Belarus as a special actor of the EaP – standing inside and outside at the same time. EU as an actor of democracy promotion in the case of Belarus – achievements and failures.

Readings (Materials for Group debate 2):

• Ditrych, O. (2013): Good cop or bad cop? Sanctioning Belarus. European Union Institute for Security Studies, March 2013. (Total 4 pages)
• Nice, A. (2012): Playing Both Sides: Belarus between Russia and the EU, DGAP analyse, March 2012, Nr. 2. (Total 18 pages)
• Korosteleva, E. (2012): The European Union and its Eastern Neighbours. Towards a more ambitious partnership? London: Routledge, pp. 61 – 81. (Total 21 pages)
• Rotman, D., Veremeeva, N. (2012): Belarus in the Context of the Neigbourhood Policy: Between the EU and Russia. In Korosteleva (ed.; 2012): Eastern Partnership: A New Opportunity for the Neighbours, London: Routledge, pp. 75 – 100. (Total 36 pages)
• Youngs, R. (2014): Europe and Belarus in Changing Times. Carnegie Moscow Center. Eurasia Outlook, September 18, 2014. (http://carnegie.ru/eurasiaoutlook/?fa=56669) (Total 1 page)

Recommended:

• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (2014): Belarus. On-line: http://carnegieendowment.org/search/?fa=searchResults&qry=Belarus
• European Union. External Action (2015): Belarus. On-line: http://eeas.europa.eu/belarus/index_en.htm
• Nygren, B. (2010): The Rebuilding of Greater Russia. Putin´s foreign policy towards the CIS countries. London: Routledge, pp. 66 – 81.

Group debate 2: “EU and its policy of democracy promotion and human rights protection: The case of Belarus”, March 20

Students will be divided into 3 groups on Friday, March 13. 2 groups will prepare, develop, explain and present arguments supporting particular position to the assigned topic. Third group will serve as a jury.

Groups may also use PPT presentation for presenting their arguments.

Written version of the group positions (in doc. format, min. 5000 characters long) should be submitted to the Information system.

Deadline: March 19 (written positions of the opposing groups) and March 22 (written position of the jury)

For other details concerning the group debates, please, see the Syllabus of the course. For materials see the folder "Materials - Group debate 2" in Study materials (Assigned Reading) .

Deadline for uploading of PP 2: “EU´s Common Defense and Scurity polity and its instruments for solving the frozen conflicts in South Caucasus” is March 19, 11 a.m.

Materials for the PP2: See the file "Articles for PP 2" in Study materials (Assigned Reading).