99984 - Negotiation Simulation for International Relations

Learning outcomes

The workshop consists of a simulation of an international crisis, in which participating students will have to impersonate the policymakers of the states involved. The first part of the lab involves explaining the rules of the simulation and describing the scenario, and assigning roles to the participants. In addition, students will be introduced to the foreign policy basics of their assigned states. The second part includes the simulation of the crisis. The workshop will conclude with a "debriefing" phase that will help reflect on the simulation experience and its dynamics of interaction. By the end of the lab, students will have demonstrated their ability to work in groups; they will have understood the complexity of strategic interaction between states during times of crisis; they will have demonstrated the ability to apply their theoretical and historical knowledge to the context of an international crisis; and they will have understood the impact of preferences, interests, and cultural-historical legacies in the interaction between states.

Readings/Bibliography

Attending students are advised to read:

Not-attending students are required to read the following works, which must be used to inform the final paper.

Theory:

Brigid A. Starkey and Elizabeth L. Blake. 2001. "Simulation in International Relations Education". Simulation & Gaming. 32:4, 537-551

Lewicki, R. J., Barry, B., & Saunders, D. M. (2016).Essentials of negotiation. New York: McGraw-Hill Education. Chicago, capitoli: 3, 5 e 7

Simulation:

Rosa Balfour and Corina Stratulat (eds) 2015. EU member states and enlargement towards the Balkans, EPC ISSUE PAPER NO.79 (July). Chapters on Croatia, France, Germany, Italy Hungary. Available at: https://www.epc.eu/en/Publications/EU-member-states-and-enlargeme~254ae0

Pol Bargués, Assem Dandashly, Hylke Dijkstra, Gergana Noutcheva (2022). “Time to Re-engage with Kosovo and Serbia: Strengthening EU Foreign and Security Policy amidst Internal Contestation” JOINT Research Papers n.12 (December). Available at: https://www.jointproject.eu/2022/12/09/time-to-re-engage-with-kosovo-and-serbia-strengthening-eu-foreign-and-security-policy-amidst-internal-contestation/

Roberto Belloni (2024) Serbia between East and West: ontological security, vicarious identity and the problem of sanctions against Russia, European Security, 33:2, 284-302, DOI: 10.1080/09662839.2023.2290048

Jasmin Hasić, Nedžma Džananović & Lejla Ramić Mesihović (2020) “Implicit”

contestations of EU foreign policy norm-domestication in Bosnia and Herzegovina and North

Macedonia, Global Affairs, 6:4-5, 417-432, DOI: 10.1080/23340460.2021.1897952

Stephan Keukeleire, Tom Delreux (2022). The Foreign Policy of the European Union. Bloomsbury, Third edition. Chapter 1, 3, 10.

 

Further materials will be provided by the instructor in class or via email upon request

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