Political Science - European Politics and External Relations University of Amsterdam

Overview

The Political Science - European Politics and External Relations programme of the University of Amsterdam provides students with a thorough understanding of Europe’s politics and power in an increasingly diverse, interdependent, and multi-polar world. You will be given the analytical, theoretical and empirical tools to develop a deeper understanding of EU’s role as an international actor.

Overview

Our programme offers in-depth study on both internal as well as external dimensions of European politics. Internally, you will use historically grounded approaches to analyze processes of European integration, democracy and citizenship. Externally, it focuses on understanding and analyzing Europe’s power in a changing global environment.

Examples from questions that will be addressed during our programme:

• How does the EU relate to other global players? How does Europe deal with transatlantic relations after Trump’s election? How does Europe engage with political transformations and conflict in the Middle East and North Africa?

• How does the economic crisis in the eurozone affect the European Union’s internal governance and its global position? What does deeper integration within the eurozone mean for national democracy, the risks of Brexit, the rise of populism and relations with major trading partners like the US and China?

• How do old and new security threats, like migration, global warming, energy dependency, and new wars, challenge, unite and divide EU member states? And how does the EU responds to social and political instability in its own direct neighborhood?