10009 - History of European Integration

Learning outcomes

The main aim of the course is to give students a critical and widen knowledge of the European Community role in the International system as well as the sui generis communitarian external relations developed in the last fifty years. The students will gain a widen knowledge of the policy and of the communitarian institutions, which have been the main engines of Community relations, and they will know the actual historiographic debate about the external role of the EU. In the end the students will gain knowledge of the history main tools: The archive documents. This knowledge will be essential also for a widen analysis of the present communitarian documents.

Course contents

The course will analyse in depth the History of European integration through some specific issues. In the lectures will be presented the European Studies, expounded the main historical stages of the European construction and the main historiographic cores. In the institutional and central part of the course (15 lectures) will be deepened the external role of the European Community and his great changes, from his origin with the Treaties of Rome, through his increasing influence on the politics and economy of third countries; how is evolving the Community place in the international system; the fundamental role of the policies in the relations with the third countries (with a special focus on the environmental policy and common agricultural policy). In the seminar part of the course (5 lectures), will be deepened some items of the external relations of the Community, both with the help of experts and researchers, and through the reading and analysis of archive documents of the mail European institutions, which will be given to the students from the teacher.

Readings/Bibliography

Attending Students: Testi obbligatori: 1. Umberto Morelli, Storia dell'integrazione europea, Milano, Guerini Scientifica, 2011. 2. Laschi G. (a cura di), Oltre i confini. L'UE tra integrazione interna e relazioni esterne, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2011. Una monografia a scelta tra i seguenti volumi: D'Ottavio G., L'Europa dei tedeschi. La Germania e l'integrazione europea 1949¬1966, Il Mulino, 2013. Di Sarcina F., L'Europa delle donne, Il Mulino, 2010. Garavini G., Dopo gli imperi. L'integrazione europea nello scontro Nord-Sud, Le Monnier, 2009. Judt T., Storia dell'Europa dal 1945, Mondadori, 2007. Laschi G. (a cura di), Memoria d'Europa, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2012. Piermattei M., Crisi della Repubblica e sfida europea. I partiti italiani e la moneta unica, Bologna, Clueb, 2012 Scichilone L., L'Europa e la sfida ecologica. Storia della politica ambientale europea (1969-1998), Mulino, 2009. Varsori A., La Cenerentola d'Europa? L'Italia e l'integrazione europea dal 1947 a oggi, Rubbettino, 2010. Not attending students: Oltre ai testi dei frequentanti si prepareranno anche sui seguenti volumi: 1. Bitumi A., D'Ottavio G., Laschi G. (a cura di), La Comunità europea e le relazioni esterne 1957-1992, Bologna, CLUEB, 2008. 2. Laschi G. e Telò M. (a cura di), L'Europa nel sistema internazionale. Sfide, ostacoli e dilemmi nello sviluppo di una potenza civile, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2008. Solo saggi storici e Telò.

Teaching methods

Archive documentation Power point Audiovisual instruments

Assessment methods

The students will be attending if they won't be absent more than three times, will present a final paper. After the introductive section on History of European Integration, students are required to pass (18/30) a wrote exam. At the end of the course, attending students will produce a paper (15.000 characters, included spaces) about an issue decided with the teacher. Non attending students will take a written exam and then an oral exam. Every exam will count a 50% of the final vote.

Teaching tools

Archive documentation Power point Audiovisual instruments

Office hours

See the website of Giuliana Laschi