EU Trade policy (module 3)

5.00 crédits

30.0 h

Cette unité d’enseignement n’est pas accessible aux étudiants d’échange !

Enseignants

Cabrita Teresa; Maurer Andreas; Maurer Andreas (supplée Cabrita Teresa);

Langue
d'enseignement

Anglais

Thèmes abordés

The first part of the course provides the theoretical and historical background of international trade and trade policy by looking into the main theoretical and historical mechanisms that drive international trade and foreign direct investment. It analyzes the strategies of multinational enterprises and their impact on the global value chain and economic globalization. It also discusses the main tools of trade policy in general.
The second part focuses more on EU trade policy, its specific tools, the trade policy of the EU within the multilateral trading system (WTO), the bilateral trade relations of the EU, as well as its unilateral trade policy instruments.

Acquis
d'apprentissage

A la fin de cette unité d’enseignement, l’étudiant est capable de :
At the end of this course, students are able to: understand the theoretical tools to analyse international trade and foreign direct investment. understand the political economy of trade policy (decision-making, stakeholders, distribution of welfare gains and losses) understand the specificity of the EU’s trade policy (policy-making process, specific instruments, trade strategies) understand the EU’s trade relations at the multilateral and bilateral levels

Modes d'évaluation
des acquis des étudiants

1. Attendance: you may be absent from a maximum of two units with prior excuse or subsequent certificate (attestation).

2. Regular reading and processing of the compulsory literature as well as participation in the discussions in the seminar.

Performance requirements:

3. Every week, all students write a thesis paper on selected topics and readings (see seminar schedule). Students are allowed to form a working group of two students. Each group is required to submit a short analytical paper summarizing and evaluating the literature. These papers may take the form of a classic, academic paper, or – in about 50% of the assignments – some kind of a typical EU briefing or debriefing paper (“imagine you were posted in dept. X of the European Parliament and you should draft a short briefing / speaking note / debriefing on ……”) Two/Three students (randomly selected) summarize the readings in the form of an oral presentation and initiate the discussion.

4. Minimum requirements for all papers are:

• Plausibility check of the chosen topic based on a conceptual or theoretical approach.

• General problem definition and guiding question

• Brief, preliminary explanation of the reasoning (course of the investigation)

o The following sections should be included:

o Guiding questions

o (if required): Theoretical model and resulting hypotheses

o Justification for processing the guiding question

o Empirical, descriptive or analytical part for the investigation

o Conclusion = revisiting the question in light of the hypotheses

• Use of compulsory literature (no Wikipedia, no AI!!!)

5. Evaluation grid for assignments

Spelling / grammar
Summary of the line of argument(s)
Critical evaluation of the conceptual approach (usefulness, explanatory power, weaknesses)
= 30 % or the final mark

+ Oral Paper Presentation (40 %)
+ Active participation in the seminar (30%)

Faculté ou entité
en charge

IEEB

Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Intitulé du programme

Sigle

Crédits

Prérequis

Acquis
d'apprentissage

Master [120] in EU Studies

EUAB2M