British Perspectives on EU economic policies: from a single market to a single currency - JMMZ174

• Anglický název: British Perspectives on EU economic policies: from a single market to a single currency
• Zajišťuje: Katedra evropských studií (23-KZS)
• Fakulta: Fakulta sociálních věd
• Platnost: od 2014 do 2017
• Semestr: letní
• E-Kredity: 6
• Způsob provedení zkoušky: letní s.:
• Rozsah, examinace: letní s.:1/1, Zk [HT]
• Počet míst: neurčen / neurčen (40)
• Minimální obsazenost: neomezen
• 4EU+: ne
• Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
• Stav předmětu: nevyučován
• Jazyk výuky: angličtina
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Poznámka: předmět je možno zapsat mimo plán; povolen pro zápis po webu; při zápisu přednost, je-li ve stud. plánu
• Garant: Alan Butt Philip; Mgr. Jan Váška, Ph.D.

Sylabus

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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Jan Váška, Ph.D. (04.02.2014)

JMMZ174 British Attitudes towards European Economic Integration

 

                    (March 5 & 6, April 9 & 10 2014)                   

 

This course seeks to explore attitudes in the United Kingdom, past and present, towards European economic integration. This will be done primarily through the lens of examining specific policies of an economic nature adopted by the EEC/EU, with final sessions devoted to current UK attitudes towards the Eurozone, the crisis of the Euro and possible exit from the EU.

 

The course will take the form of six lectures and five seminars, and will be assessed by means of coursework (an assessed 1500 word essay to be submitted by May 18^th) and a small mark for class attendance and participation.  The course lecturer is Dr Alan Butt Philip, Honorary Jean Monnet Reader at the University of Bath, who has also been a visiting professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University since 2007.

 

Lecture and Seminar Schedule

 

(Classes will take place at R201, with Wednesday classes at 9:00-11:30 and 14-16:30 and Thursday classes at 11-13:30)

 

Wed. March 5     (1) Lecture: Britain and the EEC - The Early

          AM                   Years

                            (2) Seminar: The 1975 Referendum - Any

                                     Lessons for a 2017 Referendum ?

Wed. March 5     (3) Lecture: Britain and the Single European

          PM                    Market

                            (4) Seminar: Has the Single Market worked

                                   for Britain?

Thur. March 6     (5) Lecture: Britain and the EU’s external

         AM                     trade policy

                            (6) Seminar: The EU and the Banana Trade

Wed. April 9       (7) Lecture: Britain and Economic and

         AM                    Monetary Union

                            (8) Seminar: Should the UK join the Euro ?

Wed. April 9       (9) Lecture: Leaving the EU - Is this a serious

          PM                   option for the EU ?                  

 

                             (10) Seminar: Britain’s Social Policy Opt Out

                                    & the Maastricht Treaty’s Social Chapter

Thur. April 10      (11) Lecture: Britain and the Eurozone since

         AM                     May 2010 - Analysis and Discussion

 

 

 

General Reading List

 

Alan Butt Philip, Brexit Paper (2013 - available online)

Andrew Geddes, The EU and British Politics (2003)

Andrew Geddes, Britain and the European Union (2013)

Stephen George, An Awkward Partner (1998 edition)

Stephen George (ed.), Britain and the European Community:

                            The Politics of Semi-Detachment (1992)

David Gowland, Arthur Turner and Alex Wright, Britain and

                            European Integration since 1945 (2010)

Stephen Wall, A Stranger in Europe; Britain and the EU from

                            Thatcher to Blair (2008)

William Wallace, Europe or Anglosphere ?  British Foreign

                            Policy between Atlanticism and European

                            Integration (2005)

Hugo Young,      This Blessed Plot: Britain and Europe from

                            Churchill to Blair (1999)

 

Stephen George’s ‘An Awkward Partner’ is a good starting point for this subject, while Hugo Young’s epic ‘This Blessed Plot’ is a magnificently researched story of the political infighting and diplomatic problems caused by ambivalence in the UK about the European integration process. My ‘Brexit Paper’ is a prospectus of issues that the UK might have to deal with if it left the EU altogether after 2017. This was written for

a competition organised last year by the Institute of Economic Affairs, London and shortlisted for further development.

 

Contact person for this course at Department of W European Studies is Jan Váška ([e-mail])