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Instructors: Dr. Petra Guasti
Event type:
Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
EU East. Enlargemt.
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Contents:
This course is designed to introduce one of the most important political experiments in the recent history – Eastward Enlargement of the European Union, and to familiarize the students with the most salient issues accompanying this complex set of processes, as well as recent trends and future Enlargement prospects. The course will cover the recent enlargement rounds (2004, 2007 and 2013) of Enlargement process and look at the impact the enlargement process had on the new member states as well as examine its consequences and changes in the internal dynamics of the European Union as such. The course will focus on case studies from the CEE region concentrating on issues such as rule of law, corruption, immigration, identity and security.
Recommended reading list:
Milada Anna Vachudova, Europe Undivided: Democracy, Leverage and Integration After Communism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Michael J. Baun, A Wider Europe – The Process and Politics of European Union Enlargement. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000
Michelle Cini, Ed. European Union Politics. Second Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Neill Nugent, Ed. European Union Enlargement. New York: Palgrave, 2004.
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