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This informative book prepares scholars, university staff and students for simulations of the United Nations and the European Union. It provides essential knowledge, including introductions into the institutions, case studies, reflections on active learning, as well as concrete teaching modules and practices.
Chapters present essential background knowledge as well as an actionable course plan and syllabus that allows teachers to prepare for and organise UN and EU simulations. The chapter contents are designed in order to support students to successfully act as delegates for an assigned country and thus gain a unique understanding of political practice. Ultimately, the book transmits how political action shapes the practice of transnational politics.
Practising Transnational Politics is a valuable resource for scholars, students and educators of international relations, politics, EU studies and public policy looking to enhance their engagement in the UN, the EU, and simulations. It is also beneficial for those interested in participating in or preparing others for Model United Nations, Model European Union or other model simulations.
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Practising Transnational Politics is an invaluable resource for anyone teaching, organising or participating in a simulation. It effectively fills a critical gap in literature on practical approaches to understanding formal organisations, providing scholars and students with essential knowledge and tools to navigate and engage in UN and EU simulations. A must-read for enhancing experiential learning! -- Nina Reiners, University of Oslo, Norway
Contents
Foreword ix
Chaldeans Mensah
Acknowledgements xv
1 Introduction to Practising Transnational Politics: preparing
and participating in UN and EU simulations 1
Claudia Wiesner
PART I MUN AND MEU: ACTIVE LEARNING AND
CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION
2 What is Model United Nations? 14
Chaldeans Mensah, Muriel Cathérine Wenzel and Clara Umstätter
3 What is Model European Union? 26
Alexandru Balas
4 Teaching innovations and transnational blended learning:
diplomacy and peer-to-peer experiential learning 47
Chaldeans Mensah
5 Active learning through simulations: a civic education
perspective 67
Antonio Manuel Álvarez García, Elena García Guitián and
Luis Bouza García
PART II UN, EU AND TRANSNATIONAL POLITICS
6 The United Nations 84
Muriel Cathérine Wenzel and Claudia Wiesner
7 The EU as an arena of politics 106
Claudia Wiesner
8 Of nations large and small: an overview of multilateral law-
making processes in the United Nations Organisation 121
Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín
PART III DOING TRANSNATIONAL POLITICS: CASE
STUDIES AND MATERIALS
9 Procedures, practices, politics: how institutions work 139
Claudia Wiesner and Taru Haapala
10 UN case study: the rule of law in the Security Council 158
Hannah Birkenkötter
11 EU case study: the politics of shaping EU citizenship 175
Claudia Wiesner
PART IV LEARNING TO PRACTISE TRANSNATIONAL POLITICS
12 Preparing MUN and MEU: course plan, teaching materials
and teaching modules 196
Clara Umstätter, Muriel Cathérine Wenzel and Claudia Wiesner
13 Preparing and doing a UN or EU simulation 252
Muriel Cathérine Wenzel, Clara Umstätter and Claudia Wiesner
14 Tutorials, practical advice, dos and donts 273
Muriel Cathérine Wenzel and Clara Umstätter
Edited by Claudia Wiesner, Professor of Political Science, Department of Social and Cultural Studies, Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Germany
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