93613 - INTEGRAZIONE EUROPEA E AREA MEDITERRANEA

Learning outcomes

The course aims at reconstructing the process of European integration, its origins and development up to its contemporary criticalities starting from a continental perspective but giving special importance to the interaction between the two shores of the Mediterranean area. Special attention will be devoted to the intertwining of the integration process and the evolution of the Arab world, with a focus starting from the great crisis of the early 1970s. At the end of the course, students will be able to retrace the main stages of the European integration process, identify its institutional actors and place its evolution within the Cold War and post-colonial evolution scenarios, with a specific focus on the southern shore of the Mediterranean.

Course contents

The course will reconstruct the origins and development of the European integration process. The relationship between European integration and the Mediterranean area will be highlighted following two trajectories: the first is the one concerning the Mediterranean countries involved in the integration process; the second is the one concerning the relationship between European institutions, European countries and the 'southern shore' of the Mediterranean.

Lesson 1 - Ideas of a United Europe
Lesson 2 - The origins of the European integration process: from post-war to the ECSC
Lesson 3 - The challenge of the EDC and the relaunch of Messina
Lesson 4 - The Treaties of Rome
Lesson 5 - The Euro-Mediterranean dimension of the EEC and the Treaty of Yaoundé
Lesson 6 - The De Gaulle moment
Lesson 7 - The Hague Summit
Lesson 8 - The crisis of the 1970s Euro-Arab dialogue
Lesson 9 - The path to Economic and Monetary Union
Lesson 10 - Workshop on historical documents
Lesson 11 - The long Delors Commission
Lesson 12 - The fall of the Berlin Wall and its implications
Lesson 13 - The Maastricht Treaty and the great enlargement
Lesson 14 - The Euro-Mediterranean relationship: Barcelona Process and Euro-Mediterranean Partnership
Lesson 15 - The Union for the Mediterranean

Readings/Bibliography

Attending students

Lectures content + E. Calandri, M. E. Guasconi, R. Ranieri, Storia politica e economica dell'integrazione europea: dal 1945 ad oggi, EdiSES, 2015

and one volume of your choice from among

S. Cruciani, M. Ridolfi, L’Unione Europea e il Mediterraneo. Interdipendenza politica e rappresentazioni mediatiche (1947-2017), Franco Angeli, 2018;

Y. Montarsolo, L’Eurafrique, contrepoint de l’idée d’Europe: Le cas français de la fin de la deuxième guerre mondiale aux négociations des Traités de Rome, Presses Universitaire de Provence, 2010;

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

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

E. Calandri (a cura di), Il primato sfuggente. L’Europa e l’intervento per lo sviluppo (1957-2007), Franco Angeli, 2009;

G. Laschi, L'Europa e gli altri. Le relazioni esterne della Comunità dalle origini al dialogo Nord-Sud, Il Mulino, 2015;

E. Bini, G. Garavini, F. Romero, Oil Shock: the 1973 crisis and its economic legacy, I. B. Tauris, 2016

 

 

Non attending students

E. Calandri, M. E. Guasconi,R. Ranieri, Storia politica e integrazione europea, EdiSES, 2015 + S. Labbate, Illusioni mediterranee. Il dialogo euro-arabo, Le Monnier, 2016

and one volume of your choice from among

S. Cruciani, M. Ridolfi, L’Unione Europea e il Mediterraneo. Interdipendenza politica e rappresentazioni mediatiche (1947-2017), Franco Angeli, 2018;

Y. Montarsolo, L’Eurafrique, contrepoint de l’idée d’Europe: Le cas français de la fin de la deuxième guerre mondiale aux négociations des Traités de Rome, Presses Universitaire de Provence, 2010;

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

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

E. Calandri (a cura di), Il primato sfuggente. L’Europa e l’intervento per lo sviluppo (1957-2007), Franco Angeli, 2009;

G. Laschi, L'Europa e gli altri. Le relazioni esterne della Comunità dalle origini al dialogo Nord-Sud, Il Mulino, 2015;

E. Bini, G. Garavini, F. Romero, Oil Shock: the 1973 crisis and its economic legacy, I. B. Tauris, 2016

S. Labbate, Illusioni mediterranee. Il dialogo euro-arabo, Le Monnier, 2016

 

Teaching methods

Frontal lecture; videos, photos and power points to support the lecture.

Assessment methods

Attending students

A written test at the end of the course on the topics covered in the lecture and the textbook.
An oral test at the end of the course on the chosen monograph.

Non-attending students

A written test on the textbook and the compulsory monograph and an oral test on the chosen monograph.

Office hours

See the website of Lucrezia Ranieri