Week 1
Tuesday: Introduction
Thursday: Verbal and visual narratives about the EU
Week 2
Tuesday: History of the idea of Europe
Reading: Nicholas Doumanis (2016) Europe’s Age of Catastrophe in Context, In The Oxford Handbook of European History, 1914-1945 and R. Petri (2018) Meanings of Europe and Meaning in History
Thursday: Plans about a federal Europe from the interwar period
Reading: Delzell (1960), The European Federalist Movement in Italy: First Phase, 1918-1947 The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 241-250; Villanueva (2005), Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi's "Pan-Europa" as the Elusive "Object of Longing"Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, Vol. 59, No. 2, pp. 67-80; Müller (2006) Julien Benda’s Anti-Passionate Europe, European Journal of Political Theory 5(2) 125–137
Week 3
Tuesday: Understanding the EU from different theoretical perspectives
Reading: Textbook Chapter 1
Thursday: The history of the integration process
Reading: Textbook Chapter 2
Week 4
Tuesday: EU institutions
Reading: Textbook Chapter 3
Thursday: EU members states
Reading: Textbook Chapter 4
Week 5
Tuesday: Decision-making and policies
Reading: Textbook Chapter 5 and 7
Thursday: Democracy in the EU
Reading: Textbook Chapter 6
Friday(make-up class for April 25): The EU’s public diplomacy
Visit to the EU multimedia center
Week 6
Tuesday: EU enlargements
Reading: Textbook Chapter 9 plus K. Wolczuk (2023) Overcoming EU Accession Challenges in Eastern Europe: Avoiding Purgatory
Thursday: Brexit
Reading: P. Norris (2018) Understanding Brexit: Cultural Resentment versus Economic Grievances,
Week 7 BREAK
Weak 8
Tuesday: Review
Thursday: Midterm
Week 9
Tuesday: EU as a global actor
Reading: Textbook Chapter 8
Thursday: EU-Russia relations
Readings: A. Foxall (2019) From Evropa to Gayropa: A Critical Geopolitics of the European Union as Seen from Russia, Geopolitics, 24:1, 174-193 plus Tania Marocchi (2017) EU-Russia Relations: Towards an Increasingly Geopolitical Paradigm
Week 10
Tuesday: EU-Russia relations
Reading: Carnegie Europe (2023) Ukraine Has Not Transformed EU Foreign Policy plus Atlantic Council (2023), In 2022, the war in Ukraine awakened Europe. Here’s how it must adapt in 2023
Thursday: Transatlantic relations
Reading: ECFR (2023) The art of vassalisation: How Russia’s war on Ukraine has transformed transatlantic relations, ISPI (2023) Cooperation and Integration: Why Vilnius is also about EU
Week 11
Tuesday: Refugees
Reading: European Council on Foreign Relations (2019) All at sea: Europe’s crisis of solidarity on migration plus Chatham House (2022) Cooperation and Integration: Why Vilnius is also about EU
Thursday: Identity politics. Mythical narratives
Reading: Salgò (2017) Images from Paradise: the European Union’s Visual Communications Strategy, Part I
Week 12
Tuesday: OP
Thursday: OP
Week 13
Tuesday: Identity politics. Symbols
Salgò (2017) Images from Paradise: the European Union’s Visual Communications Strategy, Part II
Thursday: Identity politics. Rituals
Salgò (2017) Images from Paradise: the European Union’s Visual Communications Strategy, Part III
Week 14
Tuesday: EU Identity politics seen from a postcolonial perspective
Reading: Weyenberg (2019) Europe” on Display: A postcolonial reading of the House of European History, Politique européenne, 2019/4 (N° 66), p. 44-71.
Thursday: what future for the EU?
Week 15
Tuesday: review
Thursday: No class (holiday)