After completing the course International Environmental Politics the student is able to:
- Describe the basic substance, organisation, development and implementation of European and global environmental politics;
- Analyse the main European and global environmental problems and policies (in terms of actors, institutions, law, discourses and policy processes);
- Conduct in-depth analysis of specific cases of European and global environmental policy-making and implementation;
- Identify and apply several relevant theories - such as neo-realism, regime theory, global and multi-level governance and integration theory - in analysing European and global environmental politics.
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The field of environmental politics has been internationalised since the 1960s. On the one hand, some environmental problems are transboundary in nature, such as climate change or pollution of rivers crossing national borders. Managing these problems is possible only through international cooperation. On the other hand, processes of internationalisation - such as globalisation and Europeanisation - force countries to formulate environmental policies at the international stage, not only to regulate environmental problems as such, but also to harmonise measures for the sake of market integration. As these internationalisation processes have intensified profoundly in recent decades, the quality and quantity of international environmental politics have increased greatly. Nowadays, environmental politics cannot be studied properly without taking into account its European and international component. The following topics will be addressed in this course:
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The emergence and evolution of global and European Union (EU) environmental politics within a broader political context;
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The main actors involved in global and EU environmental politics;
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The political mechanisms behind global and EU environmental policy-making;
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Theories for analysing global and EU environmental policy-making;
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The implementation of global and EU environmental policies.
- Throughout the course, ample reference will be made to empirical cases and examples.
Students will actively contribute to the content of the course through group presentations.
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Final paper (in the form of take-home exam); presentation and short paper during the course. Partial results stay valid.
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