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European Union
Seminar
Professor Strezhneva
E-mail: [email protected]
Course Description and Objectives. In this course we will analyze the politics, institutions and
policies of the European Union (EU). Throughout the course we will focus on the interaction of
internal and external dimensions of the EU activity. In particular, we will analyze the global role
of the EU. We will review the ‘classic’ and modern theories employed to explain European
integration and European political process. We will also examine several areas of EU policy,
including the internal market, macroeconomic policy, energy and climate change.
The course will assist students in understanding the institutional structure and operations of the
EU and it will introduce them to several prominent issues it is faced with. As a result the students
are expected to be able to view integrated Europe within a wider international and global
perspective.
Course Requirements:
 One Essay (20%) of 500–600 words on a particular topic (see below), presented on a
particular date. The essay is to be submitted electronically for other students to read it 24 hours
before class. The essay should not be a summary of home reading, but should agree or disagree
with arguments made in it. The essay is discussed in class by the whole group.
Regular Weekly Home Readings (20%). All students are to do the reading before each class
and to come prepared for the general discussion of the week’s material.
One Report (20%) The report is made in class (5 minutes) on the topic assigned to introduce
other students to the substance. Be ready to answer the questions.
One Project (40%) prepared by 3 students each, with PowerPoint presentations, to be
presented in class (10 minutes talk, 10 minutes discussion).
Readings
1. Cini Michelle, Pérez-Solórzano Borragán Nieves (eds.). European Union Politics. 5th
edition. OUP Oxford, 2016. eBook.
2. Corner Mark. The European Union: An Introduction. London: I.B.Tauris. 2014.
eBook.
3. The European Union and Global Governance : A Handbook / ed. J.-U. Wunderlich,
D.J. Bailey. - London : Routledge, 2011.
4. Renard, Thomas; Biscop, Sven. The European Union and Emerging Powers in the
21st Century : How Europe Can Shape a New Global Order. Burlington, VT :
Routledge. 2012. eBook.
5. Staab Andreas. The European Union Explained: Institutions, Actors, Global Impact.
Bloomington, Ind : Indiana University Press. 2013. eBook.
6. Wallace William, Wallace Helen and Mark Pollack (eds.). Policy-Making in the
European Union. 5th edition. OUP, 2005
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1. INTRODUCTION
No reading
2. THE NOTION OF INTEGRATION. INTEGRATION THEORIES
Reading:
a) Cini, Pérez-Solórzano Borragán (eds). Part 2: Theories and Conceptual Approaches.
b) Laursen Finn. Theory and Practice of Regional Integration. Jean Monnet/Robert
Schuman Paper Series. Vol. 8. No 3. February 2008.
Project: Recent developments in integration theory
Report: Neofunctionalism and postfunctional theory of European integration
Essay: Constructivist turn in integration theory
3. HISTORY OF THE EU
Reading:
a) Corner (author). 2: History
b) Staab (author). Part one: The Evolution of the EU
Project: the Founding Fathers of the EU
Report: Hague Congress 1948
Essay: EU after the 2008-2011 economic and financial crisis: what has changed?
4. EU INSTITUTIONS
Reading:
a) Staab (author). Part two: Institutions
b) Cini, Pérez-Solórzano Borragán (eds). Part 3: Institutions and Actors.
Project: Evolution of the functions of the European Commission
Report: The role of the European Court of Justice
Essay: The EU democratic deficit
5. EUROPEAN MODES OF GOVERNANCE
Reading:
a) Wallace, Wallace and Mark Pollack (eds.). 3 An Institutional Anatomy and Five
Policy Modes, рр. 49-90.
Project: Transgovernmental mode of economic governance in the EU
Report: Comitology
Essay: Has the open method of coordination become irrelevant?
6. EU INTERNAL MARKET DEVELOPMENTS
Reading:
a) Cini, Pérez-Solórzano Borragán (eds). 18: Single Market
b) Vetter Stefan. The Single European Market 20 years on. Achievements, unfulfilled
expectations & further potential. Deutsche Bank Research, 2013.
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Project: How important Britain is for the SIM?
Essay: Negative and positive integration
Report: SIM for services
7. BUDGET ISSUES
Reading:
a) European Union Public Finance, 5th Edition, pp. 99-218
Report: The annual budgetary procedure
Project: Own resources of the Union’s budget
Essay: Prospects for the EU financial transaction tax
8. ECONOMIC AND MONETARY UNION
Reading:
a) Lorenzo DONATELLI, Alice ZOPPÈ, Dario PATERNOSTER. European Parliament
Briefing. Institutions and Bodies in the Economic and Monetary Union. February
2016.
b) Cini, Pérez-Solórzano Borragán (eds). 21: Economic and Monetary Union
Report: Capital Markets Union
Essay: What future for the Stability and growth pact?
Project: Banking Union
9. TRADE POLICY
Reading:
a) World Trade Organization. The Trade Policy Review of the European Union, 18 May
2015, pp. 26–34
b) Staab (author). 15: Trade and Common Commercial Policy
Report: Russia and EU in WTO
Essay: Issues of taxation in EU trade policy
Project: Bilateralism and/or multilateralism in EU trade policy
10. COMMON FOREIGN AND SECURITY POLICY
Reading:
a) Mix Derek E. The European Union: Foreign and Security Policy. Congressional
Research Service. 2013
b) Corner (author). 7: External Relations
Report: EU institutions in common foreign and security policy
Essay: EU as a normative power
Project: EU neighborhood policy: success or failure?
11. GLOBAL ROLE OF THE EU
Reading:
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a)Renard, Thomas; Biscop, Sven. The European Union and Emerging Powers in the
21st Century : How Europe Can Shape a New Global Order. Burlington, VT :
Routledge. 2012. eBook.
b) EU-China Observer. Issue 2, 2011
Report: TTIP
Essay: EU-China Relations
Project: Prospects for EU-EAEU cooperation
12. INTERNAL SECURITY. IMMIGRATION
Reading:
a) OECD. Is this humanitarian migration crisis different? Migration Policy Debates.
2015 #7.
b) Cini, Pérez-Solórzano Borragán (eds). 20: The Area of Freedom, Security and Justice.
Report: The Common European Asylum System
Essay: The EU-Turkey refugee deal
Project: Extraterritorial Immigration Control
13. ENERGY AND ECOLOGY
Reading:
a) Corner (author). 8: The Greening of Europe?
b) Dutton Joseph. EU Energy Policy and the Third Package. EPG Working Paper: 1505.
2015. URL: http://www.ukerc.ac.uk/publications/eu-energy-policy-and-the-thirdpackage-working-paper.html
c) Maltby Tomas. European Union energy policy integration: A case of European
Commission policy entrepreneurship and increasing supranationalism. Energy
Policy. Volume 55, April 2013, Pages 435–444. URL:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421512010798
Project: EU energy policy: agenda dynamics and policy change
Essay: nergy and climate change policy interconnections
Report: Key issues of EU-Russia relations in the energy field