European Regional Policy

Major: International Relations
Code of subject: 6.291.01.E.090
Credits: 4.00
Department: Political Science and International Relations
Lecturer: PhD of Political Sciences, Assistant Professor Lemko Yuliia.
Semester: 5 семестр
Mode of study: денна
Learning outcomes: • to know the nature of interactions of individual countries and regions at the global, regional and local levels. • to know the features, trends, forms, methods and tools of state regulation of regional and cross-border cooperation, international cooperation of regions. • to know the main theoretical approaches to understanding regionalism, the main categories, concepts, technologies and methods of studying regionalism in the field of international relations. • to know modern ethnopolitical processes, their influence on regional and cross-border cooperation, to be able to analyze the basic tendencies of development of regional processes in modern international relations. • to know and understand the main of modern European regional policy, priorities, models and instruments of EU regional development, modern regional integration and disintegration processes. • to know the basics of state regional policy of Ukraine, features of its implementation and regulatory mechanisms, decision-making technologies in the field of regional and cross-border cooperation.
Required prior and related subjects: Prerequisites: Foreign policy of Central eastern Europe and Northeastern Europe. Co-requisites: Regional and cross-border cooperation.
Summary of the subject: Theoretical bases of research of dynamics of regions of the EU. The essence of regional and local development policy in the EU. Mechanisms and instruments of EU regional development. Monitoring of EU regional development. Convergence of regional models of the EU and Ukraine. Prospects for EU regional development.
Assessment methods and criteria: Current control (40%): oral interviews, presentations at seminars, participation in discussions, business games, group classes, case studies, preparation of presentations on a given topic, student projects, essays, participation in discussions. Examination control (60%) - three-level testing.
Recommended books: • Derzhavna rehionalna polityka: osoblyvosti ta stratehichni priorytety: monohr. / za red. Z. S. Varnaliia]. - K.: NIDS, 2007. - 768 s. • Chuzhykov V. I. Hlobalna rehionalistyka: istoriia ta suchasna metodolohiia : monohr. - K. : KNEU, 2008. - 272 s. • Kushnir M. O. Suchasni stratehichni oriientyry yevropeiskoi rehionalnoi polityky /M. O. Kushnir // Stratehichni priorytety. - 2013. №1 (26). - S. 146-149. • Oliinyk V. Teoretychni zasady ta praktyka monitorynhu rehionalnoi polityky YeS / V. Oliinyk, O. Honcharova // Mizhnarodna ekonomichna polityka. - 2014. - №2 (21). - S. 155-178. • Melnyk A. Rehionalna polityka ta pidtrymka rehionalnoho rozvytku: Porivniannia dosvidu Nimechchyny, YeS ta Ukrainy / A. Melnyk // Zhurnal yevropeiskoi ekonomiky. - 2003. - № 2. - S. 180-203. • Saveliev Ye. Peredumovy pohlyblennia i pryskorennia yevropeiskoi intehratsii Ukrainy / Ye. Saveliev //Zhurnal yevropeiskoi ekonomiky. - 2006. - № 2. - S. 111-118. • Mikula N. Yevrorehionalna spivpratsia i Ukraina //Spilnyi yevropeiskyi prostir: harmonizatsiia meharehionalnykh superechnostei: monohr. za zah. red. D. H Lukia- nenka, V. I. Chuzhykova]. - K.: KNEU, 2007. - S. 284-301. • Dubovyk B. Dosvid mizhnarodnoi spivpratsi v ramkakh yevro rehioniv. Perspektyvy Ukrainy [Elektronnyi resurs]. - Rezhym dostupu: http://www. uspishnaukraina. com.ua/index.php?lang=uk&theme= analitics&ctg_id=4&item_id=31 • Ievropeiska rehionalna polityka: natkhnennia dlia krain, shcho ne vkhodiat do YeS? Zastosuvannia pryntsypiv ta obmin dosvidom /Office of the official publica¬tions of the European Union. - Luxemboutg. 2009. - 16 c. • Operation Programmesin 2007-2013 [Electronic sourse]. - Mean of access: http:// www.pozytek.gov.pl/Operational,Programmes,in,2007-2013,989.html