York University Department of Political Science. Course: AP/POLS (Fall 2013) European Union

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1 York University Department of Political Science Course: AP/POLS (Fall 2013) European Union Location: MC 114 Prof: John Kannankulam Time: Tuesday 11:30-2:30 Office Hours: Tuesday 3:00-4:00 Office: YRT 710 Course Description: The European Union is the most advanced example of governance beyond the traditional nation-state in the world today. During a period of over fifty years, member states have gradually pooled and transferred elements of national sovereignty and power to new institutions. To this end, the member states have created new institutions, structures and policy mechanisms which play important roles in the regulation of economic and monetary policy, social policy and even foreign and defence policy. These institutions have come under increased scrutiny in recent months as the North American media has become increasingly interested in the Crisis of the Euro-zone. This course is designed to provide an introduction to the European Union and the politics of European integration. It examines the structures and processes of integration. We will pay particular attention to the reasons for integration and the way in which member states interact in the new political structures. In addition, we will address how Europeanisation is altering the policy structures and institutions of the member states. Finally we will consider the crisis of the Eurozone and the relations and ongoing challenges facing the member states of the EU. Course Aims: At the end of this course, students will: have an understanding of the basic mechanisms and functions of the European institutions understand the historical and current context of integration have a knowledge of the main theoretical debates (including critical and feminist approaches) have an understanding of the political economical background of the European integration process with special attention to the current Eurozone crisis be able to critically examine scholarly work on the European Union Assignments: Students must send me 2-3 short questions concerning the basic texts for each week to staatsprojekt@googl .com latest until Sunday midnight. These questions will help us to deal with your interest and problems and to structure our sessions. I will make an anonymous selection of your questions and will supply those to the group(s) that are making a short presentation/input for each session (based on the main reading) to

2 integrate them into the presentation. To coordinate this it is necessary to meet with me in my office at the Centre for German and European Studies on Mondays between a.m. with a prepared presentation. And finally I expect you to write a research essay based on our readings until the end of term. Attendance and Participation 20% (Quality of) Questions 10% Presentation 25% Research Essay 45% Grade Components: ATTENDANCE AND PARTICIPATION This course will be a combination of presentations and seminar discussions. There will be some weeks where we will divide the 3 hour time block into two, and discuss two different topics in one day. In those cases, there will be readings specific to each topic. Students are expected to have read the required material, to send their questions via e- mail and actively contribute to class discussions. Students will be graded on their attendance and participation in the seminars. Regular attendance does not ensure a passing participation grade! PRESENTATION The presentation is a short input of the basic reading s main arguments plus the integration of the questions. Thus, the presentation s aim is to structure our common discussion and the role of the input group is to moderate the session (with my help). RESEARCH ESSAY Topics for the final research paper are open but must be directly related to the course material. Students are encouraged to discuss their topic with me a few weeks before the essay due date. The research paper will be due on November 27. Late essays will be penalized with 2% per day and 5% per weekend. I will not accept papers later than 1 week after the due date. Topics and Readings: See below the outline. Links to the remaining readings will be available through the moodle course page or through the e-reserves of the library COURSE OUTLINE:

3 1. Sept. 10: Introduction & Early History (Urwin 2010, 15-31) 2. Sept. 17: History of European Integration & Institutions (Phinnemore 2010, 32-48; Church/Phinnemore 2013, 41-58; McCormick 2011, ch , ) 3. Sept. 24: Institutions & Policymaking in the EU (Warleigh-Lack/Drachenberg 2013, ; Chalmers et al. 2011, ch. 3, ) 4. October 1: Theory I (Neofunctionalism [Niemann/C. Schmitter 2009, 45-6] vs. Intergouvernmentalism [Cini 2013, 71-84]) 5. Oct. 8: Theory II (Multi-Level Governance [Marks/Hooghe/Blank 1996] vs. Liberal Intergouvernmentalism [Moravcsik/Schmimmelfennig 2009, 67-87]) 6. Oct. 15: Theory III (Integration through Law [Haltern 2003, ]) & Gender aspects of Europ. Integration [Locher/Prügl 2009, ) 7. Oct. 22: Theory IV (Transnational Historical Materialism I & II [Cafruny/Ryner 2009, ; Apeldoorn et al. 2007, Cox 1981; 1983; Gill 1995; 1998) 8. Oct. 29: Political Economy & European Integration (From Fordism to Post-Fordism and its crisis; Rupert 1995, ; Lipietz 1987, 29-46; Helleiner 1993) 9. November 5:

4 Political Economy of the Eurozone-Crisis I (Evans I&II; Overbeek; Bellofiore et al. 2011; Becker/Jäger 2012) 10. Nov. 12: Political Economy of the Eurozone-Crisis II (Heinrich 2014; Kannankulam/Georgi 2014) 11. Nov. 19: Democratic and Gender Implications of the Crisis Programmes (Oberndorfer; Klatzer/Schlager) 12. Nov. 26: Final Assessment: Future of the EU? Literature: Apeldoorn, Bastiaan/Overbeek, Henk/Ryner, Magnus (2007): Theories of European Integration: A critique, in: Cafryuny/Ryner (2007), Apeldoorn, Bastian van (2001): "The Struggle over European Order: Transnational Class Agency in the Making of 'Embedded Neo-Liberalism", in: Bieler, Andreas/Morton, Adam David (eds.): Social Forces in the Making of the New Europe. Houndsmills, Apeldoorn, Bastian van (2002): Transnational Capitalism and the struggle over European Integration. London: Routledge. Becker, Joachim/Jäger, Johannes (2012): Integration in Crisis: A Regulationist Perspective on the Interaction of European Varieties of Capitalism, in: Competition and Change, 16:3, Bellofiore, Riccardo, Francesco Garibaldo and Joseph Halevi (2011): The Great Recession and the Contradictions of European Neomercantilism, in: Socialist Register (2011): The Crisis. This Time, edited by Leo Panitch, Greg Albo and Vivek Chibber, London: Merlin Press. Cafruny, Alan W./Ryner, Magnus (2007): A ruined fortress? Neoliberal Hegemony and Transformation in Europe. Rowman & Littlefield: Langham et al. Cafruny, Alan W./Ryner, Magnus (2009): Critical Political Economy, in: Wiener/Dietz (2009), Chalmers, Damian/Davies, Gareth/Monti, Giorgio (Ed. 2011): European Union Law. Cambridge UP, 2nd Edition. Church, Clive/Phinnemore, David: From the Constitutional Treaty to the Treaty of Lisbon and beyond, in: Cini (Ed. 2013), Cini, Michelle (2007): European Union Politics. Oxford, 2nd Edition. Cini, Michelle (2013): Intergovernmentalism, in: Cini/Perez-Solorzano Borogan (2013), Cini, Michelle/Perez-Solorzano Borrogan, Nieves (Ed. 2013): European Union Politics. Oxford, 3rd Edition. Cox, Robert (1998): Gramsci, Hegemonie und internationale Beziehungen: ein Aufsatz zur Methode, in: Robert Cox: Weltordnung und Hegemonie Grundlagen der Internationalen Politischen Ökonomie (Forschungsgruppe Europäische Gemeinschaften, Studie Nr. 11), Marburg. Cox, Robert W. (1981): Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory, in: Millenium 10:2, Cox, Robert W. (1983): Gramsci, Hegemony and International Relations, in: Millenium 12:2,

5 Demirovic, Alex/Sablowski, Thomas (2011): Finanzdominierte Akkumulation und die Krise in Europa, in Prokla Nr. 1, 2011, Dinan, Desmond (2005): A History of European Union. Houndsmills. Evans, Trevor (2009): The US economic expansion and the limits of finance-led capitalism, Studies in Political Economy, 83, May 2009, pp Evans, Trevor (2011): The crisis in the Euro area, International Journal of Labour Research, vol. 3, no. 1, May 2011, pp Gill, Stephen (1995): Globalisation, Market Civilisation & Disciplinary Neoliberalism, in: Millennium, 24: 3, Reprinted in A. Linklater, editor: International Relations: Critical Concepts in Social Science Vol III (London and New York: Routledge 2001) ; Gill, Stephen (1998): European Governance & New Constitutionalism: EMU & alternatives to disciplinary neo-liberalism in Europe., in: New Political Economy, 3: Gill, Stephen (2001): "Constitutionalising Capital: EMU and Disciplinary Neo-Liberalism", in Bieler, Andreas/Morton, Adam David (eds.): Social Forces in the Making of the New Europe. Houndsmills, Haltern, Ulrich (2003): Integation through law, in: Wiener/Dietz (2003), Heinrich, Mathis (2014): Integration in Crisis: A Regulationist Perspective on the Interaction of European Varieties of Capitalism, in: Comparative European Politics (forthcoming). Helleiner, Eric (1993): "When Finance was the Servant: International Capital Movements in the Bretton Woods Order", in: Cerny (Hg.): Finance and World Politics, Kannankulam, John/Georgi, Fabian (2014): Varieties of capitalism or Klatzer, Elisabeth/Schlager, Christa (2011): EUROPÄISCHE WIRTSCHAFTSREGIERUNG EINE STILLE NEOLIBERALE REVOLUTION In: Kurswechsel, Heft 1/2011. BEIGEWUM, Wien: S Klatzer, Elisabeth/Schlager, Christa (2012): Genderdimensionen der neuen EU Economic Governance : maskuline Steuerungsmechanismen und feminisierte Kosten- und Risikoabwälzung, in: Kurswechsel: Zeitschrift für gesellschafts-, wirtschafts- und umweltpolitische Alternativen, p Lipietz, Alain (1987): Mirages et Miracles. The Crisis of Global Fordism. London: Verso. Locher, Birgit/Prügl, Elisabeth (2009): Gender and European Integation, in: Wiener/Dietz (2009), Marks, Gary/Hooghe, Liesbet/Blank, Kermit (1996): European Integration since the 1980s. State-centric Versus Multi-Level Governance, in: Journal of Common Market Studies, 34(3) pp McCormick, John (2011): European Union Politics. Palgrave MacMillan. Moravcsik, Andrew/Schmimmelfennig, Frank (2009): Liberal Intergovernmentalism, in: Wiener/Dietz (2009), Niemann, Arne/C. Schmitter, Philippe (2009): Neofunctionalism, in: Wiener/Dietz (2009), Oberndorfer, Lukas (2012a): Hegemoniekrise in Europa Auf dem Weg zu einem autoritäteren Wettbewerbsetatismus?, in: Forschungsgruppe Staatsprojekt Europa (Hg.): Die EU in der Krise, Oberndorfer, Lukas (2012b): Der Fiskalpakt Umgehung der europäischen Verfassung und Durchbrechung demokratischer Verfahren?, in: Juridikum. Zeitschrift für Kritik, Recht, Gesellschaft, Overbeek, Henk (2012): Sovereign Debt Crisis in Euroland: Root Causes and Implications for European Integration, The International Spectator: Italian Journal of International Affairs, 47:1, Phinnemore, David (2010): The European Union: Establishment and Development, in: Cini (Hg. 2010): European Union Politics, Poulantzas, Nicos (2002): Staatstheorie. Hamburg: VSA. Rupert, Mark (1995): Producing Hegemony: The Politics of Mass Production and American Gobal Power. Cambridge u.a.: Cambridge University Press. Urwin, Derek W. (2010): "The European Community from , in: Cini, Michelle: European Union Politics. Oxford, Varieties of relationships of forces? Outlines of a historical materialist policy analysis, in: Capital & Class (forthcoming). Warleigh-Lack/Drachenberg 2013: Policy Making in the European Union, in: Cini (ed. 2013), Wiener, Anjte/Dietz, Thomas (2009): European Integration Theories, OUP, 2nd Edition. Wiener, Antje/Dietz, Thomas (2003): European Integration Theories, OUP, 1st Edition. Ziltener, Patrick (1999): Strukturwandel der Europäischen Integration. Münster.

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