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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Jan Váška, Ph.D. (12.02.2024)
In Summer Term 2024, the course will combine online and in-class lectures and discussions with guided independent study using the Moodle platform. Students will be graded on the basis of two written assignments and final test. The course lecturer is Dr Alan Butt Philip, Jean Monnet Reader and then Honorary Reader at the University of Bath from 1992-2015, who has been a visiting professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University since 2007. The Course Assistant at FSV, to whom all queries concerning the organisation of this course should be directed, is Dr Jan Váška, jan.vaska@fsv.cuni.cz |
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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Jan Váška, Ph.D. (12.02.2024)
Upon completing the course, students will understand the specifics of the UK’s historical and contemporary attitudes towards, and involvement in, the European integration process, and the salience of „Europe“ as a domestic political issue in the UK. They will understand how and why the idea of leaving the EU progressively gained traction, and they will be able to analyze and explain both the result of the 2016 referendum, and the options available to enable Brexit to occur. Students will also be able to make an initial assessment of the impact of Brexit so far on both the EU and the UK. |
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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Jan Váška, Ph.D. (12.02.2024)
Compulsory Reading list
Ahead of the 28+29 February classes, students are expected to have read two pieces of text (available in the Moodle):
(1) Geddes 2013, Chapter 1 (Britain on the Edge of Europe) (2) Wallace 2005.
In their subsequent reading, they are expected to follow Alan Butt Philip’s suggestions (specialised reading lists will be provided in the Moodle) dependent on the essay topics they have chosen.
General Reading List
CLARKE Harold D., Matthew GOODWIN a Paul WHITELEY. Brexit: why Britain voted to leave the European Union. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. ISBN 978-1-107-15072-0.
GARNETT, Mark, Simon MABON a Robert SMITH. British foreign policy since 1945. New York: Routledge, 2018. ISBN 978-1-138-82127-9.
GEDDES Andrew, Britain and the European Union (2013)
GEORGE Stephen, An Awkward Partner (1998 edition)
GEORGE Stephen (ed.), Britain and the European Community: the Politics of Semi-Detachment (1992)
GLENCROSS Andrew, Why the UK voted for Brexit: David Cameron's great miscalculation [online]. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Palgrave studies in European Union politics. ISBN 978-1-137-59000-8. http://sfx.is.cuni.cz/sfxlcl3?isbn=9781137590008
GOWLAND David, Arthur Turner and Alex Wright, Britain and European Integration since 1945 (2010)
GOWLAND David, Britain and the European Union (2017)
GREY Chris, Brexit Unfolded (Biteback Publications, London, 2023 edition)
MENON non Anand and John-Paul Salter, 'Brexit: Initial Reflections' in International Affairs,Vol.92 No.6 November 2016
ROGERS Ivan, Nine Lessons in Brexit (Short Books, London, 2019). For summary, read Rogers‘ December 2018 speech at University of Liverpool: https://news.liverpool.ac.uk/2018/12/13/full-speech-sir-ivan-rogers-on-brexit/
SHIPMAN Tim, All Out War: The Full Story of Brexit (William Collins, 2017)
SHIPMAN Tim, Fall Out - A Year of Political Mayhem, (William Collins Books, London, 2018)
SOBOLEWSKA Maria and Robert Ford, Brexitland: Identity,Diversity and the Reshaping of British Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
WALL Stephen, Reluctant European. Britain and the European Union from 1945 to Brexit (Oxford University Press, 2020)
WALLACE William, Europe of Anglosphere? British Foreign Policy between Atlanticism and European Integration (2005)
YOUNG Hugo, This Blessed Plot: Britain and Europe from Churchill to Blair (1999)
Online resources
UK Government, “The Windsor Framework: A New Way Forward” (February 2023), available online at www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-windsor-framework
HM Government, 'Revised EU Withdrawal Agreement and Political Declaration (19 October 2019) available online at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-withdrawal-agreement-and-political-declaration.
HM Government White Paper on Brexit: 'The United Kingdom's exit from, and new partnership with the European Union'. HMSO Cmnd. 9417, 2 February 2017 (https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/589191/The_United_Kingdoms_exit_from_and_partnership_with_the_EU_Web.pdf)
EU referendum Analysis 2016: Media. Voters and the Campaign (http://www.referendumanalysis.eu/)
UK election analysis 2017, 2019: http://www.electionanalysis.uk/
International Affairs
British Journal of Politics and International Relations (special issue on Brexit: http://journals.sagepub.com/page/bpi/collections/virtual-issues/brexit)
David Cameron, Bloomberg Speech (2013): https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/eu-speech-at-bloomberg
Theresa May, Lancaster House Speech (2017): https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/the-governments-negotiating-objectives-for-exiting-the-eu-pm-speech
Theresa May, Florence Speech (2017): https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/pms-florence-speech-a-new-era-of-cooperation-and-partnership-between-the-uk-and-the-eu
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Political and Trade reports from the think tank “The UK in a Changing Europe” available online at https://ukandeu.ac.uk
UCL Constitutional Unit blog: https://constitution-unit.com/
Politics blogs from the LSE on post-Brexit policy are available at https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/tag/post-brexit
Brexit and beyond blog from the academic author Chris Grey, available at chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2024
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Politics: Virtual Retrospective Special Issue on Brexit (March 2019): http://politicsblog.ac.uk/2019/03/22/virtual-special-issue-on-brexit/
EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement: https://ec.europa.eu/info/relations-united-kingdom/eu-uk-trade-and-cooperation-agreement_en
Margaret Thatcher, Speech to the College of Europe in Bruges on September 20th 1988 reproduced in full (for example) in Simon Heffer, Great british Speeches, (Quercus, London 2007). Also available online at https://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/107332 (for video recording see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_XsSnivgNg)
European Commission, EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (OJ L444, 31 December 2020), available on the EU's Europa website.Also the EU's press Release summarising the Trade and Cooperation Agreement dated 24, December 2020.
European Commission, Winter 2021 European Economic Forecast, Box 1.2 pp 14 and 15, 11 February 2021 (Available online at the Europa website, ISSN 2443-8014.
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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Jan Váška, Ph.D. (12.02.2024)
In-class land online lectures and discussions. Directed independent study, one-to-one online consultations (optional).
Link to the introductory/briefing session (Wednesday 21 February 2024, 9:30-10:00): TBC
Link to the 28 February online class (Wednesday 28 February 2024, 9:30-10:50): TBC
Link to the 29 February online class (Thursday 29 February 2024, 9:30-10:50): TBC
Venue for the 10+11 April bloc: Room 508 at Voršilská 1/144 |
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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Jan Váška, Ph.D. (28.02.2024)
Requirements
1) Active participation in classes. Attendance of the three online sessionsis obligatory. Full attendance record of the April bloc of in-class lectures is strongly recommended.
2) Short written assignment (choose one among several questions proposed by the lecturer, length 600 words) due by 9 April 2024 (20 per cent of final mark; combined, students must score at least 10 points out of 20 to qualify for the credits).
3) Essay (choose one among several topics proposed by the lecturer). Length 2000 words (+/- 10 per cent), due by 10 June 2024 (60 per cent of final mark; students must score at least 30,5 points out of 60 to qualify for the credits).
Late submission policy: maximum 7 days on either assignment, with the penalty of 1 point per day.
Both assigments will be submitted to Moodle and subject to anti-plagiarism control by Turnitin software. Standard citations are required for both assignments in accordance with the Chicago or Harvard referencing style (NB students of full programmes at IMS are bound by IMS citation standard as prescribed by by the Decree of the Director No. 09/2023.
4) Final test will take place in class during the examination period. It will consist of single/multi select multiple choice questions, timelines and short open questions (20 per cent of final mark; students must score at least 10 points out of 20 to qualify for the credits).
AI policy for this module is regulated by the Decree of the Director of IMS FSV UK 09/2023, para 17. 1) Use of tools of generative artificial intelligence is generally permitted during the work on the essays but not for negeration of substantive parts of the text. However students need to be acutely aware of the risks: inaccurate information, fabulated bibliography etc. All pieces of information and resources suggested by chatbots need to be carefully verified; it is the student who is responsible for all mistakes in the submitted text. 2) Each essay must contain a truthful statement by the student on the use chatbots (not counted into the headline wordcount): whether they used them or not, at what stages of the work, and what were the questions and tasks asked from the chatbot. 3) Any parts of the text devised by AI tools (and not the students themselves) must be treated as quotations (ie. quotation marks, references..).
Classification: Grading is based on the Dean's Measure Directive SO 002 17/2023.
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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Jan Váška, Ph.D. (12.02.2024)
Programme of the course in Summer Term 2024 1) Wednesday 21 February, 9:30-10:00 Online, Zoom link: https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/97002643466
Online briefing session covering the scope of the course module, style and learning, assessment, sources, participation, deadlines. Q & A.
2.1 Wednesday 28 February 2024, 9:30-10:50 Online, Zoom link: https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/94493220954
History and Analysis of the UK's relations with the EC/EU - Part 1, 1945 to 1997
2.2 Thursday 29 February 2024, 9:30-10:50 Online, Zoom link: https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/91991680334
History and Analysis of the UK's relations with the EC/EU - Part 2, 1997 to 2015
3) 10+11 April bloc of classes
Venue: Room 508 at Voršilská 1/144
3.1 Wednesday 10 April morning: 9:30 – 12:00 The case for and against Brexit
3.2 Wednesday 10 April afternoon: 14:00 – 16:00 The process of Brexit. Options available
3.3 Thursday 11 April morning: 9:30 – 12:00
Implications of Brexit for the UK and the EU. Risks and Opportunities
Impact of Brexit on UK politics. today and in the near future. |