Course schedule (2019)

1. Course introduction and requirements (21.2.2019)

Bloc I: Basis for cooperation - dialectics of the Transatlantic relations

2. Searching for narratives: US identity (28.2.2019)

Discussion:

Huntington, Samuel P., Who are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2004). Chapters 3 and 4 - "Components of American Identity" and "Anglo-Protestant Culture".

Optional:

Foner, Eric, Who Owns History? Rethinking the Past in a Changing World (New York: Hill and Wang, 2002). Chapter 6 - "Why is there no socialism".
Deudney, Daniel H., "The Philadelphian system: sovereignty, arms control, and balance of power in the American states-union, circa 1787–1861," International Organization 49 (2), 1995, 191-228.

3. Searching for narratives: Europe vs. EU identity (7.3.2019)

Discussion:

Diez, Thomas, "Europe’s Others and the Return of Geopolitics," Cambridge Review of International Affairs 17 (2), 2004: 319–335.

Optional:

Smith, Anthony D. "National Identity and the Idea of European Unity," International Affairs 68 (1), 1992: 55-76.
Bottici, Chiara and Benoit Challand, Imagining Europe: Myth, Memory, and Identity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013). Chapter 4 - "Myths of Europe".
Green, David Michael, The Europeans: Political Identity in an Emerging Polity (Boulder CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007). Chapters 2 and 7 - "The Idea of European Identity" and "Conclusion: European Identity and its Context".

4. Europe in the perspective of the postwar American-led order: US and European integration from Truman to Trump (14.3.2019)

Discussion:

Lundestad, Geir, "Empire" by Integration: The United States and European Integration, 1945-1997 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), pp. 1-28.

Optional:

Ikenberry, John G., Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American World Order (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011). Chapter 5 – "The Rise of the American System".
Agnew, John and J. Nicholas Entrikin (eds.), The Marshall Plan Today: Model and Metaphor (New York: Routledge, 2004). Chapter 4 – "The Marshall Plan and European Integration: Limits of an Ambition" by Gérard Bossuat.

Bloc II: Society

5. Anti-Europeanism in the US and anti-Americanism in Europe (21.3.2019)

Discussion:

Markovits, Andrei S., Uncouth Nation: Why Europe Dislikes America (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007). Chapter 1 - "Anti-Americanism as a European Lingua Franca".

Optional:

Ash, Timothy Garton, "Anti-Europeanism in America", The New York Review of Books, February 2003.
Patrick Chamorel, "Anti-Europeanism and Euroscepticism in the United States", EUI Working Papers 25, 2004.

OR

6. Class cancelled (28.3.2019)

7. American and European Populisms: Growing Convergence? (4.4.2019)

Discussion:

Wodak, Ruth, "The ‘Establishment’, the ‘Élites’, and the ‘People’: Who’s Who?" Journal of Language & Politics 16 (4), 2017: 551–65.

Optional:

Judis, John B., The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics (New York: Colombia Global Reports, 2016), 12-61,89-108 and 131-163.
Bonikowski, Bart, "Three Lessons of Contemporary Populism in Europe and the United States", Brown Journal of World Affairs 23 (1), 2016: 9-24.

8. “In Europe, we don’t do God”: The Role of Religion in Politics (11.4.2018)

Discussion:

Kopstein, Jeffrey and Sven Steinmo (eds.), Growing Apart? America and Europe in the 21st Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007). Chapter 1 - "The Religious Divide: Why Religion Seems to Be Thriving in the United States and Waning in Europe" by Steven Pfaff.

Optional:

Phillips, Kevin, "Church, State, and National Decline" in American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21^st Century (London: Penguin Books, 2007), 218-262.
Gonzalez, Michelle A., "Religion and the US Presidency: Politics, the Media, and Religious Identity," Political Theology 13 (5), 2012: 568–585.

Bloc III: Security

9. Easter holiday - class cancelled (18.4.2019)

10. Divergent threat and security perceptions across the Atlantic (25.4.2019)

Discussion:

Hampton, Mary N., A Thorn in Transatlantic Relations: American and European Perceptions of Threat and Security (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 1-22.

Optional:

Sarotte, Mary Elise, "Transatlantic Tension and Threat Perception," Naval War College Review 58 (4), 2005: 25–37.

11. Are “Americans from Mars and Europeans from Venus”? Civilian power Europe vs. military power US (2.5.2019)

Discussion:

Biscop, Sven, "European Defence: Give PESCO a Chance", Survival 60 (3), 2018: 161-180.

Optional:

Kagan, Robert, "Power and Weakness", Policy Review 113 (3), 2002: 3-28.
Scheipers Sibylle and Daniela Sicurelli, "Normative Power Europe: A Credible Utopia?" Journal of Common Market Studies 45 (2), 2007: 435-457.

Bloc IV: Economy

12. The past and present of the Transatlantic economic relationship (9.5.2019)

Discussion:

Kopstein, Jeffrey and Sven Steinmo (eds.), Growing Apart? America and Europe in the 21st Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007). Chapter 4 - "One Ring to Bind Them All: American Power and Neoliberal Capitalism" by Mark Blyth.

Optional:

Harris, Jennifer M., "America, Europe and the Necessary Geopolitics of Trade", Survival 58 (6), 2016: 63-92.

13. The state, the market and redistribution (16.5.2019)

Discussion:

Kingston, Paul W. and Laura M. Holian, "Inequality" in Alberto Martinelli (ed.), Transatlantic Divide: Comparing American and European Society (oxford: Oxford Univeristy Press, 2007).

Optional:

Alesina, Alberto and Edward Glaeser, "Why are welfare states in the US and Europe so different: What do we learn?" Horizons stratégiques 2 (2), 2006: 51-61.
Alber, Jens, "What the European and American Welfare States Have in Common and Where They Differ: Facts and Fiction in Comparisons of the European Social Model and the United States," Journal of European Social Policy 20 (2), 2010: 102–125.