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Master program in American Studies: Politics, Strategy and Economics

Transatlantic Relations Syllabus

Spring Semester 2024

Academic year: 2023-2024 Language of instruction: English Credits (ECTS): 8 e-class: https://eclass.unipi.gr/courses/DES359/   Aim: The Transatlantic Relations course explores the past present and future of the EU-US partnership in a changing world.   Lecturers: Constantinos Arvanitopoulos, Professor, Panteion University (coordinator) E-mail: c.arvanitopoulos@panteion.gr https://deps.panteion.gr/?portfolio=arvanitopoulos-constantine&lang=en Sylvia Maier, Academic Director and Clinical Professor in the Center for Global Affairs, New York University E-mail: sm173@nyu.edu https://www.sps.nyu.edu/homepage/academics/faculty-directory/12308-sylvia-g-maier.html Foteini Asderaki, Professor, University of Piraeus E-mail: asderaki@unipi.gr https://www.des.unipi.gr/en/faculty/asderaki Guest Lecturer 2024: Michael Oppenheimer, Center for Global affairs, NYU

 

Timeline

Lecture 1: Foteini Asderaki, Professor, University of Piraeus

 Introduction: The importance of the transatlantic relationship

Readings:

O’Sullivan, D. (2019) Transatlantic Relations: Past, Present, and Future, College of Europe Policy Brief no 7, November 2019 available at https://aei.pitt.edu/102480/1/osullivan_cepob_7%2D19.pdf

Marianne Riddervold & Akasemi Newsome (2018) Transatlantic relations in times of uncertainty: crises and EU-US relations, Journal of European Integration, 40:5, 505-521,  https://doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2018.1488839  

Dimitrova (2022) Transatlantic Relations from Trump to Biden: Between Continuity and Change, Dans L'Europe en Formation 2022/1 (n° 394) https://doi.org/10.3917/eufor.394.0002

 

Lectures 2-6: Constantinos Arvanitopoulos, Professor, Panteion University

The Formative Period.

1. Common values, common interests, common threats.
2. The Atlantic Charter
3. Major War and Postwar Conferences and Treaties.

The Cold War Period.

1. The dualism in American Policy: European Economic Institutions, Atlantic Security Institutions.
2. Sources of Misperceptions.
3. American vs. European Exceptionalism.

Major Cold War Issues.

1. The German Problem.
2. The Gaullist Heresy.
3. NATO issues: Doctrine and Burden Sharing.
4. Diverging regional interests.

The End of the Cold War and the Post Cold War Settlement. The Policy of Dual Enlargement.

Readings:

Αρβανιτόπουλος Κ. και Ήφαιστος Π., (2009) Ευρωατλαντικές Σχέσεις, Αθήνα: Εκδόσεις Ποιότητα.

Arvanitopoulos C. (2019) The Transatlantic Partnership at Crossroads: Renewal or Decoupling, Eurasia Publications.

Arvanitopoulos C. (2019) The Renewal of Vows: A New Transatlantic Chapter for Europe and America, Brussels: The Martens Centre for European Studies.

Arvanitopoulos C.  (2020) “Transatlantic Relations After the COVID-19 Pandemic” European View (Fall 2020).

Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School. Stronger Together: A Strategy to Revitalize Transatlantic Power (Boston: 2021).

 

Lecture 7: Sylvia Maier: Support for International Human Rights and International Criminal Law in the US and the EU - A Comparative Perspective. Case studies: Ukraine/ICC; Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion, Gender Equality

Reading: Basak Cali. 2015. "Comparing the support of the EU and US for international human rights law qua international human rights law: Worlds too far apart?" International Journal of Constitutional Law 13(4):901-922. (Attached)

 

Oona Hathaway. 2022. “The Case for Creating an International Tribunal to Prosecute the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine.” Just Security. 20 September. https://www.justsecurity.org/83117/the-case-for-creating-an-international-tribunal-to-prosecute-the-crime-of-aggression-against-ukraine/ (Parts I, II, III, IV).

 

Jennifer Trahan. 2023. “Why a ‘Hybrid’ Ukrainian Tribunal on the Crime of Aggression Is Not the Answer.” Just Security. 6 February. https://www.justsecurity.org/85019/why-hybrid-ukrainian-tribunal-on-crime-of-aggression-is-not-the-answer/  

 

Ambassador van Schaack's remarks on the US Proposal to Prosecute Russia's Crime of Aggression

https://www.state.gov/ambassador-van-schaacks-remarks/

 

Rebecca Hamilton. An Assessment of the United States’ New Position on An Aggression Tribunal for Ukraine

https://www.justsecurity.org/85765/an-assessment-of-the-united-states-new-position-on-an-aggression-tribunal-for-ukraine/

 

Lecture 8: Sylvia Maier: Rethinking Approaches to Foreign Policy and International Affairs: Feminist Foreign Policies in Europe and the US. Case study: Afghanistan

 

Materials for class discussion: 

Please read the publications on feminist foreign policy in France, Germany, Mexico, US, Canada:

https://centreforfeministforeignpolicy.org/publications/

 

Saskia Brechenmacher. 2023. "Germany Has a New Feminist Foreign Policy."

https://carnegieendowment.org/2023/03/08/germany-has-new-feminist-foreign-policy.-what-does-it-mean-in-practice-pub-89224

 

Shirley Graham and Megan Corrado. 2021. "How to Advance a Feminist US Foreign Policy."

https://www.usip.org/publications/2021/03/how-advance-feminist-us-foreign-policy

 

Please watch: The Future of Foreign Policy is Feminist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBxxRutURRE

 

Kate Bateman. 2023. "A Shift Toward More Engagement with the Taliban?"

https://www.usip.org/publications/2023/10/shift-toward-more-engagement-taliban

 

European Parliament resolution of 14 March 2024 on the repressive environment in Afghanistan, including public executions and violence against women (2024/2617(RSP))

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-9-2024-0160_EN.html

 

Lecture 9 by Guest Lecturers: Michael Oppenheimer, Center for Global affairs, NYU and Hendrik W. Ohnesorge, Center for Global Studies, University of Bonn

Coordinating soft power diplomacy in the Transatlantic space, and consequences for Europe

 

Lecture 10: Foteini Asderaki, Professor, University of Piraeus, Greece

Transatlantic relations and the EU strategic autonomy

Readings:

Howorth, J. (2019). Strategic Autonomy: Why It’s Not About Europe Going it Alone. European View, 18(2), 254-254. https://doi.org/10.1177/1781685819883195

 

Howorth, J. (2021). Europe and Biden: Towards a New Transatlantic Pact? European View, 20(1), 108-109. https://doi.org/10.1177/17816858211010610

 

Bjerg Moller, S. & St. Rynning (2021) Revitalizing Transatlantic Relations: NATO 2030 and Beyond, The Washington Quarterly, 44:1, 177-197,

https://doi.org/10.1080/0163660X.2021.1896133

 

Angelet, B. (2022) The War Against Ukraine and European Defence: When Will

We Square the Circle?, Brussels: Egmont Policy Brief 292, Egmont – Royal

Institute for International Relations.

 

Asderaki, F. and M. Stravopodis, The Multilateralism Crisis Paradox and its Effect on the CSDP. In Asderaki, F., Panfil, G., Molnár, A., and Paile-Calvo, S. (eds) The Common Security and Defence Policy. New developments and challenges (EU Publication Office forthcoming).

EU documents

European External Action Service (2016), "Global Strategy for the European Union's Foreign and Security Policy”

European External Action Service (2022) A Strategic Compass for Security and Defence: For a European Union that protects its citizens, values and interests and contributes to international peace and security.

 

VIDEOS

EUI, Transatlantic Relations: Past, Present, and Future

https://globalgovernanceprogramme.eui.eu/transatlantic-relations/

 

PODCAST: “The Future of NATO, with Ivo H. Daalder” The President’s Inbox, Council on Foreign Relations, April 2022.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/35piqTuHoE5XJXB3Sp1lwW?si=11db8d6bafd44d50

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