This master’s seminar aims to promote knowledge and critical reflection on conceptual debates on violence, peace and security in the field of International Relations. The deconstruction of the concepts of violence, peace and security, as well as the understanding of the relationship between these concepts and the practices of international politics, will serve as a platform for the analysis of the European Union’s external relations, with a special focus on its Eastern neighbourhood. The specific cases of Georgia and Ukraine will be analyzed on the basis of these distinct but related concepts, thus allowing a broader and deeper interpretation of the European Union’s foreign policies and its concrete responses to these two cases. [Course taught in Portuguese].
