Learning outcomes

To provides an overview of regional cooperation processes as a reaction to globalization and integration i.e. of a phenomenon understood as fragmentation. In addition it develops an understanding of the changing role of the states in the international system and development of new regional actors and polito-economic spaces in the international system.

Contents

-approaches to regional cooperation and regionalization
-globalization and regional cooperation as a strategy and welfare
-macro regions
-EU – integration and fragmentation
-various forms of regionalization in Europe
-regions within nation states

Teaching methods

Lectures and seminars approx. 30 hours.

Teaching language

English

Evaluation

Numeric 1-5.

Recommended year of study

Autumn 2009.

Study materials

 

- Telo, Mario (ed.): European union and new regionalism. Regional actors and global governance in a post-hegemonic Era. Ashagate 2007.

- LeGalés, Patric: Christian Lequesne, Regions in Europe. Routledge 1998.

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