Throughout both semesters, students will benefit from an offer with area-studies focus in addition to the thematic focus chosen within majors or within the ESSST. The European Regional Studies programme will enable them to develop an interdisciplinary understanding of the political, economic, social, cultural, and historical dynamics within selected regions, concretely the Central and Eastern Europe.

Specialist Courses

Central Europe: 

• DĘBSKI, S.– Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Central European Strategic Thought And Practice (20h, 4 ECTS)
• PIĄTKOWSKI, M. – The Golden Age of Central Europe: The Path from Poverty to Prosperity and the Way Forward (20h, 4 ECTS)

Eastern Europe & Russia:

• GILES, K., – Contemporary Russian Foreign and Security Policy (20h, 4 ECTS)
• ONUCH, O. – Revolutions and Mass Mobilization in Eastern Europe (20h, 4 ECTS)
• LANOSZKA, A. – War and Conflict in the Post-Soviet Space (20h, 4 ECTS)
• NOWAK, A. – Russian Ideologies: The Last Two Centuries (from Pushkin and Karamzin to Dugin and Putin) (20h, 4 ECTS)
• WOLCZUK, K. – State-building, Democratisation and Economic Transformations in Eastern Europe (20h, 4 ECTS)
• WILSON, A. – The Making of Modern Ukraine: History, Independence and War (20h, 4 ECTS)

Mediterranean:

• AYDIN, M. – Turkey Between Europe and Eurasia: Historical and Contemporary Evaluation (20h, 4 ECTS)
• BOURIS, D. – EU-Middle East Relations: Conflict, Peace and Security (20h, 4 ECTS)
• DEMMELHUBER, T. – Autocratization in the Middle East and North Africa: Transregional and Global Perspective (20h, 4 ECTS)

Balkans:

• LEWIS, M. A. – Politics and Diplomacy in the Balkans from the Nineteenth Century to the Present (20h, 4 ECTS)
• TEOKAREVIC, J. – Western Balkans: EU Enlargement, External Influences, Post-Conflict Transition (20h, 4 ECTS)

Nordics & Baltics:

• BERGMANE, U.– The Baltic Region from the Fall of the Soviet Union to the Enlargement of the EU and NATO (20h, 4 ECTS)
• HILSON, M. – Nordic Politics, Society, and History (20h, 4 ECTS)

Compact Seminars

Central Europe: 

• PUDŁOCKI, T. – The Cultural History of Central Europe from Fin-de-Siècle to Totalitarianism (10h, 0 ECTS)

Eastern Europe & Russia:

• ISAACS, R. – Central Asia as the EU's Wider Neighbourhood: Power, Politics, and Foreign Policy (10h, 0 ECTS)

Mediterranean:

• SABADUS, A. – Opportunity in Adversity: Moldova’s way to energy resilience (8h, 0 ECTS)

Balkans:

• SHEIKH, N. – Religion and the State in the EU’s Southern Neighbourhood: Politics, Authority, and Religious Movements in the Middle East and North Africa (10h, 0 ECTS)

Nordics & Baltics:

• ALIYEV, N. – Geopolitics and Geoeconomics of the Arctic (8h, 0 ECTS)