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Lehrende/r: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Kai Arzheimer
Veranstaltungsart:
Seminar
Anzeige im Stundenplan:
SemEurop.Integration
Semesterwochenstunden:
2
Unterrichtssprache:
Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl:
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Prioritätsschema: Senatsrichtlinie
Zulassung gemäß Richtlinie über den Zugang zu teilnahmebeschränkten Lehrveranstaltungen vom 07. März 2007.
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Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
Bereiche (areas of study): Internationale Beziehungen (International Relations); Analyse und Vergleich politischer Systeme (Comparative Politics); Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft (Economy and Society). Das Seminar gilt als Äquivalent für VWL, Lehramt
Assessment is based on an essay of 5,000-6,000 words. Additionally, you will have to pass a class test.
Inhalt:
No other political system can claim a comparable dynamic, complexity and multi-dimensionality like that of the European Union. The concept of supranationality established sixty years ago proves to be successful as it created a economically prosperous and politically stable European region. However, the challenges for the European Union are enormous in the 21st century, including the integration of former communist countries, a necessary policy reform and the search for an identity on international stage.
The seminar offers an introduction to the most important aspects of European integration. After a brief historical survey of the origins of European Integration, the first part of the module is concerned with the institutional system of the EU. Each of the main community institutions is examined. This leads to an analysis of the EU policy process, and to the impact upon this of the institutional reforms introduced with the Single European Act and the treaties of Maastricht, Amsterdam, and Nice. Important recent developments like the failure to introduce a European Constitution and the Lisbon treaty will be addressed as well. The third part of the seminar deals with EU policies. Many major EU policy areas are covered, but particular attention is given to those identified in the Maastricht Treaty as central to the future development of European integration, notably economic and monetary policy, and foreign and security policy.
The seminar also contains elements that address the theoretical approaches which seek to explain the complex process of political integration, and assesses their relevance and explanatory powers in the European context. Issue of sovereignty, democracy and the changing relationship between the nation state and the EU are central in this regard.
It has to be stressed that not all relevant aspects of the integration process can be dealt with in depth. Rather, the seminar takes horizontal approach.
Empfohlene Literatur:
Cini, M. (ed.), European Union Politics (Oxford: OUP 2007)
Dinan, D., Europe Recast. A History of European Union (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2004
Hix, S. The Political System of the European Union (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2005, 2nd edition)
Nugent, N. (ed.) European Union Enlargement (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2004)
Nugent, N., The Government and Politics of the European Union, (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2006, 6th edition)
Peterson, J. / Shackleton, M., The Institutions of the European Union, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, 2nd ed)
Rosamond, B., Theories of European Integration, (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000)
Wallace, H, Wallace, W. and M. Pollack (eds), Policy-making in the European Union, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010; 6th ed.)
Zusätzliche Informationen:
Each weekly session consists of a lecture, followed by group work and class-discussions. Students are not required to give lengthy presentations ("Referate"). I do, however, expect that you attend classes well-prepared, and that you are willing and able to participate in class discussions. Therefore, it is absolutely that you regularly read the assigned texts. Moreover, students will have to give a short (5 min) presentation on political events in Europe at the beginning of each seminar.
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