Learning outcomes

To provide conceptual and theoretical tools that shed light on how the interaction of great and small powers has historically shaped the northern European region; to apply the conceptual and theoretical tools to the contemporary context where supranational integration and regionalization both at the interstate and sub-state level challenge traditional great and small power dynamics; to provide necessary pre-requisites for the students for assessing and examining international dynamics in Europe's north independently.

Contents

Northern Europe as a research focus, IR approaches to northern Europe, history of the region from the Pre-Cold War Era to Post-Cold War Era, EU as northern Europe's main geopolitical subject, case studies, future scenarios.

Teaching language

English

Evaluation

Numeric 1-5.

Study materials

A list of required additional reading will be distributed to the students in class.

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