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“Europe will be forged through crises, and will be the sum of the solutions adopted for those crises.” Since the publication of founding father Jean Monnet’s memoirs in 1976, the European polity has transformed, expanded, and given rise to its own interdisciplinary field of scholarship, European Studies, for which his words, frequently invoked in times of crisis, have served as inspiration, mantra, and prophecy.
Beginning with a review of the EU’s political and institutional history, this course then examines the history of European integration between crisis and response, vision and implementation, surveying the vast field of literature on its social, economic, legal, environmental, and geopolitical dimensions, while inviting dialogue with critical perspectives, particularly regarding the questions of political identity that the European project poses. In this regard, authors from within the EU, its regions and national communities, alongside outside perspectives, contemporary and from other historical periods, will be read and discussed.
Students will be expected to give a short presentation on a course reading. |
| Literatur |
Leucht, Brigitte, Katja Seidel, and Laurent Warlouzet. Reinventing Europe: The History of the European Union, 1945 to the Present. London: Bloomsbury, 2023.
Auer, Štefan. European Disunion. Democracy, Sovereignty and the Politics of Emergency. London: Hurst, 2022.
Kundnani, Hans. Eurowhiteness. Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project. London: Hurst, 2023. |
