Admission requirements
Admission to the MA International Relations, track European Union Studies.
Description
The course analyses the problems confronting Europe since the process of European cooperation started to take shape at the end of WWI through some of the major treaties and policy choices. It also seeks to explain why supranational, European solutions were deemed necessary to resolve them (and whether they did so). It combines international and economic history with transnational approaches as well as ideas conceived and developed by political scientists.
As part of this course we will do a negotiating game where you will represent one of the six original member states of the European Coal and Steel Community in their negotiations on the Treaty of Paris (1950).
Course objectives
Students will understand a range of concepts linked to discussions on the history of European integration and the on-going historical debate on this subject.
Timetable
The timetable is available on the website.
Mode of instruction
Lectures and simulation
Course Load
Total course load for the course: 5 EC is 140 hours.
Hours spent on attending lectures: 2 hours per week x 9 weeks = 18 hours
Time for studying the compulsory literature and preparation for the lectures: 3 hours per week x 12 = 36 hours
Preparation for the paper: 50 hours
Preparation for the negotiating strategy and game: 30 hours
Negotiating game: 6 hours
Assessment method
End term paper 60%
Negotiating strategy 20%
Participation 20%
Weighing
The final mark for the course is established by determining the weighted average.
Resit
In order to be eligible for the retake paper, students have to have participated in the negotiating games and have to have failed the course.
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
Wim van Meurs etc. al.,* The unfinished history of European integration* (Amsterdam University Press 2018).
Articles – see syllabus
Registration
Via uSis.