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Expanded Course Description
This course will introduce you to important concepts of international relations by examining Britain’s dynamic relationship with the European Union. The course will start by reviewing the United Kingdom’s role in World War II, which was the backdrop against which the European Union developed. That development illustrates how states seek to promote international cooperation to counter the tendency of the international system to lead to conflict and war. Britain’s initial reluctance to join the EU, its subsequent embrace of the EU (but not the Euro), and the turmoil around its exit from the EU demonstrate the ongoing tension states face between the desire to solve shared problems and resistance to relinquishing their sovereignty. How the states of the EU have (and have not) responded to Covid-19, the lack of a coordinated EU response, and the difference from how the UK has responded can shed light on the influence or non-influence of international institutions.
This course will focus on major international issues, including the Coronavirus pandemic as well as trade, human rights/migration, and environmental protection. Understanding how the UK and the EU responded to the Covid-19 pandemic as well as who gains and loses from free trade (as members of the EU) and protectionism (after the UK Brexited) helps explain changes in the UK-EU relationship over time. The “spillover” of the EU’s economic integration into robust cooperation and regulation with respect to human rights and environment, climate change, and Covid-19 nicely illustrate the dynamics many scholars expect of states and the international institutions they create.
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