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

• HELLY D. - Sociétés, cultures et états : l’impact des composantes nationales sur l’action extérieure de l'Union européenne (25h)

• MORENO-LAX V. - The EU’s Area of Freedom, Security and Justice : Internal and External Dimensions (25h)

• SMITH H. - Invisible Security Challenges : Hybrid Threats and the EU (25h)

• SMITH S.J. - Drivers of European Defence Cooperation and the Transatlantic Alliance (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

• GOLDTHAU A. - EU External Energy Policy (25h)

• MACKIE J. - The EU and International Development (25h)

• PERIDY N. - Négociations et politiques commerciales de l’Union européenne : outils et études de cas (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)

• MOGHERINI F. - EU Diplomacy and the New Geopolitics (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. - The EU and Peace Mediation (25h)

• PALACIOS J.-M. - European Intelligence Analysis in Practice (25h)

• WAGNER K. - Project Management in Development Cooperation (25h)