After completing the study unit, the student is able to analyse European integration as a process and is acquainted with the most important theories of European integration as well as of disintegration. The student is able to apply these in examining the consequences of integration and disintegration on the EU as an organisation, as a political system and as an actor in international relations.
Contents
Theories of European integration, regional integration in the EU and elsewhere, the EU's relations with other regions, processes of integration and disintegration in the wider European space, EU-Russia relations.