Wegmarshaus, Gert-Rüdiger

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Wegmarshaus, Gert-Rüdiger

3/6/9 ECTS

Seminar: MA: Social Movements - Institutions - Cultural orientations / Social Sciences / / MASS: Central Module (Culture and Society), MES

Friday, 11:15 a.m. to 12:45 p.m., Room: Collegium Polonicum CP 154

The course analyses and discusses developments and problems in the EU-Russian relationship over the last years since the signing of the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) in 1997. The seminar is scrutinising the political and legal basis for EU-Russia cooperation, and it looks into particular fields of EU and EU-member-state’s cooperation with Russia. The discussion will focus on strengths and weaknesses, on challenges and opportunities in the EU-Russia relations. Due attention will be given to such contentious issues as negotiating a new PCA, security and energy supply, assessing the human rights situation in Russia. The seminar will highlight the role of the EU-enlargement process and the EU-neighbourhood policy for European cooperation with Russia.

Literature: Antonenko, Oksana / Pinnick, Kathryn (eds.): Russia and the European Union. Prospects for a New Relationship. London, New York 2005, Hubel, Helmut (ed.): EU Enlargement and Beyond: The Baltic Sates and Russia. Berlin 2002, Giessmann, Hans J. / Kuźniar, Roman / Lachowski, Zdzislaw (eds.): International Security in a Time of Change: Threats – Concepts – Institutions. Festschrift for Adam Daniel Rotfeld. Baden-Baden 2004, Gorodetzky, Gabriel (ed.): Russia between East and West. Russian Foreign Policy on the Threshold of the Twenty-First Century. London, Portland, 2003, Grönick, Ritva / Kulmala, Meri / Päivö. Laura (eds.): Kaliningrad. Isolation or Co-operation? Helsinki 2001.

Prerequisites: Advanced English language skills, knowledge of Russian, Polish, Ukrainian and other East-European languages a plus

Credits: 3 ECTS - in-class oral presentation; 6 Course - in-class oral presentation and two papers though; 9 ECTS - in-class oral presentation and a Reseach paper (“Semesterarbeit”)

Language: English

Wegmarshaus, Gert-Rüdiger

Wednesday, 18:15 to 19:45, Room: GD 04