https://at-ceu.studyguide.timeedit.net/modules/NATI5049?type=CORECourse descriptionRecent years have seen an explosion of empirical and normative scholarly interest in transnationalism and citizenship across many disciplines. The primary aim of this interdisciplinary course is to provide an overview of the main topical issues and scholarly perspectives related to citizenship and transnational membership. The course will examine how the different normative theories of citizenship address the challenges raised by supranational integration, migration, state succession and external minority protection. We will also discuss the relationship of democracy and citizenship understood both as formal status and rights. In addition to the normative and theoretical inquiry, we will analyze the current trends in citizenship legislation with a special focus on immigrant naturalization and transnational (i.e. extraterritorial) citizenship. The course will also discuss "everyday citizenship" (that is, citizenship from below) and look into the instrumental as well as affective utilization of citizenship by immigrants and expatriate and other non-resident populations. Throughout the course, we will discuss comparative legal and institutional frameworks and empirical (political and sociological) case studies from the Global North as well as the Global South.After the introductory sessions on the emergence of citizenship rights, we will overview the main normative citizenship regime types, contemporary debates on the future of bounded citizenship, and discuss theories related to transnational citizenship. We will then turn to the methodological dilemmas related to the study of citizenship and will investigate how normative theories can be tested by institutional analysis. First, we will look into the existing empirical research on the current global trends in citizenship policy to gauge how countries of immigration and home countries of migrants adjust their citizenship policies to current demographic realities. We will also discuss how citizenship policies are used as a nation-building tool after major regime changes and at times of decolonization. In the next two sessions, we will explore the empirical (sociological, anthropological and political science) literature discussing the instrumental value and the symbolic meaning of citizenship for immigrants and non-resident individuals. In a separate class, we will discuss the weaponization of citizenship (forced naturalization, denaturalization and similar practices). In class 10, we will have a simulation game in which we will try to draft an international covenant on eliminating the weaponization of citizenship. The course will end with student presentations (of draft seminar papers).