helsinki75.html)
2) Raymond Garthoff, Détente and Confrontation, Brookings Institution Press, 1994, pp.473-501
RUFFILLI LIBRARY
Shelfmark: DEWEY 327.73047 GARR


16 March, 9-11 AM Reagan and the last phase of the Cold War in Eastern Europe (seminar)
MDP
Reading:
1) Jeremi Suri, Explaining the End of the Cold War: a New Historical Consensus?,
“Journal of Cold War Studies”, 4, Fall 2002, pp.60-92 on line at RUFFILLI LIBRARY
http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/15203970260209518

2) Daniel C. Thomas, Human Rights Ideas, the Demise of Communism, and the End of
the Cold War, “ Journal of Cold War Studies”, Volume 7, Number 2, Spring 2005, pp. 110-141
on line at RUFFILLI LIBRARY
http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/1520397053630600


22 March, 3-5 PM Towards the end of the Cold War: main facts
MDP
Reading:
1) Vladislav Zubok, A Failed Empire. The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev, 2007, ch. 10 (pp.303-334). Ruffilli: D 947.085 STORIA DELLA RUSSIA. 1953-1991
2) Adam Roberts, An 'Incredibly Swift Transition': reflections on the end of the Cold War, in M. Leffler & A. Westad (eds.), The Cambridge History of the Cold War, Vol.III: 2010, Ruffilli, D 909.825 STORIA MONDIALE. 1950-1959


23 march, 9-11 AM The United States and the Beginning of the Post-Cold War Transition (seminar)
MDP
1) John G. Ikenberry, The Myth of Post-Cold War Chaos, “Foreign Affairs”, 3, May/June 1996, pp.79-91. on line at RUFFILLI LIBRARY
http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdf?vid=4&hid=8&sid=c76aec11-e30a-4d23-b408-334e257d4417%40sessionmgr2

2) Anthony Lake, From Containment to Enlargement, Speech at the School of Advanced
International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, 21 September 1993.
Available on line: http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/lakedoc.html

3) John Gerard Ruggie, Third Try at World Order? America and Multilateralism after the Cold War, “Political Science Quarterly”, 4 Autumn, 1994, pp. 553-570.
on line at RUFFILLI LIBRARY
http://www.jstor.org/page/termsConfirm.jsp?redirectUri=/stable/pdfplus/2151838.pdf

4) John Ikenberry, The restructuring of the international system after the Cold War in M. Leffler & A. Westad (eds.), The Cambridge History of the Cold War, Vol.III: 2010, Ruffilli, D 909.825 STORIA MONDIALE. 1950-1959


29 March, 3-5 PM  Interpreting the end of the Cold War: a Transatlantic devide? (Seminar)
SL
1) Richard Pipes, "Misinterpreting the Cold War: The Hardliners Had It Right", Foreign Affairs, January – February 1995, p. 154-160.
On line at RUFFILLI LIBRARY
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/50596/richard-pipes/misinterpreting-the-cold-war-the-hardliners-were-right

2) Michael Cox, "Another Transatlantic Split? American and European Narratives and the End of the Cold War," Cold War History, Vol. 7 No 1, February 2007, p. 121-146.
3) Edwina Campbell, "A Comment on Michael Cox's 'Another Transatlantic Split? American and European Narratives and the End of the Cold War' ", Cold War History, Vol. 8 No 1, February 2008, p. 103-113.
Available on Prof. Lucarelli's website


30 March, 9-11 AM The End of the Cold War and its impact in European security: Where from here? (seminar)
SL

Reading:
1) Z. Brzezinski A plan for Europe, “Foreign Affairs” Vol. 74, Iss. 1, 1995, pp. 26-38
Available at:
http://proquest.umi.com/pqdlink?index=5&sid=7&srchmode=3&vinst=PROD&fmt=3&startpage=-1&vname=PQD&did=1489084&scaling=FULL&pmid=6&vtype=PQD&fileinfoindex=%2Fshare3%2Fpqimage%2Fpqirs101v%2F201103011610%2F16549%2F12775%2Fout.pdf&source=%24source&rqt=309&TS=1299013818&clientId=20732

2) R.O. Keohane, S. Hoffmann “Conclusion”, in Keohane R.O., Nye J.S., Hoffmann S. (eds.), After the Cold War. International Institutions and State Strategies in Europe, 1989--1991,Cambridge (MA), Harvard University Press, 1993
RUFFILLI LIBRARY
Shelfmark: LTPRE-SP FP00 02690 08/09 LT 08/09 320.94 AFTT LTPRE-SP FP00 02691 08/09
3) John J. Mearsheimer, Back to the Future: Instability in Europe after the Cold War, International Security, Vol. 15, No. 1 (Summer, 1990), pp. 5-56
on line at RUFFILLI LIBRARY
http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/2538981.pdf

5 April, 3-5 PM The US and Nato's enlargement: the strategic dimension (seminar)
SL
Reading:
1) John Lewis Gaddis, History, Grand Strategy and NATO Enlargement, “Survival”, 1,Spring 1998, pp.145-151;
on line at RUFFILLI LIBRARY
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/ftinterface~content=a780011901~fulltext=713240930

2) Dan Reiter, Why NATO Enlargement Does Not Spread Democracy, “International Security”, 4, Spring 2001, pp. 41-67
on line at RUFFILLI LIBRARY
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/international_security/v025/25.4reiter.pdf

3) Exchange between Dan Reither, Harvey Waterman and Dessie Zagorcheva, NATO
and Democracy, “International Security”, 3, Winter 2001-2002, pp. 221-235.
on line at RUFFILLI LIBRARY
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/international_security/v026/26.3waterman.pdf


6 April, 9-11 AM XIII: The United States and NATO's enlargement: the domestic debate (seminar)
MDP

SAME AS ABOVE

12 April, 3-5 PM Europe and the breakup of Yugoslavia
SL
Background Reading: S. Lucarelli, Europe and the breakup of Yugoslavia : a political failure in search of a scholarly explanation, 2000, pp. 11-74
RUFFILLI LIBRARY
Shelfmark: LT 08/09 949.703 LUCS

2) Debate on national perspectives: T. Halverson “American Perspectives”, A. Edemskii “Russian perspectives”, Ivan Vejvoda “Serbian Perspectives”, all in A. Danchev and T. Halverson (eds) International Perspectives on the Yugoslav Conflict, Macmillan, 1996.
Forthcoming in Ruffilli (in case of problems Prof Lucarelli will bring a copy)


13 April, 9-11 AM The EU's Foreign and Security Policy (seminar)
SL
Reading:

1) Nicole Gnesotto (ed.), EU Security and Defence Policy - The first five years (1999-2004), Paris: ISS-EU, 2004 (introduction by Nicole Gnesotto, chapter 1 by Jean-Yves Haine, chapter 2 by Antonio Missiroli, and chapter 6 by Jean-Yves Haine.) available at
http://www.iss.europa.eu/uploads/media/5esdpen.pdf:

2) M. E. Smith, A Liberal Grand Stretegy in a Realist World? Power, Purpose and teh EU's changing global role, “Journal of European Public Policy”, 18, 2, 2011, pp. 144-163.
on line at RUFFILLI LIBRARY
http://pdfserve.informaworld.com/547838_731333446_933668394.pdf

2) A. Missiroli, EU ‘Foreign Policy' System after Lisbon: A Work in Progress, “European Foreign Affairs Review”, 15, 2010, pp. 427-452
on line at RUFFILLI LIBRARY
http://www.kluwerlawonline.com/toc.php?area=Journals&mode=bypub&level=6&values=Journals%7E%7EEuropean+Foreign+Affairs+Review%7EVolume+15+%282010%29%7EIssue+4


19 April, 3-5 PM The EU, NATO and the “New Europe” (seminar)
SL
Reading:

1) F. Schimmelfennig, “The EU: Promoting Liberal democracy through
Membership Conditionality”, in Trine Flockhart, Socializing Democratic Norms.
Palgrave 2005, pp. 106-126.
RUFFILLI LIBRARY
Shelfmark: LT 08/09 320.947 SOCD

2) Elsa Tulmets, Laure Delcour, Pioneer Europe? The ENP as a Test Case for EU's Foreign Policy, “European Foreign Affairs Review”, 14, 2009, pp. 501-523.
Online Ruffilli:
http://www.kluwerlawonline.com/toc.php?area=Journals&mode=bypub&level=6&values=Journals%7E%7EEuropean+Foreign+Affairs+Review%7EVolume+14+%282009%29%7EIssue+4

3) S. Lucarelli, “Nato and the European System of Liberal-Democratic Security
Communities” in Trine Flockhart, Socializing Democratic Norms. Palgrave 2005, pp. 85-105
RUFFILLI LIBRARY
Shelfmark: LT 08/09 320.947 SOCD




20 April, 9-11 AM The EU, Nato and Russia (seminar)
SL

1) Back ground information:
- EU-Russia relations: http://eeas.europa.eu/russia/index_en.htm
- Nato-Russia relations: http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/topics_50090.htm
3) ) Riccardo Alcaro, Emiliano Alessandri, Engaging Russia. Prospect for a long-term European security compact , «European Foreign Affairs Review», vol. 15, no. 2, 2010, pp. 191-207
Online Ruffilli:
http://www.kluwerlawonline.com/toc.php?area=Journals&mode=bypub&level=6&values=Journals%7E%7EEuropean+Foreign+Affairs+Review%7EVolume+15+%282010%29%7EIssue+2

3) Dos Santos, Ana (2010) How to Rebalance the EU-Russia Relationship: Potential and Limits. European Foreign Affairs Review 15 (3):307-324.
Online Ruffilli:
http://www.kluwerlawonline.com/toc.php?area=Journals&mode=bypub&level=6&values=Journals%7E%7EEuropean+Foreign+Affairs+Review%7EVolume+15+%282010%29%7EIssue+3
4) Antonenko Oksana, Bastian, Rebooting Nato-Russia Relations, „Survival“ 51, 2, pp. 13-21
Online Ruffilli:
http://pdfserve.informaworld.com/426317_731333446_909855337.pdf



3 May, 3-5 PM Has Europe its own security identity? (seminar)
SL
Reading:
1) Robert Kagan, Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order,
New York: Knopf, 2003, or read the original Policy Review article at http://
www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/3460246.html

2) Jürgen Habermas, Jacques Derrida, "February 15, or What Binds Europeans
Together: A Plea for a Common Foreign Policy, Beginning in the Core of Europe,"
Constellations 10 (3), September 2003, 291–297.

3) Robert Cooper, The Post-Modern State, Demos, available at http://www.demos.co.uk/
files/postmodernstate.pdf or read the article with the same title available at http://fpc.org.uk/articles/169
4) Tony Judt, "Europe vs. America," New York Review of Books 52/2 (2005), available at http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17726


4 May, 9-11 AM Civil society and public opinion in the two Europes (seminar)
SL
Reading:
1) Trine Flockhart, Socializing Democratic Norms. Palgrave 2005, Chr. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 (pp. 149-248)


10 May, 3-5 PM A View form the East (seminar)
SL
Reading:
1) Eurobarometer 72, 73
http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/eb_arch_en.htm

3) Transatlantic Trends 2010: (i) Key Findings
http://www.gmfus.org/trends/doc/2010_English_Top.pdf


11 M, 9-11 AM Simulation of the Georgian Crisis
SL
For background information, please rely on the reports of the International Crisis Group (http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?action=conflict_search&l=1&t=1&c_country=42) and other links in the same website


ASSESSMENT
25% class participation; 25% essay 1*; 25% essay 2*; 25% final oral exam

* Essays:
 Deadlines: April 10; May 20. Later assessment essays will not be marked
 Length : Ca 2,500 words, inclusive of footnotes (but excluding bibliography and eventual appendices)
 Topic: To be agreed with the instructor. It can be one of the general topics discussed during the seminars or a specific sub-issue within these general topics.

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Metodi didattici

This is a lecture and seminar course

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

ASSESSMENT

25% class participation; 25% essay 1*; 25% essay 2*; 25% final oral exam

 

* Essays:

-         Deadlines: April 10; May 20. Later assessment essays will not be marked

-         Length : Ca 2,500 words, inclusive of footnotes (but excluding bibliography and eventual appendices)

-         Topic: To be agreed with the instructor. It can be one of the general topics discussed during the seminars or a specific sub-issue within these general topics.

 

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

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Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Sonia Lucarelli