History of European integration (interwar's period to European enlargement)

Teacher(s)

Brouwer Jan-Willem; Weymans Wim;

Language

English

Main themes

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 ".

Content

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.

Teaching methods

Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the information in this section is particularly likely to change.

This class will be taught on campus as long as the sanitary conditions linked to the Covid-19 crisis allow this. Given that only 17 students are allowed in the lecture room, we may need to split the group in two or move to online teaching altogether.

Evaluation methods

Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the information in this section is particularly likely to change.

Written exam.

Other information

Prerequisite: none. Support: a table of contents and slides accompagning the lectures will be made available on Moodle.

Bibliography

See Moodle for details

Teaching materials

• Desmond Dinan, Europe Recast: A History of European Union (2014) (partly mandatory reading, see Moodle for details)
• Slides and teaching materials on Moodle

Faculty or entity

EURO