To identify the key-moments of the European integration, to underline individual and institutional constraints, to evaluate the impact of economical and external factors, to analyze the influence of internal factors as well as the potential influence of " attentive opinion ".
Written or oral examination.
The student will be able to understand issues involved in several projects, crises and relaunches, which deal with political, economic, military or institutional questions. The student shall focus on converging or diverging elements, taken from different episodes of the European integration, asking how these crises have modified the paths, the plans, and the visions sketched by the so-called " founding fathers ". Finally, the student will discover how history can shed new light on current debates.
Prerequisite: none. Support: to be determined by the professor in charge.
