COURSE SYLLABUS
DPI-434: Current challenges to EU governance
Spring Semester 2015
Monday, Wednesday 1:10 – 2:25 pm
Course Instructor: Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski, Pierre Keller Visiting Professor, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (Spring 2015); Professor of Political Science, University of Wroclaw, The Willy Brandt Center for German and European Studies, Poland.
Office: L-240
CGIS, room E204
1727 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: (617) 495-4920
Email:
Faculty Assistant: Patricia Timmons - Rubenstein-110B. Phone: 617-495-8660; Email .
Location: L332
First Day of Class: Monday January 26, 2015
Course Description
This unit gives an overview of current challenges to EU governance. As a first step, the course introduces the students to the key concepts and controversies discussed in the study of European integration. Next, it discusses the institutional set-up, main actors and decision-making in the EU; in particular it takes a closer look at the relationship between the EU institutions and the power relations between the actors. In addition, the unit outlines various theoretical debates in the study of the European integration that provide useful tools for the analysis of EU politics and policies. Afterwards, the course explores in more detail some relevant policy fields of the EU, highlighting the controversies present in these areas. These areas include the economic governance of the EU, the EU’s security and defense policies as well as Justice and Home Affairs. Against this backdrop, the unit engages with the current challenges to EU governance emphasizing those linked to the EU’s future developments. The challenges include centrifugal politics in the EU, the external governance of the EU and European identity. The goal of the course is to provide an introduction to analytical tools useful for the exploration of current developments in the EU on the one hand and to engage students with the current challenges the EU is facing, in particular regarding institutions, policies and legitimacy of the EU, on the other.Learning Goals
To understand the key concepts and controversies surrounding European governance.
To analyze the institutional set-up, main actors and decision-making in the EU in the context of governance.
To understand specific challenges to EU governance in the areas of the economic governance of the EU, the EU’s security and defense policies as well as Justice and Home Affairs.
To acquire analytical tools useful for the exploration of current developments in the EU.
To draw lessons for the future of the EU from current challenges.
Intended Audience
The course will appeal to any student interested in European affairs without prior knowledge of the subject. Cross-registrants and auditors are welcome.
Class Participation (20%)
Participation will comprise two elements:
The first element relates to the quality and extent of informed discussion in class (10%).
The second element relates to a short presentation that will be allocated early in the course (either in week one or two). The presentation will take place within the class, and will last no more than 15 minutes. Further guidance will be provided on the presentation in class (10%).
Written Work
Written work consists of:
Mid-term assignment (due: Friday March 13) (25%). For this paper each student should select a topic regarding one challenge to European governance and discuss the causes of, the nature of, and the effects on European governance. The paper should not exceed the length of 10 pages (double space, Times New Roman, 12 point font, 1 inch margins).
Literature Review (due: Friday April 10) (20%). Students should write a commentary on the literature listed in the syllabus. This literature review should cover the readings from at least 4 weeks (any 4 weeks, but all the readings from those weeks whether required or recommended) of the course. Students select the topics (weeks) they wish to discuss in their literature review themselves (no prior approval needed). The literature review should not exceed the length of 10 pages (double space, Times New Roman, 12 point font, 1 inch margins).
Final paper (due: Monday May 11) (35%). The final paper should inquire further about the topics discussed in class, but dedicate more attention to one aspect of the course of particular interest to the student. Preferably, it should be a topic covered in less detail in class. Topics should retain some connection with the course content and should be selected with the prior approval of the instructor. The paper may highlight a specific policy, institution, problem or challenge. Students should avoid focusing on only one European country but comparisons of countries are welcome. Final papers should not exceed the length of 15 pages (double space, Times New Roman, 12 point font, 1 inch margins). It is recommended to select a topic as early as possible in the semester.
Deadlines:
· March 13 – mid-term assignment
· April 10 – literature review
· May 11 – final paper
Textbooks – No suitable textbook exists for this course.
Required Readings - The required readings are listed for each class below.
Recommended Readings – Some recommended readings are listed below. A list of recommended books will be provided early in the course.
Note: The Instructor reserves the right to modify this syllabus before the start of the course.
Core reading:
1. D. Dinan (2010) Ever Closer Union: An Introduction to European Integration, 4th ed. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Pub.
2. H. Wallace, M.A. Pollack and A. R. Young (eds.) (2010) Policy-Making in the European Union, 6th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
3. S. Hix and B. Høyland (2011) The Political System of the European Union, 3rd ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Class Meetings, Readings and Assignments
Week 1
Class #1, Monday, Jan 26: Introduction and key concepts of European integration
Required readings:
S. Hix and B. Høyland (2011) The Political System of the European Union, 3rd ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, chapters 1 and 2, pp. 1-48.
Recommended reading:
D. Dinan (2010) Ever Closer Union: An Introduction to European Integration, 4th ed. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Pub, chapters 1 and 2, pp. 11-68.
Class #2, Wednesday, Jan 28: Current controversies in the study of European integration
Required Readings:
D. Dinan (2010) Ever Closer Union: An Introduction to European Integration, 4th ed. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Pub, chapters 5 and 6, pp. 11-68.
G. Majone (2005) Dilemmas of European Integration: The Ambiguities & Pitfalls of Integration by Stealth, Oxford: Oxford University Press, chapters 7 and 8, pp. 143-179.
Recommended Reading:
S. Hix (2008) What’s wrong with the European Union & How to fix it, Cambridge: Polity Press, chapter 1, pp. 29-85.
Week 2
Class #3, Monday, Feb 2: Actors, institutions and the decision-making processes of the European Union
Required Readings:
D. Dinan (2010) Ever Closer Union: An Introduction to European Integration, 4th ed. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Pub, chapters 7,8,9,10, pp. 187-325.
Recommended Reading:
S. Hix and B. Høyland (2011) The Political System of the European Union, 3rd ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, chapters 3 and 4, pp. 49-103.
Class #4, Wednesday, Feb 4: Who are the key players?
Required Readings:
S. Hix and B. Høyland (2011) The Political System of the European Union, 3rd ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, chapter 5, 6,7, pp. 105-187.
J. McCormick (2011) Understanding the European Union: A Concise Introduction, 5th ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, chapter 6, pp. 123-147.
Recommended Readings:
A. Moberg (2013) ‘Is the double majority really double? The voting rules in the Lisbon Treaty’, in M.A. Cichocki and K. Zyczkowski (eds.) Institutional Design and Voting Power in the European Union, Aldershot: Ashgate, 19–34.
Week 3
Class #5, Monday, Feb 9: Theoretical debates in the study of European integration
Required Readings:A. Moravcsik (1998) The Choice for Europe, Boulder: Cornell University Press, chapter 1, pp. 18-85.
L. Hooghe and G. Marks (2001) Multi-Level Governance and European Integration, Lanham, Rowman & Littlefield, chapter 1, pp. 1-32.
Recommended Reading:
T. Risse-Kappen (1996) Exploring the Nature of the Beast: International Relations Theory and Comparative Policy Analysis Meet the European Union, Journal of Common Market Studies 34(1), 53–80.
Class #6, Wednesday, Feb 11: Do we really need a grand theory of European integration?
Required Readings:
G. Majone (2005) Dilemmas of European Integration: The Ambiguities & Pitfalls of Integration by Stealth, Oxford: Oxford University Press, chapters 8, 9, 10, pp. 162-222.
Tanja A. Börzel and Thomas Risse (2009) Revisiting the Nature of the Beast. Politicization, European Identity, and Postfunctionalism. A Comment on Hooghe and Marks, British Journal of Political Science 39(1), 217-220.
Recommended Reading:
I.P. Karolewski (2011) ‘Pathologies of Deliberation in the European Union’ European Law Journal 17 (1).
Week 4
Monday, Feb 16: President’s Day, no class.
Class #8, Wednesday, Feb 18: New economic institutions as a remedy for the crisis?
Required Readings:
B. Eichengreen (2012) European Monetary Integration with Benefit of Hindsight, Journal of Common Market Studies 50(S1), 123–136.
D. Howarth and L. Quaglia (2013) Banking Union as Holy Grail: Rebuilding the Single Market in Financial Services, Stabilizing Europe's Banks and ‘Completing’ Economic and Monetary Union, Journal of Common Market Studies, 51(S1), 103–123.
Recommended Readings:
D. Adamski (2012) ‘National power games and structural failures in the European macroeconomic governance’, Common Market Law Review 49(4), 1319–1364.
D. Adamski (2013) ‘Europe’s (misguided) constitution of economic prosperity’, Common Market Law Review 50(1), 47–86.
Week 5
Class #9, Monday, Feb 23: The EU’s Justice and Home Affairs
Required Readings:
S. Hix and B. Høyland (2011) The Political System of the European Union, 3rd ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, chapter 11, pp. 273-301.
J. Monar (2013) ‘Justice and Home Affairs’, Journal of Common Market Studies 51, Annual Review, 124–138.
Recommended Reading:
S. Peers (2011) Mission accomplished? EU Justice and Home Affairs Law after the Treaty of Lisbon, Common Market Law Review 48, 661–693.
Class # 10, Wednesday, Feb 25: Domestic security or human rights?
Required Readings:
D. Bigo (2014) The (in)securitization practices of the three universes of EU border control: Military/Navy – border guards/police – database analysts, Security Dialogue 45, 209-225.
T. Freyburg (2012) The Janus Face of EU Migration Governance: Impairing Democratic Governance at Home – Improving it Abroad? European Foreign Affairs Review 17(2), 289-306.
Recommended Reading:
I.P. Karolewski (2012), ‘Caesarean citizenship and its anti-civic potential in the European Union’, in I.P. Karolewski and V. Kaina, Civic resources and the future of the European Union, London: Routledge.
Week 6
Class #11, Monday, March 2: The EU’s Security and Defence Policy
Required Readings:
J. McCormick (2011) Understanding the European Union: A Concise Introduction, 5th ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, chapter 9, pp. 196-219.
C. Bickerton et al. (2011) Security Co-operation beyond the Nation-State: The EU's Common Security and Defence Policy, Journal of Common Market Studies (Special Issue: Security Cooperation beyond the Nation State: The EU's Common Security and Defence Policy) 49(1), 1–21.
Recommended Reading:
Monika Sus (2014) The High Representative and the European External Action Service: Towards institutional coherence in the Eastern Partnership, in M. Wilga and I.P. Karolewski (eds.) New Approaches to EU Foreign Policy, London: Routledge, pp. 56-85.
Class # 12, Wednesday, March 4: Security (In)capabilities of the EU?
Required Readings:
Helene Sjursen (2011) Not so intergovernmental after all? On democracy and integration in European Foreign and Security Policy, Journal of European Public Policy 18(8), 1078-1095
B. Tonra, 2011, Democratic foundations of EU foreign policy: narratives and the myth of EU exceptionalism, Journal of European Public Policy, 18(8), 1190-1207.
Recommended Readings:
Mai’a K. Davis Cross (2014) The practice of Diplomacy and the EU security policy, in M. Wilga and I.P. Karolewski, (eds.) (2014) New Approaches to EU Foreign Policy, London: Routledge, pp. 106-124.
Week 7:
Class # 13, March 9: The EU and the Ukraine Crisis
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Required Readings:
N.R. Smith (2014) The Underpinning Realpolitik of the EU’s Policies towards Ukraine: An Analysis of Interests and Norms in the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, European Foreign Affairs Review, 19 (4), 581–596.
A. Lukin (2014) What the Kremlin Is Thinking: Putin's Vision for Eurasia, Foreign Affairs July/August, 85-93.
Recommended Readings:
J. Mearsheimer (2014) Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West's Fault: The Liberal Delusions That Provoked Putin, Foreign Affairs, September/October.
M. McFaul et al (2014) Faulty Powers: Who Started the Ukraine Crisis? Foreign Affairs, November/December.
Class # 14, March 11: Solutions to the Ukraine crisis?
Required Readings:
Blockmans, Steven. and Gros, Daniel. (2014) The Case for EU Police Mission Ukraine. CEPS Commentary, 14 May 2014. [Policy Paper]
Wolczuk, Kataryna (2014) Ukraine and the EU: turning the Association Agreement into a success story, EPC Policy Brief, 23 April 2014. [Policy Paper]
D. Gros and S. Blockmans (2014) Preventing collapse in Ukraine: The EU should finance the grass roots directly, CEPS Commentaries, December.
Recommended Reading:
L. Shevtsova (2014) The Russia Factor, Journal of Democracy 25 (3), 74-82.
Deadline – mid-term Assignment – Friday, March 13
Mid-Term Break – March 14-22
Week 8
Class #15, Monday, March 23: Centrifugal politics in the EU:
Required Readings:
M. Keating (2013) Rescaling the European State: The Making of Territory and the Rise of the Meso, Oxford: Oxford University Press, chapters 3 and 4, pp. 48-90.
A. Messina (2014), European Disunion: The implications of “Super” diversity for European identity and political community, in: A. C. Gould and A. M. Messina (eds), Europe's Contending Identities: Supranationalism, Ethnoregionalism, Religion, and New Nationalism, Cambridge University Press, pp. 54-79.
S. Vasilopoulou et al. (2014) Greece in Crisis: Austerity, Populism and the Politics of Blame, Journal of Common Market Studies 52(2), 388–402.
Recommended Reading:
C. J. Borgen (2010) From Kosovo to Catalonia: Separatism and Integration in Europe (2010). Faculty Publications. Paper 114. http://scholarship.law.stjohns.edu/faculty_publications/114
Class #16, Wednesday, March 25: Integration or disintegration?
Required Readings:
M. Keating (2013) Rescaling the European State: The Making of Territory and the Rise of the Meso, Oxford: Oxford University Press, chapters 8, 9, 10, pp. 154-194.
H. Vollaard (2014) Explaining European Disintegration, CMS: Journal of Common Market Studies 52 (5), 1142–1159.
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Recommended Reading:
A. T. F. Lang (2014) The Consequences of Brexit: Some Complications From International Law,
London School of Economics - Law Department, June, LSE Law: Policy Briefing Paper No. 3.
Week 8:
Class #17, Monday, March 30: Central and Eastern Europe in the EU
Required Readings:
F. Schimmelfennig (2001), The Community Trap: Liberal Norms, Rhetorical Action, and the Eastern Enlargement of the European Union, International Organization 55(1), 47-80.
C.J. Schneider (2009) Conflict, Negotiation and European Union Enlargement, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, chapters 2 and 3, pp. 12-54.
Recommended Reading:
Heather Grabbe (2001) How does Europeanization affect CEE governance? Conditionality, diffusion and diversity, Journal of European Public Policy 8(6), 1013-1031.
Class #18, Wednesday, April 1: New role or marginalization of the CEE?
Required Readings:
I.P. Karolewski, T. Mehlhausen and M. Sus (eds.) (2014) Poland’s EU-Council Presidency under Evaluation: Navigating Europe Through Stormy Waters, Baden-Baden: Nomos, chapters 1 and 3.
U. Sedelmeier (2014) Anchoring Democracy from Above? The European Union and Democratic Backsliding in Hungary and Romania after Accession, Journal of Common Market Studies 52(1), 105–121.
Recommended Reading:
A. Dimitrova and A. Buzogány (2014) Post-Accession Policy-Making in Bulgaria and Romania: Can Non-state Actors Use EU Rules to Promote Better Governance? Journal of Common Market Studies 52(1), 139–156.
Week 9:
Class #19, Monday, April 6: The external governance
Required Readings:
J. Langbein (2014) European Union Governance towards the Eastern Neigbourhood: Transcending or Redrawing Europe's East–West Divide? Journal of Common Market Studies 52(1), 157–174.
M. A. Vachudova (2014), EU Leverage and National Interests in the Balkans: The Puzzles of Enlargement Ten Years On, Journal of Common Market Studies 52(1), 122–138.
Recommended Reading:
I. Hahn-Fuhr and K.-O. Lang (2014), Ambitious realism: The Eastern Partnership as a top priority of the Polish EU Presidency, in I.P. Karolewski, T. Mehlhausen and M. Sus (eds.) Poland’s EU-Council Presidency under Evaluation: Navigating Europe Through Stormy Waters, Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 67-84.
Class #20, Wednesday, April 8: The transformation potential of the EU revisited.
Required Readings:
T. Dietz, M. Albert and S. Stetter (2006) ‘The European Union and Border Conflicts: The Transformative Power of Integration’, International Organization 60 (3), 563–593.
T. A. Börzel and V. van Hüllen (2014) State-Building and the European Union's Fight against Corruption in the Southern Caucasus: Why Legitimacy Matters, Governance 27 (4), 613–634.
Recommended Readings:
I.P. Karolewski, (2011) ‘European identity making and identity transfer’, Europe-Asia Studies 63(6), 935–955.
H. Larsen, The EU as a Normative Power and the Research on External Perceptions: The Missing Link, Journal of Common Market Studies 52(4), 896–910.
Deadline – literature review – Friday, April 10
Week 10
Class #21, Monday, April 13: What holds the EU together?
Required Readings:T. Risse (2010) A Community of Europeans? Transnational Identities and Public Spheres, Boulder: Cornell University Press, chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, pp. 19-105.
I.P. Karolewski (2010) Citizenship and Collective Identity in Europe, London: Routledge, chapters 1, 2, 3, pp. 7-70.
Recommended Reading:
M. Zuleeg (1997) What Holds a Nation Together? Cohesion and Democracy in the United States of America and in the European Union, American Journal of Comparative Law 45(3), 505- 526.
Class #22, Wednesday, April 15: European identity and its discontents
Required Readings:
N. Fligstein (2008) Euroclash: The EU, European Identity and the Future of Europe, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
A. Favell (2005) Europe's identity problem, West European Politics 28(5), 1109-1116.
Recommended Reading:
J. White (2010) Europe in the Political Imagination, Journal of Common Market Studies, 48(4), 1015–1038.
Week 11:
Class # 23, Monday April 20: Future of the EU: Internal Aspects
Required Readings: