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2015/2016 BA-BHAAI1046U Politics in the European Union
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| Politics in the European Union |
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| Language | English |
| Course ECTS | 7.5 ECTS |
| Type | Elective |
| Level | Bachelor |
| Duration | Summer |
| Start time of the course | Summer |
| Timetable | Course schedule will be posted at calendar.cbs.dk |
| Max. participants | 120 |
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Study Board for BSc in Economics and Business
Administration
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| In case of any academic questions related to the course, please contact the course instructor or the academic director, Sven Bislev at sb.ikl@cbs.dk | |
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| Last updated on 12-05-2016 | |
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To achieve the grade 12, students
should meet the following learning objectives with no or only minor
mistakes or errors:
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| Familiarity with basic international macroeconomic concepts is welcomed. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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The European Union is often described as a political entity that thrives by crises. Rather than moving backwards, or even staying still, the EU seems to respond to internal and external crises by moving along a path of ever greater and deeper integration. This ‘bycycle approach’ has driven theoretical attempts like neo-functionalism and to some degree also more recent attempts like intergovernmentalism that set out to explain the directions of the project of European integration. Ongoing economic and political developments are raising questions about those interpretations. Sovereign debt crises of member economies of the Eurozone and the type of crisis management, the sudden emergence of a ‘refugee crisis’ as well as widespread concerns about the overly large political reach of the EU, have contributed to a conundrum - a situation in which there is no clear right answer - that preoccupies a variety of economic and political actors on the supranational level as well as on the national level. This course focuses on the analytical and historical drivers of European integration and the economic- political responses to emerging crises since the start of the ‘project’ in 1957. Although we will look back in historical terms at the development of the European Union, the course will mainly deal with the current dilemmas associated with European integration. We will make use of a range of theoretical approaches in the area of European studies (for example, neo-functionalism, historical institutional analysis, intergovernmentalism) in order to analyze actions by established and new political-economic players as well as the changes in governance of the European Union.
Class 1: Discussion of Preliminary Assignment: Students' Assessment of Challenges Class 2: Looking back: Drivers of European Integration Class 3: Theoretical Perspectives: How to explain integration? Class 4: From Common Market to Common Currency Class 5: Costs and Benefits of a Currency Union: Path to Euro Class 6: Political Learning Failure? feedback activity: Organized class debate Class 7: Eurozone crises narratives Class 8: Fiscal Policy with and without a common currency Class 9: ECB; Transformation of an Institution Class 10: Free Mobility: Ciao Schengen? Class 11: Comprehensive review |
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| This course will be organized in a seminar style in which students come to class having reviewed the obligatory readings. At the start of each class the instructor will give a structured mini-lecture that frames the topic and puts the readings for the class into a larger perspective. For each class, the course director will provide three lead questions that will structure class discussions. Organized and pre-structured class discussions will make up half of the meetings. Those questions are also defining the ‘take-home’ aspect for each class. We may also use technology in form of brief video clips (mainly from the archive of Financial Times) and enjoy presentations of guest speakers. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Preliminary Assignment: To help students get maximum value from ISUP courses, instructors provide a reading or a small number of readings or video clips to be read or viewed before the start of classes with a related task scheduled for class 1 in order to 'jump-start' the learning process.
Feedback Activity: A feedback
activitity defined by the course instructor will take place app.
half-way through the course.
The timetable is available on http://www.cbs.dk/files/cbs.dk/isup_timetable_2016_updated.pdf |
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PRIMARY LITERATURE (MUST-HAVE BOOKS): H.Badinger, V. Nitsch: Routledge Handbook of the Economics of European Integration. ISBN: 97804158747707 (paperback edition) Routledge
Paul de Grauwe: Economics of Monetary Union ISBN 9780198739876 Oxford University Press, 2016
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