POLICIES AND INSTITUTIONS OF MEDITERRANEAN COUNTRIES
Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: Stefania Paola Ludovica PANEBIANCOExpected Learning Outcomes
Students analyse and critically discuss the EU as a divided power in the Mediterranean. Migration will be adopted as a case-study.
Course Structure
This teaching relies upon a teaching methodology that has students at the centre. Traditional teaching methods (i.e. lectures) are accompanied by seminars and training courses. Students are involved in 'active learning', therefore they are invited to read beforehand the selected readings and comment them in class. Moreover, they are invited to present in class via PPT or PREZI's slides the content of selected readings. The key aim of this teaching is to analyze problems, cooperation processes and conflicts in the Mediterranean area.
Required Prerequisites
Political science basic concepts.
Attendance of Lessons
Detailed Course Content
This teaching course applies approaches and methods of Political Science in order to understand institutions, problems and processes affecting the Mediterranean area. Specific attention will be devoted to the European Union, an international actor playing distinct regional role(s). Perspectives and challenges of the EU as a 'normative power' will be critically investigated. Mediterranean migration governance will be analyzed as a crucial regional problem.
Textbook Information
Panebianco Stefania (a cura di) (2016), Sulle onde del Mediterraneo, EGEA, Milano.
Panebianco Stefania (2012), L'Unione Europea "potenza divisa" nel Mediterraneo, EGEA, Milano.
Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The EU as international actor | Panebianco (2012) |
| 2 | The EU as political system | Panebianco (2012) |
| 3 | The external relations system of the EU | Panebianco (2012) |
| 4 | The EU as democracy promoter | Panebianco (2012) |
| 5 | The European Mediterranean policy | Panebianco (2012) |
| 6 | The volatile regionalism in the Mediterranean | Panebianco (2012) |
| 7 | MNB-PEV-UfM - | Panebianco (2012) |
| 8 | Le proteste della primavera 2011 | Panebianco (2012) |
| 9 | Democracy and democratization. | Panebianco (2012) |
| 10 | EUMS as veto players | Panebianco (2012) |
| 11 | Migration crisis in the Mediterranean | Panebianco (2016) |
| 12 | The European migration policy | Panebianco (2016) |
| 13 | The Italian reaction to the Euopean integration. | Panebianco (2016) |
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
The EU as an international actor: theoretical debates. The main paradigms that explain the European integration process. Mediterranean migration governance.
The EU as democracy-promoter in the Mediterranean