166-052 Dilemmas of European Unity

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Credit Points

HECS Band

Coordinator

Prerequisites

Admission to the Postgraduate Diploma or Fourth Year Honours in Political Science.

Semester

Subject Description

This subject addresses the challenges of the European Unity initiatives in the European Union (EU) and the changing nature of the western European nation and state in the European Integration process. The subject asks significant questions about the changing nature of political categories, such as citizenship, nationality and statehood and, through the examination of theoretical approaches to European Integration, different forms of the state and polity as well as current European Union governance. Students should complete the subject with an analysis of European Union common foreign and security policy, particularly in the light of the Maastricht Treaty on European Union and the Amsterdam Treaty. Students should have a knowledge of the problems associated with the Economic and Monetary Union, Agenda 2000 and enlargement of the EU's membership; and an understanding of the issues of citizenship, migrants' rights and of the challenge of racism to the European Unity ideal.