Admission requirements
Registration for the Minor European Union Studies or admission to the pre-master European Union Studies.
Description
This course aims to analyze how the EU is embedded in the broader global political economy, and associated long-term structural developments and crises of global capitalism. Drawing on international political economy, the course seeks to make sense of the origins, development and crisis of the EU from a critical perspective; and in doing so, it examines the merits and limitations of competing theoretical approaches to European integration.
Course objectives
We will discuss a range of interconnected issues including
a) the origins and development of European Monetary Union (EMU) in the broader context of a global shift from Keynesianism to neoliberalism;
b) the history and role of welfare state capitalism(s) and the future of the ‘social dimension’ of EU policy;
c) the emergence of an EU ‘core’ and ‘periphery’;
d) the sources to contemporary financial and political crisis in the EU;
e) the EU’s chronic democratic deficit;
f) how EU integration and European capitalism has been shaped by the United States, and what it tells us about the structure of the post-war transatlantic order;
g) the implications of the possible decline of the US hegemony and the rise of emerging powers for the EU;
h) the EU’s interaction with the Global South, both in its immediate neighbourhood and beyond.
Timetable
See Timetable.
Mode of instruction
- Seminar
Course Load
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Assessment method
Assessment
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Weighing
The final mark for the course is established by determining the weighted average.
Resit
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Exam review
How and when an exam review will take place will be disclosed together with the publication of the exam results at the latest. If a student requests a review within 30 days after publication of the exam results, an exam review will have to be organized.
Reading list
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Registration
Via uSis.
Registration Studeren à la carte and Contractonderwijs
Not applicable