Understanding the European Union
Календарный план
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Feb 22nd
Student Presentation Topics
Presenting TEAMS
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Feb 29th
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Mar 7thCommission vs. Big Tech (Google, FB)Jami, Pouran4.
Mar 14thFood Quality and SafetyVuk, Akshat, Leonardo5.
Mar 21stGermany (or Greece) in the Eurozone CrisisEmile, Lukas B., Elizaveta6.
Apr 4thMigration CrisisAlba, Sebastian, Alexia D.7.
Apr 11thEU relations with superpowersJustin, Yin, Elizabeth8.
Apr 18th
EU Enlargement
Nikol, Vladyslav, Mathilda
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Apr 25th
The Green Deal
Tereza C, Nikoloz, Samira
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May 2nd
Euroscepticism
Vitek, Adela, Daniel
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May 9th
Blame It on Brussels
Finn, Zeno, Maxima
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May 16th
The “Idea of Europe”
Anja, Mariam, Jakub
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May 23rd
If needed 3 more presentations (9 more students)
EU and Russia's War on Ukraine: Marta, Zhasmin, Oryna
Citizens and the EU: Malak, Adrian, Tom
EU Reform in the wake of enlargement ____, ____, ____
Soft Power EU? Sylwia, Weronika, SubashPlease email me - 41630906@fsv.cuni.cz - which topic you'd like to present on! It's a rough "umbrella" of a topic with wiggle room for specific cases; let's consult them in the run-up to the class.
All classes will take place in person, in Jinonice campus - room B 316 THURSDAYS 12:30-13:50
Consultation hours - before class from 11:30, room C 514 (ideally email me before that you're coming)
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Policy Paper (1500 - 2000 words; excl. references)
Policy paper is a type of document which:
- either evaluates impacts of a policy on a given actor, say a state, region or industry
- or alternatively calls for a policy to be adopted to resolve an existing problem
First, the paper needs to identify what is the problem.
Example: The EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) is negatively affecting UK fishing business!
Second, what is the policy and what is its impact?
Example: The Withdrawal Agreement (WA) effectively removed UK from the EU, and the TCA rejected both UK membership in the common market as well as in the customs union; while there are no trade tariffs imposed in the TCA, the UK fishermen and exporters are suddenly faced with a wall of “non-tariff barriers” to trade resulting from EU food health and safety regulations as part of the common agricultural and common fisheries policies. They have to document now, that they comply with the EU rules.
Third, what is the context?
Example: Based on comparison of January 2020 and January 2021 data – British fish export to EU has dropped by X percent. British fishermen export XY percent of catch to EU common market, specifically X% to France, Y% to Germany and Z% to Poland. The industry employs so and so many workers and generates 0.01% of British GDP. Fishing business is typically medium sized with only a small percentage of companies employing more than 200 workers… As a renegotiation of the TCA is not likely in the near future, the fishing industry will be impacted for the foreseeable future.
Fourth, what do you recommend to alleviate or resolve that problem? Pros and cons?
Example: State support for fishing industry (Can UK afford it? For how long?). Administrative help by the state (training for clerical workers? How feasible?). Expectations of fishermen moving to a different industry? Can UK help to create any new jobs? Would Conservative government even consider something like this? Can fishermen diversify markets (where? Trying to export fish to Norway is like bringing owls to Athens...). Or just do it and relocate company to EU (as advised by government).
Conclude.
A policy paper is a “practical” paper (not an academic paper) so it does not include theory. This however does not mean references are omitted – references are needed to point the reader to used data/statistics or legal documents.
Suggestions where to get inspired: https://politicalscienceguide.com/home/policy-paper/
…or in the many think tanks listed on page 2 of this syllabus
Assessed area
Percentage
Structure: identification of a problem, identification of impact, identification of local context, recommendation, conclusion.
10%
Impact: how is the (lack of) policy affected the sector?
10%
Context: national, regional, citizen or industry environment hit by a policy (needing a policy)
15%
Recommendations: pros and cons
25%
Quality sources need to be properly referenced.
10%
TOTAL
= 70%
Cheating, copy pasting stuff without proper reference will not be tolerated, seriously! See section on plagiarism below.
Using AI without acknowledgement is not allowed!
Submitted papers will be processed via Turn It In originality check software.
To prevent any misunderstanding PLAGIARISM is defined as:
“the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one’s own original work.” - Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd Edition, Random House, New York, 1993
Turnitin’s White Paper ‘The Plagiarism Spectrum’1 identifies 10 types of plagiarism ordered from most to least severe:
- CLONE: An act of submitting another’s work, word-for-word, as one’s own.
- CTRL-C: A written piece that contains significant portions of text from a single source without alterations.
- FIND–REPLACE: The act of changing key words and phrases but retaining the essential content of the source in a paper.
- REMIX: An act of paraphrasing from other sources and making the content fit together seamlessly.
- RECYCLE: The act of borrowing generously from one’s own previous work without citation; to self-plagiarize.
- HYBRID: The act of combining perfectly cited sources with copied passages—without citation—in one paper.
- MASHUP: A paper that represents a mix of copied material from several different sources without proper citation.
- 404 ERROR: A written piece that includes citations to non-existent or inaccurate information about sources
- AGGREGATOR: The “Aggregator” includes proper citation, but the paper contains almost no original work.
- RE-TWEET: This paper includes proper citation, but relies too closely on the text’s original wording and/or structure.
Useful text, Foltynek 2020: How to Avoid Plagiarism (A Student Handbook)