Prof Karen Smith (CBG.10.14)

This course is available on the MSc in International Affairs (LSE and Peking University), MSc in International Relations, MSc in International Relations (LSE and Sciences Po), MSc in International Relations (Research), MSc in Political Science (Global Politics), MSc in The Global Political Economy of China and Europe (LSE and Fudan) and MSc in Theory and History of International Relations. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.

All students are required to obtain permission from the Teacher Responsible by completing the online application on LSE for You. Admission is not guaranteed.

This course has a limited number of places (it is controlled access). In previous years we have been able to provide places for most students that apply but that may not continue to be the case.

Some basic knowledge of International Relations as an academic discipline is desirable, together with some acquaintance with the general evolution of world politics over the last one hundred years. 

The development of the external activities of the European Communities, now the European Union, since 1957, including the development of European Political Cooperation and the Common Foreign and Security Policy, and trade and development policy. The relationship between the member states and these external activities, in particular the impact of the evolution of EU institutions and policies on national foreign policies.  Relations between the EU and non-EU states and regions, including the United States, Russia, the Middle East, Asia and Africa.

Watch a short introductory video on this course:  

http://www.lse.ac.uk/internationalRelations/video/IR416-EUW-video.aspx 

This course is delivered through a combination of seminars and lectures totalling a minimum of 40 hours across Autumn and Winter Term. Students on this course will have a reading week in Week 6, in line with departmental policy.

Students are expected to submit two 2,000-word essays during the course, to be marked by seminar leaders.  Students will be expected to produce 1 essay in the AT and 1 essay in the WT.

Sieglinde Gstöhl and Simon Schunz, eds, The External Action of the European Union, Macmillan, 2021

Amelia Hadfield, Ian Manners, and Richard Whitman, eds, Foreign Policies of EU Member States, Routledge 2017

Christopher Hill, Michael Smith, and Sophie Vanhoonacker (eds), International Relations and the European Union, 4th edition, OUP, 2023

Stephan Keukeleire and Tom Delreux, The Foreign Policy of the European Union, 3rd edition,Palgrave, 2022

Karen E. Smith, European Union Foreign Policy in a Changing World, 3rd edition, Polity Press,2014

Exam (100%, duration: 3 hours) in the spring exam period.