Master's Degree in International and European Studies

CE1: Students can understand the configuration of the international system and distinguish the distinct evolutionary stages which have led to its present conformation, evaluating the structure and operation of the current system, paying particular attention to the process of economic globalization.
CE2: Students are able to assess the current international system, its actors and actions, evaluate its structure and operation in the light of the principal explanatory theories of international relations and draw pertinent conclusions in order to formulate their own diagnosis of the international scene.
CE3: Students are able to analyze the composition of the public stakeholders in the international system, categorizing each one and recognizing their interrelationships, paying particular attention to the process of European integration in order to understand its evolution, organization and mode of operation in the international arena in the light of the power games that are currently taking place there.
CE4: Students can identify and assess the nature of private sector actors in the international system and the transnational relationships between them, focusing particularly on the growing part played by companies in the international context so as to evaluate their importance versus the traditional public powers or even their dominance over the latter.
CE5: Students are capable of assessing the policies, instruments and organization of the foreign activities of states, analyzing and comparing their results paying special attention to those carried out by both European states and European organizations; in particular, the external actions of the European Union, investigating and analyzing diplomatic relations, their development, measures and mechanisms, evaluating their relevance in the current international system.
CE6: Students can evaluate the main threats and challenges facing international security and identify the principal problems emerging in this sector of the international system at present, defining possible responses at the national, regional and world level. In this context, they are able to undertake analysis and appraisal of the principle of banning the threat/use of armed force in response to new problems such as cyberattacks.
CE7: Students are capable of categorizing the principal means both political and judicial of resolving international controversies and analyzing their application in practice in order to draw conclusions about their utilization and results; appraising and criticizing the concept of peacekeeping and the operations mounted with this end, especially by the United Nations.
CE8: Students are able to assess the business competition regime and analyze abuses of power in the global market and their effects on said regime, as well as the prohibition of agreements of a restrictive nature; and undertake special analysis of public limits on company freedom and the effects thereof on the competition regime.
CE9: Students can distinguish the various freedoms of circulation (people, goods, services and capital) and their application within the framework of the European Union and evaluate the effects of imposing constraints or bans on them, especially the latter; and undertake analysis of the freedom of circulation of workers as established in the community context and also judging its incidence at the national level, making links to employment policies in both cases; and demonstrate understanding of the specific elements of European taxation and the ability to analyze them.
CE10: Students can analyze the principal international instruments for the protection of the rights of the individual and also the criminalization of certain types of behavior, comparing the result of this analysis with the conclusions reached by the international courts in the interpretation and application of said instruments, which will, in turn, allow students to examine, compare and assess the jurisprudence of these international institutions.
CE11: Students develop the practical aspects of the subjects/matters raised in the formal teaching through the identification, communication and resolution of problems that emerge during the execution of the activities/tasks they are assigned, enabling them to compare, evaluate and, where necessary, devise solutions to the problems and anticipate them by means of due planning.
CE12: Students have the skills to analyze a specific topic/problem employing the principal research methodologies and making use of appropriate sources to undertake an in-depth study and perform an assessment of its elements, thereby reaching conclusions that, if applicable, allow the presentation of duly reasoned proposals for a solution.