Venue: Room J2018, Jinonice

Objective:

The course aims providing students with some key features to the understanding of the European project not only from the point of view of institutional approaches, but also in a social-political and a historical-geopraphical perspective. Structured both chronologically and thematically, this interdisciplinary course has two foci. First, it offers a long term observation of the european project, its evolution and its contemporary debates. The focus on France as a case study gives a concrete angle study of the European integration from the point of view of one of its funding members

Schedule

Introduction: Europe seen from/by France - Europe looks at France.
The European project in the French mind 1/2
The European project in the French mind 2/2
Modern European States - Nationalism and Concepts of the Nation: a French model?
Border of Europe - bordering European Union: a French point of view
Central and Eastern Europe seen from France.
France in the enlarged European Union.
Conclusion: social sciences and European studies. French critical inquiries of some key researches on European Integration.
Examination

Literature:

- BRAUDEL Fernand: Grammaire des civilisations, Paris: Flammarion.

- Critique internationale, n°2, hiver 1999, La formation de l’Europe.

- FEBVRE Lucien: L’Europe. Genèse d’une civilisation. Paris : Perrin, 1999.

- FOUCHER Michel: Fronts et Frontières, un tour du monde géopolitique, Paris : Fayard, 1988, 1991.

- FOUCHER Michel: La République Européenne, Paris: Belin, 2000.

- DE LA SERRE Françoise; LEQUESNE Christian; RUPNIK Jacques: L'Union européenne : ouverture à l'Est ? Paris : Presses universitaires de France, 1994.

- JUDT Tony, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, New York, Penguin Books, 2006.

- KISSINGER Henry: Diplomatie, Fayard, 1996.

- LEQUESNE Christian: La France dans la nouvelle Europe. Assumer le changement d’échelle, Paris: Science po, 2008.

- RIFKIND Malcolm, "L'Etat-nation et la construction européenne" Politique étrangère, n° 1, printemps 1997, p. 177-184.

- TODD Emanuel: L’invention de l’Europe, Paris: Seuil, 1990.

On-line resources:

- Notre Europe: http://www.notre-europe.eu/

- Fondation Schuman http://www.robert-schuman.eu/

- Archive of European integration http://aei.pitt.edu/ somewhat useful document repository.

- History of EU Integration: http://europa.eu/about-eu/eu-history/index_en.htm includes a useful guide to on-line sources.

Classics references:

- Ernest Renan: Qu’est ce qu’une nation, Paris Bordas.

- Fichte: Reden an die deutsche Nation.

- Herder: Herder on Nationality, Humanity, and History, F. M. Barnard. (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003.

- Gellner E., (1983), Nations & Nationalism, Basil Blackwell, Oxford. Édition française, 1989, Payot, Paris.

- Hobsbawm E., (1992), Nations et nationalismes depuis 1780, Gallimard, Paris.

- Hroch M., (1996), V národním zájmu, Praha: Filozofická Fakulta UK.

- Verdery K., (1994), "Beyond the Nation in Eastern Europe", Social Text, n°38, pp. 1-19.