The Atlantic Triangle: European Union, United States and Latin America

EL CURSO ES PRESENCIAL Y SE IMPARTE EN MADRID

PRESENTATION

This course examines the main political, economic and social trends in the European Union, Latin America and the United States as well as the multiples interactions among them since the end of the Cold War. After briefly reviewing the historical development of these three partners on both sides of the Atlantic in the past five decades, the course identifies, first, the key processes that are defining the main characteristics of Europe (deepening vs. widening), United States (isolationism vs. internationalism) and Latin America (democracy vs. social equality). Secondly, the course explains the tendencies and contradictions in the construction of the external relations of the European Union towards the United States and Latin America.

TARGET

Undergraduate and Graduate Students

AIMS

- To understand the evolution and current stage of these three geographical and political areas: European Union, United States and Latin America.
- To introduce the students to the basic functioning of the European Union Foreign Policy (Institutions, decision making process…).
- To obtain a better understanding of how interrelations between the three areas worked and to discuss possible future trends.

METHODOLOGY

The Course in presented with and interdisciplinary focus and evolutionary study. A specific emphasis is put into the present and the future of the Triangle. There will be readings, presentations and discussion of particular cases. An optional and complementary visit to the European Union Institutions in Brussels and/or other practical seminars are also foreseen.

MODULES

I. Analysis of the European Integration Process (1,5 ECTS)- July 9th-13th

- History of European integration
- The division of powers between the European Union and the Member States. EU Institutions and the decision making process
- Deepening the Union. Towards a European Constitution?
- Widening the Union: 27 Member States and Beyond. Turkey and the Limits to the European Union.
- The role of Spain and Portugal in the EU

II. Transformations in the Transatlantic Area (1,5 ECTS)- July 16th-20th

- United States: The Limits of the hegemonic Power
- Current economic and political trends in Latin America:
- The EU in the World
o Theories of Foreign Policy in the EU
o EU foreign Policy decision-making process
o Institutions and dimensions of the EU foreign policy (Council, Commission. Parliament) and (trade, security-ESDP-, aid, so on)
o EU relations with Russia, China, India, ACP

III. Interrelations in the Transatlantic Triangle (1,5 ECTS)- July 23rd-27thth

- EU-USA
- EU-Canada,
- EU-Mexico,
- EU-Central America,
- EU Caribbean,
- EU-South America.

DIRECTORS

Roberto Domínguez, Ph. D.
Assistant Professor at the Government Department (Suffolk University) and Research Associate at Miami-Florida
Center for European Studies,UNAM, Mexico Jerónimo Maillo, Ph. D.(Doctor Europeus)
Head of the Public Law Department and Professor of European Union Law at the Law Faculty and Main Researcher at the Institute for European Studies
(CEU San Pablo University)