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European Neighbourhood Policy: Eastern Partnership and Central Asia
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:3.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:30:49
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | PZK_003 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 3.00 | ECTS: | 4.50 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Politics; International Politics | Target Audience: | Political Science | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Mārtiņš Vargulis | ||||||||
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| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 8 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 16 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 4 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 8 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 24 | ||||||||
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| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 2 | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 3 | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 4 | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 5 | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 6 | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 7 | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 8 | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 9 | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 10 | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 11 | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 12 | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
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| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
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| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) Overview (EU Official website) http://eeas.europa.eu/enp/ | ||||||||
| 2 | Eastern Partnership Policy (EU Official website) http://eeas.europa.eu/eastern/index_en.htm | ||||||||
| 3 | Europe's Eastern Promise , Rethinking NATO and EU Enlargement, Ronald D. Asmus, from Foreign Affairs, January/February 2008, http://digilib.lib.unipi.gr/ket/bitstream/ket/739/1/Europe'… | ||||||||
| 4 | A Review of the New European Neighbourhood Policy Fabian Stroetges, Apr 22 2013 http://www.e-ir.info/2013/04/22/a-review-of-the-new-europea… | ||||||||
| 5 | Eastern Partnership after Vilnius: A Mission Accomplished, Mounting Tasks Ahead http://www.eesc.lt/uploads/news/id662/EaP%20after%20Vilnius… | ||||||||
| 6 | EU relations with Central Asia (EU Official website) http://eeas.europa.eu/central_asia/index_en.htm | ||||||||
| 7 | European Union - Central Asia relations after the Lisbon Treaty | ||||||||
| 8 | http://www.academia.edu/1453159/European_Union_- Central_Asia_relations_after_the_Lisbon_Treaty | ||||||||
| 9 | European Community Regional Strategy Paper for Assistance to Central Asia for the period 2007-2013 | ||||||||
| 10 | http://www.eeas.europa.eu/central_asia/rsp/07_13_en.pdf4. | ||||||||
| 11 | The Afghanistan-Central Asia relationship: What role for the EU? | ||||||||
| 12 | http://www.fride.org/publication/1099/the-afghanistan-centr… | ||||||||
| 13 | Ian Manners. Normative Power Europe: The International Role of the EU. http://aei.pitt.edu/7263/1/002188_1.PDF | ||||||||
| 14 | Normative power Europe? EU relations with Moldova http://eiop.or.at/eiop/pdf/2010-014.pdf | ||||||||
| 15 | Adrian Hyde-Price, ‘Normative’ power Europe: a realist critique http://media.library.ku.edu.tr/reserve/resfall08_09/INTL533… | ||||||||
| 16 | Jos Boonstra, The EU’s Interests in Central Asia: Integrating Energy, Security and Values Into Coherent Policy, FRIDE, 2011, http://www.edc2020.eu/fileadmin/publications/EDC_2020_Worki… | ||||||||
| 17 | EU Belarus relations (official website) http://eeas.europa.eu/belarus/ | ||||||||
| 18 | Belarus Reality Check: Belarus from Vilnius till Riga Summits: A Nervous Winner, http://www.cepolicy.org/publications/belarus-reality-check-… | ||||||||
| 19 | ECFR Riga Series, Views from EAP Countries, 2015, http://www.ecfr.eu/page/-/Riga_Series_EAP_Countries.pdf | ||||||||
| 20 | Opinion: Why the Eastern Partnership Fails to Reach Belarus, http://belarusdigest.com/printpdf/8609 | ||||||||
| 21 | EU – Ukraine Relations, http://www.eeas.europa.eu/ukraine/about/index_en.htm | ||||||||
| 22 | EU Relations with Moldova , http://eeas.europa.eu/moldova/ | ||||||||
| 23 | Ian Bond, Eastern mess: The EU’s partners need attention, http://www.cer.org.uk/category/research-topics/enlargement-… | ||||||||
| 24 | The Vilius Summit and Ukraine’s Revolution as a Benchmark for EU Eastern Partnership | ||||||||
| 25 | http://www.ispionline.it/sites/default/files/pubblicazioni/… | ||||||||
| 26 | ECFR Riga Series, Views from EAP Countries, 2015, http://www.ecfr.eu/page/-/Riga_Series_EAP_Countries.pdf | ||||||||
| 27 | EU relations with Georgia, http://eeas.europa.eu/georgia/index_en.htm | ||||||||
| 28 | EU Relations with Armenia, http://eeas.europa.eu/armenia/index_en.htm | ||||||||
| 29 | EU Relations with Azerbaijan, http://eeas.europa.eu/azerbaijan/index_en.htm | ||||||||
| 30 | The Southern Caucasus is turning into a Russian playground, http://www.osw.waw.pl/en/publikacje/eastweek/2013-05-22/sou… | ||||||||
| 31 | ECFR Riga Series, Views from EAP Countries, 2015, http://www.ecfr.eu/page/-/Riga_Series_EAP_Countries.pdf | ||||||||
| 32 | EU relations with Russia, http://eeas.europa.eu/russia/ | ||||||||
| 33 | Russia threatens Moldova over its EU relations, http://www.euractiv.com/europes-east/russia-keeps-threateni… | ||||||||
| 34 | Karl Bildt, Russia, the European Union, and the Eastern Partnership, Riga Papers, 2015, http://www.ecfr.eu/page/-/Riga_papers_Carl_Bildt.pdf | ||||||||
| 35 | Not Against Russia: Why the Eastern Partnership Makes Increasingly Less Sense, http://carnegie.ru/eurasiaoutlook/?fa=60256 | ||||||||
| 36 | Russia, the Eurasian Customs Union and the EU: Cooperation, Stagnation or Rivalry? https://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/files/chathamhouse/publi… | ||||||||
| 37 | Eurasian Union: the real, the imaginary and the likely, http://www.iss.europa.eu/uploads/media/CP_132.pdf | ||||||||
| 38 | Does the Eurasian Economic Union have a future? http://www.russia-direct.org/debates/does-eurasian-economic… | ||||||||
| 39 | EU and Russia: Eastern Partnership vs Eurasian Union, http://europesworld.org/2014/02/11/eu-and-russia-eastern-pa… | ||||||||
