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EU Security Resilience and sustainability

(DES335) -  ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΑ ΝΙΚΟΠΟΥΛΟΥ - ΦΩΤΕΙΝΗ ΑΣΔΕΡΑΚΗ

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Το μάθημα δημιουργήθηκε στο πλαίσιο του προγράμματος Erasmus+ KA2 https://www.eusecure.org/

 

Γλώσσα διδασκαλίας: Ελληνικά και Αγγλικά

In recent years, the world has been experiencing significant changes, novel threats, and unforeseen challenges, from the transformation of the world order into a multi-polar system to the rise of new and re-emerging actors. As a global power, the EU can and should play a pivotal role in this increasingly securitized environment, and EU citizens must become acquainted with this new reality. Across Europe, decision-makers are confronted with an expanding set of challenges in the areas of security, resilience, and sustainability. These stem from both long-standing issues such as climate change and global warming, and emerging risks including cyber threats and attacks, alongside increasing public expectations for greater transparency and access to reliable information. The aim of the course is to train students to be able to respond to the complex challenges of rapidly developing societies in a learner centered environment. Critical thinking as well as the understanding of European values will be an important pedagogical objective of the project through participatory structures and transformative education. This course examines newly emerged and re-emerging security challenges and trends, the role and responses the EU should adopt as a global actor, and the ways in which we can build more sustainable and resilient societies.

The course consists of interconnected weekly topics: 3 core ones such as EU as a global power (power - strategic autonomy) in a multipolar world, Megatrends and International governance: multilateral institutions, norms, regimes); seven additional ones, respectively on International migration; Cyber security and the risks of AI; Social media issues and fake news; Water security and water geopolitics; Sustainability, resilience and development; International development cooperation; Energy Security; as well as classes on Climate security and Maritime security and the EU.

Competences to be achieved:

Knowledge:

  • Identify the characteristics of EU power and the concept of resilience and strategic autonomy;
  • Distinguish between the main institutions regarding the EU CFSP and those that are key to the EU Security;
  • Summarize the underlying and long-term developments - megatrends - (societal, economic, geopolitical, technological) that are key to the thorough understanding of the world we live in;
  • Explain the key elements of global governance and world security; international governmental organizations and ‘regimes’; and the European Union as a regional governance structure;
  • Explain the policy choices made by the EU institutions for the control of migration flows;
  • Summarize the ethical, legal, technological and decision-making aspects of cybersecurity and the risks of AI;
  • Identify threats linked to EU water security (floods, droughts and water scarcity) and maritime security;
  • Offer an overview of the factors (technological advancements, the transformation of news production, individuals’ need for structuring society and exchanging and organising information, slow legislation) which may prompt the spread of fake news;
  • Summarize the main principles of sustainability and development, environmental protection and climate change in the EU;
  • Identify the role of the EU in international development cooperation;
  • Outline the conceptual framework of humanitarian aid and security developed by the EU.

Capabilities:

  • Be able to explain the functioning of the EU in general and its institutional structure and decision making in particular, related to security issues;
  • Analyse and formulate arguments with respect to the processes of European security;
  • Develop a critical approach to EU external security challenges and the way of tackling them;
  • Be able to form coherent and realistic proposals for the future of CFSP/CSDP;
  • Map the areas of future challenges to EU security;
  • Use knowledge in relation to the future international role of the EU;
  • Be able to make responsible choices during simulation exercises

Evaluation

Evaluation will be based on a written essay up to 2000-2500 words (70%) and a take home exam (30%).

Course content / Teaching Modules

The teaching modules are described in detail below.

 

EU as a global power: The role of the Union in global and regional conflicts. EEAS, EU Global Strategy and Strategic Compass in a changing world 

Indicative Bibliography

  • Molnár, A., Jakusné Harnos, E., Szente-Varga M. eds. (2023). Security, Resilience and Sustainability of the European Union. Published by the University of Public Service Ludovika University Press.
  • Helwig, N. (2020). EU Strategic Autonomy. A Reality Check for Europe’s Global Agenda. FIIA Working Paper, 119/2020. Available from: https://www.fiia.fi/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/wp119_strategic_autonomy-2.pdf
  • EC (2022). European Council: A Strategic Compass for Security and Defence. https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-7371-2022-INIT/en/pdf
  • Lippert, B., von Ondarza, N. and Perthes, V. (2019). European Strategic Autonomy: Actors, Issues, Conflicts of Interests. Research Paper 4/2019. Berlin: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik.
  • Biscop, S. (2020), Strategic Choices for the 2020s. Egmont Institute, Security Policy Brief No 122 https://www.egmontinstitute.be/content/uploads/2020/02/SPB122.pdf?type=pdf
  • Fiott D. (2018). “Strategic autonomy: towards ‘European Sovereignty in defence?”, Brief Issue, European Union Institute for Security Studies, 12, November.
  • Rehrl, J. (ed.) (2021), Handbook on CSDP. The Common Security and Defence Policy of the European Union. Vienna: Federal Ministry of Defence and Sports of the Republic of Austria. (online).

Megatrends: The EU Response on global developments shaping the future of humanity

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International governance: multilateral institutions, norms, regimes     

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International Migration: Past, present and future. The securitization of migration and the EU approach. Migration as a threat and an opportunity.    

Indicative Bibliography

  • europa.eu. (n.d.).Migration flows: Eastern, Central and Western routes, Migration flows: Eastern, Central and Western Mediterranean routes - Consilium (europa.eu) 
  • Ceccorulli, Michela (2019). Back to Schengen: the collective securitisation of the EU free-border area. West European Politics 42(2), 302-322.
  • Molnár, A. and Szente-Varga, M. (2020). Europeanised or Sovereigntist Approach to Tackle Irregular Immigration in Southern Europe. International Journal of Euro-Mediterranean Studies 13(1), 77-107.

Cyber security and the risks of AI

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Social Media Issues and Fake News

Indicative Bibliography

  • Geiß, S., Magin, M., Jürgens, P. and Stark, B. (2021). Loopholes in the Echo Chambers: How the Echo Chamber Metaphor Oversimplifies the Effects of Information Gateways on Opinion Expression. Digital Journalism.
  • Goyanes, M. and Demeter, M. (2020). Beyond positive or negative: Understanding the phenomenology, typologies and impact of incidental news exposure on citizens’ daily lives. New Media and Society, advance online publication,
  • Prier, J. (2017). Commanding the Trend: Social Media as Information Warfare. Strategic Studies Quarterly, 11(4) pp. 50–85, https//www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/26271634
  • Berkeley Library, University of California (n.d.). Website on Fake news, https://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/fake-news
  • European Commission (n.d.), Tackling online disinformation, https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/online-disinformation

Water Security and Water Geopolitics

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International Development Cooperation

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The role of the EU as a champion of Sustainability, Resilience and Development. The 2030 Agenda. Why they still matter in a polarized world.  

Indicative Bibliography

  • Biggs, R., Schlüter, M., and Schoon, M., Eds. (2015). Principles for Building Resilience: Sustaining Ecosystem Services in Social-Ecological Systems. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Carroll, A.B. (2021). Corporate Social Responsibility: Perspectives on the CSR Construct’s Development and Future. Business and Society, 60(6) pp. 1258–1278.
  • European Commission (2020). Strategic Foresight Report - Charting the course towards a more resilient Europe, https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/default/files/strategic_foresight_report_2020_1.pdf

The EU and the Geopolitics of Energy: Risks, Resilience, and Strategic Responses         

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Climate Security

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Maritime Security: Contemporary Challenges and EU Responses.

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Κυριακή 25 Σεπτεμβρίου 2022

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