EUROPE DIVIDED: INTEGRATION, DEMOCRATISATION AND RUSSIAN AUTHORITARIANISM

POL5PIR

2020

Credit points: 15

Subject outline

This course examines the reshaping of European politics during the quarter century between Mikhail Gorbachev's appeal for a 'common European home' in 1989 and the outbreak of conflict in Ukraine in 2014. It seeks to illuminate the successes and failures of European integration and to provoke debate about the origins and significance of the emerging conflict between the EU and Putin's Russia. In particular, it poses questions about the EU's contribution to regional democratisation, the politics of energy, NATO expansion, and the nature of the Putin regime.

School: Humanities and Social Sciences (Pre 2022)

Credit points: 15

Subject Co-ordinator: Robert Horvath

Available to Study Abroad/Exchange Students: Yes

Subject year level: Year Level 5 - Masters

Exchange Students: No

Available as Elective: No

Learning Activities: N/A

Capstone subject: No

Subject particulars

Subject rules

Prerequisites: Must be enrolled in a HUSS Postgraduate Degree or through subject coordinator's approval

Co-requisites: N/A

Incompatible subjects: POL5RIP

Equivalent subjects: N/A

Quota Management Strategy: N/A

Quota-conditions or rules: N/A

Special conditions: N/A

Minimum credit point requirement: N/A

Assumed knowledge: N/A

Career Ready

Career-focused: No

Work-based learning: No

Self sourced or Uni sourced: N/A

Entire subject or partial subject: N/A

Total hours/days required: N/A

Location of WBL activity (region): N/A

WBL addtional requirements: N/A

Graduate capabilities & intended learning outcomes

Graduate Capabilities

DISCIPLINE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

INQUIRY AND ANALYSIS - Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

Intended Learning Outcomes

01. Extensive knowledge of the divergent development of the EU and Russia in the post-Cold War era.

02. Understanding of concepts used by scholars to explain the European project and post-Soviet authoritarianism.

03. Ability to conduct original research about the EU and post-Soviet Russia

04. Ability to construct persuasive arguments about the transformation of European politics in the post-Cold War era

Melbourne (Bundoora), 2020, Semester 1, Day

Overview

Online enrolment: Yes

Maximum enrolment size: N/A

Enrolment information: N/A

Subject Instance Co-ordinator: Robert Horvath

Class requirements

SeminarWeek: 10 - 22
One 2.00 hours seminar per week on weekdays during the day from week 10 to week 22 and delivered via face-to-face.

Assessments

Assessment element	Comments	Category	Contribution	Hurdle	%	ILO*
Written seminar contributions (1,000 word equivalent)Each week, four comments related to the reading are to submitted in written form and used as the basis for the student's contribution to seminar discussion. The written versions will be evaluated in three batches.	N/A	N/A	N/A	No	20	SILO1, SILO2, SILO3, SILO4
One 2,000 word essay	N/A	N/A	N/A	No	40	SILO1, SILO2, SILO3
One 2,000 word essay	N/A	N/A	N/A	No	40	SILO1, SILO2, SILO3, SILO4