Your exam will be on MONDAY, JANUARY 12 th . The exam will be drawn from all lectures and reading to date (McCormick
Chapters 1-4 and Niell Nugent handout on integration theory). The exam will consist of various objective questions and analytical questions. The following list offers significant guidance in studying for this exam. Keep in mind that this is a guide, not as an exhaustive list, although I have tried to be thorough. For each you should understand both what the term/concept is and its relevance to European integration or the functioning of the EU.
State, Nation and Nationalism
Customs Union
Federal and Confederal
Intergovernmental Organizations
Single Market
Intergovernmentalism
Free Trade Area
Economic Union
Supranationalism
Goals of Key States Post-WWII
Truman Doctrine
Berlin Blockade/Airlift
ECSC (Treaty of Paris, 1951)
European Political Community
Euratom
Veto of British Application(s)
The Empty Chair Crisis
First Enlargement
British Budgetary Question
Single European Act (SEA, 1986)
Maastricht Treaty (TEU, 1992)
The Council of Europe
Marshall Plan
Jean Monnet
High Authority
Western European Union
The Suez Crisis (1956)
France and Algeria
Common Agricultural Policy
Luxembourg Compromise
2 nd (1981) & 3 rd
Jacques Delors
“Europe 1992”
(1986) Enlargements
The Bretton Woods System
Organ. For Euro. Economic Coop. (OEEC)
Robert Schuman
Plevan Plan and EDC
EEC (Rome Treaty, 1957)
Charles de Gaulle
Elysée Treaty
Merger Treaty
European Council
European Monetary System
EMU
“Two-Speed Europe”
Convergence Criteria
Single Currency (Euro)
Stability and Growth Pact
Fifth Enlargement (2004)
Three Pillars (of Maastricht)
British “Opt Outs”
Subsidiarity
European Central Bank
1992 Currency Crisis
Fourth Enlargement (1995)
Amsterdam and Nice Treaties
Sixth Enlargement (2007)
Convention on the Future of Europe
French and Dutch Referenda
Valéry Giscard d’Estaing
Lisbon Treaty
EU Constitution
Norway and the EU
Intergovernmental Conferences Empirical v. Normative Theory Multicausality
Sovereignty Hypothesis Necessary & Sufficient Causes
Interdependency (Neo-)
Spillover (New) Institutionalism Policy Networks