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| SPOL0961-1 | European construction history
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| Duration : | 30h Th |
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| Lecturer : | André Dumoulin |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the second semester |
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Course contents :
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| After examining the roots and myths about pre-war Europe, it will examine the question of the historical and diachronic elements around the building policy of the European Union. The first part will address this in chronological maturation (premises, the first post-1945 initiatives, Western Union, European Defense Community, ECSC, WEU, Treaty of Rome and the common market, the Fouchet Plan, game of states, Single Act, Treaty of Maastricht and Amsterdam, common currency, from the Treaty of Nice to the Constitutional Treaty, the Lisbon Treaty). A second part will deal with the model of the European thematic form: the roots, the weight of men's who have made Europe, the evolving and normative values , levels of gouvernance, the development of the treaties, the institutional landscape evolution, the weight of states, levels of integration, crises, games influences, external views, the diplomatic and strategic positioning, geopolitical and enlargements, the thinkers of the European Union, the great texts. This material should allow a better understanding of the role of the CFSP and CSDP subject other courses. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| -Determine the historical, political, diplomatic, legal, economic and geopolitical helped engender the concept of European Union, while controlling delay elements (regionalism, nationalism, culture, vision) integration process.
-Assimilate-dimensional and multi-disciplinary approach to the construction of the EU since its origins until today.
-Determine the lines of force of the integrative approach of Jean Monet creation through the study of the European Communities.
-Master the various transversal readings possible changes in the political structure of the European Union.
-Through the examination of texts, identifying lines of evolutionary forces of European integration. |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| néant |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| -Work-thematic research group
-PowerPoint courses
-Reading official documents (speeches, treaties, declarations,...), including materials via historic-audio (CVCE). |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| From February 2014 |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Course notes and PowerPoint
Recommended readings:
-Jean-Louis Quermonne, The European Union in the long term, presses Sciences Po, Paris, 2008.
--Marie-Thérèse Bitsch, Histoire de la construction européenne, Ed. Complexe, Bruxelles, 1999.
-Bino Olivi, L'Europe difficile, éd. Gallimard, 1998.
-Christophe Réveillard, Les premières tentatives de construction d'une Europe fédérale, Ed. de Guibert, Paris, 2001.
-Sabine Saurugger, Théories et concepts de l'intégration européenne, Les presses de sciences Po., Paris, 2009.
-Pierre Gerbet, La construction de l'Europe, Ed. Imprimerie nationale, Paris, 1999.
-Gérard Bossuat, Les fondateurs de l'Europe, Belin, Paris, 1994.
-Robert Paxson and Julie Hessler, Europe in the 20th Century, 2011 (5th edition). |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Written (MCQ) in June and oral in September |
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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Contacts :
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| André Dumoulin, lecturer in the Department of Political Science, European Studies Unit, University of Liege
Phone: 087/33.81.29 GSM: 0496/38.06.56
Email: andredumoulin@skynet.be and adumoulin@ulg.ac.be |
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