Europe in the French mind: a historical–civilizational point of view - JMM663

• Title: Europe in the French mind: a historical–civilizational point of view
• Guaranteed by: Department of European Studies (23-KZS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2019
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (6)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: Dr. Paul Bauer

Syllabus

Last update: Dr. Paul Bauer (07.09.2017)

Venue: Room J2018, Jinonice 

 Objective:

The course aims providing students with some key features to the understanding of the European project not only from the point of view of institutional approaches, but also in a social-political and a historical-geopraphical perspective. Structured both chronologically and thematically, this interdisciplinary course has two foci. First, it offers a long term observation of the european project, its evolution and its contemporary debates. The focus on France as a case study gives a concrete angle study of the European integration from the point of view of one of its funding members

Schedule

1. Introduction: Europe seen from/by France - Europe looks at France. 
2. The European project in the French mind 1/2
3. The European project in the French mind 2/2
4. Modern European States - Nationalism and Concepts of the Nation: a French model?
5. Border of Europe - bordering European Union: a French point of view
6. Central and Eastern Europe seen from France.
7. France in the enlarged European Union.
8. Conclusion: social sciences and European studies. French critical inquiries of some key researches on European Integration.
9. Examination

 

Literature:

 

-          BRAUDEL Fernand: Grammaire des civilisations, Paris: Flammarion.

-          Critique internationale, n°2, hiver 1999, La formation de l’Europe.

-          FEBVRE Lucien: L’Europe. Genèse d’une civilisation. Paris : Perrin, 1999.

-          FOUCHER Michel: Fronts et Frontières, un tour du monde géopolitique, Paris : Fayard, 1988, 1991.

-          FOUCHER Michel: La République Européenne, Paris: Belin, 2000.

-          DE LA SERRE Françoise; LEQUESNE Christian; RUPNIK Jacques: L'Union européenne : ouverture à l'Est ? Paris : Presses universitaires de France, 1994.

-          JUDT Tony, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, New York, Penguin Books, 2006.

-          KISSINGER Henry: Diplomatie, Fayard, 1996.

-          LEQUESNE Christian: La France dans la nouvelle Europe. Assumer le changement d’échelle, Paris: Science po, 2008.

-          RIFKIND Malcolm, "L'Etat-nation et la construction européenne" Politique étrangère, n° 1, printemps 1997, p. 177-184.

-          TODD Emanuel: L’invention de l’Europe, Paris: Seuil, 1990.

 

On-line resources:

 

-          Notre Europe: http://www.notre-europe.eu/

-          Fondation Schuman http://www.robert-schuman.eu/

-          Archive of European integration http://aei.pitt.edu/ somewhat useful document repository.

-          History of EU Integration: http://europa.eu/about-eu/eu-history/index_en.htm includes a useful guide to on-line sources.

 

Classics references:

 

-          Ernest Renan: Qu’est ce qu’une nation, Paris Bordas.

-          Fichte: Reden an die deutsche Nation.

-          Herder: Herder on Nationality, Humanity, and History, F. M. Barnard. (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003.

-          Gellner E., (1983), Nations & Nationalism, Basil Blackwell, Oxford. Édition française, 1989, Payot, Paris.

-          Hobsbawm E., (1992), Nations et nationalismes depuis 1780, Gallimard, Paris.

-          Hroch M., (1996), V národním zájmu, Praha: Filozofická Fakulta UK.

-          Verdery K., (1994), "Beyond the Nation in Eastern Europe", Social Text, n°38, pp. 1-19.