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, Justice and Values

• EKENGREN M. - The EU and Emerging Security Challenges (25h)
• HELLY D. - Sociétés, cultures et états : l’impact des composantes nationales sur l’action extérieure de l'Union européenne (25h)
• MATTELAER A. - European Defence Cooperation and NATO (25h)
• MORENO-LAX V. - The EU’s Area of Freedom, Security and Justice : Internal and External Dimensions (25h)
• TARDY T. - La PSDC de l'Union européenne : opérations, partenariats (OTAN, ONU, Union africaine), défis (25h)
• YOUNGS R. - EU Democracy Promotion and Human Rights Policy (25h)

Cluster 2: Foreign Economic Relations and Sustainable Development

• 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)
• SCHELHASE M. - Analysis and Management of Political Risk for EU Policies and Business (25h)
• SCHUNZ S. - The EU and the Global Politics of Climate Change and the Environment (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. & GSTÖHL S. - Speaking with one Voice ? The EU's External Representation (25h)
• MEN J. - EU-China Relations (25h)
• PHINNEMORE D. - EU Enlargement … and UK Withdrawal (25h)

Cluster 4: Specific Professional Skills

• COLOMINA SALO C. - Public Relations and Communications Management (25h)
• DELPHIN H. - Le rôle de l’aide humanitaire dans l’action extérieure globale de l’Union européenne : cadre et pratique (25h)
• HERRBERG A. - EU Peace Mediation in International Conflict Resolution (25h)
• PALACIOS J.-M. - European Intelligence Analysis in Practice (25h)
• WAGNER K. - Project Management in Development Cooperation (25h)