Sylabus
The EU and the Member States after 2000
MA course
JMM 531
Prof. PhDr. Lenka A. Rovná, CS.c
Jean Monnet Chair Ad Personam lenka.rovna@ruk.cuni.cz
Office: Charles University Prague, Ovocný trh 5, Praha 1, room 307
Office Hours: Wednesday 9:00 - 10:15
The Discussion about the Future of Europe, the Convention, the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC), the Constitution for Europe, Ratification Processes and the Reflection, Reform Treaty, Lisbon Treaty and further
Constitutionalization and Federalization of Europe
Students will be divided into groups representing different member states of the EU and will follow the topics connected with the discussion about the constitutionalization of Europe [finalité] from the point of view of different actors in their selected state. The main focus is given to the relationship between the member states and the EU as such in the process of Europeanization and creation of European politics.
Feb 18
Introduction
February 25
Do the member states matter? The role of member states in the EU
The European Union and its member states, in:Simon Bulmer and Christian Lequesne , The Member States of the European Union, Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. 1-15
Politics in the European Union from the member state point of view, in: Gabriel A.Almond, Russel J.Dalton, G.Bingham Powell, Jr., Kaare Strom, European Politics Today, Pearson Longman, New York, 3rd edition, 2006, pp.457 - 509
March 4
How the EU works? http://ec.europa.eu/publications/booklets/eu_glance/68/en.pdf
March 11
Home Work - no class!!!
Europe United in historical perspective
David M.McCourt, International Relations and the Post-War World: Notes Toward a Reflexive History of the European Project http://www.academia.edu/1156382/International_Relations_and_the_Post-War_World_Notes_Toward_a_Reflexive_History_of_the_European_Project
March 18
Europeanization and Multilevel governance, case studies of individual member states
From Government to governance, in: Edited by Paul Heywood, Erik Jones and Martin Rhodes, Developments in West European Politics 2, Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2002, pp. 151 - 183
Etc.http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/standinggroups/yen/paper_archive/2nd_yen_rm_papers/vink2002.pdf
March 25
The discussion about the future of Europe, the establishment of the Convention
Speech by Joschka Fischer etc. http://www.ena.lu/speech_joschka_fischer_ultimate_objective_european_integration_berlin_12_2000-020005639.html etc.
April 1
Different attitudes of MSs to the Convention, Working methods of the Convention, The Presidium versus the members of the Convention
PAUL MAGNETTE and KALYPSO NICOLAÏDIS, The European Convention: Bargaining in the shadow of Rhetoric, West European Politics, April 2004 http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ssfc0041/magnettenicolaidis.pdf
April 8
European identity and values, Turkey as a new member state of the EU?
A Constitution for Europe, Preambule http://europa.eu/scadplus/constitution/index_en.htm
The Treaty of Lisbon http://europa.eu/lisbon_treaty/full_text/index_en.htm
April 15
Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. Joachim Jens Hesse, Freie Universität Berlin
Towards a Workable EU
April 22
Ratification process, Referenda, Reflection period http://europa.eu/institutional_reform/chronology/index_en.htm
Lisbon Treaty and its ratification http://www.finfacts.ie/irishfinancenews/article_1015501.shtml
April 29
Graham Avery, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, European Policy Centre, Brussels
Enlargement of the European Union - Lessons of the Past and Prospects for the Future
May 6
The EU after Lisbon, New Challenges for Europe, Economic crisis
Krugman, Paul (2012) "European Crisis Realities" http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/25/european-crisis-realities
Krugman Paul (2012), Austerity is so Wrong!, May 6, 2012 http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/05/06/paul-krugman-austerity-is-so-wrong.print.html
May 13
Europe - a federation? Europe - a vision?
Comparison of different approaches towards the federation, forms of federation
Are there still any visions?
Anotace
The Discussion about the Future of Europe, the Convention, the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC), the Constitution for Europe, Ratification Processes and the Reflection, Reform Treaty, Lisbon Treaty and after.
Constitutionalization and Federalization of Europe.
Students will be divided into groups representing different member states of the EU and will follow the topics connected with the discussion about the constitutionalization of Europe [finalité]. The main focus is given to the relationship between the member states and the EU as such in the process of Europeanization and creation of European politics.