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210116 SE M11: Research Practice (2014W)

Lateinamerika

12.00 ECTS (4.00 SWS), SPL 21 - Politikwissenschaft
Continuous assessment of course work

Registration during the registration period via univis is mandatory. Subsequent registrations for this course are NOT possible.

Attendance in the first lesson is mandatory. Students who miss the first lesson unexcused will be expelled from the course. Wait-listed students may move up.
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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 35 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Wednesday 08.10. 09:45 - 13:00 Seminarraum 1 (S1), NIG 2. Stock
  • Wednesday 15.10. 09:45 - 13:00 Seminarraum 1 (S1), NIG 2. Stock
  • Wednesday 22.10. 09:45 - 13:00 Seminarraum 1 (S1), NIG 2. Stock
  • Wednesday 29.10. 09:45 - 13:00 Seminarraum 1 (S1), NIG 2. Stock
  • Wednesday 05.11. 09:45 - 13:00 Seminarraum 1 (S1), NIG 2. Stock
  • Wednesday 12.11. 09:45 - 13:00 Seminarraum 1 (S1), NIG 2. Stock
  • Wednesday 19.11. 09:45 - 13:00 Seminarraum 1 (S1), NIG 2. Stock
  • Wednesday 26.11. 09:45 - 13:00 Seminarraum 1 (S1), NIG 2. Stock
  • Wednesday 03.12. 09:45 - 13:00 Seminarraum 1 (S1), NIG 2. Stock
  • Wednesday 10.12. 09:45 - 13:00 Seminarraum 1 (S1), NIG 2. Stock
  • Wednesday 17.12. 09:45 - 13:00 Seminarraum 1 (S1), NIG 2. Stock
  • Wednesday 07.01. 09:45 - 13:00 Seminarraum 1 (S1), NIG 2. Stock
  • Wednesday 14.01. 09:45 - 13:00 Seminarraum 1 (S1), NIG 2. Stock
  • Wednesday 21.01. 09:45 - 13:00 Seminarraum 1 (S1), NIG 2. Stock
  • Wednesday 28.01. 09:45 - 13:00 Seminarraum 1 (S1), NIG 2. Stock

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Since the decade of the seventies, the states of Latin America and the Caribbean and their organizations of subregional and regional integration have made an effort to intensify their political economic and cultural relations to the countries of the Europe, Asia and Africa.
The seminar deals with the process of political and economic emanzipation of Latinameica from the USA focusing on the following key questions:
*) The external relations of the individual states of Latinamerica in particular the new leader states
*) The external relations of the old and new forms of subregional and regional integration in Latinamerica (CAN, MERCOSUR, CELAC, ALBA)
*) The old and new interventionspowers (USA, EU, China, India, Russia)

Assessment and permitted materials

*) attendance
*) preparation of a written concept and presentation handout
*) interim and final oral reports on the chosen topic
*) written paper (25-30 p.)

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Independent critical analysis of specific policy fields using appropriate theoretical and methodical approaches.

Examination topics

*) Introduction to the course’s research methods and processes
*) group meetings to discuss topics and literature
*) Presentation of research proposals and progress reports on the individually or collaboratively organized studies
*) presentation and written report on a specific topic

Reading list

Del Arenal Celestino/Sanajuha Jose Antonio (coords) America Latina y los Bicentenarios: una agenda de futuro Fundacíon Carolina, Madrid 2010
CEPAL, Las relaciones economicas y comerciales entre America Latina y Asia-Pacifico. con China, Segunda Cumbre Empresarial China- America Latina, Harbin 2008
Hill Christopher/ Smith Michael,(ed) International Relations and the European Union, Oxford 2011
Kernic, Franz./ Feichtinger, Walter. (Hrsg.), Transatlantische Beziehungen im Wandel. Baden-Baden 2006.
Kernic, Franz. (Hrsg.), Die Beziehungen der Europäischen Union zu Lateinamerika, Schriftenreihe der Landesverteidigungsakademie 1/2006. Wien 2006.

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