Admission requirements
Admission to the Master International Relations, track European Union Studies. The course is designed for all EUS-students, regardless of background, though a basic knowledge of macroeconomics and the institutional set-up of the European Union is advised in order to complete the course within the timeframe allocated.
Description
The banking crisis of 2008 and its consequences has exposed some important design flaws in the setup of EMU:
Its intergovernmental governance structure which resulted in insufficient compliance with rules and common objectives.
Its too narrow focus on budgetary surveillance which resulted in insufficient attention to macro-economic imbalances.
Its lack of centralised banking supervision which resulted in vulnerable banking system and national reflexes as the banking crisis unfolded leading to a fragmentation of the financial system.
Its lack of a crisis management system: there were no firewalls and no fire brigade once the banking crisis unfolded in a full blown eurocrisis.
This had led to an important redesign of the rules, institutions and governance of EMU. This course deals with the origins, the consequences and the repair of these design flaws. Attention is given to historical, legal and economic aspects. Below you will find more details.
Course objectives
Students will gain an understanding of the redesign of EMU, which is an unprecedented acceleration in European integration. Students will learn how to interpret the numerous policies measures and proposals and the debates surrounding them and develop their skills in analyzing both primary and secondary material.
Timetable
The timetables are available through My Timetable.
Mode of instruction
Seminar.
Assessment method
Paper 100%
(Class participation) The final paper will only be marked if the student has attended the seminars.
Weighing
The final mark for the course is established by determining the weighted average.
Resit
Retake paper: resubmit three weeks after the grade has been made known. In order to be eligible for the retake paper, students have to have failed the course.
Inspection and feedback
How and when an exam review will take place will be disclosed together with the publication of the exam results at the latest. If a student requests a review within 30 days after publication of the exam results, an exam review will have to be organized.
Reading list
A reading list will be distributed before the start of the course.
Registration
Enrolment through MyStudyMap is mandatory.
General information about course and exam enrolment is available on the website
Admission requirements
Admission to the MA International Relations, track Global Conflict in the Modern Era, or track International Studies
Description
What are the patterns of war and peace in the modern world? Who uses violence, why and how? This core course aims to look at these issues from a multidisciplinary angle, incorporating history, political and social science and area expertise. It dissects these problems based on a thematic structure. First the course will introduce students to the core concepts and dominant approaches to the study of war, to subsequently move onto more recent and critical takes on these phenomena. We will discuss among others war, terrorism, insurgency and genocide as prevalent modes of violent expression. Are these phenomena driven by political considerations, as the father of the scientific study of war Carl von Clausewitz argued two hundred years ago; war as the continuation of politics by other means? Or are there other explanations for the use of violence, for example as a quest for ethnic dominance, control over resources or personal validation? The course will look at the theoretical and empirical explanations that have been offered by the academic scholarship, which will help us understand these patterns of war and peace.
Course objectives
The course aims to engage students with the scholarly debates about and the practical consequences of global conflict today and in the recent past and the security measures that have been instituted locally, regionally and globally. The course consists of seminars where the instructors will introduce a theme and where there is subsequently ample room for exchange, debate and presentations from the students based on the required readings. Students will be asked to study both academic texts and other relevant primary and secondary sources. Firstly, students will expand their knowledge of the major theoretical approaches to the study of war and peace, with as a starting point a humanities centered angle. Secondly, students will debate and investigate key issues in global conflict and security, such as non-state actor violence in the shape of terrorism, insurgency, piracy, state-based violence in conventional war, deterrence and genocide. Thirdly, the solutions and termination of violence will receive attention by focusing on debates about humanitarian intervention, international law and the pacifying effect of institutions and cooperation.
Timetable
The timetables are available through My Timetable.
Mode of instruction
Seminars
Assessment method
Presentation: 20%
Critical Review: 35%
Research Essay: 45% The final essay will only be graded if the student has attended the seminars.
Weighing
The final mark for the course is established by determining the weighted average.
Resit
The resit is only available to students whose mark of the final examined element, the research essay is insufficient.
Exam Review
How and when an exam review will take place will be disclosed together with the publication of the exam results at the latest. If a student requests a review within 30 days after publication of the exam results, an exam review will have to be organized.
Reading list
T.B.A.
Registration
Enrolment through MyStudyMap is mandatory.
General information about course and exam enrolment is available on the website.
Contact
For substantive questions, contact the lecturer listed in the right information bar.
For questions about enrolment, admission, etc, contact the Education Administration Office: Huizinga
Remarks
Not applicable.
Contact
For substantive questions, contact the lecturer listed in the right information bar.
For questions about enrolment, admission, etc, contact the Education Administration Office: Huizinga
Remarks
All other information.