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. - Les opérations et missions de la Politique de sécurité et de défense commune de l’Union européenne (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)
• 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)
• MEN J. - EU-China Relations (25h)
• GEURTS C.-M. & VAN SCHAIK L. - The EU's External Representation (25h)
• PHINNEMORE D. - EU Enlargement … and UK Withdrawal (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)