Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)
Study Course Description

European Neighbourhood Policy: Eastern Partnership and Central Asia

Main Study Course Information

Course Code
PZK_003
Branch of Science
International Politics; Political science
ECTS
4.50
Target Audience
Political Science
LQF
Level 6
Study Type And Form
Full-Time

Study Course Implementer

Course Supervisor
Structure Unit Manager
Structural Unit
Faculty of Social Sciences
Contacts

Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf@rsu.lv

About Study Course

Objective

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Preliminary Knowledge

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Learning Outcomes

Knowledge

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Skills

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Competences

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Assessment

Individual work

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Examination

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Examination

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Study Course Theme Plan

FULL-TIME
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Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
4.50
Contact hours:
24 Academic Hours
Final Examination:
Exam (Written)

Bibliography

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's_Eastern_Promise_Asmus.pdf

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-european-neighbourhood-policy/

5.

Eastern Partnership after Vilnius: A Mission Accomplished, Mounting Tasks Ahead http://www.eesc.lt/uploads/news/id662/EaP%20after%20Vilnius_EESC.pdf

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

11.

The Afghanistan-Central Asia relationship: What role for the EU?

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

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_Working_paper_No_9_The_EU%E2%80%99s_Interests_in_Central_Asia_v2.pdf

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-belarus-vilnius-till-riga-summits-nervous-winner

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

22.

EU Relations with Moldova , http://eeas.europa.eu/moldova/

24.

The Vilius Summit and Ukraine’s Revolution as a Benchmark for EU Eastern Partnership

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

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/

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/public/Research/Russia%20and%20Eurasia/0812bp_dragnevawolczuk.pdf

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-union-have-future