The course aims at enhancing the students’ knowledge and understanding of the roots and evolution of global environmental governance, as well as at providing them with the methodological tools to analyze them from an historical and political perspective. At the same time, the course investigates the role of the European Union in shaping global environmental governance and the implications of the international discourse on sustainable development in European politics, from the late 1960s to the present. Moving from the beginnings of the EC/EU environmental policy, the course deals with the evolving concepts of energy security and transition in Europe’s debates, at the national, intergovernmental and supranational level; it analyses the rise of the European sustainability agenda, across different EC/EU policy areas; and focuses on the intersection between the United Nations’ multilateral dimension of environmental governance and the EU’s. Students will be engaged in studying the complexity of such challenges as climate change and the depletion of global commons with a view to their international politics consequences. They will also be provided with the analytical tools to understanding the development of multilateral and regional institutions, as well as governmental and non-governmental actors; and to assessing the EU’s political and economic response to such challenges in the last few decades.
scheda docente
materiale didattico
1) An overview of the European Union’s politics, history, institutional developments, and environmental policies
Main topics: The EU today; European integration processes from the European Community of the 1970s to the EU of the 2000s. The roots of the EU environmental policy within the context of its energy policy and external relations.
2) The making of the global environmental governance: an international history perspective.
The role of the EU in global environmental governance
Main topics: Globalized environmentalism and environmental policies in Europe and the US, from the Stockholm Conference of 1972 to the Paris Agreement of 2015: from conservation to sustainable development; multilateral negotiations and agreements.
Global-scale environmental challenges, climate change and the international role of the EU in the 1990s and 2000s.
3) Students’ class presentations (May 2025) and final oral exam
(See list of required and recommended readings/bibliography)
STUDENTS WILL BE GRADED BASED ON THE FOLLOWING:
A) An individual oral presentation in class (NO POWER POINT, NOR OTHER SLIDES, 15 minutes) based on one essay each student will choose from the following book
Kaiser Wolfram, Meyer Jan-Henrik (eds), International Organizations and Environmental Protection. Conservation and Globalization in the Twentieth Century, New York, Berghahn Books, 2016
B) A RESEARCH PROJECT IN TEAM WORK (POWER POINT/SLIDES ALLOWED, 15 minutes) on one of the course's topics (please, inform your Prof. of the chosen topic by April 15, 2025)
A) and B) together will count for 50% of the overall grade
C) INDIVIDUAL ORAL EXAM based on both the following required readings,
Jordan Andrew, Gravey Viviane(eds), Environmental policy in the EU: actors, institutions and processes, (fourth edition), London, Routledge, 2021, pp. 1-276
Afionis Stavros, The European Union in International Climate Change Negotiations, London, Routledge, 2017
C) counts for another 50% of the overall grade
2. Jordan Andrew, Gravey Viviane(eds), Environmental policy in the EU: actors, institutions and processes, (fourth edition), London, Routledge, 2021, pp. 1-276;
3. Kaiser Wolfram, Meyer Jan-Henrik (eds), International Organizations and Environmental Protection. Conservation and Globalization in the Twentieth Century, New York, Berghahn Books, 2016
Mutuazione: 21810415 THE EU IN GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE in Politiche per la Sicurezza Globale: Ambiente, Energia e Conflitti LM-52 A - Z FASANARO LAURA
Programma
THE COURSE IS STRUCTURED IN 3 PARTS:1) An overview of the European Union’s politics, history, institutional developments, and environmental policies
Main topics: The EU today; European integration processes from the European Community of the 1970s to the EU of the 2000s. The roots of the EU environmental policy within the context of its energy policy and external relations.
2) The making of the global environmental governance: an international history perspective.
The role of the EU in global environmental governance
Main topics: Globalized environmentalism and environmental policies in Europe and the US, from the Stockholm Conference of 1972 to the Paris Agreement of 2015: from conservation to sustainable development; multilateral negotiations and agreements.
Global-scale environmental challenges, climate change and the international role of the EU in the 1990s and 2000s.
3) Students’ class presentations (May 2025) and final oral exam
(See list of required and recommended readings/bibliography)
STUDENTS WILL BE GRADED BASED ON THE FOLLOWING:
A) An individual oral presentation in class (NO POWER POINT, NOR OTHER SLIDES, 15 minutes) based on one essay each student will choose from the following book
Kaiser Wolfram, Meyer Jan-Henrik (eds), International Organizations and Environmental Protection. Conservation and Globalization in the Twentieth Century, New York, Berghahn Books, 2016
B) A RESEARCH PROJECT IN TEAM WORK (POWER POINT/SLIDES ALLOWED, 15 minutes) on one of the course's topics (please, inform your Prof. of the chosen topic by April 15, 2025)
A) and B) together will count for 50% of the overall grade
C) INDIVIDUAL ORAL EXAM based on both the following required readings,
Jordan Andrew, Gravey Viviane(eds), Environmental policy in the EU: actors, institutions and processes, (fourth edition), London, Routledge, 2021, pp. 1-276
Afionis Stavros, The European Union in International Climate Change Negotiations, London, Routledge, 2017
C) counts for another 50% of the overall grade
Testi Adottati
1. Afionis Stavros, The European Union in International Climate Change Negotiations, London, Routledge, 2017;2. Jordan Andrew, Gravey Viviane(eds), Environmental policy in the EU: actors, institutions and processes, (fourth edition), London, Routledge, 2021, pp. 1-276;
3. Kaiser Wolfram, Meyer Jan-Henrik (eds), International Organizations and Environmental Protection. Conservation and Globalization in the Twentieth Century, New York, Berghahn Books, 2016
Modalità Erogazione
Teaching methodology. The course is based on both lectures and class discussion. Students are required to take active part in class debates on single course topics on a weekly basis. They can be assigned short extra readings (articles, archival records, press sources, etc.) to be commented in class, individually or working in group with other students. At the end of the course, attending students are required to write a short paper and prepare a class presentation on one of the course topics, to be chosen together with the professor. Students' short essays and presentations will be written based on recommended readings.Modalità Frequenza
Attendance is not mandatory. However, it is highly recommended due to the interactive teaching method, including class discussion and the students' team-work and active participation.Modalità Valutazione
STUDENTS WILL BE GRADED BASED ON THE FOLLOWING: A) An individual oral presentation in class (NO POWER POINT, NOR OTHER SLIDES, 15 minutes) based on one essay each student will choose from the following book Kaiser Wolfram, Meyer Jan-Henrik (eds), International Organizations and Environmental Protection. Conservation and Globalization in the Twentieth Century, New York, Berghahn Books, 2016 B) A RESEARCH PROJECT IN TEAM WORK (POWER POINT/SLIDES ALLOWED, 15 minutes) on one of the course's topics (please, inform your Prof. of the chosen topic by April 15, 2025) A) and B) together will count for 50% of the overall grade C) INDIVIDUAL ORAL EXAM based on both the following required readings, Jordan Andrew, Gravey Viviane(eds), Environmental policy in the EU: actors, institutions and processes, (fourth edition), London, Routledge, 2021, pp. 1-276 Afionis Stavros, The European Union in International Climate Change Negotiations, London, Routledge, 2017 C) counts for another 50% of the overall grade