Europe Without Borders?
Do you wonder what the European Union is all about? What challenges does it face and can it survive them? How will the eurozone crisis, the refugee crisis, Brexit and the COVID-19 outbreak reshape Europe? This is the course for you!
In this course, we will introduce you to key concepts and historical turning points, which have shaped contemporary Europe. What is national sovereignty and can it be shared? What impact has the 1989 collapse of communism had on Europe and is the East-West divide still relevant today? Can the North-South division triggered by the eurozone crisis be overcome, or will it be reinforced through the COVID-19 outbreak? And finally, what is the best size for a political unit?
The course’s ultimate focus is on the function and status of national and European borders and the question of what it means to belong to a political community: who is in, who is out? How and why are people included or excluded? And, what, finally, is the future of a borderless Europe?
Taught by a skeptical European who lived, studied and worked in Germany, Slovakia, Ireland, Australia and Hong Kong, this course includes a number of interviews with leading scholars, practitioners and best-selling authors, including Timothy Garton Ash, David Goodhart, Kalypso Nicolaïdis, George Papandreou and Helen Thompson.
The European Union pervades all aspects of people’s lives. But the course will be of particular interest to many professionals dealing with the EU whether they are EU citizens, or not.
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s ERASMUS+ Programme — Jean Monnet "Modules, Chairs and Centres of Excellence" and "Policy Debate with the academic world", under grant agreement number 2015-3375/006/575445-EPP-1-2016-1-HK-EPPJMO-CHAIR- PREFIN-16D030223.
What you'll learn
- Key political concepts such as citizenship, democracy, nationalism and sovereignty
- An understanding of the multiple sources of the European project’s crisis
- Historical moments which have shaped contemporary Europe, such as 1989
- The impact of current challenges: coronavirus outbreak, Brexit, eurozone crisis
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Cost | $99 |
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Instructors | Stefan Auer, Nicole Scicluna, Timothy Garton Ash (Guest speaker), George Papandreou (Guest speaker), Helen Thompson (Guest speaker), Kalypso Nicolaïdis (Guest speaker), Hans Kundnani (Guest speaker), Roland Vogt (Guest speaker), Jenny W. Xiao (Guest speaker), Christopher Bickerton (Guest speaker), Tobias Theiler (Guest speaker), Sponsor |
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Language | English |
Subjects | Social Sciences Humanities |
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Rating | Not enough ratings |
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Length | 4 weeks |
Effort | 4 weeks, 2–3 hours per week |
Starts | On Demand (Start anytime) |
Cost | $99 |
From | HKUx, University of Hong Kong via edX |
Instructors | Stefan Auer, Nicole Scicluna, Timothy Garton Ash (Guest speaker), George Papandreou (Guest speaker), Helen Thompson (Guest speaker), Kalypso Nicolaïdis (Guest speaker), Hans Kundnani (Guest speaker), Roland Vogt (Guest speaker), Jenny W. Xiao (Guest speaker), Christopher Bickerton (Guest speaker), Tobias Theiler (Guest speaker), Sponsor |
Download Videos | On all desktop and mobile devices |
Language | English |
Subjects | Social Sciences Humanities |
Tags | Social Sciences History Philosophy & Ethics |
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