Academic Year 2019/2020
- Docente: Michele Marchi
- Credits: 6
- SSD: M-STO/04
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Ravenna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in International Cooperation on Human Rights and Intercultural Heritage (cod. 9237)
Learning outcomes
The aim of this class is to describe and study three main dimensions of the European integration process. First of all, the institutional and political one, between the end of the Second World War and Brexit. Secondly the Mediterranean aspect considering the original links with Africa, passing through the entering of Spain, Portugal and Greece into the EEC and the energy issues, till the migration crisis and the Arab Spring. And thirdly the cultural diplomacy dimension, in the attempt to consider in a realistic way difficulties and limits but also opportunities and potentialities of the so called soft power and, at large, of a European foreign policy in the current multipolar world.
Course contents
For better understanding the themes of the classes, the attending students will have to read (compulsory):
M. Gilbert, European integration a concise history, Rowman and Littlefield, 2011
Every class will be divided into two sessions. The first part will offer a general introduction of the planned theme through frontal lesson, while the second part will be based on the discussion and comments on historical documents (political leaders speeches, newspapers articles, institutional documents, etc..). During every class the teacher will provide documents and papers required for the following lesson.
Class 1
European integration: the roots during WWII and the American contribution
Class 2
Jean Monnet, Robert Schuman and Konrad Adenauer: the 1950 moment and the birth of ECSC
Class 3
The “struggle” for a European Defense Community
Class 4
From Messina to Rome, through Venice. The Italian contribution to the birth of EEC
Class 5
The Gaullist moment
Class 6
The Aja moment and the first crucial enlargement; the Euro-Arab dialogue
Class 7
Debates and power point presentations performed by students dealing with European Integration documents
Class 8
The Giscard-Schmidt moment
Class 9
A “socialist Europe” against a “liberal” one? The “short” Mitterrand’s moment and the “long” Delors leadership
Class 10
The “Fall” and its European implications
Class 11
The Maastricht moment and the Barcelona Process
Class 12
A constitutional dream? 2002-2005
Class 13
The road to 2004-2007 “reunion”: history and economy
Class 14
The roots of today’s crisis: euro, Brexit, migration and populism
Class 15
Debates and power point presentations performed by students dealing with European Integration documents
Readings/Bibliography
For attending students
M. Gilbert, European integration a concise history, Rowman and Littlefield, 2011
For non attending students
Three compulsory:
M. Gilbert, European integration a concise history, Rowman and Littlefield, 2011
W. Loth, Building Europe, a history of European Integration, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2015
A. Moravcsik, The choice for Europe: social purpose and state power from Messina to Maastricht, London, UCL Press, 1998
And one to choose among the following list:
L. Bonfreschi-G. Orsina-A. Varsori (eds.), European Parties and the European Integration Process, 1945-1992, Bruxelles, Peter Lang, 2015
K. Dyson-K.Featherston, The Road to Maastricht: negotiating economic and monetary union, Oxford, Oxford UP, 1999
A. Milward, The European Rescue of the Nation State, London, Routledge, 2000
D. Preda (ed.), The History of European Monetary Union. Comparing Strategies amidst Prospects for Integration and National Resistance, Bruxelles, Peter Lang, 2016
Teaching methods
The course will be taught through a mixture of formal lectures and discussion classes. Its aim will be to facilitate interaction between lecturer and students and to stimulate debate among students themselves.
Class attendance is compulsory if you decide to be “an attending student”. Otherwise it’s possible to choose the “non attending student” formula.
Assessment methods
For attending students
Two hours final written test. Professor will give four macro questions focused on all the themes approached during the course. The students will have to answer to two of them, writing two short essays (about 500/600 words each).
The final grades will be obtained in this way
25% first presentation
25% second presentation
50% final test
For non attending students
Oral examination on four books
Three compulsory:
M. Gilbert, European integration a concise history, Rowman and Littlefield, 2011
W. Loth, Building Europe, a history of European Integration, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2015
A. Moravcsik, The choice for Europe: social purpose and state power from Messina to Maastricht, London, UCL Press, 1998
And one to choose among the following list:
L. Bonfreschi-G. Orsina-A. Varsori (eds.), European Parties and the European Integration Process, 1945-1992, Bruxelles, Peter Lang, 2015
K. Dyson-K.Featherston, The Road to Maastricht: negotiating economic and monetary union, Oxford, Oxford UP, 1999
A. Milward, The European Rescue of the Nation State, London, Routledge, 2000
D. Preda (ed.), The History of European Monetary Union. Comparing Strategies amidst Prospects for Integration and National Resistance, Bruxelles, Peter Lang, 2016
The final grades will be obtained in this way: 25% for each book.
Teaching tools
Lectures with main topics discussed with students. Multimedia tools.
Office hours
See the website of Michele Marchi