INAF U6021x European Banking Post Crisis 3 pts.

This course examines the root causes, implications, regulatory reforms and prognosis for European Union and non EU countries financial sectors following the financial and currency crisis in 2010 which initially implicated Greece, but evolved into a larger European banking and market crisis. The course will focus on three main areas:

EU and Eurozone political and economic environment: Unlike the US sector, the European universal banking model overall weathered the Crisis of 2008, allowing major banks to retain institutional identity. Which banks and which countries fared the best and the worst? Was membership in the Eurozone a determinant in sound financial policies? What were the vulnerabilities in core, peripheral and non EU countries? Why was the Greek debt crisis a litmus test for the Euro and EU financial institutions?

Policies and politics: Regulatory reforms: Globally the state has had to intervene and manage, avert or control bank failures. Across Europe how has this altered the public-private financial sector relationship? National and cross national regulatory reform: how has the ongoing crisis redefined regulatory authority, the role and functions of national central banks, the European Central Bank and the interplay with the IMF? Will and should there be US-EU regulatory harmonization?

Country specific analysis of major and minor institutions: How have major EU banking sectors : France, UK, Germany, Spain , Italy , Sweden coped with internal and external shocks? How have major non EU players been affected : Turkey, Switzerland, as well as small nations: Iceland, and weaker non Eurozone Baltic and Balkan nations? SIPA: MIA- Interstate Relations. SIPA: IFEP- Finance. SIPA: IFEP- Economic Policy. SIPA: Europe.

INAF U6290y Challenges to democracy and governance in times of global crises: Europe and Greece Our citizens, our democracies, are confronted with looming and often unprecedented challenges in a globalized economy. Europe (as with the developed world)is faced with issues such as the debt and competition from the emerging markets, global climate change and the need to transition to green growth. At the same time Europe is challenged tomaintainits legacy of lasting peace, democratic processes, equality, employment and social cohesion. Has the EU run its course? What were the underlying (political, institutional, financial) hindrances Europe faced and continues to face in dealing with the financial crisis? Has itbecome an ongoing locus of instability? Or (as the Nobel Peace Prize Committee would have it) does Europe continue to provide us with a model of cooperation and empowerment of our societies? Can Europe overcome its obstacles by a democratic re-designing of its institutions? What might these look like? Can democracy work beyond borders, regulating markets, empowering people, creating a transnational political identity or are nationalisms, xenophobia and populism going to take the upper hand in politics? How do these questions relate to the wider issue of global governance in an interdependent world economy? We will investigate these questions using the Greek crisis as a starting point. SIPA: IFEP- Economic Policy. SIPA: Europe. SIPA: Short Courses.

INAF U8565x European Security 3 pts. This course surveys historical and current case studies in the context of theoretical debates about the sources of security and insecurity and war and peace. The aim is to establish a foundation for analyzing the prospects for a secure order in Europe in the first part of the 21st century. The emphasis is on problems concerning strategic calculations, military strategy and war as well as political processes and institutional dynamics. Separate sections in the second half of the term are devoted to selected current policy challenges, such as transatlantic rifts, identity issues and ethnonational conflict, transitions in Central Europe and the former Soviet Union, NATO and EU enlargements, and European foreign and defense initiatives. SIPA: East Central Europe. SIPA: Europe. SIPA: Intl Org. SIPA: ISP. SIPA: Russia.

PUAF U8470y Work/Family Policy in Advanced Industrial Countries 3 pts. This course has three objectives. The first is to acquaint students with existing policies in the US and Western Europe aimed at increasing women's workforce participation and men's participation in family work. The second is to give students an improved understanding of the creation of public policy and ability to assess possibilities for future change. The third is to encourage students to think about the consequences - both intended and unintended -- of public policies. Students whose geographical interests lie outside of the scope of the course will have the opportunity to apply the concepts introduced in the course to their country or region of choice in the research paper. Additionally, they are warmly encouraged to expand the scope of the seminar discussion by introducing examples from outside the readings. SIPA: Europe. SIPA: USP- Social Policy Track.

REGN U6200x Troublespot or Hotbed of Creativity? The Politics of Hatred and Fear in the History of Eastern and Central Europe 1918-1990 This territory in the heart of Europe, stretching from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the river Elb to the Eastern Carpathians has ever since the mid-19th century been in the midst of world history. This is the homeland of scientific, technical, literary and artistic excellence but also the home of powerful hatreds and fears. Famous for tremendeous creativity and blamed for causing world wars and bringing about terrible sufferings to many millions of people. The course will try to explain the contradiction. SIPA: East Central Europe. SIPA: Europe. SIPA: Short Courses.

REGN U6300y The Economics of European Integration 3 pts. A course on the theory and institutions of European economic integration stressing contemporary economic policies and problems of the European Union. The course examines both the intra-EU dimensions of these issues and their consequences for other parts of the international system. Topics covered include: the history and institutional arrangements of the EU; the economics of regionalism and Preferential Trade Agreements; empirical research on the trade and welfare effects of economic integration; the economics of the internal market; the theory of optimum currency areas and its application to European Monetary Union, labour markets and EU macroeconomic policy; the Common Agricultural Policy; regional and budget policy; competition and industrial policy; the economic effects of EU enlargement; and the EU's external economic policy. SIPA: East Central Europe. SIPA: IFEP- Finance. SIPA: IFEP- Economic Policy. SIPA: Europe.

REGN U6520y Political Identity Post Communism 3 pts.Not offered in 2012-2013. The course examines the complex relations between policies and identities in various countries of post-communist Eastern, Central and Southern Europe. It deals with various aspects of identity politics, including language, ethnicity, religion and memory, in an array of social domains encompassing education, public administration, citizenship, foreign policy, the media, churches, toponymy, and public monuments. It seeks to describe post-communist processes in these domains as both grounded in the ideologies and practices of the communist and pre-communist past and shaped by general sociopolitical situation in the countries under consideration and external (geo)political contexts in which they were choosing their transformation strategies. A case featured in the course is Ukraine; it is very interesting in view of its ambivalent historical legacy and contradictory policies in post-Soviet years and has been rather extensively studied by Western scholars. At the same time, the course also pays considerable attention to cases as different as Estonia, Latvia, Belarus, Moldova, Poland, Slovakia, Romania, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. This choice of cases makes it possible to present a diversity and complexity of identity politics in post-communist societies. In particular, it makes it possible to show how different degrees of radicalism of "nationalizing" policies have been both determined by inherited ideologies of elites and identities of masses and determining post-communist transformation of these ideologies and identities, as well as influencing social stability, democratic reform and foreign policy trajectories. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: Europe. SIPA: Russia.

REGN U6530x Post-Soviet Russia from the Inside This course will look at the history of modern Russia from perestroika, to the collapse of the USSR, the creation of the Russian Federation, conversion to a market econonmy and the Putin era. The focus will be on the developmnet of the new economy and new business and professional leaders in Russian society. We will explore changes in the loegal structures and commercial practices. Guest speakers who were themselves involved in these processes will add on-the-ground insights into these changes. SIPA: East Central Europe. SIPA: Europe. SIPA: Russia.

REGN U6545x Human Rights in the Western Balkans This course focuses on the Western Balkans of the Former Yugoslavia in a contemporary context. The course focuses on war crimes and their respective consequences that have occurred during the most recent Balkan Wars 1991-1999 in the Former Yugoslav states and will include a detailed review and examination of human rights policies and practices carried out by international, regional and national bodies, laws, organizations, frameworks of transitional justice and evaluative tools employed in an effort to stabilize a post-war, post-Communist, post-conflict scenario. The course will present and examine in detail policies and practices deployed by international and national state structures to address the legacies of war crimes and the emergence of new human rights issues that are currently present in the Former Yugoslav space. SIPA: East Central Europe. SIPA: Europe. SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: Short Courses.

REGN U8090x The Transatlantic Economy 3 pts. A course on economic relations in an era of regionalism and the formation of rival economic blocs. This course examines the changing architecture of contemporary US-EU relations, placing this relationship within wider multilateral obligations. Topics to be discussed include conceptual frameworks within which the relationship may be analyzed; the economic dimension to common security; causes and consequences of past and present trade disputes; the development and implementation of the Transatlantic Agenda and related programs such as the Transatlantic Business Dialogue; implications for the dollar of European Monetary Union; and the impact on the relationship of each side's ties to other regional arrangements such as APEC, Mercosur and EU enlargement to Eastern and Central Europe. Course requirements: A term paper and classroom presentations. SIPA: MIA- Interstate Relations. SIPA: APEA. SIPA: IFEP- Finance. SIPA: IFEP- Economic Policy. SIPA: Europe. SIPA: Intl Org. SIPA: United States. SIPA: UN Studies.

SIPA U0030x and y (Section 4) Regional Specialization: Europe

All SIPA candidates are required to register for one of the specializations in each semester of matriculation at SIPA. The regional specialization registration will be for zero academic credits and will not affect or be affected by fees or financial charges. SIPA: Europe.

LAW L6249x European Union Law and Institutions 3 pts.Not offered in 2012-2013. This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search SIPA: MIA- Interstate Relations. SIPA: Europe. SIPA: Intl Org. SIPA: Electives.

LAW L6911 Law and Governance in the European Union 2 pts. This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search SIPA: Europe. SIPA: Electives.

LAW L8140x European Constitutional Law and the Euro Crisis 1 pt. This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search SIPA: Europe. SIPA: Electives.