November 20, 2014
Amerikanische Universitat in Zentralasien
Course Syllabus
Course: European Asian Values Compared (GER)
Course Organizer: Johannes Chudoba, Asel Abdieva, Diana Arykbaeva
Department: European Studies
Academic Year 2014/2015
Course description
The course “European and Asian Values Compared” adopts a historical and comparative approach to the study of contemporary European and Asian values in politics and society.
The question of common values is at the core of the challenges of European integration and inter-state cooperation, the European Union, the Council of Europe and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation, are faced with. The most important and advanced project of European integration is the EU. The course will, therefore, mainly focus on its values and their concretization in EU integration, external action and enlargement. The course will then look into the role of the Council of Europe and the OSCE in maintaining and promoting European values. Moreover, the question of how European values compare to other civilizations’ and major partners’ values.
However, the seminar seeks to enable students to reflect in an informed and critical way upon the European or western values debate looking into competing projects like the Asian value debate originating from South-East Asia. It will also help students to place current socio-political values of macro-regions within their broader historical, geographical, economic and political contexts.
Course objectives
Teaching methods
Lectures, discussions, student presentations and writing component.
Course Organization
The Course Organisers are Johannes Chudoba, Asel Abdieva, European Studies Department, American University of Central Asia, Bishkek (chudoba_j@auca.kg, abdieva_a@auca.kg, )
The writing component in German language is provided by Diana Arykbaeva, European Studies Department, American University of Central Asia, Bishkek (arykbaeva_d@auca.kg )
Credits: 6
Requirements and Assessment of the course
The students are required to write a text summary in German language (1/2 - 1 page) and to present the text in class in German language (advanced learners will be given a text in German language).
Each student is required once to write minutes of the class (1-2 pages) in German language related to one of the topics of the course.
The students are required to write an essay in German language (1500 words) and it should be presented in class and agreed with the lecturer in advance.
Changes to the syllabus
Additional assessments will not be added to the syllabus; however we reserve the right to alter reading or/and topics to meet the needs of the students taking the course. Additional readings may be scheduled if they relate to current developments in the region(s). Additional readings in German language will be provided taking into account the proficiency of the students.
Plagiarism
Students are expected to think for themselves and to express themselves in their own words. In that limited sense their work should be original. It must not be plagiarised. Plagiarism is the appropriation of another person’s thoughts or words without attribution. Plagiarism is an offence against Academy Rules and leads to the failure of the course (F grade).
For any written assessment the AUCA Essay Writing and Anti-plagiarism Rules apply. In addition, students should submit a statement certifying that the paper has been written independently, that no assistance and source other than those stated has been used and that quotations have been marked as such.
Attendance
All students enrolled for the course are required to attend all seminars. A register of attendance at any meeting of the class will be taken.
Practicalities
Ours is a large class, which means that all of the usual elements of academic courtesy – that you turn up on time to class, that you listen when the Course Organiser or one of your peers is talking, that you hand in work on time – become all the more important to the functioning of the class. Students absent without good reason, constantly late in person or with their work, have ‘negative participation’ in class will be dropped from the class (F grade).
Requirements
Attendance & participation 25%
Minutes & text summary 25%
Presentation & Essay 25%
Writing in the discipline 25%
Reading materials
Each class has a reading assignment indicated below. The students are required to prepare the assignments before the class in order to take part in the discussion.
Concerns about progress
It is the policy of the course that students worried about progress in individual subjects may discuss their work (including, in broad terms, how they went wrong in units of assessment) with the Course Organiser. Students worried about progress in writing may discuss their work during the Writing in the Discipline component by Diana Arykbaeva (30 min. per student per week).
Special needs
Students with special needs are encouraged to bring this information to the attention (in confidence) of the Course Organiser and Head of the Department.
Course schedule
Week Date Subject
1 02.09.14 Introduction
04.09.14 Introduction: Key concepts
Values
2 09.09.14 Values and family values: wedding photographs analyzed
11.09.14 Values and family values
3 16.09.14 Values of social groups: students
18.09.14 Values of social groups: students
Civilizations
4 23.09.14 Values and EU enlargement
25.09.14 Democratic legitimacy in the EU
The EU as a community of values
5 30.09.14 The EU as a community of values: Values and EU identity
02.10.14 The EU as a community of values: EU social dimension
6 07.10.14 The EU as a community of values: Evolution of values in External action
09.10.14 The EU as a community of values: Common Foreign and Security Policy
7 14.10.14 The EU as a community of values: Trade and development policy
16.10.14 The EU as a community of values: Regional and inter-regional cooperation
8 21.10.14 The EU as a community of values: Values and EU’s position in the world
Midterm review and exam
23.10.14 Kurman Ait (no class, independent study)
9 28.10.14 Day of March Revolution
30.10.14 Day of April Revolution
10 04.11.14 Day of Revolution in Ukraine
06.11.14 OSCE: The role of the OSCE in setting and safeguarding values
11 11.11.14 OSCE: Protection of Minorities
13.11.14 OSCE: HCRM
European values and values of other civilizations and major partners
12 18.11.14 Communist values
20.11.14 Values in the relationship between EU and Russia
13 25.11.14 Islamic values
27.11.14 European and Islamic values
14 02.12.14 Asian values
04.12.14 European and Asian values
15 09.12.14 Central Asian values
11.12.14 European and Central Asian values
16.12.14 Final Exams
18.01.12 Final grades due date
Schedule of Classes:
Week 1: Introduction
Asian and European values will be discussed.
Key categories
Values, universal values;
Asian and European values;
European values;
Rationality, secularity, democracy, rule of law.
Week 2: Values and family values
Asian and European family values will be discussed. Weeding photographs will be analyzed.
Key categories
Values, universal values;
Family values.
Reading:
Basic Texts:
Acock, Alan, C. / Bengtson, Vern, L. (1978): On the Relative Influence of Mothers and Fathers: A Covariance Analysis of Political and Religious Socialization. In: Journal of Marriage and Family, 40. Jg., Heft 3, S. 519-530.
ALL_Spates, James, L. (1983): The Sociology of Values. In: Annual Review of Sociology, Vol., p. 27-49.
ALL_Hitlin, Steven / Piliavin, Jane, Allyn (2004): Values: Reviving a Dormant Concept. In: Annual Review of Sociology, 30. Jg., S. 359-393.
Inglehart, Ronald / Baker, Wayne, E. (2000): Modernization, Cultural Change, and Persistence of Traditional Values. In: American Sociological Review, 65. Jg., Heft 1, Looking Forward, Looking Back:Continuity and Change at the Turn of the Millenium, S. 19-51.
Irwin, Sarah (2003): Interdependencies, values and the reshaping of difference: gender and generation at the birth of twentieth-century modernity. In: British Journal of Sociology, 54. Jg., Heft 4, S. 565-584.
McBroom, William, H. / Reed, Fred, W. / Burns, Clarence, E. / u.a. (1985): Intergenerational Transmission of Values: A Data-Based Reassessment. In: Social Psychology Quarterly, 48. Jg., Heft 2, S. 150-163.
Wright, James, D. / Wright, Sonia, R. (1976): Social Class and Parental Values for Children: A Partial Replication and Extension of the Kohn Thesis. In: American Sociological Review, 41. Jg., Heft 3, S. 527-537.
Week 3: Values of social groups: students
Values of students, values at Kyrgyz institutions of higher learning.
Key categories
cultural unity;
civilization(s).
Reading:
Basic Texts:
Kim, Bryan, S., K. / Park, Yong, S. (2008): Asian and European American Cultural Values and Communication Styles Among Asian American and European American College Students. In: Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 14. Jg., Heft 1, p. 47–56.
Week 4: Clash of Civilizations
Research question: Why the next conflict is more likely to happen along cultural lines?
Key categories
cultural unity;
civilization(s).
Reading:
Basic Texts:
Huntington, Samuel P. (1993): ‘Clash of civilizations?’ In: Foreign Affairs, Vol 72, No 3, p 42.
Bugge, Peter (2000): Asia and the Idea of Europe - Europe and its Others. In: Asian Values and Vietnam’s Development in Comparative Perspective, S. 3-13.
Davis, Darren, W. / Dowley, Kathleen, M. / Silver, Brian, D. (1999): Postmaterialism in World Societies: Is It Really a Value Dimension? In: American Journal of Political Science, 43. Jg., Heft 3, S. 935-962.
McCabe, Donald, L. / Dukerich, Janet, M. / Dutton, Jane (1993): Values and Moral Dilemmas: A Cross-Cultural Comparison. In: Business Ethics Quarterly, 3. Jg., Heft 2, S. 117-130.
Additional recommended literature:
Huntington, Samual P. (1996): Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. Simon&Schuster.
Week 5: The EU as a community of values: Values and EU identity, social cohesion
Where are the sources of European Values?
Key categories
Origins and evolution of European values;
religious values.
Reading:
Basic Texts:
European Commission (2007): Special Eurobarometer 278: European Cultural Values.
The perfect European. In: Atlas of European Values. URL:http://www.atlasofeuropeanvalues.eu/opdrachten.php?lang=en. Stand: 24.08.2012.
Eichinger, Franz (2009): Common Values as a Source for EU Identity Formation. In: Working Papers Centre for German and European Studies (CGES), 2. Jg.
Otto, Viviane, Louisa (2011): European Values, National Anxieties? How Multilayered Networks Promote Higher Education in Europe. In: Jong, Janny de / Megens, Ine / Waal, Margriet van der: Walking the Tightrope: Europe between Europeanisation and Globalisation. Selected papers presented at the European Studies Intensive programme 2010, University of Groningen. Groningen, S. 143-160.
Schwartz, Shalom, H. / Huismans, Sipke (1995): Value Priorities and Religiosity in Four Western Religions. In: Social Psychology Quarterly, 58. Jg., Heft 2, S. 88-107.
Toggenburg, Gabriel N. (2004): The Debate on European Values and the Case of Cultural Diversity. In: 1 European Diversity and Autonomy Papers – EDAP (2004), at: www.eurac.edu/edap.
Additional recommended literature:
Barraclough, G., European Unity in Thought and Action, Oxford 1963
Benoît-Rohmer F. and Klebes H., Council of Europe Law – Towards a pan-European Legal Area
Chalmers D., Hadjiemmanuil C., Monti G., Tomkin A., European Union Law, Text and Materials, Cambridge 2006
Hill L. and Smith M., International Relations and the EU, Oxford 2005
McCormick J., Understanding the European Union – A Concise Introduction, 3rd edition, New York 2005
Mikkeli H., Europe as an Idea and an Identity, 1998
Rietbergen P., A Cultural History of Europe
Week 6: The EU as a community of values: Evolution of values in External action, Common Foreign and Security Policy
Key categories
;
.
Reading:
Basic Texts:
Lucarelli S., Manners I. (2006): Values and Principles in European Union Foreign Policy, London/ New York 2006
Additional recommended literature:
Lucarelli S., Manners I. (2006): Values and Principles in European Union Foreign Policy, London/ New York 2006
Week 7: The EU as a community of values: Trade and development policy; regional and inter-regional cooperation
Key categories
Business ethics;
Code of conduct.
Reading:
Basic Texts:
Scott, Elizabeth, D. (2002): Organizational Moral Values. In: Business Ethics Quarterly, 12. Jg., Heft 1, S. 33-55.
Week 8: The EU as a community of values: Values and EU’s position in the world
Key categories
Community of values;
Unity in diversity.
Reading:
Basic Texts:
Schuman, Howard (1972): Attitudes vs. Actions Versus Attitudes vs. Attitudes. In: The Public Opinion Quarterly, 36. Jg., Heft 3, S. 347-354.
Week 9: The Council of Europe: promoting European values, the European Convention of Human Rights
Key categories
Human rights: universal or western concept;
the European Convention of Human Rights.
Reading:
Basic Texts:
Boswell, Christina (2000): European Values and the Asylum Crisis. In: International Affairs 76. Jg., Heft 3, S. 537-557
Additional recommended literature:
Jacobs F. G. and White, The European Convention on Human Rights, 4th edition, Oxford 2006
Peers S. and Ward A., The European Charter of Fundamental Rights, Oxford 2004
Week 10+11: OSCE: Protection of Minorities, HCRM
Key categories
minority rights as a societal value;
tolerance.
Reading:
Basic Texts:
Peffley, Mark / Knigge, Pia/ Hurwitz, Jon (2001): A Multiple Values Model of Political Tolerance. In: Political Research Quarterly, 54. Jg., Heft 2 S. 379-406.
Week 12: Communist values, values in the relationship between EU and Russia
Key categories
communist ideals and soviet values.
Reading:
Basic Texts:
Schwartz, Shalom, H. / Bardi, Anat (1997): Influences of Adaptation to Communist Rule on Value Priorities in Eastern Europe. In: Political Psychology, 18. Jg., Heft 2, Special Issue: Culture and Cross-Cultural Dimensions of Political Psychology, S. 385-410.
Smith, Graham (1999): The Masks of Proteus: Russia, Geopolitical Shift and the New Eurasianism. In: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, 24. Jg., Heft 4, S. 481-494.
Week 13: Islamic values, European and Islamic values
Key categories
Hofstede's Cultural Values Framework;
Islamic values.
Reading:
Basic Texts:
Brown, Peter (1974): "Mohammed and Charlemagne" by Henri Pirenne. In: Daedalus, 103. Jg., Heft 1, S. 25-33.
Kirkman, Bradley, L. / Lowe, Kevin, B. / Gibson, Cristina, B. (2006): A Quarter Century of "Culture's Consequences": A Review of Empirical Research Incorporating Hofstede's Cultural Values Framework. In: Journal of International Business Studies, 37. Jg., Heft 3, S. 285-320.
Week 14: Asian values, European and Asian values
Key categories
Asian values debate;
buddhism.
Reading:
Basic Texts:
Hong-jong, Lee (2003): Development, Crisis, and Asian Values. In: East Asian Review, 15. Jg., Heft 2, S. 27-42.
Jones, David, Martin (1997): Asian Values and the Constitutional Order of Contemporary Singapore. In: Constitutional Political Economy, 8. Jg., S. 283–300.
Kisala, Robert (1999): Asian values study. In: Bulletin of the Nanzan Institute for Religion and culture, 23. Jg., S. 59-73.
Langguth, Gerd (2003): Asian values revisited 1. In: Asia Europe Journal, 1. Jg., S. 25–42.
Thompson, Mark (2000): The survival of ``Asian values'' as ``Zivilisationskritik''. In: Theory and Society, 29. Jg., S.651-686.
Thompson, Mark, R. (2004): Pacific Asia after 'Asian Values': Authoritarianism, Democracy, and 'Good Governance'. In: Third World Quarterly, 25. Jg., Heft 6, S. 1079-1095.
Whitcomb, Laura, L. / Erdener, Carolyn, B. / Li, Cheng (1998): Business Ethical Values in China and the U.S. In: Journal of Business Ethics, 17. Jg., Heft 8, S. 839-852.
Additional recommended literature:
Huntington, Samual P. (1996): Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. Simon&Schuster.
Week 15: Central Asian values, European and Central Asian values
Key categories
nomadic values and society;
tribal values and society.
Reading:
Basic Texts:
will be added
Additional recommended literature:
will be added
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