International Relations in Europe 2104-UPIR-D5INEU

After completing the course, the student knows and understands:
- the role and importance of actors in international relations;
- development problems of the contemporary world, global problems and their impact on the dynamics and nature of international cooperation (especially in the context of its institutionalization);
- characteristics of individual regions of the world and their position and importance in international relations.
Can:
- use the known methods and techniques, including information and communication techniques to interpret phenomena in international relations and to evaluate them;
- conduct a debate on issues in the field of international relations using the knowledge gained during studies;
- work as a team to find answers to research questions in the field of international relations;
- to competently analyze the political and economic situation in Europe from the end of World War II to the present day;
- recognize the key events that constitute the main factors in the evolution of this situation;
- explain the real meaning of political decisions taken by various types of international bodies, whether in the form of international declarations or agreements;
- assess the importance of unilateral acts of individual states, especially superpowers, affecting the state of international relations in Europe.
He is ready to:
- a critical approach to the possessed knowledge and skills and recognition of the importance of experts' opinions on problems in the field of international relations;
- organizing in an entrepreneurial way simple tasks related to social projects to spread knowledge about the modern world and the place of nation states in the globalized international reality.

First attempt (during the last class): test (20 multiple-choice questions)
Second attempt (during the exam session): oral exam.

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D. Benjamin (ed.), Europe 2030, Brookings Institution Press, Washington 2010
D.P. Calleo, Rethinking Europe's future, Princeton University Press, Princeton – Oxford 2001
F. Cameron (ed.), The future of Europe : integration and enlargement, Routledge, London – New York 2005
N. Davies, Europe: a history, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1996
D. Dinan, Ever closer union : an introduction to European integration, Houndmills, Basingstoke 2005
D. Dinan, Europe Recast. A History of European Union, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire 2004
J. Gajewski, K. Szczepanik, Vademecum organizacji europejskich (angielsko-polskie), Warszawa 2000
C. Hill, M. Smith, International relations and the European Union, Oxford 2005
R.J. Jackson (ed.), Europe in transition : the management of security after the Cold War, Praeger, New York 1992
E. Jones et al. (eds.), Developments in European politics, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke - New York 2011
K. E. Jørgensen, T. B. Knudsen (eds.), International relations in Europe : traditions, perspectives and destinations, Routledge, London – New York 2006
J. Kłoczowski, H. Łaszkiewicz (eds.), East-Central Europe in European History. Themes & Debates, IEŚW, Lublin 2009
D.W. Urwin, The Community of Europe: a History of European Integration since 1945, London, New York 1995
J. Zielonka, Europe as Empire: The Nature of the Enlarged European Union, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2007

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