The EU and the Member States after 2000

MA course

JMM 531

Prof. PhDr. Lenka A. Rovná, CS.c

Jean Monnet Chair Ad Personam

lenka.rovna@ruk.cuni.cz

Office: Charles University Prague, Ovocný trh 5, Praha 1, room 307

Office Hours: Wednesday 9:00 - 10:15

The Discussion about the Future of Europe, the Convention, the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC), the Constitution for Europe, Ratification Processes and the Reflection, Reform Treaty, Lisbon Treaty and further

Constitutionalization and Federalization of Europe

Students will be divided into groups representing different member states of the EU and will follow the topics connected with the discussion about the constitutionalization of Europe [finalité] from the point of view of different actors in their selected state. The main focus is given to the relationship between the member states and the EU as such in the process of Europeanization and creation of European politics.

Feb 18

Introduction

February 25

Do the member states matter? The role of member states in the EU

The European Union and its member states, in:Simon Bulmer and Christian Lequesne , The Member States of the European Union, Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. 1-15

Politics in the European Union from the member state point of view, in: Gabriel A.Almond, Russel J.Dalton, G.Bingham Powell, Jr., Kaare Strom, European Politics Today, Pearson Longman, New York, 3^rd edition, 2006, pp.457 - 509

March 4

How the EU works?

http://ec.europa.eu/publications/booklets/eu_glance/68/en.pdf

March 11

Home Work - no class!!!

Europe United in historical perspective

David M.McCourt, International Relations and the Post-War World: Notes Toward a Reflexive History of the European Project

http://www.academia.edu/1156382/International_Relations_and_the_Post-War_World_Notes_Toward_a_Reflexive_History_of_the_European_Project

March 18

Europeanization and Multilevel governance, case studies of individual member states

From Government to governance, in: Edited by Paul Heywood, Erik Jones and Martin Rhodes, Developments in West European Politics 2, Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2002, pp. 151 - 183