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Instructors: Univ-Prof. Dr. Arne Niemann
Event type:
Lecture
Displayed in timetable as:
V Thema IB
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Contents:
The course seeks to give comprehensive insights into the history, theory and policies of European integration. The first part of the course will introduce into the overall subject matter and look at some historical roots and foundations of the European integration project. This will be followed by discussing the most important theoretical approaches towards (European) integration and will also form the basis for the analysis of (some of the) subsequent topics. The third and main part of the course will focus on the content as well as the scope and level of integration of major EU/EC policies (including the single market, monetary union, agricultural policy, social policy, regional policy, environmental policy, justice and home affairs, and EU external policy). This part also aims at applying the insights of section one, and especially section two, to specific policy areas and seeks to illustrate the knowledge gained by way of (concrete) examples.
Recommended reading list:
Bache, Ian, George, Stephen and Simon Bulmer (2014), Politics in the European Union, Fourth Edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Cini, Michelle and Nieves Perez-Solórzano Borragán (eds) (2016), European Union Politics, Fifth Edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Dinan, Desmond (2010), Ever Closer Union: An Introduction to European Integration, 4th Edition, Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, chapters 1-6.
Hix, Simon and Høyland, Bjørn (2011), The Political System of the European Union, Third Edition, Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.
McCormick, John (2014), Understanding the European Union: A Concise Introduction, Sixth Edition, Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.
Peterson, John and Shackleton, Michael (eds) (2012), The Institutions of the European Union, Third Edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Good book on EU institutions).
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