History of European Integration

bhist1122  2023-2024  Bruxelles Saint-Louis

History of European Integration
5.00 credits
30.0 h
Q2
Teacher(s)
Tousignant Nathalie;
Language
English
Learning outcomes

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

Since the departure of Jacques Delors as President of the Commission it is possible to discern a certain nostalgia for the years he was at the helm, both among Europeans generally, and active stakeholders.

The main objective of this course is to provide an account of developments in the European ‘project’, and more precisely the ECSC up to 1994. The course adopts the perspective taken in the English-language literature in relation to this period (see recommended reading list), and underlines the way that the developments in question occurred at the same time as the academic perspectives about them were constructed. By so doing, the course seeks to avoid a hagiographic and/or deterministic interpretation of the last 60 years.

Through a close analysis of the crises and fresh beginnings that characterised these decades, students from various disciplinary backgrounds will be better able to understand the complexity of European union institutions, and their place in the fabric of Europe.
 
Content
The course draws on case studies that are sequenced chronologically and analysed through three distinctive lenses : the raw facts involved, their historiographical fortune, and their depictions.

1. 1950-1954 : the launch of the ECSC, an ambitious project in the context of the Cold War
2. 1955-1957 : crisis and relaunch at Messina
3. 1958-1969 : the ‘de Gaulle’ years and the Hague relaunch
4. 1969-1984 : enlargement, the 1973 crisis, eurosclerosis, euroscepticism : the search for a fresh impetus ?
5. 1984-1994 : the Fontainebleau relaunch and the Delors years
6. post 1994 : the legacy of Jacques Delors
Teaching methods
Ex cathedra presentations.

The course draws on essential documents, which may be consulted via the « European Navigator » (www.ena.lu) website.
Evaluation methods
Written examination
Other information
None
Bibliography
Dinan, Desmond (ed.). Origins and Evolution of the European Union. Oxford University Press, 2006.
Moravscik, Andrew. The Choice for Europe. Social Purpose & State Power from Messina to Maastricht. Cornell University Press, 1998.
Faculty or entity
PHLB


Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Learning outcomes
Bachelor in History

Bachelor in History (French - English)

Bachelor in Law

Bachelor in Law French-English (and French-English-Dutch)

Bachelor in Law French-Dutch (and French-Dutch-English)

Bachelor in Information and Communication

Bachelor in Information and Communication (French-English)

Bachelor in Information and Communication (French-Dutch-English)

Bachelor in Political Sciences

Bachelor in Political Sciences (French-English)