Download Exam Instructions for European Politics Module at NUI Galway (2007-2008) and more Exams Political Science in PDF only on Docsity! Ollscoil na hÉireann, Gaillimh National University of Ireland, Galway Semester I Examinations 2007 / 2008 Exam Code(s) 2BA1, 2BA6, 1OA1, 1EM Exam(s) 2nd Arts Module Code(s) SP216 Module(s) European Politics Paper No. Repeat Paper External Examiner(s) Professor Henri Goverde Hilary Tovey Internal Examiner(s) Professor Chris Curtin Dr. Brendan Flynn Instructions: From the list below choose any TWO questions. You have TWO hours. Duration TWO Hours No. of Pages Department(s) Political Science & Sociology Course Co-ordinator(s) Dr. Brendan Flynn SP216 European Politics, Semester One, (2007) Instructions: From the list below choose any TWO questions. You have TWO hours. 1. Is NATO fading as a security institution for Europe, and the EU becoming a serious alternative? In your answer please make reference to the arguments or evidence presented by at least THREE authors listed in your course outline. 2. Is ethnic nationalism breaking up Spain as a nation state? OR Was ethnic nationalism really the cause of Yugoslavia’s bloody break-up?. In your answer please make reference to the arguments or evidence presented by at least THREE authors listed in your course outline. 3. What are the most important features of any federal state, and would these accurately describe the EU today? In your answer please make reference to the arguments or evidence presented by at least THREE authors listed in your course outline. 4. Considering the controversy over the Iraq war, and the historic deployment of German peacekeepers abroad, should we now consider that German foreign policy has dramatically changed from its cold-war character? In your answer please make reference to the arguments or evidence presented by at least THREE authors listed in your course outline. 5. Is Europe facing a new cold war with Russia? Crtically consider how recent developments in Russian politics and foreign policy should be interpreted. In your answer please make reference to the arguments or evidence presented by at least THREE authors listed in your course outline. 6. To what extent has party politics after the fall of communism become normal? In your answer compare and contrast how party systems and elections have evolved in at least TWO post- communist European states. In your answer please make reference to the arguments or evidence presented by at least THREE authors listed in your course outline. 7. Compare political developments in any TWO Balkan states (excluding Greece). To what extent are they becoming successful democracies? In your answer please make reference to the arguments or evidence presented by at least THREE authors listed in your course outline. 8. Is Italy since the 1990s an example of a successful political transformation? Consider to what extent political change has been deep and substantive or do Italy’s post-war political problems still remain? In your answer please make reference to the arguments or evidence presented by at least THREE authors listed in your course outline. 9. Describe and explain both how and why parties of the right have proven so apparently successful within Nordic countries, after recent elections. Offer evidence from at least TWO such countries. In your answer please make reference to the arguments or evidence presented by at least THREE authors listed in your course outline. 10. To what extent is the rise of right-wing populist parties killing consoctaional democracy in Europe: can they be accommodated? Consider evidence from any TWO consociational states (Switzerland, Austria, Belgium or the Netherlands). In your answer please make reference to the arguments or evidence presented by at least THREE authors listed in your course outline. OVER
