COURSE DESCRIPTION (Group C) Course valid to POLN

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1 Course code Course group COURSE DESCRIPTION (Group C) Volume in Course Course valid to ECTS credits valid from POLN Reg. No. Course type (compulsory or optional) Course level (study cycle) Semester the course is delivered Study form (face-to-face or distant) Optional Bachelor s Autumn Face-to-face Course title in Lithuanian Europinės tapatybės Course title in English European Identities Short course annotation in Lithuanian (up to 500 characters) Šiame dalyke bus analizuojamos tokios temos kaip: tapatybės sąvokos genezė socialiniuose ir humanitariniuose moksluose, modernios tapatybės samprata, europinės tapatybės problemos atsiradimas Europos integracijos procese, viršnacionalinis valdymas Europos Sąjungoje, bendras Europos kultūrinis palikimas, Europos idėjos istorija, nacionalinės kolektyvinės tapatybės, Europos Sąjungos demokratijos deficitas ir politinės bendruomenės problema, globalizacijos įtaka nacionalinių tapatybių transformacijoms, postnacionalinės tapatybės samprata, europinės viešosios erdvės formavimosi problemos. Short course annotation in English (up to 500 characters) The subject is devoted to the European identity formation in the European Union and embodies such interrelated problems like the cultural-historical background for Europeans unity, national and European identities, political community problem and the EU s democratic deficit, a postnational identity model etc. The students will acquire capacities to analyze social and political transformation in the European Union, as well as to understand the challenges that global social alterations constitute to the European societies. Prerequisites for entering the course General backgrounds in the political sciences or European studies. Course aim To introduce the students with the complexity of European identities formation in the European Union as well as with the different approaches to understand European integration. Links between study programme outcomes, course outcomes and criteria of learning achievement evaluation Study programme Criteria of learning Course outcomes outcomes achievement evaluation Gebėjimas ir įgūdžiai Proper identification of nuolatiniam mokymosi procesui, naujam įgytos patirties įvertinimui, pastoviam informacijos kaupimui bei kritiškam jos vertinimui. Students should be capable to realize the basic academic approaches and meanings of identity as well as historical and social surroundings of that term. identity meanings: psychological, sociological, ethnical, political, national, substantive, instrumental, modern and postmodern; critical notion of

2 Gebėjimas atlikti lyginamąją politinių procesų ir reiškinių analizę. Students should be aware of European integrations processes that raised European identity problem. Students should be capable to examine the role of culture to the European society and political system of the EU. Students will be able to explain the advantages and limits of postnational identity as well as contemporary challenges to the European Students should be able to analyze and explain different constitutions of European identity in the national contexts. Students should be capable to evaluate different approaches to the political system of the European Union and the consequences to the European common Students will be able to analyze empirically the relationships between interests and identity, national and European identity in the public opinion Students will be capable to analyze the relevance of public sphere to the formation of European Explaining of the exact ideological, cultural, and political meaning of identity in the European Union. Explaining the relationship between democratic deficit and common European Understanding the role of culture to the political system. Describing the content of common European cultural heritage and the history of idea of Europe. Explaining the limits of common European culture s conception. Describing J.Habermas s theory of constitutional patriotism. Indicating its strength and limits. Explaining the inclusion and exclusion logic in the formation of European Explaining the different meaning of national European identities and political consequences to the European Union. Indicating the essence of democratic deficit in the European Union. Explaining the no demos thesis. Evaluate the economical approach to the European Union and European Analyzing the basic trends of national and European identities in the public opinion. Explaining the formation of transnational identities in the European and national public spheres. Link between course outcomes and content Course outcomes Content (topics). Students will be The rise and genesis of term identity in the social sciences and capable to realize the basic humanities. The notion of modern identity (A.Giddens, U.Beck) and

3 academic approaches and meanings of identity as well as historical and social surroundings of that term. 2. Students will be aware of European integrations processes that raised European identity problem. 3. Students will be able to analyze and explain different formations of European identity in the national contexts. 4.Students will be able to analyze empirically the relationships between interests and identity, national and European identity in the public opinion. 5. Students will be capable to examine the role of culture to the European society and political system of the EU. 6. Students will be capable to evaluate different approaches to the political system of the European Union and the consequences to the European common 7. Students will be able to explain the advantages and limits of postnational identity as well as contemporary challenges to the European 8. Students will be capable to analyze the relevance of public sphere to the formation of European postmodern identity (J.Lacan, J.Derrida, M.Foucault). Substantive versus instrumental treatment of Ethnic, social and political National identity and politics of Critique of term identity (R.Brubaker and F.Cooper). The European identity problem in the framework of European integration. Ideological, cultural, and political meanings. European identity in the theories of European integration: neofunctionalism, intergovernmentalism, institutionalism, multi-level governance, constructivism. Europe in the national identities of the member states: German, French, British, Spanish, Swedish, Polish, Czhech, Lithuanian collective identities. Regions and regional identities in the European Union. Empirical analysis of the peoples attitudes on European integration. Interests and National and European identities in the public opinion (Eurobarometer) dynamics and trends. Common European cultural heritage. The history of idea of Europe. Tindemans (975) and Adonnino (985) Reports and cultural politics in the European Union. Unity in diversity. Does common European culture exist? The strength and the limits of common European cultural heritage. European identity and the problem of democratic deficite of the EU. The essence of democratic deficite in the EU. Standard version (J.H.H. Weiler). The problem of European political community. No demos thesis. Alternative approaches to the political identity of the Europeans (A.Moravcsik, G.Majone). What is a postnational European identity? J.Habermas s theory of constitutional patriotism. The strength and weaknesses of this theory. Globalization and European Immigration and citizenship in the European Union. Inclusion and exclusion of European European public sphere and European Transnational identities and public sphere. European Union in national public discourses. Study (teaching and learning) methods Teaching methods: lecture, discussion, consultation, group work, Study methods: homework, peer review, in-class presentation, in-class group work.

4 Methods of learning achievement assessment In-class exams; students presentations; active participation in the lectures. Distribution of workload for students (contact and independent work hours) Contact work: 40 val. Independent work: 80 val. Structure of cumulative score and value of its constituent parts Final exam 50 %. Midterm exam 25 %. Homework, presentations, group work, etc. 25 %. Recommended reference materials No. Publication year Authors of publication and title. 200 Stefan Immerfall, Göran Therborn.Handbook of European Societies: Social Transformations in the 2st Century Thomas Risse. A Community Europeans? Transnational Identities and Public Sphere Cris Rumford. The SAGE Handbook to European Studies Publishing house Basic materials of Cornell University: University press Number of copies in Selfstudy rooms University library Other libraries Jeffrey T.Checkel and Peter J.Katzenstein. European Identity (Contemporary European Politics) Lauren McLaren. Identity, Interests and Attitudes to European Integration Hooghe, Liesbet; Marks, Gary, Multi- Level Governance and European Palgrave Macmillan; annotated edition. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

5 Integration, M. Green Cowles, J. A. Caporaso, Th. Risse (eds.) Transforming Europe. Europeanization and Domestic Change. Caporaso, James, The European Union and Forms of State: Westphalian, Regulatory or Post- Modern?, Journal of Common Market Studies 34(): Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press Delanty, Gerard, Conceptions of Europe. A Review of Recent Trends, European Journal of Social Theory 6(4): Habermas, Jürgen, The Postnational Constellation: Political Essays, transl., edited, and introd. by Max Pensky. Cambridge: MIT Press. Supplementary materials Shore, Chris, Building Europe: The Cultural Politics of European Integration. London: Routledge Richard Robyn. Print Changing Face of European Identity Print ISBN-3: Dora Kostakopoulou. Citizenship, Identity and Immigration in the European Union: Between Past and Future X

6 Delanty, Gerard, Models of European Identity: Reconciling Universalism and Particularism, Perspectives on European Politics and Society 3(3): Rumford, Chris, The European Union a Political Sociology, Blackwell Publishers Ltd. Course programme designed by Dr. Andrius Švarplys, VMU, Department of Political Science