166-429 Dilemmas of European Unity

Formerly available as 166-052. Students who have completed 166-052 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Admission to the postgraduate diploma or fourth-year honours in political science or postgraduate coursework programs in political science.

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. Students should have a knowledge of the enlargement of the EU's membership; an understanding of the issues of citizenship, migrants' rights and of the challenges to the European Unity ideal and the EU's global role.

• be able to apply research skills and critical methods to a field of inquiry;

• be able to develop persuasive arguments on a given topic;

• be able to communicate oral and written arguments and ideas effectively and articulately.

A research essay of 5000 words 100 (due during the examination period).