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History of European Integration

Course
2014-2015

Admission requirements

Admission to the MA International Relations, track European Union Studies.

Description

The course analyses the problems confronting Europe since the process of European cooperation started to take shape at the end of WWI through some of the major treaties and policy choices. It also seeks to explain why supranational, European solutions were deemed necessary to resolve them (and whether they did so). It combines international and economic history with transnational approaches as well as ideas conceived and developed by political scientists.

Course objectives

Students will understand a range of concepts linked to discussions on the history of European integration and the on-going historical debate on this subject.

Timetable

Timetable

Mode of instruction

Lectures and simulation

Course Load

Total course load for the course: 5 EC is 140 hours.

  • Hours spent on attending lectures: 2 hours per week x 9 weeks = 18 hours

  • Time for studying the compulsory literature and preparation for the lectures: 3 hours per week x 12 = 36 hours

  • Preparation for the paper: 50 hours

  • Preparation for the negotiating strategy and game: 30 hours

  • Negotiating game: 6 hours

Assessment method

  • End term paper 60%

  • Negotiating strategy 20%

  • Participation 20%

Retake paper: resubmit January 2015 In order to be eligible for the retake paper, students have to have participated in both the negotiating game and first paper and have to have failed the course.

Blackboard

Yes, see Blackboard.

Reading list

  • D. Dinan, Europe Recast: A History of European Union (2004).

  • Reader.

Registration

Via uSis.

Contact information

Mw. Dr.Mr. A.-I. Richard