Practising Transnational Politics

Edited by Claudia Wiesner, Professor of Political Science, Department of Social and Cultural Studies, Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Germany

‘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!’

• ContentsForeword ixChaldeans MensahAcknowledgements xv1 Introduction to Practising Transnational Politics: preparingand participating in UN and EU simulations 1Claudia WiesnerPART I MUN AND MEU: ACTIVE LEARNING ANDCITIZENSHIP EDUCATION2 What is Model United Nations? 14Chaldeans Mensah, Muriel Cathérine Wenzel and Clara Umstätter3 What is Model European Union? 26Alexandru Balas4 Teaching innovations and transnational blended learning:diplomacy and peer-to-peer experiential learning 47Chaldeans Mensah5 Active learning through simulations: a civic educationperspective 67Antonio Manuel Álvarez García, Elena García Guitián andLuis Bouza GarcíaPART II UN, EU AND TRANSNATIONAL POLITICS6 The United Nations 84Muriel Cathérine Wenzel and Claudia Wiesner7 The EU as an arena of politics 106Claudia Wiesner8 “Of nations large and small”: an overview of multilateral law-making processes in the United Nations Organisation 121Daniel R. Quiroga-VillamarínPART III DOING TRANSNATIONAL POLITICS: CASESTUDIES AND MATERIALS9 Procedures, practices, politics: how institutions work 139Claudia Wiesner and Taru Haapala10 UN case study: the rule of law in the Security Council 158Hannah Birkenkötter11 EU case study: the politics of shaping EU citizenship 175Claudia WiesnerPART IV LEARNING TO PRACTISE TRANSNATIONAL POLITICS12 Preparing MUN and MEU: course plan, teaching materialsand teaching modules 196Clara Umstätter, Muriel Cathérine Wenzel and Claudia Wiesner13 Preparing and doing a UN or EU simulation 252Muriel Cathérine Wenzel, Clara Umstätter and Claudia Wiesner14 Tutorials, practical advice, do’s and don’ts 273Muriel Cathérine Wenzel and Clara Umstätter