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EU in Global Governance Course | Education. Online. Free. | iversity

The European Union in

Global Governance

by
Prof. Marise Cremona, Prof. Dr. Christoph Herrmann, Dr. Joris Larik, Prof.
Dr. Anna Triandafyllidou, and Prof. Dr. Jan Wouters

European University Institute, KU Leuven, and Universitt
Passau

FREE
What are the challenges the EU faces, and can it rise to meet them? Sign up and learn more about the
EU as a global actor
and its role in the international, political, economic, environmental and security
arena.

22 APR. 2014

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Course Summary
The study of the EU as an international actor has become a key element in European and International Law,
European Studies and International Relations. The EU represents the worlds largest trade power and aid
donor, has a diplomatic service larger than that of most states, and has launched more than 20 civil-military
operations. It
has presented itself as a normative, global actor, and its emergence as
a legal entity that is
neither a state nor a classic international organization has both puzzled and fascinated legal scholars and

political scientists alike. We represent a consortium consisting of the Global Governance Programme of the
European University Institute in Florence, the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies and the Chair

for European and International Economic Law at the University of Passau.

We have joined forces guided by
the vision of providing cutting-edge expertise on the many facets of this fast-evolving topic to the greatest
number of students.

What will I learn?

At the end of the course you will
be able to identify and understand the main challenges of the EU and
its Member States in the world
today, and how they affect us personally
understand the means which the EU has at its disposal to tackle these challenges, and learn ways to
critically evaluate its performance.
understand and be able to apply the key legal principles and political realities governing EU external
relations, its relationship with its Member States and citizens, and the outside world.
situate the EU as an international actor into the main theoretical approaches to International Relations,
and harness these approaches to analyze current topics in global politics.

What do I have to know?

Basic knowledge in one or more of the following subjects is highly recommended:
The EU and its institutions / EU politics
EU / International law
International relations / politics, foreign policy.

Line-up of contributors
Geert de Baere

Assistant Professor of International Law and EU Law at the Faculty of Law and Senior Member of the

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Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, KU Leuven. From 2007 to 2009, worked as a rfrendaire at
the Court of Justice of the EU. Author of Constitutional Principles of EU External Relations (Oxford University
Press 2008).
Marise Cremona

Professor of European Law at the EUI Law Department. Between 2009 and June 2012 Head of the Law
Department and between June 2012 and August 2013 President ad interim of the EUI. Co-Director of the
Academy of European Law. Member of the Governing Board of the Istituto Affari Internazionali, Rome;
member of the International Advisory Board of the Centre for European Research, University of Gteborg,
Sweden; member of the Advisory Board of the European Foreign Affairs Review; member of the Editorial
Board of the European Law Review.
Giorgia Giovannetti

Professor of Economics at the University of Florence and Visiting Fellow

at the European University Institute.
Scientific Director of the European Report on Development in 2009 and 2010 and former Director of the
Research Centre of the Italian Trade Institute (2005-2007). Advising
the Italian Treasury and Ministry of
Foreign Trade since 2002.
Christoph Herrmann

Professor of European and International Economic Law at the University of Passau. His research focuses on
the relationship between the EU and the international economic legal order, in particular EU trade policy as
well as the Eurozone and its relations with the IMF and other international actors. Editor of the European
Yearbook of International Economic Law (EYIEL), listed on the indicative list of panelists of the WTO and
was the case author of the ELSA EMC2 WTO Law Moot Court (2012/13). Author of several monographs and
textbooks on EU law and international trade law.
Jolle Hivonnet

European External Acrion Service (EEAS), China Division, where she is contributing to the implementation
of the EU-China strategic partnership. European Official since 1992. Worked previously in Brussels, New
York and Geneva.
Frank Hoffmeister

Deputy Head of Cabinet in Commissioner De Guchts Cabinet (international trade). Formerly member of the
External Relation Team at the European Commissions Legal Service. Part- time Professor at the Vrije
Universiteit Brussels for International Economic Law.
Stephan Keukeleire

Jean Monnet Professor in European Integration and EU Foreign Policy, University of Leuven and Visiting
Professor at the College of Europe (Bruges), Belgium. Director of the 'Master in European Studies:

Transnational and Global Perspectives' at the University of Leuven. His theoretical research focuses on the
analysis of foreign policy in an era
of globalisation, with the concept of 'structural foreign policy' being
at the
heart of his research. Coordinator of the Online Resource Guide Exploring EU Foreign Policy: www.eufp.eu.
Co-author of the The Foreign Policy of the European Union (Palgrave Macmillan 2014).
Joris Larik

Academic coordinator of the MOOC on The EU in Global Governance

and senior researcher at the Leuven
Centre for Global Governance Studies, KU Leuven. His research focuses on the law of external relations of

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the European Union, comparative & multilevel constitutional law and comparative regional integration.
Winner of the NATO Manfred Wrner Essay Award 2008.
Liu Lei

Jean-Monnet postdoctoral fellow at the Global Governance Programme of the EUI. Currently working on the
allocation of embodied emissions in international trade against the backdrop of the controversy over the

production or consumption-based emissions inventory in current climate regime. His past research
experiences include policy design for local environmental governance in Shenzhen and Yunnan of China,
investigation of CO2 emissions embodied in Chinas industrial sectors and foreign trade, low-carbon
transition of China and the global climate governance strategy.
Frederik Naert

Member of the Legal Service of the Council of the European Union (external relations directorate) and
Affiliated Senior Researcher at the
Institute for International Law, KU Leuven. Editor-in-Chief of the Military
Law & Law of War Review / Revue de droit militaire et de droit de la guerre and a member of the Board of
Directors of the International Society for Military Law & Law of War. Author of International
Law Aspects of
the EUs Security and Defence Policy, with a Particular Focus on the Law of Armed Conflict and Human
Rights (Intersentia 2009).
Timea Pal

Jean Monnet postdoctoral fellow at the Global Governance Programme of the EUI. She is also part of the
Climate Policy Research Unit (CPRU), a research group within the EUIs Robert Schuman Centre for

Advanced Studies (RSCAS) under the Loyola de Palacio Chair. She is a political economist working on the
governance of global production chains, and on its implications on sustainable economic development in

emerging economies.
Roman Petrov

Jean Monnet Chair in EU Law at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy since 2010. Lectured the very first Jean Monnet
Module in EU law in Ukraine at the Donetsk National University. Former Max Weber Fellow at the EUI.
Author of one of the first Ukrainian textbooks on EU Law. Founder and first elected President of the
Ukrainian European Studies Association. Frequently provides consultancy to state institutions in Ukraine,

including the Constitutional Court of Ukraine and Ministry of Justice.

Kolja Raube

Senior Researcher, Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies and Programme Coordinator, Centre for
European Studies, KU Leuven. Heads the
interdisciplinary research project The Rule of Law A Strategic
Priority of the European Unions External Action. Author of Die Verfassungsauenpolitik der Europischen
Union (The constitutional foreign policy of the Europrean Union) (Nomos 2007).
Anna Triandafyllidou

Professor at the Global Governance Programme (GGP) of the Robert Schuman

Centre for Advanced
Studies (RSCAS), EUI and Director of the Programme Research Strand on Cultural Pluralism. Her main
areas of research and teaching are cultural diversity, migration, and nationalism
from a European and
international perspective. For the last 10 years, she has received funding and co-ordinated a number of
international research projects in these research areas. Her publications include more
than 100 articles in
refereed journals and chapters in collective volumes, five authored books and more than ten edited and coedited volumes, including Irregular Migration in Europe: Myths and Realities (Ashgate 2010) and What is
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Europe? (with R. Gropas, Palgrave 2014).

Jan Wouters

Director of the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, Professor of International Law and
International Organizations, and Jean Monnet Chair ad personam EU and Global Governance, KU Leuven.
Visiting Professor at Sciences Po (Paris) and the College of Europe (Bruges). Inter alia, President of the
United Nations Association Flanders Belgium, Of Counsel at Linklaters, Brussels, Member of the Royal

Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and Arts. Editor of the International Encyclopedia of
Intergovernmental Organizations, Deputy Director of the Revue belge de droit international and an editorial

board member in ten international journals. Widely published on international, EU, corporate and financial
law (over 500 publications including 46 books and 90 international journal articles).

Workload
4 hours per week including readings, watching our videos, discuss with fellow students, complete quizzes.

Do I get a certifcate?
Students participating in this course can earn the official Statement of Participation.
Requirements for receiving the Statement of Participation are to watch 80% of the lecture videos as well as
complete 80% of the quizzes.

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