Università Roma Tre

THE COURSE IS STRUCTURED IN 3 PARTS:

1) An overview of the European Union’s politics, history, institutional developments, and environmental policies
Main topics: The EU today; European integration processes from the European Community of the 1970s to the EU of the 2000s. The roots of the EU environmental policy within the context of its energy policy and external relations.


2) The making of the global environmental governance: an international history perspective. 
The role of the EU in global environmental governance
Main topics: Globalized environmentalism and environmental policies in Europe and the US, from the Stockholm Conference of 1972 to the Paris Agreement of 2015: from conservation to sustainable development; multilateral negotiations and agreements.
Global-scale environmental challenges, climate change and the international role of the EU in the 1990s and 2000s.

3) Students’ class presentations (May 2025) and final oral exam 

(See list of required and recommended readings/bibliography)

STUDENTS WILL BE GRADED BASED ON THE FOLLOWING:

A) An individual oral presentation in class (NO POWER POINT, NOR OTHER SLIDES, 15 minutes) based on one essay each student will choose from the following book
Kaiser Wolfram, Meyer Jan-Henrik (eds), International Organizations and Environmental Protection. Conservation and Globalization in the Twentieth Century, New York, Berghahn Books, 2016

B) A RESEARCH PROJECT IN TEAM WORK (POWER POINT/SLIDES ALLOWED, 15 minutes) on one of the course's topics (please, inform your Prof. of the chosen topic by April 15, 2025)

A) and B) together will count for 50% of the overall grade

C) INDIVIDUAL ORAL EXAM based on both the following required readings,
Jordan Andrew, Gravey Viviane(eds), Environmental policy in the EU: actors, institutions and processes, (fourth edition), London, Routledge, 2021, pp. 1-276
Afionis Stavros, The European Union in International Climate Change Negotiations, London, Routledge, 2017

C) counts for another 50% of the overall grade

1. Afionis Stavros, The European Union in International Climate Change Negotiations, London, Routledge, 2017;
2. Jordan Andrew, Gravey Viviane(eds), Environmental policy in the EU: actors, institutions and processes, (fourth edition), London, Routledge, 2021, pp. 1-276;
3. Kaiser Wolfram, Meyer Jan-Henrik (eds), International Organizations and Environmental Protection. Conservation and Globalization in the Twentieth Century, New York, Berghahn Books, 2016