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Energy, Security and Diplomacy: Power Relations and Strategic Perspectives
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:1.00
Study Course Accepted:19.03.2024 13:55:20
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | SZF_048 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 4.00 | ECTS: | 6.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Politics | Target Audience: | Political Science | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Andris Sprūds | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 0 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 0 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 0 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 23 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 46 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 46 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | General understanding of global economy, power relations and diplomacy. | ||||||||
| Objective: | The course aims to view and analyse the development trends and aspects of global and regional energy policy. The course focuses on the role of the United States in the global energy architecture, Russia’s energy “weapons”, shaping and implementing the EU energy strategy, and the energy dialogue between the EU and Russia. EU enlargement and the impact of the new Member States on the EU energy policy and energy challenges are also being assessed. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Global energy trends: “resource century” and “great games” | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Global energy architecture and geopolitics | Classes | 3.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Russia's energy sector | Classes | 3.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Russian energy diplomacy | Classes | 4.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | EU energy policy: internal dimension | Classes | 3.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | EU energy policy: external dimension | Classes | 3.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Between “old” Europe and Russia: Energy policy in new EU member states | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Conclusions. Latvian energy policy: security and diplomacy | Classes | 3.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Students independently engage into literature assessment, prepare an opinion piece and presentation on the respective topic. In order to evaluate the quality of the study course as a whole, the student must fill out the study course evaluation questionnaire on the Student Portal. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Mastering of the study material is assessed by the following forms of examination, which together form a grade: Activity during classes – 30% Individual project: opinion peace – 15% Presentation of the project topic – 15% Tests – 20% Exam – 20% | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Students will be able to assess international aspects of energy trends and power relations. Students will be able to analyse energy policy from the perspective of national security and diplomacy and identify energy security strategies of international actors. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Students will be able to demonstrate professional presentation skills and opinion formulation and expression skills in an international environment. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Students will master interdisciplinary research and evaluation competences. Students will demonstrate competence to evaluate the role of international actors and characterise the priorities and instruments in the context of energy policy. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Visa literatūra ir angļu valodā un piemērota gan latviešu, gan angļu plūsmas studentiem | ||||||||
| 2 | British Petroleum. Energy Outlook, 2020 | ||||||||
| 3 | European Commission. Fourth Report on the State of the Energy Union, 2019 | ||||||||
| 4 | The Atlantic Council Report. Reform of the Global Energy Architecture, 2017 | ||||||||
| 5 | IRENA, Global Energy Transformation: A Roadmap to 2050, 2018 | ||||||||
| 6 | Bud Coote. Impact of Sanctions on Russian Energy Sector. Atlantic Council Report, 2018 | ||||||||
| 7 | Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. Russsia-Ukraine transit talks: the risk to gas in Europe, 2019 | ||||||||
| 8 | Cogressional Research Service. Nord Stream 2: A Fait Accompli? Report, 2019 | ||||||||
| 9 | Ramunas Vilpišauskas and others. Report, Energy Security in the Baltic Sea Region. Vilnius, 2015 | ||||||||
