The focus on European integration considers four topics: the theory, history, and institutions of European integration; the significance of the common market and monetary union; political communes, particularly in agriculture and business; and other modes of action within the community, both structural and written.
Prerequisites:
One college-level course in Macroeconomics, Microeconomics or International Economy, or permission of instructor.
Method of presentation:
Lecture and class discussion.
Required work and form of assessment:
Regular class attendance; mid-term exam (25%); oral presentations on a chosen topic (25%); final exam (50%).
content:
Part I: The basics of European integration. Objectives and methods of the European Union; introduction to the theory of economic integration; origins of integration in Europe. The institutions of the European Union; the judicial aspects; the budget of the European Community.
Part II: The common market and the monetary union. The basic freedoms of the common market;
fundamentals of the Economic and Monetary Union; fiscal systems and political macroeconomics .
Part III: The politics of communes. Business; development; agriculture, fishing; transportation; energy;
defense industries.
Part IV: Other modes of action of the European Community: external structures; internal coherence; social and regional politics; the new politics of the European Union; the role of the European Union in the global economy.
Required readings:
(Tentative)
Nieto Sólis, J.A. Fundamentos y Políticas de la Unión Europea. Madrid: Siglo XXI, 1995.
Recommended readings:
Comunidades Europeas. Tratado de la Unión Europea (Tratado de Amsterdam). Luxemburgo, 1997. Fernández Alvarez, Antonio. Manual de Economía y Política de la UE. Madrid: Trotta, 1997.
Nieto Solís A. ed. La Economía española ante la Unión Monetaria Europea. Madrid: Síntesis, 1997. Pelkmans, Jacques. European Integration, Methods and Economic Analysis. New York: Longman, 1997.
Brief Biography of Instructor:
Eduardo Cuenca has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Málaga. He is a Jean Monnet Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Granada (UGR), and Director of the Department of International and Spanish Economy at the UGR. He has been a researcher and a lecturer at different universities around the world, an economic advisor for the regional governments of the Canary Islands and Andalusia, and is the current director of the Andalusian Society of Economic Studies. He has published dozens of articles, and books such as Enfoques sobre la reciente economía cubana (1998), Europa e Iberoamérica (2002), Organización económica internacional (2004), and Economía de la Unión Europea (2007). Professor Cuenca is an honorary citizen of New Orleans.
The focus on European integration considers four topics: the theory, history, and institutions of European integration; the significance of the common market and monetary union; political communes, particularly in agriculture and business; and other modes of action within the community, both structural and written.
One college-level course in Macroeconomics, Microeconomics or International Economy, or permission of instructor.
Lecture and class discussion.
Regular class attendance; mid-term exam (25%); oral presentations on a chosen topic (25%); final exam (50%).
Part I: The basics of European integration. Objectives and methods of the European Union; introduction to the theory of economic integration; origins of integration in Europe. The institutions of the European Union; the judicial aspects; the budget of the European Community.
Part II: The common market and the monetary union. The basic freedoms of the common market;
fundamentals of the Economic and Monetary Union; fiscal systems and political macroeconomics .
Part III: The politics of communes. Business; development; agriculture, fishing; transportation; energy;
defense industries.
Part IV: Other modes of action of the European Community: external structures; internal coherence; social and regional politics; the new politics of the European Union; the role of the European Union in the global economy.
(Tentative)
Nieto Sólis, J.A. Fundamentos y Políticas de la Unión Europea. Madrid: Siglo XXI, 1995.
Comunidades Europeas. Tratado de la Unión Europea (Tratado de Amsterdam). Luxemburgo, 1997. Fernández Alvarez, Antonio. Manual de Economía y Política de la UE. Madrid: Trotta, 1997.
Nieto Solís A. ed. La Economía española ante la Unión Monetaria Europea. Madrid: Síntesis, 1997. Pelkmans, Jacques. European Integration, Methods and Economic Analysis. New York: Longman, 1997.
Eduardo Cuenca has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Málaga. He is a Jean Monnet Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Granada (UGR), and Director of the Department of International and Spanish Economy at the UGR. He has been a researcher and a lecturer at different universities around the world, an economic advisor for the regional governments of the Canary Islands and Andalusia, and is the current director of the Andalusian Society of Economic Studies. He has published dozens of articles, and books such as Enfoques sobre la reciente economía cubana (1998), Europa e Iberoamérica (2002), Organización económica internacional (2004), and Economía de la Unión Europea (2007). Professor Cuenca is an honorary citizen of New Orleans.