History of European integration

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 and to analyze the influence of internal factors.

Content

The student will be able to understand the various projects, crises and relaunches in the history of European integration, linked to political, economic, military or institutional questions. The course shall focus on converging or diverging elements, taken from different episodes of the history of European integration, asking how these crises have modified the paths, the plans, and the visions sketched by the so-called "founding fathers". Finally, the course will show how history can shed a new light on current debates.

Teaching methods

This class will be taught on campus.

Evaluation methods

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) (recommended reading, see Moodle for details)
• Slides and teaching materials on Moodle

Faculty or entity

> EURO