POL 207Y: POLITICS IN EUROPE. Students are required to complete four assignments in order to pass the course:

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1 POL 207Y: POLITICS IN EUROPE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE Wednesdays, 2-4pm in SS2102 Professor Randall Hansen Office: Munk Centre, N110 Office Hours: Thursdays 2-3pm Europe offers a complex and fascinating subject of study. The Europe of the new millennium is made of up of 27 countries, varied and competing economic and social models, and multiple institutional designs that have been imitated around the globe. The course provides an introduction to European politics, society, and the processes of European integration. It is organized into four sections. The first analyzes national institutions in the big three European states the United Kingdom, Germany, and France and reflects on the ways in which these contrasting institutional configurations structure politics. The second examines the world s most advanced international regime, the European Union (the EU), through which member states have harmonized policies, eliminated barriers to the movement of goods and people, and pooled or transferred sovereignty. The third considers Europe s emergent foreign policy, its relationship(s) with the United States, and the effects of EU enlargement. The final section devotes attention to hotly debated issues in contemporary European politics: immigration, citizenship, and integration; anti-semitism and the legacy of Vichy in France; and the debate about German victimhood in the Federal Republic. Requirements Students are required to complete four assignments in order to pass the course: word critical book review of Jeremy Rifkin s The European Dream (25%) [deadline: October 28, 2009] word critical book review of Anand Menon s Europe: the State of the Union (25%) [deadline: January 28, 2010] word critical book review of Tony Judt, Europe: A Postwar History [deadline: March 31, 2010] (30%) 4. Final in-class test (20%) on the last day of the course.

2 2 Penalty for late papers: 5 percent per day. No exceptions. All essays should be submitted through Our class ID is: The password is: Europolitics. You should generate your own account and use it to submit your work. ESSAYS MUST ALSO BE HANDED IN AT THE START OF CLASS; AN ESSAY HANDED IN AT THE END OF CLASS OR AFTER CLASS ON THE DUE DATE CONSTITUTES A LATE ESSAY Textbooks: Five texts are available for purchase from the bookstore: Colin Hay & Andrew Menon, European Politics (Oxford, 2007) Samuel Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations (Free Press, 2006) Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945 (2005) Jeremy Rifkin, The European Dream (Penguin, 2005) Desmond Dinan, Ever Closer Union (Lynne Rienner, 2005) You may, as well, purchase Rosamond s Theories of Integration as we will use it for several weeks. Otherwise, there is a reserve copy in the library. In addition, I would advise you to obtain the few readings that are not taken from the books soon. I have provided links in some cases, but cannot guarantee that they will be valid all year and, in any case, they may be down during the relevant weeks and/or exams. You are in all cases responsible for obtaining these readings. In addition to these readings, it is recommended that students subscribe to the weekly magazine The Economist and read the sections on Europe. Among the dailies, the Financial Times (London) has the best English-language coverage of events in Europe, followed by the New York Times. Schedule and Weekly Readings Part I: Institutions 1. Introduction (Sept. 9) 2. Institutional Continuity and Change I: Europe in 1945 (Sept. 16) Reading: Andrew Janos, The Politics of Backwardness in Continental Europe, , World Politics, vol. 41, no.3, 1989, pp Available at: 3. Britain: The Unfettered Executive (Sept. 23) Reading: Hay/Menon, chapter 4, France: the triumph of Presidential power (Sept. 30)

3 3 Reading: Hay/Menon, chapter 2, Germany: The Constrained Executive in the Semi-Sovereign State (Oct. 15) Reading: Hay/Menon, chapter 1, Reading Week: No class (Oct. 7) Part II: European Integration and the European Union 7. The Federalist Vision: Early Theories (October 14) Reading: Rosamond, Theories of European Integration, pp Dinan, Ever Closer Union, pp From Vision to Reality: The Limits to European Integration (Oct. 21) Reading: Dinan, Ever Closer Union, pp Hay/Menon, chapter Theories of European Integration: Neofunctionalism & Intergovernmentalism (Oct. 28) Reading: Rosamond, Theories of European Integration, pp Dinan, Ever Closer Union, pp <<FIRST ESSAY DUE AT THE START OF CLASS>> 10. Theories of European Integration II: Intergovernmentalism and Its Critics (Nov. 4.) Reading: Rosamond, Theories of European Integration, pp Reading Week: no class (Nov. 11) 12. EU: Institutions: The Commission and the Council (Nov. 18) Reading: Dinan, Ever Closer Union, pp Hay/Menon, chapter Economics, the Euro, and European identity (Jan. 7) Reading: Symposium on the Stability and Growth Pact, in Journal of Common Market Studies, vol.42, no.5 December 2004, at: Hay/Menon, chapter 16, Film and & Discussion: Billy Wilder s Eins, Zwei, Drei. Wilder, a German Jew who had to flee Nazi Germany, returned to the divided Berlin to make this movie. Reflect on the movie s take on denazification, democracy in Germany, Americanization of the Federal Republic, and the German Democratic Republic as reallyexisting socialism.

4 4 * * * The holidays * * * Part III: European Foreign Policy & EU Enlargement 15. A Polity in the Making and Foreign Policy (Jan. 14) Reading: Rosamond, Theories of European Integration, pp Europe and the End of the Transatlantic Alliance? (Jan. 21) Reading: Robert Kagan, "Power and Weakness," in Policy Review, no.113, at: Letters to Europe and to America by Philip Gordon and Timothy Garton-Ash in Prospect, July Hay/Menon, chapter The Impact of Enlargement on the New Member States & on the EU (Jan. 28) Reading: David Philips, "Turkey's Dreams of Accession," Foreign Affairs, vol.83, no.5, 2004, at: Geoffrey Pridham, EU Enlargement and Consolidating Democracy in Post-Communist States: Formality and Reality, in Journal of Common Market Studies, vol.40, no.5, Kristi Raik, EU Accession of Central and East European Countries: Democracy and Integration as Conflicting Logics" East European Politics and Societies, vol.18, no.4, 2004 Hay/Menon, chapter 21 <<SECOND ESSAY DUE IN CLASS>> 18. A Constitutional Crisis? (Feb. 3) Reading: Desmond Dinan, "Governance and Institutions: The Convention and the Intergovernmental Conference" in Journal of Common Market Studies, vol. 42, September 2004, at: Nicolaides Kalypso, "We the Peoples of Europe..." in Foreign Affairs, vol.83, no.6, 2004 PART IV: CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN POLITICS & SOCIETY 19. Immigration & the EU (Feb. 10) Reading: Christian Joppke, "Why Liberal States Accept Unwanted Immigration" World Politics, vol.50, no.2,

5 5 Elena Jileva, "Visa and free movement of labour: the uneven imposition of the EU acquis on the accession states" in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol.28, no.4, 2002 READING WEEK (FEB ) 22. The Danish Cartoon controversy: European liberalism, or European racism? (Feb. 24) Reading: Special Issue on International Migration devoted to the controversy. Available at: Citizenship & European citizenship (Mar. 3) Reading: Christian Joppke, Immigration Challenges the Nation State, in C. Joppke, Challenge to the Nation-State (OUP, 1998). Christian Joppke, Citizenship, in Mathew Gibney and Randall Hansen, eds, Immigration & Asylum from 1900 to the present (ABC-CLIO, 2005) [available on-line at Robarts] Hay/Menon, chapter Pluralism, integration & the Limits of tolerance (Mar. 10) Reading: Randall Hansen, The Poverty of Postnationalism, Theory and Society, (Vol. 37, No. 3, 2008). Joseph Carens and Melissa Williams, Muslim Minorities in Liberal Democracies: The Politics of Misrecognition, in Rainer Bauböck et al., in The Challenge of Diversity, Avebury Press, Social Europe: Europe s achievement, or Europe s undoing? (Mar. 17) Jeremy Rifkin, The European Dream, Penguin Gosta Esping-Andersen, Social Foundations of Postindustrial Economies, pp & Hay/Menon, chapter Europe in the shadow of its past I: the Vichy debate in France (Mar.24) Reading: Sudhir Hazareesingh, Political Traditions in Modern France (OUP, 1996), chapter 5. Robert Gildea, France since 1945 (1996, 2002), chapter 3. <<THIRD ESSAY DUE IN CLASS>> 25. Film: Le Chagrin et la Pitié (March 31) This mid-1970s film had a devastating impact on France. How does it re-conceive of the role played by ordinary French men and women? Why was it so devastating for the French myth of resistance? Why did it only come thirty years after the end of the war? 26. FINAL TERM TEST IN CLASS APRIL 7