European Borders and Cross-Border Cooperation in Comparative Perspective

3/6/9 ECTS
Seminar (Präsenzveranstaltung): MES: WPM 1: Regieren in Europa // MES: WPM 4: Stadt, Region und Grenze in Europa
Veranstaltungsbeginn: 24.10.2023 Di, 9:15 - 10:45 Uhr Ort: CP 18

 The process of European integration have been very visible at EU member states’ boundaries. Political stabilization reduced
their separating role by undermining the traditionally understood territoriality and protective role of outlying regions, both
rooted in the Westphalian understanding of statehood and sovereignty. De-bordering created a window of opportunity for the
economic development of traditionally peripheral (and consequently economically handicapped) provinces. Border transformation – embodied by the Schengen zone – became a symbol of new order in the Continent. The aim of this seminar is to investigate the dynamics of border changes in Europe after the collapse of communism. It will be achieved by applying both the micro-perspective (analyzing the cross-border interactions of local and regional territorial units) as well as a macro-approach (concentrating on the EU’s external boundaries and forms of spatial relations with the surrounding environment). The proposed analytical perspective will be the (de/re)-boundarization and (re/de)-frontierization processes, fueled by both top-down and bottom-up mechanisms. Special attention will be paid to European border twin towns – considered to be the laboratories of European integration and Euroregions on the one side, and external Schengen borders on the other, as well as the problem of how the idea of European integration and cross-border integration is symbolically manifested in border relations.

Literatur: Pertti Joenniemi & Alexander Sergunin (2017) City-Twinning in IR Theory: Escaping the Confines of the Ordinary, Journal of Borderlands Studies, 32:4, 443-458, DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1257361. Jarosław Jańczak, 2017, Cross-Border urbanism on the German-Polish border – Between spatial de-Boundarization and social (re-)frontierization, [in:] European Borderlands. Living with Barriers and Bridges, Elisabeth Boesen, Gregor Schnuer (eds.), London and New York: Routledge, pp. 47-63. ISBN 978-1-4724-7721-1. Victor Konrad (2015) Toward a Theory of Borders in Motion, Journal of Borderlands Studies, 30:1, 1-17, DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1008387. Jouni Häkli, Re-Demarcating Transnational Space: The Case of Haparanda-Tornio, [in:], De- bordering, Re-bordering and Symbols on the European Boundaries, Jarosław Jańczak (ed.), Berlin: Logos Verlag, 2011. Helga Schulz, Katarzyna Stokłosa, Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast, Twin Towns on the Border as Laboratories of European Integration, FIT Discussion Paper, No. 4/2002. Christopher S. Browning, Pertti Joenniemi, Geostrategies of the European Neighbourhood Policy, “European Journal of International Relations”, vol. 14, nr 3, 2008.
Teilnahmevoraussetzungen: Fluent English
Hinweise zur Veranstaltung: The seminar will be held in the Collegium Polonicum room 18. More information about the seminar in Moodle. Weitere Informationen zur Veranstaltung sind bei Moodle zu finden.
Leistungsnachweise: Attendance, presentation and seminar paper
Sprache: Englisch

Border, Migration and Diaspora in East-Central Europe

3/6/9 ECTS

Seminar (Blended Learning): MES: WPM 1: Regieren in Europa // MES: WPM 3: Migration, Ethnizität, Ethnozentrismus // MES: WPM 4: Stadt, Region und Grenze in Europa

Veranstaltungsbeginn: 18.04.2023 Di, 11:15 - 12:45 Uhr Ort: AM 205

The seminar is designed to address the contemporary challenges in East-Central Europe by exploring migration and diaspora issues, following both transnational and trans-sectoral perspectives. Border and European studies will frame the analysis, moving from a national to a transnational level and from national centers to states edges. Four elements are planned to interact with each other: (1)ethnicity and identity policy in Central and Eastern Europe; (2) moving borders in the region; (3) global migration, diasporas and integration of migrants there; and (4) conflict and security in this part of Europe.

Literatur: Walters, W. (2004) The Frontiers of the European Union: A Geostrategic Perspective, Geopolitics, 9:3, 674-698,
Geddes, A. (2020), ‘Tampere and the Politics of Migration and Asylum in the EU: Looking Back to Look forwards’, in Carrera, S.,
Curtin, D. and Geddes, A. (eds), 20 Years Anniversary of the Tampere Programme, EUI.
Ceccorulli, M. (2019), ‘Back to Schengen: the Collective Securitization of the EU free-border area’, West European Politics, 42, 2, pp. 302-322.
Giorgio Grappi & Sonia Lucarelli (2021) Bordering power Europe? The mobility-bordering nexus in and by the European
Union, Journal of Contemporary European Studies
Carolin Leutloff-Grandits (2023) The Balkans as “Double Transit Space”: Boundary Demarcations and Boundary Transgressions
Between Local Inhabitants and “Transit Migrants” in the Shadow of the EU Border Regime, Journal of Borderlands
Studies, DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2164043
Marco Zoppi and Marco Puleri, 2021: “The Balkan Route (and its Afterlife): the New Normal in the European Politics of Migration”,
Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies.

Hinweise zur Veranstaltung: Weitere Informationen zur Veranstaltung sind bei Moodle zu finden.

Sprache: Englisch

Poland in the European Union
3/6/9 ECTS
Seminar (Präsenzveranstaltung): MES: Zentralbereich Kultur // MES: Zentralbereich Politik //
MES: WPM 1: Regieren in Europa // MES: WPM 5: Kultur, Geschichte & Gesellschaft in Europa
Veranstaltungsbeginn: 19.04.2022 Di, 9 - 11 Uhr Ort: GD 206

Together with the eastern enlargement of the European Union in 2004 it gained a set of new members in the East. Poland, being the biggest of them, aspired to play a role an active actor and co-creator of the integration processes. This seminar will test main dilemmas of the Polish European policy in the years 1989–2021, investigating idea- and interest-based approaches in determining of the main dimensions of its way to, as well as presence and activities within the EU.
The Polish European policy has significantly changed over time. With regard to domestic EU debate (visible in membership support level), internal EUropean issues (in various sectoral policies) as well as in external activities (as manifested by the Eastern Partnership initiative). How successful has Poland been in its relations with the EU? What are the manifestations of Poland and Poles’ Europeanization? Has Poland customized the Union with regard to structural funds or Eastern policies? We will try to answer these and other questions during the seminar.

Literatur: Adam Balcer, Piotr Buras, Grzegorz Gromadzki (2017), Polish views of the EU: the illusion of consensus, Stefan Batory
Foundation. Agnieszka Łada, Joshua Webb (2018), Together in Europe? Attitudes towards Polish-German relations in a European context. Results of the 2018 Polish-German Barometer Study, Institute of Public Affairs, Koerber Foundation, Warsaw, Hamburg. Daniel J. Lemmen (2017), Warsaw on the Way to Kerneuropa? Germany as Poland’s Bridge to the EU’s Center, „Rocznik Instytutu Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej” Volume15(2), 147-165. Magdalena Góra, Katarzyna Zielińska (2019), Competing Visions: Discursive Articulations of Polish and European Identity after the Eastern Enlargement of the EU, “East European Politics & Societies” Volume: 33 issue: 2, 331-356 Michał Wenzel and Marta Żerkowska-Balas (2019), Framing Effect of Media Portrayal of Migrants to the European Union: A Survey Experiment in Poland, “ East European Politics and Societies and Cultures” Volume 33 Number 1, 44 –65 Rafał Riedel (2017), The evolution of the Polish central bank’s views on Eurozone membership “Post-Communist Economies” Volume 29: 1, 106-116 Zbigniew Czachór, Adam Jaskulski, Jarosław Jańczak, Renata Mienkowska-Norkiene, Piotr Tosiek (2019), Polish European Policy 2004-2014. Ideas, Aims and Actors, Berlin: Logos Verlag.
Teilnahmevoraussetzungen: Fluent English
Hinweise zur Veranstaltung: Moodlekurs
Leistungsnachweise: active participation, presentation, seminar paper
Sprache: Englisch

Cross-Border Collaboration and Border Integration on EU Internal and External Boundaries
3/6/9 ECTS
Seminar (Präsenzveranstaltung): MES: Zentralbereich Kultur // MES: Zentralbereich Politik // MES: WPM 1: Regieren in Europa // MES: WPM 3: Migration, Ethnizität, Ethnozentrismus // MES: WPM 5: Kultur, Geschichte & Gesellschaft in Europa
Veranstaltungsbeginn: 19.10.2021 Di, 9:15 - 10:45 Uhr Ort: LH 101/102

The process of European integration have been very visible at EU member states’ boundaries. Political stabilization reduced their separating role by undermining the traditionally understood territoriality and protective role of outlying regions, both rooted in the Westphalian understanding of statehood and sovereignty. De-bordering created a window of opportunity for the economic development of traditionally peripheral (and consequently economically handicapped) provinces. Border transformation –embodied by the Schengen zone – became a symbol of new order in the Continent. The aim of this seminar is to investigate thedynamics of border changes in Europe after the collapse of communism. It will be achieved by applying both the micro-perspective(analyzing the cross-border interactions of local and regional territorial units) as well as a macro-approach (concentrating on theEU’s external boundaries and forms of spatial relations with the surrounding environment). The proposed analytical perspective willbe the (de/re)-boundarization and (re/de)-frontierization processes, fueled by both top-down and bottom-up mechanisms. Specialattention will be paid to European border twin towns – considered to be the laboratories of European integration and Euroregionson the one side, and external Schengen borders on the other, as well as the problem of how the idea of European integration andcross-border integration is symbolically manifested in border relations.

Literatur: Pertti Joenniemi & Alexander Sergunin (2017) City-Twinning in IR Theory: Escaping the Confines of the Ordinary, Journalof Borderlands Studies, 32:4, 443-458, DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1257361. Jarosław Jańczak, 2017, Cross-Border urbanismon the German-Polish border – Between spatial de-Boundarization and social (re-)frontierization, [in:] European Borderlands.Living with Barriers and Bridges, Elisabeth Boesen, Gregor Schnuer (eds.), London and New York: Routledge, pp. 47-63. ISBN978-1-4724-7721-1. Victor Konrad (2015) Toward a Theory of Borders in Motion, Journal of Borderlands Studies, 30:1, 1-17, DOI:10.1080/08865655.2015.1008387. Jouni Häkli, Re-Demarcating Transnational Space: The Case of Haparanda-Tornio, [in:], De-bordering, Re-bordering and Symbols on the European Boundaries, Jarosław Jańczak (ed.), Berlin: Logos Verlag, 2011. Helga Schulz,Katarzyna Stokłosa, Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast, Twin Towns on the Border as Laboratories of European Integration, FIT DiscussionPaper, No. 4/2002. Christopher S. Browning, Pertti Joenniemi, Geostrategies of the European Neighbourhood Policy, “EuropeanJournal of International Relations”, vol. 14, nr 3, 2008.
Teilnahmevoraussetzungen: Fluent English
Hinweise zur Veranstaltung: Moodle
Leistungsnachweise: Attendance, presentation and seminar paper
Sprache: Englisch

Poland in the European Union

3/6/9 ECTS
Online-Veranstaltung: SOZ: Wahlmodul: Politik und Kultur // MES: Zentralbereich Kultur // MES: Zentralbereich Politik // MES: WPM 1: Regieren in Europa // MES: WPM 5: Kultur, Geschichte & Gesellschaft in Europa // KGMOE: Wahlmodul: Politische Ordnung - Wirtschaft - Gesellschaft 
Veranstaltungsbeginn: 03.11.2020 Di, 9:15 - 10:45 Uhr

Together with the eastern enlargement of the European Union in 2004 it gained a set of new members in the East. Poland, being the biggest of them, aspired to play a role an active actor and co-creator of the integration processes. This seminar will test main dilemmas of the Polish European policy in the years 1989–2021, investigating idea- and interest-based approaches in determining of the main dimensions of its way to, as well as presence and activities within the EU.
The Polish European policy has significantly changed over time. With regard to domestic EU debate (visible in membership support level), internal EUropean issues (in various sectoral policies) as well as in external activities (as manifested by the Eastern Partnership initiative). How successful has Poland been in its relations with the EU? What are the manifestations of Poland and Poles’ Europeanization? Has Poland customized the Union with regard to structural funds or Eastern policies? We will try to answer these and other questions during the seminar.

Literatur:
Adam Balcer, Piotr Buras, Grzegorz Gromadzki (2017), Polish views of the EU: the illusion of consensus, Stefan Batory Foundation.
Agnieszka Łada, Joshua Webb (2018), Together in Europe? Attitudes towards Polish-German relations in a European context. Results of the 2018 Polish-German Barometer Study, Institute of Public Affairs, Koerber Foundation, Warsaw, Hamburg.
Daniel J. Lemmen (2017), Warsaw on the Way to Kerneuropa? Germany as Poland’s Bridge to the EU’s Center, „Rocznik Instytutu Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej” Volume15(2), 147-165.
Magdalena Góra, Katarzyna Zielińska (2019), Competing Visions: Discursive Articulations of Polish and European Identity after the Eastern Enlargement of the EU, “East European Politics & Societies” Volume: 33 issue: 2, 331-356
Michał Wenzel and Marta Żerkowska-Balas (2019), Framing Effect of Media Portrayal of Migrants to the European Union: A Survey Experiment in Poland, “ East European Politics and Societies and Cultures” Volume 33 Number 1, 44 –65
Rafał Riedel (2017), The evolution of the Polish central bank’s views on Eurozone membership “Post-Communist Economies” Volume 29: 1, 106-116
Zbigniew Czachór, Adam Jaskulski, Jarosław Jańczak, Renata Mienkowska-Norkiene, Piotr Tosiek (2019), Polish European Policy 2004-2014. Ideas, Aims and Actors, Berlin: Logos Verlag.

Hinweise zur Veranstaltung / zum Blockseminar: Weitere Informationen zur Veranstaltung sind hier zu finden: https://moodle.europa-uni.de/course/view.php?id=9370

Leistungsnachweise: active participation, presentation, seminar paper

Sprache: Englisch

Cross-Border Collaboration and Border Integrationon EU Internal and External Boundaries

3/6/9 ECTS
Seminar (Online-Veranstaltung): KGMOE: Wahlmodul: Räume - Grenzen - Metropolen // MASS: Wahlmodul: Migration, Ethnizität, Ethnozentrismus
Veranstaltungsbeginn: 03.11.2020 Di, 9:15 - 10:45 Uhr

The process of European integration have been very visible at EU member states’ boundaries. Political stabilization reduced their separating role by undermining the traditionally understood territoriality and protective role of outlying regions, both rooted in the Westphalian understanding of statehood and sovereignty. De-bordering created a window of opportunity for the economic development of traditionally peripheral (and consequently economically handicapped) provinces. Border transformation –embodied by the Schengen zone – became a symbol of new order in the Continent. The aim of this seminar is to investigatethe dynamics of border changes and cross-border cooperation in Europe after the collapse of communism, and untill the postCovid-19 border closing. It will be achieved by applying both the micro-perspective (analyzing the cross-border interactions oflocal and regional territorial units) as well as a macro-approach (concentrating on the EU’s external boundaries and forms of spatial relations with the surrounding environment). The proposed analytical perspective will be the (de/re)-boundarization and (re/de)-frontierization processes, fueled by both top-down and bottom-up mechanisms. Special attention will be paid to European border twin towns – considered to be the laboratories of European integration and Euroregions on the one side, and external Schengen borders on the other, as well as the problem of how the idea of European integration and cross-border integration is symbolically manifested in border relations.

Literatur: Boehm, Hynek. “Researching cross-border cooperation under the shadow of COVID 19 pandemic: scientific report from e-conferences and blog-reflections produced between 14 March and 21 June 2020”. Pogranicze. Polish Borderlands Studies Vol. 8, Nr. 2. Year 2020. Konrad, Victor. “Toward a Theory of Borders in Motion”. Journal of Borderlands Studies, Vol. 30. Nr. 1.Year 2015. pages 1-17. DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1008387 Jouni Häkli, Re-Demarcating Transnational Space: The Case of Haparanda-Tornio, [in:], De-bordering, Re-bordering and Symbols on the European Boundaries, Jarosław Jańczak (ed.), Berlin: Logos Verlag, 2011. Helga Schulz, Katarzyna Stokłosa, Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast. "Twin Towns on the Border as Laboratoriesof European Integration", FIT Discussion Paper, No. 4/2002. Christopher S. Browning, Pertti Joenniemi. "Geostrategies of the European Neighbourhood Policy", European Journal of International Relations” Vol. 14, Nr. 3, 2008.

Hinweise zur Veranstaltung / zum Blockseminar: Interested students shall register in the Moodle platform until the beginning of the seminar, no password is required. More Information: https://moodle.europa-uni.de/course/view.php?id=7964

Leistungsnachweise: Attendance, presentation and seminar paper

Sprache: Englisch

Polish EU policy - Polska polityka w UE

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3/6/9 ECT

SSeminar: Zentralbereich Kultur / Zentralbereich Politik / WPM 1: Regieren in Europa / WPM 5: Kultur, Geschichte & Gesellschaft in Europa

Di, 9 - 11 Uhr Ort: GD 302, Veranstaltungsbeginn: 14.04.2020

The fifteenth anniversary of Poland's membership of the European Union, which was celebrated in 2019, showed not only the effects of the political and economic reforms, but also numerous problems and challenges for Polish European policy. Poland managed to overcome the legacy of its communist past and has become a resilient and credible partner in the EU. At the sametime, it has been able to effectively combine the defense of the national interest (visible primarily in the Structural Policy) with aconstructive role as a credible ally of large member states, especially Germany. However, the elections of 2015 and the change in the Polish political scene has undermined the existing foundations of Polish European policy, making it less predictable and less pro-integration. This seminar aims to review the key elements of Polish European integration policy. Being offered in two languages, it simultaneously provides an opportunity to learn and improve your vocabulary in Polish and English in the field of European integration. Participants should therefore know Polish at a level enabling them to understand written texts and oral presentations. It will be, however, possible to communicate in English during classes (presentations, discussions). The seminar will consist of twelve weekly meetings and one six-hours block.

Literatur: • Adam Balcer, Piotr Buras, Grzegorz Gromadzki: Polish views of the EU: the illusion of consensus — Stefan BatoryFoundation 2017; • Zbigniew Czachór, Adam Jaskulski, Jarosław Jańczak, Renata Mienkowska-Norkiene, Piotr Tosiek: Polish European Policy 2004-2014. Ideas, Aims and Actors, Berlin: Logos, 2019; • Ryszard Zięba: Główne kierunki polityki zagranicznejPolski po zimnej wojnie, Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Akademickie i Profesjonalne, 2010; • Polska polityka europejska. Cele imożliwości, Warszawa: Instytut Spraw Publicznych, 2004; • Priorytety polskiej polityki zagranicznej, 2012-2016, Warszawa, marzec2012 r; • Patrycja Sasnal: Niekontrolowane migracje do Unii Europejskiej – implikacje dla Polski, Raport PISM, Warszawa 2015;• Łukasz Kulesa: Is a New Cold War Inevitable? Central European Views on Rebuilding Trust in the Euro-Atlantic Region, RaportPISM, Warsaw 2014.

Teilnahmevoraussetzungen: English language at the active accademic level, knowledge of the Polish language at the passiv level

Leistungsnachweise: Presence, presentation, seminar paper

Sprache: Englisch

Cross-Border Collaboration and Border Integration on EU Internal and External Boundaries

3/6/9 ECTS
Vorlesung/Übung: Zentralbereich Kultur / Zentralbereich Politik / WPM 1: Regieren in Europa / WPM 3: Migration, Ethnizität, Ethnozentrismus / WPM 5: Kultur, Geschichte & Gesellschaft in Europa
Di, 9 - 11 Uhr Ort: CP 20, Veranstaltungsbeginn: 15.10.2019

The process of European integration have been very visible at EU member states’ boundaries. Political stabilization reduced their separatingrole by undermining the traditionally understood territoriality and protective role of outlying regions, both rooted in the Westphalian understanding of statehood and sovereignty. De-bordering created a window of opportunity for the economic development of traditionally peripheral (and consequently economically handicapped) provinces. Border transformation – embodied by the Schengen zone – became a symbol of new order in the Continent. The aim of this seminar is to investigate the dynamics of border changes in Europe after the collapse of communism. It will be achieved by applying both the micro-perspective (analyzing the cross-border interactions of local and regional territorial units) as well as a macro-approach (concentrating on the EU’s external boundaries and forms of spatial relations with the surrounding environment). The proposed analytical perspective will be the (de/re)-boundarization and (re/de)-frontierization processes, fueled by both top-down and bottom-up mechanisms. Special attention will be paid to European border twin towns – considered to be the laboratories of European integration and Euroregions on the one side, and external Schengen borders on the other, as well as the problem of how the idea of European integration and cross-border integration is symbolically manifested in border relations.

Literatur: Victor Konrad (2015) Toward a Theory of Borders in Motion, Journal of Borderlands Studies, 30:1, 1-17; Jouni Häkli (2011), Re-Demarcating Transnational Space: The Case of Haparanda-Tornio, [in:], De-bordering, Re-bordering and Symbols on the European Boundaries, Jarosław Jańczak (ed.), Berlin: Logos Verlag; Helga Schulz, Katarzyna Stokłosa, Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast(2002), Twin Towns on the Border as Laboratories of European Integration, FIT Discussion Paper, No. 4; Christopher S. Browning, Pertti Joenniemi (2008), Geostrategies of the European Neighbourhood Policy, “European Journal of International Relations”, Vol. 14, No. 3.

Teilnahmevoraussetzungen: Fluent English

Leistungsnachweise: Attendance, presentation and seminar paper

Sprache: Englisch

Polish EU policy - Polska polityka w UE

3/6/9 ECTS

Vorlesung/Übung: Zentralbereich Kultur / Zentralbereich Politik / WPM 1: Regieren in Europa / WPM 5: Kultur, Geschichte & Gesellschaft in Europa Di, 9:15 - 10:45 Uhr Ort: CP 156, Veranstaltungsbeginn: 09.04.2019

Przypadające na rok 2014 dziesięciolecie polskiego członkostwa w Unii Europejskiej ukazało nie tylko efekty reform politycznych i ekonomicznych, ale także liczne sukcesy polskiej polityki europejskiej. Państwo to zdołało nie tylko przezwyciężyć dziedzictwo komunistycznej przeszłości, ale przede wszystkim stało się prężnym i wiarygodnym partnerem w UE. Potrafiło przy tym efektywnie łączyć walkę o interes narodowy (widoczny przede wszystkim w polityce strukturalnej) z konstruktywną rolą wiarygodnego sojusznika dużych państw członkowskich, przede wszystkim Niemiec. Wybory roku 2015 i zmiana warty na polskiej scenie politycznej podważyły jednak dotychczasowe podstawy polskiej polityki europejskiej, czyniąc ją mniej przewidywalną i mniej pro-integracyjną. Prezentowane seminarium zakłada dokonanie przeglądu kluczowych elementów polskiej polityki integracyjnej. Stanowi jednocześnie sposobność do nabycia lub poprawy słownictwa w języku polskim w zakresie problematyki integracji europejskiej. Uczestnicy powinni więc władać językiem polskim w stopniu umożliwiającym im zrozumienie tekstów pisanych i wystąpień mówionych. Przy aktywnym udziale (prezentacje, dyskusja) możliwe jest jednak wykorzystanie języka angielskiego jako środka komunikacji.

Literatur: •Adam Balcer, Piotr Buras, Grzegorz Gromadzki, Eugeniusz Smolar, Polityka europejska rządu PiS, Warszawa 2017 • Ryszard Zięba: Główne kierunki polityki zagranicznej Polski po zimnej wojnie, Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Akademickie i

Profesjonalne, 2010; • Polska polityka europejska. Cele i możliwości, Warszawa: Instytut Spraw Publicznych, 2004; • Priorytety polskiej polityki zagranicznej, 2012-2016, Warszawa, marzec 2012 r; • Patrycja Sasnal, Niekontrolowane migracje do Unii Europejskiej – implikacje dla Polski, Raport PISM, Warszawa 2015; • Łukasz Kulesa, Is a New Cold War Inevitable? Central European Views on Rebuilding Trust in the Euro-Atlantic Region, Raport PISM, Warsaw 2014.

Teilnahmevoraussetzungen: znajomość języka polskiego na poziomie zrozumienia prezentacji ustnych i tekstu pisanego, i/and English at the active accademic level

Leistungsnachweise: Presence, presentation, seminar paper

Cross-Border Collaboration and Border Integration on EU Internal and External Boundaries

3/6/9 ECTS
Seminar:
Zentralbereich Kultur / Zentralbereich Politik / WPM 1: Regieren in Europa / WPM 3:
Migration, Ethnizität, Ethnozentrismus / WPM 5: Kultur, Geschichte & Gesellschaft in Europa
Di, 09 - 11 Uhr Ort: CP 20, Veranstaltungsbeginn: 16.10.2018

The process of European integration have been very visible at EU member states’ boundaries. Political stabilization reduced their separating role by undermining the traditionally understood territoriality and protective role of outlying regions, both rooted in the Westphalian understanding of statehood and sovereignty. De-bordering created a window of opportunity for the economic development of traditionally peripheral (and consequently economically handicapped) provinces. Border transformation– embodied by the Schengen zone – became a symbol of new order in the Continent. The aim of this seminar is to investigate the dynamics of border changes in Europe after the collapse of communism. It will be achieved by applying both the micro-perspective (analyzing the cross-border interactions of local and regional territorial units) as well as a macro-approach (concentrating on the EU’s external boundaries and forms of spatial relations with the surrounding environment). The proposed analytical perspective will be the (de/re)-boundarization and (re/de)-frontierization processes, fueled by both top-down and bottom-up mechanisms. Special attention will be paid to European border twin towns – considered to be the laboratories of European integration and Euroregions on the one side, and external Schengen borders on the other, as well as the problem of how the idea of European integration and cross-border integration is symbolically manifested in border relations.

Literatur: Prtti Joenniemi & Alexander Sergunin (2017) City-Twinning in IR Theory: Escaping the Confines of the Ordinary, Journal of Borderlands Studies, 32:4, 443-458, DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1257361. Jarosław Jańczak, 2017, Cross-Border urbanism on the German-Polish border – Between spatial de-Boundarization and social (re-)frontierization, [in:] European Borderlands. Living with Barriers and Bridges, Elisabeth Boesen, Gregor Schnuer (eds.), London and New York: Routledge, pp. 47-63. ISBN 978-1-4724-7721-1. Victor Konrad (2015) Toward a Theory of Borders in Motion, Journal of Borderlands Studies, 30:1, 1-17, DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1008387. Jouni Häkli, Re-Demarcating Transnational Space: The Case of Haparanda-Tornio, [in:], De-bordering, Re-bordering and Symbols on the European Boundaries, Jarosław Jańczak (ed.), Berlin: Logos Verlag, 2011. Helga Schulz, Katarzyna Stokłosa, Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast, Twin Towns on the Border as Laboratories of European Integration, FIT Discussion Paper, No. 4/2002. Christopher S. Browning, Pertti Joenniemi, Geostrategies of the European Neighbourhood Policy, “European Journal of International Relations”, vol. 14, nr 3, 2008.9-11 Uhr

Teilnahmevoraussetzungen: Fluent English
Leistungsnachweise: Attendance, presentation and seminar paper

Polish EU policy - Polska polityka w UE

Dienstag, 09.15 - 10.45 Uhr, AM 203

"Przypadające na rok 2014 dziesięciolecie polskiego członkostwa w Unii Europejskiej ukazało nie tylko efekty reform politycznych i ekonomicznych, ale także liczne sukcesy polskiej polityki europejskiej. Państwo to zdołało nie tylko przezwyciężyć dziedzictwo komunistycznej przeszłości, ale przede wszystkim stało się prężnym i wiarygodnym partnerem w UE. Potrafiło przy tym efektywnie łączyć walkę o interes narodowy (widoczny przede wszystkim w polityce strukturalnej) z konstruktywną rolą wiarygodnego sojusznika dużych państw członkowskich, przede wszystkim Niemiec. Wybory roku 2015 i zmiana warty na polskiej scenie politycznej podważyły jednak dotychczasowe podstawy polskiej polityki europejskiej, czyniąc ją mniej przewidywalną i mniej pro-integracyjną.
Rok 2017 uczynił z Polski jednego z najbardziej problemowych członków wspólnoty. Prezentowane seminarium zakłada dokonanie przeglądu kluczowych elementów polskiej polityki integracyjnej. Stanowi jednocześnie sposobność do nabycia lub poprawy słownictwa w języku polskim w zakresie problematyki integracji europejskiej. Uczestnicy powinni więc władać językiem polskim i angielskim w stopniu umożliwiającym im zrozumienie tekstów pisanych i wystąpień mówionych. Przy aktywnym udziale (prezentacje, dyskusja) możliwe jest jednak wykorzystanie języka angielskiego jako środka komunikacji. "

Literatur:
• Adam Balcer, Piotr Buras, Grzegorz Gromadzki, Eugeniusz Smolar, Polityka europejska rządu PiS, Warszawa 2017 • Ryszard Zięba: Główne kierunki polityki zagranicznej Polski po zimnej wojnie, Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Akademickie i Profesjonalne, 2010;
• Polska polityka europejska. Cele i możliwości, Warszawa: Instytut Spraw Publicznych, 2004;
• Priorytety polskiej polityki zagranicznej, 2012-2016, Warszawa, marzec 2012 r;
• Patrycja Sasnal, Niekontrolowane migracje do Unii Europejskiej – implikacje dla Polski, Raport PISM, Warszawa 2015;
• Łukasz Kulesa, Is a New Cold War Inevitable? Central European Views on Rebuilding Trust in the Euro-Atlantic Region, Raport PISM, Warsaw 2014.

Cross Border Collaboration and Border Integration on EU Internal and External Boundaries

3/6/9 ECTS
Seminar:
ZB Ku,  ZB Po, WPM1, WPM 5
Dienstag, 9.15  -10.45 Uhr,  Ort: CP 26
Veranstaltungsbeginn: 10.10.2017

The process of European integration have been very visible at EU member states’ boundaries. Political stabilization  reduced their separating role by undermining the traditionally  understood territoriality and protective role of outlying  regions, both rooted in the Westphalian understanding of statehood and sovereignty. Debordering created a window of opportunity for the economic development of traditionally peripheral (and consequ ently economically handicapped)  provinces. Border transformation embodied by the Schengen zone became a symbol of new order in the Continent.

The aim of this seminar is to investigate the dynamics of border changes in Europe after the collapse of communism. It  will be achieved by applying both the micro perspective (analyzing the crossborder interactions of local and regional  territorial units) as well as a macro approach (concentrating on the EU’s external boundaries and forms of spatial relations with the surrounding environment). The proposed analytical perspective will be the (de/re)boundarization and (re/de) frontierization processes, fueled by both top down and bottom up mechanisms. Special attention will be paid to  European border twin towns considered to be the laboratories of European integration and Euroregions on the one  side, and external Schengen borders on the other, as well as the problem of how the idea of European integration and  cross border integration is symbolically manifested in border relations.

Literatur:
Jouni Häkli, ReDemarcating Transnational Space: The Case of Haparanda Tornio, [in:], Debordering, Rebordering and Symbols on the European Boundaries, Jarosław Jańczak (ed.), Berlin: Logos Verlag, 2011. Helga Schulz, Katarzyna Stokłosa, Dagmara Jajeśniak Quast, Twin Towns on the Border as Laboratories of European  Integration, FIT Discussion Paper, No. 4/2002. Christopher S. Browning, Pertti Joenniemi, Geostrategies of the European  Neighbourhood Policy, “European Journal of International Relations”, vol. 14, nr 3, 2008. Leistungsnachweis: Attendance, presentation and seminar paper

Sprache: English

Polish EU policy –Polska polityka w UE

3/6/9 ECTS
Seminar:
ZB Politik, WPM 1, WPM 5

Przypadające na rok 2014 dziesięciolecie polskiego członkostwa w Unii Europejskiej ukazało nie tylko efekty reform politycznych i ekonomicznych, ale także liczne sukcesy polskiej polityki europejskiej. Państwo to zdołało nie tylko przezwyciężyć dziedzictwo komunistycznej przeszłości, ale przede wszystkim stało się prężnym i wiarygodnym partnerem w UE. Potrafiło przy tym efektywnie łączyć walkę o interes narodowy (widoczny przede wszystkim w polityce strukturalnej) z konstruktywną rolą wiarygodnego sojusznika dużych państw członkowskich, przede wszystkim Niemiec. Wybory roku 2015 i zmiana warty na polskiej scenie politycznej podważyły jednak dotychczasowe podstawy polskiej polityki europejskiej, czyniąc ją mniej przewidywalną i mniej pro-integracyjną.

Prezentowane seminarium zakłada dokonanie przeglądu kluczowych elementów polskiej polityki integracyjnej. Stanowi jednocześnie sposobność do nabycia lub poprawy słownictwa w języku polskim w zakresie problematyki integracji europejskiej. Uczestnicy powinni więc władać językiem polskim w stopniu umożliwiającym im zrozumienie tekstów pisanych i wystąpień mówionych. Przy aktywnym udziale (prezentacje, dyskusja) możliwe jest jednak wykorzystanie języka angielskiego jako środka komunikacji.

Reading:

• Ryszard Zięba: Główne kierunki polityki zagranicznej Polski po zimnej wojnie, Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Akademickie i Profesjonalne, 2010;

• Polska polityka europejska. Cele i możliwości, Warszawa: Instytut Spraw Publicznych, 2004; 

• Priorytety polskiej polityki zagranicznej, 2012-2016, Warszawa, marzec 2012 r;

• Patrycja Sasnal, Niekontrolowane migracje do Unii Europejskiej – implikacje dla Polski, Raport PISM, Warszawa 2015;

• Łukasz Kulesa, Is a New Cold War Inevitable? Central European Views on Rebuilding Trust in the Euro-Atlantic Region, Raport PISM, Warsaw 2014.

Eligibility: znajomość języka polskiego na poziomie zrozumienia prezentacji ustnych i tekstu pisanego, English at the active accademic level

Assessment: Presence, presentation, seminar paper

Language: polski, English

Cross-Border Collaboration and Border Integration on EU Internal and External Boundaries

3/6/9 ECTS

Seminar: ZB Ku, ZB Po, WPM 1, WPM 3, WPM 4, WPM 5

The process of European integration have been very visible at EU member states’ boundaries. Political stabilization reduced their separating role by undermining the traditionally understood territoriality and protective role of outlying regions, both rooted in the Westphalian understanding of statehood and sovereignty. De-bordering created a window of opportunity for the economic development of traditionally peripheral (and consequently economically handicapped) provinces. Border transformation – embodied by the Schengen zone – became a symbol of new order in the Continent. 

The aim of this seminar is to investigate the dynamics of border changes in Europe after the collapse of communism. It will be achieved by applying both the micro-perspective (analyzing the cross-border interactions of local and regional territorial units) as well as a macro-approach (concentrating on the EU’s external boundaries and forms of spatial relations with the surrounding environment). The proposed analytical perspective will be the (de/re)-boundarization and (re/de)-frontierization processes, fueled by both top-down and bottom-up mechanisms. Special attention will be paid to European border twin towns – considered to be the laboratories of European integration and Euroregions on the one side, and external Schengen borders on the other, as well as the problem of how the idea of European integration and cross-border integration is symbolically manifested in border relations.

Literatur: Jouni Häkli, Re-Demarcating Transnational Space: The Case of Haparanda-Tornio, [in:], De-bordering, Re-bordering and Symbols on the European Boundaries, Jarosław Jańczak (ed.), Berlin: Logos Verlag, 2011.
Helga Schulz, Katarzyna Stokłosa, Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast, Twin Towns on the Border as Laboratories of European Integration, FIT Discussion Paper, No. 4/2002.
Christopher S. Browning, Pertti Joenniemi, Geostrategies of the European Neighbourhood
Policy, “European Journal of International Relations”, vol. 14, nr 3, 2008.

Teilnahmevoraussetzungen: Fluent English

Leistungsnachweis: Attendance, presentation and seminar paper

Sprache: English

Polish EU policy - Polska polityka w UE

3/6/9 ECTS

Seminar: ZB Politik, WPM 1, WPM 5

Przypadające na rok 2014 dziesięciolecie polskiego członkostwa w Unii Europejskiej ukazało nie tylko efekty reform politycznych i ekonomicznych, ale także liczne sukcesy polskiej polityki europejskiej. Państwo to zdołało nie tylko przezwyciężyć dziedzictwo komunistycznej przeszłości, ale przede wszystkim stało się prężnym i wiarygodnym partnerem w UE. Potrafiło przy tym efektywnie łączyć walkę o interes narodowy (widoczny przede wszystkim w polityce strukturalnej) z konstruktywną rolą wiarygodnego sojusznika dużych państw członkowskich, przede wszystkim Niemiec. Wybory roku 2015 i zmiana warty na polskiej scenie politycznej podważyły jednak dotychczasowe podstawy polskiej polityki europejskiej, czyniąc ją mniej przewidywalną i mniej pro-integracyjną.

Prezentowane seminarium zakłada dokonanie przeglądu kluczowych elementów polskiej polityki integracyjnej. Stanowi jednocześnie sposobność do nabycia lub poprawy słownictwa w języku polskim w zakresie problematyki integracji europejskiej. Uczestnicy powinni więc władać językiem polskim w stopniu umożliwiającym im zrozumienie tekstów pisanych i wystąpień mówionych. Przy aktywnym udziale (prezentacje, dyskusja) możliwe jest jednak wykorzystanie języka angielskiego jako środka komunikacji.

Reading:

• Ryszard Zięba: Główne kierunki polityki zagranicznej Polski po zimnej wojnie, Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Akademickie i Profesjonalne, 2010;

• Polska polityka europejska. Cele i możliwości, Warszawa: Instytut Spraw Publicznych, 2004; 

• Priorytety polskiej polityki zagranicznej, 2012-2016, Warszawa, marzec 2012 r;

• Patrycja Sasnal, Niekontrolowane migracje do Unii Europejskiej – implikacje dla Polski, Raport PISM, Warszawa 2015;

• Łukasz Kulesa, Is a New Cold War Inevitable? Central European Views on Rebuilding Trust in the Euro-Atlantic Region, Raport PISM, Warsaw 2014.

Eligibility: znajomość języka polskiego na poziomie zrozumienia prezentacji ustnych i tekstu pisanego, English at the active accademic level

Assessment: Presence, presentation, seminar paper

Language: polski, English

European Borders and Cross-Border Cooperation in Comparative Perspective

3/6/9 ECTS

Seminar

The process of European integration have been very visible at EU member states’ boundaries. Political stabilization reduced their separating role by undermining the traditionally understood territoriality and protective role of outlying regions, both rooted in the Westphalian understanding of statehood and sovereignty. De-bordering created a window of opportunity for the economic development of traditionally peripheral (and consequently economically handicapped) provinces. Border transformation – embodied by the Schengen zone – became a symbol of new order in the Continent.

The aim of this seminar is to investigate the dynamics of border changes in Europe after the collapse of communism. It will be achieved by applying both the micro-perspective (analyzing the cross-border interactions of local and regional territorial units) as well as a macro-approach (concentrating on the EU’s external boundaries and forms of spatial relations with the surrounding environment). The proposed analytical perspective will be the (de/re)-boundarization and (re/de)-frontierization processes, fueled by both top-down and bottom-up mechanisms. Special attention will be paid to European border twin towns – considered to be the laboratories of European integration and Euroregions on the one side, and external Schengen borders on the other, as well as the problem of how the idea of European integration and cross-border integration is symbolically manifested in border relations.

Literatur: Jouni Häkli, Re-Demarcating Transnational Space: The Case of Haparanda-Tornio, [in:], De-bordering, Re-bordering and Symbols on the European Boundaries, Jarosław Jańczak (ed.), Berlin: Logos Verlag, 2011. Helga Schulz, Katarzyna Stokłosa, Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast, Twin Towns on the Border as Laboratories of European Integration, FIT Discussion Paper, No. 4/2002. Christopher S. Browning, Pertti Joenniemi, Geostrategies of the European Neighbourhood Policy, “European Journal of International Relations”, vol. 14, nr 3, 2008.

Leistungsnachweis: Attendance, presentation and seminar paper

Teilnahmevoraussetzungen: Fluent English

Sprache: English

Cross-Border Collaboration and Border Integration on EU Internal and External Boundaries

3/6/9 ECTS

ZB Ku, ZB Po, WPM 1, WPM 3, WPM 4, WPM 5

Seminar

The process of European integration have been very visible at EU member states’ boundaries. Political stabilization reduced their separating role by undermining the traditionally understood territoriality and protective role of outlying regions, both rooted in the Westphalian understanding of statehood and sovereignty. De-bordering created a window of opportunity for the economic development of traditionally peripheral (and consequently economically handicapped) provinces. Border transformation – embodied by the Schengen zone – became a symbol of new order in the Continent.

Literatur: Jouni Häkli, Re-Demarcating Transnational Space: The Case of Haparanda-Tornio, [in:], De-bordering, Re-bordering and Symbols on the European Boundaries, Jarosław Jańczak (ed.), Berlin: Logos Verlag, 2011. Helga Schulz, Katarzyna Stokłosa, Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast, Twin Towns on the Border as Laboratories of European Integration, FIT Discussion Paper, No. 4/2002. Christopher S. Browning, Pertti Joenniemi, Geostrategies of the European Neighbourhood Policy, “European Journal of International Relations”, vol. 14, nr 3, 2008.

Teilnahmevoraussetzungen: Fluent English

Leistungsnachweis: Attendance, presentation and seminar paper 

Common Foreign and Security Policy - Northern and Eastern Dimensions of the European Union

ECTS: 3/6/9
ZB Po, WPM1, WPM 4

As a result of the 1995 enlargement, the European Union obtained a new, northern flank, creating the common border with Russia. Additionally, due to the eastern en- largement in 2004, northern-eastern location and the neighborhood with the main heir of the Soviet Empire could be anticipated to become even more important. The new situation resulted in Finnish initiative to create the Northern Dimension of the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union and later in similar at- tempts of Poland to establish the Eastern Dimension. Northern Dimension entered and settled in the EU’s policies very fast. During the period between 1997 and 2000 it
was suggested and fully implemented into the common policies. This rapid develop- ment has created a set of questions and problems. The allocation of interests seems to be worth analyzing as well as their nature. Another main issue covers the real or only seeming success of the initiative. The other problems are future scenarios for the Northern and Eastern Dimensions of the EU, especially important from the per- spective of the New Member States. Ukrainian, Georgian and Moldovan association agreement with the Union, the ‘Byelorussian problem’, as well as Polish Presidency of the EU and the Eastern Partnership initiative can be considered as the factors ac- celerating common efforts in the future.

Literatur: M. Łapczynski, The European Union’s Eastern Partnership: Chances and Perspectives, “Caucasian Review of International Affairs”, Vol. 3(2), Spring 2009;; G. Bosse, Challenges for EU governance through Neighbourhood Policy and Eastern Partnership: the values/security nexus in EU–Belarus relations, “Contemporary Poli- tics”, Vol. 15, 2009. B. Wojna, K. Longhurst, Beyond the Warsaw Summit: Prospects for the Eastern Partnership, “The Polish Quarterly of International Affairs”, No. 2, 2011; S, Konopacki, Problem of Eastern partnership during Polish presidency in the European Union in 2011, “Journal of International Affairs”, No. 4, 2012. Teilnahmevoraussetzungen: fluent English

Leistungsnachweis: attendance, presentation and paper

Sprache: English 

Cross-Border Collaboration and Border Integration on EU Internal and External Boundaries

ECTS: 3/6/9

ZB Po, WPM 1

Seminar

The process of European integration have been very visible at EU member states’ boundaries. Political stabilization reduced their separating role by undermining the traditionally understood territoriality and protective role of outlying regions, both rooted in the Westphalian understanding of statehood and sovereignty. De-bordering created a window of opportunity for the economic development of traditionally peripheral (and consequently economically handicapped) provinces. Border transformation – embodied by the Schengen zone – became a symbol of new order in the Continent.

The aim of this seminar is to investigate the dynamics of border changes in Europe after the collapse of communism. It will be achieved by applying both the micro-perspective (analyzing the cross-border interactions of local and regional territorial units) as well as a macro-approach (concentrating on the EU’s external boundaries and forms of spatial relations with the surrounding environment). The proposed analytical perspective will be the (de/re)-boundarization and (re/de)-frontierization processes, fueled by both top-down and bottom-up mechanisms. Special attention will be paid to European border twin towns – considered to be the laboratories of European integration and Euroregions on the one side, and external Schengen borders on the other, as well as the problem of how the idea of European integration and cross-border integration is symbolically manifested in border relations.

Literatur: Jouni Häkli, Re-Demarcating Transnational Space: The Case of Haparanda-Tornio, [in:], De-bordering, Re-bordering and Symbols on the European Boundaries, Jarosław Jańczak (ed.), Berlin: Logos Verlag, 2011. Helga Schulz, Katarzyna Stokłosa, Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast, Twin Towns on the Border as Laboratories of European Integration, FIT Discussion Paper, No. 4/2002. Christopher S. Browning, Pertti Joenniemi, Geostrategies of the European Neighbourhood Policy, “European Journal of International Relations”, vol. 14, nr 3, 2008.

Teilnahmevoraussetzungen: Fluent English

Leistungsnachweis: Attendance, presentation and seminar paper

Sprache: English