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95695 - POLITICAL HISTORY OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION AND COOPERATION

Academic Year 2022/2023

                
                        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)

                                    Course Timetable
                                
from Nov 07, 2022 to Dec 16, 2022

Learning outcomes

The aim of this course is to describe and study three main dimensions of the European integration process. First, 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 complicated steps of the Barcelona Process and the Union for the Mediterranean. 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. By the end of the course, the student knows the main dimensions and events that have characterised the European integration process and is capable of critically assessing how is important to have a correct and multidimensional knowledge of the historical roots of the integration process for understanding today’s turning point of European Union.

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

One book to choose among:

I.T. Berend, The Economics and Politics of European Integration: Populism, Nationalism and the History of EU, Routledge, 2020

L. van Middelaar, Le passage à l'Europe, Gallimard, 2012 (or english version The Passage to Europe, Yale UP, 2014)

K. K. Patel, Project Europe: A History, Cambridge UP, 2020

L. Warlouzet, Europe contre Europe. Entre liberté, solidarité et puissance, CNRS Editions, 2022

For non attending students

Four books to choose among:

I.T. Berend, The Economics and Politics of European Integration: Populism, Nationalism and the History of EU, Routledge, 2020

I.T. Berend, From the Soviet Bloc to the European Union, Cambridge UP, 2009

I. T. Berend, Against European Integration: the European Union and its Discontents, Routledge, 2019

F. Bicchi, The Union for the Mediterranean, Routledge, 2012

L. Bonfreschi-G. Orsina-A. Varsori (eds.), European Parties and the European Integration Process, 1945-1992, Bruxelles, Peter Lang, 2015

A.E. Gfeller, Building a European Identity, Berghahn Books, 2014

M. Gilbert, European integration a concise history, Rowman and Littlefield, 2011

W. Loth, Building Europe, a history of European Integration, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2015

P. Hansen-Jonsson, Eurafrica. The Untold History of European Integration and Colonialism, Bloomsbury, 2015

L. Mechi-G. Migani-F. Petrini (edds.), Networks of Global Governance, Cambridge Scholars, 2014

A. Milward, The European Rescue of the Nation State, London, Routledge, 2000

A. Moravcsik, The choice for Europe: social purpose and state power from Messina to Maastricht, London, UCL Press, 1998

K. K. Patel, Project Europe: A History, Cambridge UP, 2020

K. K. Patel-F. Romero-U. Krotz (eds.), Europe’s Cold War Relations: the EC Towards a Global Role, Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

L. van Middelaar, Le passage à l'Europe, Gallimard, 2012 (or english version The Passage to Europe, Yale UP, 2014)

L. van Middelaar, Alarums and Excursions. Improvising politics on the European Stage, Agenda Publishing, 2019

L. Warlouzet, Europe contre Europe. Entre liberté, solidarité et puissance, CNRS Editions, 2022

L. Warlouzet, Governing Europe in a Globalizing World, Routledge, 2018

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 three macro questions focused on all the themes approached during the course and one macro question focused on one of the chosen book. The students will have to answer, writing four short essays (about 500 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 to choose among: