Optional Courses

For the second semester, students choose four out of the optional courses below taught on the Bruges campus. These explore selected topics from the areas of security and justice, foreign economic relations, bi- and multilateral diplomacy, or professional skills in more detail and emphasise active student participation. In order to cover a broad range of issues within the EU’s external relations, while allowing for some specialisation, participants choose the four courses from at least three different thematic clusters.

Cluster 1: Security and Justice

• BIGO D. & GUILD E. - The EU’s Area of Freedom, Security and Justice : Internal and External Dimensions (25h)
• EKENGREN M. - The EU and Emerging Security Challenges (25h)
• HELLY D. - Diplomatie, sécurité, défense : instruments et politiques communes (25h)
• MATTELAER A. - European Defence Cooperation and NATO (25h)
• YOUNGS R. - EU Democracy Promotion and Human Rights Policy (25h)

Cluster 2: Foreign Economic Relations

• EGENHOFER C. - EU Energy Policy (25h)
• MACKIE J. - The EU and International Development (25h)
• PERIDY N. - Enjeux, opportunités et défis de la politique commerciale européenne (25h)
• SCHUNZ S. - The EU and Global Environmental Politics (25h)
• VAN DEN NOORD P. - The EU in the International Financial Architecture (25h)

Cluster 3: Bi- and Multilateral Diplomacy

• de WILDE d’ESTMAEL T. - Les relations de l'Union européenne avec les grandes puissances (25h)
• FRÖHLICH S. - Transatlantic Relations (25h)
• GEURTS C.-M. & VAN SCHAIK L. - The EU's External Representation (25h)
• MEN J. - EU-China Relations (25h)
• PHINNEMORE D. - EU Enlargement (25h)

Cluster 4: Professional Skills

• COLOMINA SALO C. - Public Relations and Communications Management (25h)
• DELPHIN H. - L’action humanitaire de l’Union européenne (25h)
• HERRBERG A. - EU Peace Mediation in International Conflict Resolution (25h)
• SCHELHASE M. - Analysis and Management of Political Risk (25h)
• WAGNER K. - Project Management in Development Cooperation (25h)