JHU SAIS in DC is open on time Thursday February 21, 2019 with all classes, events and activities taking place as scheduled.
Students engage in the study of modern European and Eurasian history, political economy and current affairs. The program equips concentrators to analyze not only what is happening in the European Union and its member states, but also on other nations in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, including Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia and to understand the region's role in the world.
Students may begin the EES program in either Bologna or Washington, DC. The program differs from other concentrations at the school because it does not have any required coursework. Students work with their program advisor and members of the senior faculty to design a course of study to prepare for three comprehensive exams that must be completed to meet the degree requirements. EES concentrators complete a program capstone by reporting on their summer internship experience or conducting an oral examination with members of the senior faculty.
Brussels, Bucharest or Bologna? Madrid, Milan or Moscow? London, Luxembourg, Warsaw or Zagreb?
Which of these cities will be your summer internship destination?
The unique Johns Hopkins SAIS model of providing a trans-Atlantic education means that students have the opportunity to study international relations first from a European perspective in Bologna and then from an American one in Washington DC One of the goals of the school's European and Eurasian Studies Program in particular is to provide a “third country experience” during the summer between the first and second years of the program, allowing concentrators to experience living and working in their region of study.
This year the program has secured over 50 internship positions across the region in policy research, public affairs consulting, international business development, financial and macroeconomic analysis, political movements and more. Opportunities are specifically designed for students and offer a content-rich experience with senior-level mentors.
Applications are open to MA, MAIA and MIPP candidates of all years and concentrations on all three campuses. Priority is given to first-year students in the EES program, though graduating students interested in working in the region are also considered since summer “exit-internships” are often a way to get a foot on the vieux continent. All recruiting is done through Handshake.
Questions may be directed to Cristina Benitez, EES Academic Manager at cristina.benitez@jhu.edu.
Students in this seminar conducted between Bologna and Washington via video conference develop an original question and make a scholarly contribution to the field. MA and PhD candidates learn research methods, analyze a current issue in the region and present their work during an authors’ workshop with program faculty.
European and Eurasian Studies Distinguished Lecture Series
The EES Distinguished Lecture Series in Washington is hosted by EES faculty and Author-in-Residence, James Mann. The series features global leaders and experts of the region. Lectures are held on select Tuesday evenings and open to the school's community and the public. RSVP for upcoming events at eesdistinguishedlectures.com.
Russia/Eurasia Forum
The Russia/Eurasia Forum meets bi-weekly and is hosted by Professor Bruce Parrott. Experts from around the Washington, DC area give presentations on topics ranging from Religion in Contemporary Russian Politics, the Global Revolution in Natural Gas, to the changing relationship between Europe and Russia. Lectures are open to the school's community and the public. RSVP for upcoming events at RESforum.eventbrite.com.
Current Events Seminars
Students have the opportunity to gather at this informal seminar led by Professor Charles Gati, and discuss current events in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. The seminar also provides students with the opportunity to present current research and receive feedback from both faculty and their peers. Current Events seminars are open to all Johns Hopkins SAIS Washington students and are held on select Wednesdays, 12:30-1:45pm. Contact Cristina Benitez, cristina.benitez@jhu.edu, for more information.
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European and Eurasian Studies Seminar Series
EES organizes evening seminars at SAIS Europe as part of the faculty research seminar series. The events provide unique opportunities for students to interact with visiting scholars and practioners from across Europe in an informal setting. Recent series themes include "Europe's Security Challenges", "New Trends in Central Banking and Finance", and "Profits & Politics: Business-State Relations in the Wider Europe." The 2016-2017 series on "Understanding the New Europe" is co-hosted by our EES Director, Erik Jones, and Associate Professor of International Political Economy, Matthias Matthijs.
The Bologna Institute for Policy Research (BIPR)
The BIPR is the research division of SAIS Europe. Its purpose is to promote problem-centered, interdisciplinary research in international policy by drawing upon the global network of Johns Hopkins SAIS faculty, students and scholars. The work of the BIPR is made available to the public with the goal of providing a pivotal forum for thought and debate in international public policy. BIPR employs student research assistants each semester to manage its event reports program and disseminate content from the faculty research seminar series to the wider policy community. Students working on BIPR have been key contributors to a number of promotional projects at SAIS Europe, including the launch of faculty-authored books.
The Center for Constitutional Studies and Democratic Development (CCSDD)
The CCSDD is a research partnership between SAIS Europe and the School of Law at the University of Bologna. The CCSDD conducts research and training in the field of comparative constitutional law, focusing on countries undergoing a process of democratic transition. Through conferences, workshops, publications, summer schools, study trips, and speaker series, the CCSDD addresses issues of civil society development and legal reform. The Center's current research focuses on EU enlargement, contemporary political and constitutional transformations in North Africa, the role of constitutional courts in Central Asia, as well as electoral management bodies. Each year, the CCSDD conducts a number of programs including the "European Union and Legal Reform" Summer School in Montenegro, the Sarajevo Study Trip, and the CCSDD Lecture Series. SAIS Europe students are hired as interns to work on research and teaching-related projects.
Learning Goals and Objectives
MA students must complete 64 credits and all degree requirements in order to graduate.
Students who are approved for a Dual Degree program or with Advanced Standing only need to complete 48 credits or 56 credits as determined by Academic Affairs, but still must fulfill all degree requirements.
MA students concentrating in European and Eurasian Studies design their own program of study to achieve fixed learning outcomes as set out in the program syllabus. These learning outcomes are evaluated in three comprehensive exams (in lieu of the Core exam requirement). The concentration does not have any required courses, but does require a program capstone. Candidates work with their program adviser and senior faculty to plan courses and independent readings that will prepare them for the comprehensive exams.
European and Eurasian Studies concentrators who choose the Russia and Eurasia track within the concentration complete Comprehensive Exam III in this area and must achieve proficiency in Russian language.
The EES Curriculum Matrix includes recommended European and Eurasian Studies courses.
Comprehensive Examinations
Comprehensive exams are given three to four times per year on both campuses and are graded as pass/fail. Exams may be taken multiple times without penalty. The European and Eurasian Studies comprehensive exams are based on the EES syllabus which sets out the topics and offers a bibliography for each written exam.
Comprehensive Exam I: Modern European History and Ideas
The purpose of this examination is to expose EES concentrators to a broad interpretative framework for understanding the formation and evolution of the international systems of states. Students without a strong background in European history should take or audit the specialized history core course, Evolution of the International System. Students usually take this exam after their first or second semester, depending on their campus of study.
Comprehensive Exam II: European Political Economies
The purpose of this examination is to make sure that students understand the essentials of governance – including economic governance – across the region. This exam encompasses the domestic political economies of the four major Western European nation states, the European Union and European integration generally, the problems of transition in Central and Eastern Europe—including Russia, and Europe’s relations with the US and global economies. Candidates take this exam before or after their third semester.
Comprehensive Exam III: Europe and the World Since 1945
This comprehensive examination covers the relationship between European countries and the outside world. That relationship is both country-specific and regional. This exam has three different elements. The first concerns the international political economy, which is arguably where Europe is most influential. The second looks at the regional dimension of Europe’s relations with the outside world, and draws on the history of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) as well as the European Union. The third focuses on the comparative foreign policies of European countries. Students usually take Comp III at the end of their third of forth semester.
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Comprehensive Exam III: Russian and Eurasian Studies
This comprehensive exam is designed for students in the Russia and Eurasia track. It covers the rise and fall of communism in Russia and Eurasia and allows students to focus on two of the following sub-areas: Post-Communist Politics, Post-Communist Economies, Post-Communist National Identities and Ethnic Relations, Post-Communist Civil Societies, and Post-Communist Foreign and Security Policies. Students usually take Comp III at the end of their third of fourth semester.
Capstone
European and Eurasian Studies concentrators must complete one of the following capstones:
MA students must complete a concentration in International Economics (16 credits). The four required courses are:
If a student is waived from a required course(s), the student must take a replacement International Economics course(s) to fulfill the concentration requirement.
Students who pass the non-credit Microeconomics course in Pre-Term will have this concentration reduced to 12 credits, but still must complete the remaining required International Economics courses (or a replacement course(s) if waiver exam(s) passed).
International Economics GPA Requirement
Students must achieve an International Economics concentration GPA of at least 2.67.
In the standard case, the concentration GPA is the average of the grades in Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, International Trade Theory, and International Monetary Theory. If a student completed the non-credit Microeconomics course in Pre-Term, the concentration GPA is calculated based on the grades in the remaining required International Economics courses. If one or more of the required courses is waived, the highest grade(s) from any eligible replacement International Economics course(s) is used.
Students who do not meet the minimum International Economics concentration GPA must re-take required courses (or take additional replacement courses if any required course(s) are waived) until the minimum is achieved. The highest grade from any attempt at a required course is used in this calculation.
MA students must fulfill the Quantitative Reasoning Requirement (4 credits). Eligible courses include:
Students may not double-count the same course toward the Quantitative Reasoning requirement and as a replacement International Economics concentration course and vice-versa.
If a student is waived from a Quantitative Reasoning course, the student must take a different course from the list above to fulfill the Quantitative Reasoning requirement.
Students who pass the non-credit Statistical Methods for Business & Economics course in Pre-Term will have fulfilled the Quantitative Reasoning requirement.
European and Eurasian Studies concentrators do not need to complete any Core courses or exams, but must pass the three program comprehensive exams instead.
MA students must pass exams to demonstrate proficiency in a non-native language taught at SAIS. Students enroll in non-credit language courses to prepare for the proficiency exam.
European and Eurasian Studies concentrators must demonstrate proficiency in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, or Spanish. Students in the Russia and Eurasia track must demonstrate proficiency in Russian.
Native speakers of a French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian (if in the Russia and Eurasia track), or Spanish must demonstrate proficiency in any other language taught at SAIS, which can include English. Those students are encouraged to study another modern European language.
All non-native English speakers are required to pass an English placement exam upon entering the school, even if not using English for proficiency, and may be required to take additional English language coursework.
Beyond proficiency, students may also pursue additional European language studies at Georgetown University free of charge in Advanced German, Advanced Italian, Polish, Turkish and Ukrainian.Polish, Turkish and Ukrainian may not be used toward proficiency requirements.
Beyond the requirements, MA students may have room in their degree for electives, a minor, and/or a specialization(s).
Students may pursue an optional minor in any policy/regional area other than General International Relations.
Students may pursue an optional specialization(s) in five areas International Economics or Emerging Markets.
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European and Eurasian Studies Minor Requirements:
*SA.100.771 Evolution of the International System and SA.100.750 Comparative Politics may not be used to fulfill minor requirements.
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Concentrators analyze the trends, events and ideas that have shaped today's Europe and Eurasia. They discover the essentials of governance, including economic governance, focusing on individual states as well as institutions of the European Union. The EES program is designed to ensure that concentrators have sufficient depth of knowledge in European and Eurasian Studies. Two of the comprehensive exams cover much the same material that you would find in the school's Core examinations on ‘Evolution of the International System’ and ‘Comparative National Systems’. Hence, by passing the comprehensive examinations, EES concentrators meet the school's core requirement. The EES program is also designed to enhance cross-cultural communication. All students must demonstrate proficiency in a modern European language. Once students achieve proficiency in one language, they are encouraged to deepen their knowledge through post-proficiency study or to broaden their exposure by taking up another language. The EES program encourages specialization. This can take place on an individual basis through participation in the European and Eurasian Research Seminar. It can also take place on a sub-regional basis by focusing attention on different parts of Europe. Within this framework, it is possible to follow a Russian and Eurasian Studies “track” and have this noted on your transcript. Students who choose this track will need to demonstrate proficiency in Russian.
The first part of this course covers the evolution of EU "foreign policy" over the years and covers the complex institutional machinery which has changed significantly since the Lisbon Treaty has entered into force in late 2009. Attention will also be paid to the various facets of "external" action by the Union, well beyond foreign policy proper.
The second part will focus on specific areas, regions, and cases in EU foreign policy, in order to allow the students to follow/develop their own interests. A conclusive session will assess the EU's international role and make educated guesses and normative assumptions about its future.
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In October 2012 a group of friends, colleagues and former students gathered in Bologna, Italy to honor David P. Calleo for his accomplishments, partake of his wisdom and special company, and as the papers published here demonstrate, to reflect on and discuss his ideas. The title of the conference, and of this collection of papers, comes from a letter written by David, and captures something essential about his approach: a belief in the importance of the creative political imagination, a temperamental optimism, and an impatience with unreasonable ideas and clichés.
David P. Calleo is Dean Acheson Professor of European Studies at Johns Hopkins SAIS and University Professor of the Johns Hopkins University. He entered Yale at age sixteen receiving his BA in 1955 and PhD in 1959. He founded (in 1968) and directed (until 2012) the preeminent American graduate program for the study of contemporary Europe and shepherded some forty doctoral dissertations to their successful completion. SAIS European Studies (now European and Eurasian Studies) has formed hundreds of professionals working today in government, business, academia, and the press.
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