PLEASE NOTE this is a 2013 reading list—the precise content may change in future years.
Term 1, Week 1
Topic: Themes in European integration
Lecture: Introduction to issues explored in the module
Seminar: The first seminar covers the main thematic and organisational issues of the module.
Core reading
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Cini, M and Borragán, P-S, N (eds) European Union Politics. (4th Edition) Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2013, chapters 1 and 2.
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George, S. & Bache, I. (eds.) Politics in the European Union. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2011, 3rd edition, part 1.
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Rosamond, B ‘The Political Sciences of European Integration: Disciplinary history and EU
Studies’, in Jørgensen, K.E., Pollack, M. and Rosamond, B. (eds) Handbook of European
Union Politics, London: Sage, 2007, chapter 1.
Further reading
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Anderson, J.J ‘Europeanization and the Transformation of the Democratic Polity, 1945-2000’,
Journal of Common Market Studies 40(5), 2002, pp.793-822.
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Balibar, E ‘Europe as borderland’ Environment and Planning D : Society and Space Vol 27 No
2, 2009.
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Bartolini, S. Restructuring Europe, Oxford University Press, 2005.
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Bernard Bruneteau, B. ‘The Construction of Europe and the Concept of the Nation-State’,
Contemporary European History, 9(2), 2000
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Breslin, S., Higgott, R. and Rosamond, B. ‘Regions in Comparative Perspective’, in Shaun
Breslin, Christopher W. Hughes, Nicola Phillips and Ben Rosamond (eds) New Regionalisms in
the Global Political Economy London: Routledge, 2002, pp. 1-19.
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Delanty, G. 'Social Theory and European Transformation: Is there a European Society?',
Sociological Research Online, Vol. 3 No. 1, 1998
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Delanty, G. And Rumford, C. Rethinking Europe: Social Theory and the implications of
Europeanisation, London: Routledge, 2005.
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ECSA Review 10(3), 1997, Symposium on ‘Does the European Union Represent an n of 1?'
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ECSA Review 12(2), 1999 Forum on ‘Approaches to the Study of European Politics’
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Jönsson, C. Tägil, S. and Törnqvist, G. Organizing European Space, London: Sage, 2000)
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Kapteyn, P. The Stateless Market: the European Dilemma of Integration and Civilization,
London: Routledge, 2005.
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Laffan, B. ‘The European Union: A Distinctive Model of Internationalization’, Journal of
European Public Policy 5(2), 1998, pp.235-253
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Mattli The Logic of Regional Integration, Cambridge; Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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McCormick, J. (eds.) Understanding the European Union. 4th edition. New York: Palgrave,
2008, chapter 2.