- Docente: Valentina Casini
- Credits: 6
- SSD: M-STO/04
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Ravenna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Mediterranean Societies and Cultures: Institutions, Security, Environment (cod. 5696)
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from Mar 18, 2024 to Apr 29, 2024
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 the student 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 Sea.
Course contents
The aim of the course is to provide an introductory framework for the study of the European integration process through the analysis of the stages of development of Community institutions and policies in the context of relations between the two shores of the Mediterranean Sea. During the first lessons, the course will examine the origins of the Community process in the 1940s and 1950s. It will then analyse the difficulties that emerged in the 1960s, the evolutions of the 1970s and 1980s, the changes associated with the end of the Cold War, and contemporary critical issues. In-depth studies will focus on the relations between EU institutions and European countries in terms of identity policies and cultures.
Readings/Bibliography
Attending students:
- U. Morelli, J. Sondel-Cedarmas, Storia dell’integrazione europea, Guerini, Milano, 2022
One of the following books:
- S. Cruciani, M. Ridolfi (a cura di), L’Unione Europea e il Mediterraneo. Interdipendenza politica e rappresentazioni mediatiche (1947-2017), FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2017
- F. Focardi, B. Groppo (a cura di), L’Europa e le sue memorie. Politiche e culture del ricordo dopo il 1989, Viella, Roma, 2013
- M. Gilbert, Storia politica dell’integrazione europea, Laterza, Bari-Roma, 2023
- G. Laschi, L’Europa e gli altri. Le relazioni esterne della Comunità dalle origini al dialogo Nord-Sud, il Mulino, 2016
- D. Pasquinucci, Il frutto avvelenato. Il vincolo europeo e la critica all’Europa, Le Monnier, Milano, 2022
- D. Pasquinucci, L. Verzichelli (a cura di), Contro l’Europa? I diversi scetticismi verso l’integrazione europea, il Mulino, Bologna, 2016
- A. Varsori, Storia della costruzione europea. Dal 1947 a oggi, il Mulino, Bologna, 2023
Non-attending students:
- U. Morelli, J. Sondel-Cedarmas, Storia dell’integrazione europea, Guerini, Milano, 2022
- M. Gilbert, Storia politica dell’integrazione europea, Laterza, Bari-Roma, 2023
Two of the following books:
- S. Cruciani, M. Ridolfi (a cura di), L’Unione Europea e il Mediterraneo. Interdipendenza politica e rappresentazioni mediatiche (1947-2017), FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2017
- F. Focardi, B. Groppo (a cura di), L’Europa e le sue memorie. Politiche e culture del ricordo dopo il 1989, Viella, Roma, 2013
- G. Laschi, L’Europa e gli altri. Le relazioni esterne della Comunità dalle origini al dialogo Nord-Sud, il Mulino, 2016
- D. Pasquinucci, Il frutto avvelenato. Il vincolo europeo e la critica all’Europa, Le Monnier, Milano, 2022
- D. Pasquinucci, L. Verzichelli (a cura di), Contro l’Europa? I diversi scetticismi verso l’integrazione europea, il Mulino, Bologna, 2016
- A. Varsori, Storia della costruzione europea. Dal 1947 a oggi, il Mulino, Bologna, 2023
Teaching methods
Lectures and seminar activities.
The course provides for frontal lectures to be complemented by student participation in classroom debates on the basis of documents and readings indicated during the course.
Assessment methods
Attending students: a written test on the lecture content and the compulsory text; an oral test on the monograph of your choice.
Non-attending students: a written test on the two compulsory texts and an oral test on two monographs of your choice.
Teaching tools
Books and essays available through the Central Library of the Ravenna Campus and the resources of AlmaRe (Library of Electronic Resources of the University of Bologna), audiovisual materials.
Office hours
See the website of Valentina Casini