166-033 European Integration: The Politics of the European Union

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Credit Points

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Prerequisites

Usually 25 points of first year Politics. Students with only 12.5 points in Politics may apply to the second/third year coordinator.

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Subject Description

The subject aims to provide students with an in-depth analysis of the politics of European Integration. It provides analyses of the policy-making of the European Union (EU) and examines the tensions of intergovernmentalism and federalism in the approaches of the member states and other participants in the process. It traces the EU's origins from post war recovery to the dynamics of European Integration and examines the approaches to the study of the EU. It scrutinises the policies of the EU and the Economic and Monetary Union. It analyses the institutions and participants in external relations and foreign policy. It then moves on to and the significance of the 1992 Single European Market, which placed the EU in the position of the world's largest trader, and the relationship between the EU and Australia. It further discusses the issues raised by the Maastricht European Union Treaty, including the Referenda, the democratic deficit and complexities of citizenship, ethnicity and gender. It concludes with a discussion of Europe into the next century.

Assessment

Written work totalling 4000 words.

Prescribed Texts

A subject reader will be available.

• D Dinan, Ever Closer Union? An Introduction of the European Community. Macmillan 1994.