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Poslední úprava: NAJSLOVA (16.09.2015)
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Poslední úprava: NAJSLOVA (29.09.2014)
European Integration: Theory and Case Studies
Lecturer: Lucia Najšlová, PhD
Course sessions: Monday 17:00-18:20 Lecturer office hours: Monday 16:00-17:00
Rytířská 31, 2nd floor, Room 201 (in the city center, a 2 minute walk from Václavské naměstí, map: www.europeum.org/contact)
What have been the major driving forces of European integration? How have the identities and economic and security interests shaped Europe since the second half of the 20th century? In this course we will study major theoretical approaches to European integration. We will discuss how theories are born, how they are applied to study of practical politics and policy-making and what is the relationship between theory and method.
Course policy and grading
Mid-term exam 40 % Final exam 30 % In-class participation and research proposal 30 %
Attendance, in-class participation and reading are compulsory. Reading materials can be found at the course website and in the library. Additional reading will be delivered by email. The reading list may change during the semester, you will be notified by email in advance.
Grades:
In the Charles university grading system, the following grades are given upon accomplishment of the course: 1, 2, 3 and F. In this course, the grades correspond to the following accomplishments:
1 (A) - 100 % - 88 % - you attend the class regularly and are prepared to discuss the reading material; you accomplish all assignments and show exceptional motivation to understand the course topics; your understanding of the studied matter is very good.
2 (B) - 87 % - 75 % - you attend the class regularly and are prepared to discuss the reading material; you accomplish all assignments and show very good understanding of the course topics.
3 (C) - 74 % - 59 % - you miss classes, fail to keep up with readings; you deliver assignments too late; you show good understanding of most course topics but not much motivation to improve it.
F -59 % - 0 % - you are uninterested in the course matter, fail to show up for class, you do not deliver assignments, do not read and hence your understanding of the course topics is unsatisfactory.
Session 1, September 29, 2014 - Introduction What is ‘politics’, ‘policy’ and ‘polity’? Do we need theory to study politics?
Reading:
Crick, Bernard (1962). The Nature of Political Rule. In: Crick, B. (2013). In Defence of Politics. London: Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 1-18
Etzioni, Amitai (2001) What is political? http://www2.gwu.edu/~ccps/etzioni/A312.pdf
Orwell, George (1946). Politics and the English Language, https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm
Session 2, October 6, 2014 - Europe and the European Union Europe as an idea. European Union - an international organization, a political system, a ‘partnership’ of 28 states.
Reading: Introduction and Chapter 1: Europe, Identity and Legitimacy. In: Bottici and Challand (2013. Imagining Europe: Myth, Memory and Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Session 3, October 13, 2014 - Overview of dominant EU integration theories. IR and European Integration. Realist and Liberal Approaches. Supranationalism, Intergovernmentalism, Functionalism.
Reading: Pollack, M. A. (2010) Theorizing EU Policy-Making. In: Wallace, H., Pollack, M. A. and Toung, A.R. (2010). Policy-Making in the European Union. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 15-44.
Bache, I. (2011) Theories of European Integration. In: Bache, I., George, S. and Bulmer, S. Politics in the European Union. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Available online at: http://fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/academic/pdf/13/9780199544813_chapter1.pdf
Session 4, October 20, 2014 - Political Economy Which economic forces have been driving the process of European integration and domestic developments in the member states? How have Labor and Capital been regulated in the process of European integration?
Reading: Jones, E. The Economic Mythology of the European Integration. Journal of Common Market Studies 48(1): 89-109. Available online at: http://www.jhubc.it/facultypages/ejones/jcms_48_1.pdf
Van Appeldorn, Bastian and Henk Overbeek and Magnus Ryner (2003). Theories of European Integration: A Critique. In: Cafruny, A. W. and Ryner, Magnus. A Ruined Fortress? Neoliberal Hegemony and Transformation in Europe. Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, pp. 17-46. Available online at: http://www.academia.edu/428638/Theories_of_European_Integration_A_Critique
Session 5, October 27, 2014 - Understanding Neoliberalism Is the European integration driven by neoliberal ideology?
Reading: Clune, M. (2014). What was neoliberalism? LA Review of Books, http://lareviewofbooks.org/review/what-was-neoliberalism
Palley, Thomas (2004) From Keynesianism to Neoliberalism: Shifting Paradigms in Economics. http://www.thomaspalley.com/docs/articles/selected/Neo-liberalism%20-%20chapter.pdf
Bradanini, Davide (2009) The Rise of the Competitiveness Discourse: A Neo-Gramscian Analysis. Bruges Political Research Papers. Brugge and Natolin: College of Europe.
Bieler, A. (2003) European Integration and Eastward Enlargement: the Widening and Deepening of Neoliberal Restructuring in Europe. Queens Paper on Europeanisation 8/2003, http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofPoliticsInternationalStudiesandPhilosophy/FileStore/EuropeanisationFiles/Filetoupload,38406,en.pdf
Session 6, November 3, 2014 - Institutionalism(s) Institutionalism(s): Rational-choice, Sociological, Historical. Governance vs Politics.
Olsen, Johan P. (2000). Organising European Institutions of Governance: A Prelude to an Institutional Account of Political Integration. ARENA Working Paper 2000/2. Oslo: University of Oslo/ARENA. Available at: http://www.sv.uio.no/arena/english/research/publications/arena-publications/workingpapers/working-papers2000/wp00_2.htm
Pierson, P. (1996) The Path to European Integration: A Historical Institutionalist Analysis. Comparative European Studies 29(2): 123-63.
Session 7, November 10, 2014 - Midterm exam and presentations of research proposals Instructions for presentations will be given in class and can be found at the course website.
Session 8, November 17, 2014 - Globalization, Norms, Empire and Civilization Is Europe a normative or a market power? An empire? Does it have a civilizing ‘mission’? What have been the driving forces of EU enlargement?
Reading: Henry, N. (2010). Politics Beyond the State: Europe as Civilization and as Empire. Review Article. Comparative European Politics 8(2): 262-280.
Manners, I. (2002). Normative Power Europe: A Contradiction in Terms? Journal of Common Market Studies 40(2): 235-258.
Session 9, November 24, 2014 - Identity, Nationalism and Building Symbolic Europe How has ‘Europeanness’ been invented and how has it been studied? Why is it important to understand the reasoning(s) behind and mechanism(s) of building of political communities?
Reading: Shore, C. (2000). Creating the people’s Europe: symbols, history and invented traditions. In: Shore, C. Building Europe: the Cultural Politics of European Integration. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 40-65.
Chapters 3 and 5 in Bottici and Challand (2013)
Session 10, December 1, 2014 - Social constructivism How do constructivists study the European integration? What is ‘discourse’?
Reading: Wendt, A. (1995) Constructing International Politics. International Security 20(1): 71-81.
Checkel, J. (2006) Constructivist Approaches to European Integration. Oslo: ARENA.
Malmvig, H. (2006). Caught Between Cooperation and Democratization: the Barcelona Process and the EU’s Double-Discursive Approach. Journal of International Relations and Development 9: 343-370.
Session 11, December 8, 2014 - Feminist Perspectives on European Integration ‘Gender equality’ and ‘gender mainstreaming’ have become one of key norms in EU policy-making. The EU integration theory has so far devoted only a passing attention to the phenomenon and scholarship on men&women in the EU is mostly contributed by other disciplines.
Reading: Shaw, Y. (2000). Importing Gender: the Challenge of Feminism and the Analysis of the EU Legal Order. Journal of European Public Policy 7(3): 406-431.
Kronsell, A. (2005) Gender, Power and European Integration Theory. Journal of European Public Policy 12(6): 1022-1040. Earlier version available also at: http://www.atria.nl/epublications/2003/Gender_and_power/5thfeminist/paper_675b.pdf
December 12: Research Proposal Deadline Session 12, December 15, 2014 - Final Exam (Instructions will be given in class)
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