Links:
[1] http://www.iesabroad.org/study-abroad/programs/barcelona-liberal-arts-business
[2] http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/theory_and_event/v013/13.2.balibar.html
[3] http://heiwww.unige.ch/~baldwin/>
[4] http://hei.unige.ch/~baldwin/PapersBooks/Decisionmaking_and_theCT.pdf
[5] http://www.connex
[6] http://europa.eu/index_en.htm
[7] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3595155.stm
[8] http://europa.eu.int/constitution/index_en.htm
[9] http://www.europeanconstitution.ie/
[10] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_constitution
[11] http://www.economist.com/index.html
[12] http://www.ft.com/home/uk
Introduction To The European Union
The course provides an introductory understanding of how the European Union (EU) works as a political system and aims at accomplishing this by using the toolkit of comparative politics. The main aim of the course is to provide American students different perspectives on the European integration process. The course links historial, theoretical, and policy-orientated analyses of the EU institutions and policy processes. Political Science.
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IES ATTENDANCE POLICY: Attendance is mandatory for all IES classes, including field studies. Any exams, tests, presentations, or other work missed due to student absences can only be rescheduled in cases of documented medical or family emergencies. If a student misses more than three classes in any course half a letter grade will be deducted from the final grade for every additional absence. Seven absences in any course will result in a failing grade.
With regard to Knowledge, by the end of the course students are able to:
• outline the historical process of the European integration;
• distinguish the main institutions of the EU;
• indicate the main political debates surrounding the EU;
• analyze critically the main arguments in favor and against European integration.
With regard to Skills, by the end of the course students are able to:
• demonstrate presentational abilities;
• reconstruct and justify diverse arguments in class discussions;
• assess the methodological virtues/deficiencies of the academic works he reads;
• develop research techniques.
With regards to Values, by the end of the course students are able to:
• recognize the cultural differences and similarities between Europe and the US: are the Americans from Mars and the Europeans from Venus? Or are we more similar than what we thought at first sight?
LECTURES : where basics on the EU institutions will be presented
CLASS DISCUSSIONS : where we will compare and contrast different views on the EU. READER : where we have a first contact with the subjects of study.
DEBATES : where we will deploy our analytical and discussion abilities.
CASE STUDIES : where the outcomes of different EU policies will be critically analyzed.
LANGUAGE OF PRESENTATION: English
Class participation + debate (25%); summaries +
questions about readings (25%); mid-term exam (25%); final exam (25%).
• EXAMS: The midterm and final exams will consist of analytical questions on the topics covered in the course. The midterm exam will cover topics covered in the first half of the course, while the final exam will cover topics covered at the end of the course.
• SUMMARIES AND QUESTIONS: At the beginning of each session students will submit a two-page summary of the assigned reading, instructor will also specify sessions where students can submit discussion questions instead of summary. These summaries can be used during the in-class exam
• CLASS PARTICIPATION + DEBATE: Students are encouraged to participate in broad class discussions
as well as team exercises they will be attending to. During the term, students will be informed two times about their possible participation grades.
Session 1: Introduction to the Course: What is the European Union and why Americans
should bother?
Session 2: History of the European Union. 1945-1957
Required Reading:
Bache and George, Politics in the European Union, 81-93.
Session 3: History of the European Union. 1957-1985
Required Reading:
McCormick, Understanding the European Union, 62-78.
Session 4: History of the European Union. 1985-2011
Required Reading:
Bache and George, Politics in the European Union, 157-177.
Session 5: The Institutional Architecture of the EU I
Required Reading:
Bache and George, Politics in the European Union, 229-238.
Session 6: The Institutional Architecture of the EU II
Required Reading:
Bache and George, Politics in the European Union, 238-250.
Session 7: Organized Interests
Required Reading:
Bache and George, Politics in the European Union, 333-351.
Session 8: Single market Policy
Required Reading:
Bache and George, Politics in the European Union, 403-427.
Session 9: Competition Policy
Required Reading:
Wallace, Wallace, and Pollack, Policy-Making in the European Union, 133-149, 153-157.
Session 10: Economic and Monetary Union
Required Reading:
Bache and George, Politics in the European Union, 427-456.
Session 11: Common Agricultural Policy
Required Reading:
Wallace, Wallace, and Pollack, Policy-Making in the European Union, 181-207.
Session 12: Regional and Cohesion Policy
Required Reading:
Wallace, Wallace, and Pollack, Policy-Making in the European Union, 229-253.
Session 13: Mid-term exam.
Session 14: Environmental Policy
Required Reading:
Wallace, Wallace, and Pollack, Politics in the European Union, 307-330.
Session 15: Trade Policy I
Required Reading:
Wallace, Wallace, and Pollack, Policy-Making in the European Union, 381-400.
Session 16: Trade Policy II
Required Reading:
Sapir, Fragmented Power, 61-93.
Session 17: External Relations
Required Reading:
Wallace, Wallace, and Pollack, Policy-Making in the European Union, 431-456.
Session 18: Enlargement Policy
Required Reading:
Wallace, Wallace, and Pollack, Policy-Making in the European Union, 401-430.
Session 19: Constitutional Treaty
Required Reading:
Church, and Phinnemore, “The Rise and Fall of the Constitutional Treaty,” 46-65.
Session 20: Is EU Democratic? Part I
Required Reading:
Hix, The Political System of the European Union, 175-207.
Session 21: Is EU Democratic? Part II
Required Reading:
Moravcsik, “In Defense of the ‘Democratic Deficit’,” 603-624.
Session 22: The Present and the future of the EU
Required Reading:
Balibar, “Europe: Final Crisis? Some Theses” ): http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/theory_and_event/v013/13.2.balibar.html [2]
Session 23: Which Theory for the European Union?
Required Reading:
Wallace, Wallace, and Pollack, Policy-Making in the European Union, 15-26.
Session 24: Class debate. The EU versus the US. Is the Atlantic Widening?
Required Reading:
Nye, “The US and Europe: Continental Drift?,” 51-59.
FINAL EXAM
Balibar, Etienne. “Europe: Final Crisis? Some Theses,” in Theory & Event, Vol. 13, No: 2 (2010): http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/theory_and_event/v013/13.2.balibar.html [2]
Bache, Ian. and Stephen George. Politics in the European Union, 3rd Edition. Oxford: Oxford UP., 2011. pp. 81-93; 157-177; 229-238; 238-250; 333-351; 403-427; 427-456.
Church, Clive and David Phinnemore. “The Rise and Fall of the Constitutional Treaty” in European Union Politics. Ed. Cini, Michelle. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2007. pp. 46-65.
Hix, Simon. The Political System of the European Union. London: Palgrave, 2004. pp. 175-207
McCormick, John. Understanding the European Union, London: Palgrave, 1999. pp. 62-78.
Moravcsik, Andrew. “In Defense of the ‘Democratic Deficit’: Reassessing Legitimacy in the European Union,” in Journal of. Common Market Studies, Vol. 40, No. 4 (2002), pp. 603-624.
Nye, Joseph. “The US and Europe: Continental Drift?,” in International Affairs, Vol. 76, No.1 (2000), pp. 51-59
Sapir, André. Fragmented Power. Europe and the Global Economy. Brussels: Bruegel, 2007. Pp. 61-93.
Wallace, Helen, William Wallace, and Mark Pollack. Policy-Making in the European Union, 6th edition. Oxford: Oxford UP., 2010. pp. 15-26; 133-149; 153-157; 181-207; 229-253; 307-330; 381-400; 401-430; 431-456.
On Realist Intergovernmentalism:
On Liberal Intergovernmentalism:
On Rationalist Supranationalism:
On Constructivist supranationalism:
On the institutional order of the EU as independent variable:
< http://hei.unige.ch/~baldwin/PapersBooks/Decisionmaking_and_theCT.pdf [4]>
On veto players analysis:
On PA-analysis:
On the legitimacy of the EU’s institutional order:
On the EU’s democratic deficit:
< http://www.connex [5]- network.org/eurogov/pdf/egp-connex-C-05-02.pdf>
On public support to the EU:
The EU website:
http://europa.eu/index_en.htm [6]
A Glossary of EU-related terms:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3595155.stm [7]
On the EU Constitution:
http://europa.eu.int/constitution/index_en.htm [8]
http://www.europeanconstitution.ie/ [9] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_constitution [10]
Press:
http://www.economist.com/index.html [11]
http://www.ft.com/home/uk [12]