INTL 451
SELECTED TOPICS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
ISSUES IN EUROPEAN INTEGRATION:
DEMOCRACY, IDENTITY, AND FOREIGN POLICY
MW 11:00-12:15
CAS B34
INSTRUCTOR:
Bahar Rumelili
CASE 143 (ext. 1628)
e-mail: brumelili@ku.edu.tr
Office Hours: T 11:00-12:00
W 13:00-15:00
and by appointment
Course Description:
This course analyzes in-depth three interrelated debates on European integration with their
theoretical and policy implications. We begin with an interrogation of the ‘democratic deficit’
problem of the European Union. What standards of democracy should be applicable to the
Union? How can the Union institutions and governance structure be further democratized?
Secondly, we investigate the debates on the construction of a European identity. How can the
peoples of Europe identify more strongly with the European Union and its institutions? What
can the European Union do in the construction of an identity as such? And finally, we turn to
the discussion of the European Union on the world stage. How and in what ways does the
European Union impact world politics? How can it be more effective?
Course Readings:
The following books have been put on reserve:
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Walter Carlsnaes, Helen Sjursen, and Brian White (eds.) (2004) Contemporary
European Foreign Policy, London: Sage Publishers.
Lars-Erik Cederman (2001) Constructing Europe’s Identity: The External Dimension,
Boulder: Lynne Riener.
Christopher Hill and Michael Smith (eds.) (2005) International Relations and the
European Union, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Chris Shore (2000) Building Europe: The Cultural Politics of European Integration,
London and New York: Routledge.
Alex Warleigh (2003) Democracy in the European Union, London: Sage.
Walter van Gerven (2005) The European Union: A Polity of States and Peoples,
Stanford University Press.
Dannreuther, R. (ed.) (2004) European Union Foreign and Security Policy: Towards a
Neighborhood Strategy, Routledge.
Youngs, R. (2006) Europe and the Middle East: In the Shadow of September 11,
Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers.
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Peterson, J. and M. A. Pollack (2003) Europe, America, Bush: Transatlantic Relations
in the Twenty-first Century, Routledge.
Koutrakou, V. N. (ed.) (2004) Contemporary Issues and Debates in EU Policy,
Manchester: Manchester University Press.
The assigned articles are also available on the library’s e-reserve collection. In addition, a
course packet will be made available for purchase at the XEROX copy center.
Course Requirements:
Students are expected to closely read the assigned texts and actively participate in all class
sessions. Students will also be asked to write a 15 page research paper, adhering to the
timeline detailed below. Course grades will be determined on the following basis:
Participation:
Midterm:
Research Paper:
Final exam
15%
25%
30%
30%
Timeline for Research Paper:
Step
Decide on topic in consultation with instructor
Submit first draft
Meet with instructor to receive comments
Submit final draft
Pts
10
30
60
Deadline
Oct. 10th
Nov. 21st
Nov. 26th-28th
Dec. 26th
Course Schedule:
Sept. 17-19: Introduction and Course Overview
Van Gerven, ch. 1
Sept. 24-26: Democracy in the European Union
Andrew Moravscik (2002) ‘In Defense of the “Democratic Deficit”: Reassessing Legitimacy
in the European Union’ Journal of Common Market Studies, 40: 4, pp. 603-24.
Warleigh, Ch. 1, 2
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=7572044&site=ehost-live
Commission of the European Communities (2001) European Governance: A White Paper,
Brussels, COM (2001) 428 final.
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/site/en/com/2001/com2001_0428en01.pdf
Oct 1-3: Which form of government for Europe?
Van Gerven, ch. 2, 5, and 7.
Oct. 8-10: Constitutional Debate
Jurgen Habermas (2001) ‘Why Europe Needs a Constitution’ New Left Review 11 (Sept/ Oct),
pp. 5-26.
YOK
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Skach, C. (2005) ‘We, the Peoples? Constitutionalizing the European Union’ Journal of
Common Market Studies, 43:1, pp. 149-70.
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=15964484&site=ehost-live
‘The EU and its “Constitution”’ Symposium, PSOnline, April 2006, pp. 237-72.
YOK
Oct 15-17: A European Identity?
Brigid Laffan (1996) ‘The Politics of Identity and Political Order in Europe’ Journal of
Common Market Studies, 34: 1, pp. 81-102.
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=9604190492&site=ehost-live
Gerard Delanty (2005) ‘What Does it Mean to a “European”?’ Innovation, 18: 1, pp. 11-22.
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=16188205&site=ehost-live
Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida (2003) ‘February 15, or What Binds Europeans
Together: A Plea for a Common Foreign Policy, Beginning in the Core of Europe’
Constellations, 10: 3, pp. 291-7.
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1467-8675.00333
Philip Sclesinger and Deirdre Kevin, ‘Can the European Union become a sphere of publics?’
in E. Eriksen and J. E. Fossum (eds.) Democracy in the European Union: Integration through
Deliberation? Routledge, pp. 206-229.
Laura Cram (2006) ‘Inventing the People: Civil Society Participation and the Enhabitation of
the EU’ in Stijn Smismans (ed.) Civil Society and Legitimate European Governance’, Edward
Elgar Publishing Limited, pp. 241-259.
Oct 22-24: Constructing a European Identity: The Internal Dimension
Shore, Ch. 1, 2, and 3.
Oct. 29: HOLIDAY
Oct 31: Religion and European Identity
Katzenstein, P. J. (2006) ‘Multiple modernities as limits to secular Europeanization?’ in
Byrnes, T. A. and P. J. Katzenstein (eds.) Religion in an Expanding Europe, Cambridge
University Press, pp. 1-33.
Casanova, J. (2006) ‘Religion, European secular identities, and European integration’ in
Byrnes, T. A. and P. J. Katzenstein (eds.) Religion in an Expanding Europe, Cambridge
University Press, pp. 65-92.
Hurd, E. S. (2006) ‘Negotiating Europe: the politics of religion and the prospects for Turkish
accession’ Review of International Studies, 32, pp. 401-418.
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayFulltext?type=1&fid=461162&jid=RIS&volumeI
d=32&issueId=03&aid=461161
Nov. 5: MIDTERM
Nov. 7: Constructing a European Identity: The External Dimension
Cederman, Ch. 6 and 7
Nov. 12-14: The EU and its Near Abroad
Greco, Ettore (2004) ‘Southeastern Europe: the expanding EU role’ in Dannreuther (ed.), Ch.
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Zagorski, A. (2004) ‘Policies Toward Russia, Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus, in Dannreuther
(ed.), Ch. 6
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Haukkala, H. (2004) ‘The Northern Dimension: a presence and four liabilities’, in
Dannreuther (ed.), Ch. 7
Macfarlane, S. N. (2004) ‘The Caucasus and Central Asia: towards a non-strategy’ in
Dannreuther (ed.), Ch. 8
Nov. 19-21: The EU and the Middle East
Youngs, chs. 2-6.
Nov. 26-28: The EU and Conflict Prevention
Wouters, J. and F. Naert (2004) ‘The EU and Conflict Prevention: A brief historic overview’
in Kronenberger, V. and J. Wouters (eds.), Ch. 3
Rummel, R. (2004) ‘The EU’s Involvement in Conflict Prevention: strategy and practice’ in
Kronenberger, V. and J. Wouters (eds.), Ch. 4
Blockmans, S. (2004) ‘EU Conflict Prevention in the Western Balkans’ in Kronenberger, V.
and J. Wouters (eds.), Ch. 14
Eidem, E. J. (2004) ‘Strategies of conflict prevention for Sub-Saharan Africa’ in
Kronenberger, V. and J. Wouters (eds.), Ch. 15
Dec. 3-5: Security and Defense
Council of the European Communities, A Secure Europe in a Better World, European
Security Strategy, Brussels 12 December 2003.
http://consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cmsUpload/78367.pdf
Hill and Smith, Ch.9
Carlsneas, Sjursen, and White (eds.), Ch. 10
Dec. 10-12: Foreign Economic Policy
Hill and Smith, Ch. 12.
Luckhurst, J. and V. N. Koutrakou (2004) ‘EU economic governance in the present world
system’ in Koutrakou, V. N. (ed.), ch. 6.
Koutrakou, V. N. (2004) ‘New Directions in the EU’s Third World Policy: from aid to trade
under the watchful eye of WTO’ in Koutrakou, V. N. (ed.), ch. 7
Dec. 17 and 24: Transatlantic Relations
Peterson, J. and M. A. Pollack (2003) ‘Introduction: Europe, America, Bush’ in Peterson, J.
and M. Pollack (eds.), Ch. 1
Howorth, J. (2003) ‘Foreign and Defense Policy Cooperation’ in Peterson, J. and M. Pollack
(eds.), Ch. 2
Baldwin, M., Peterson, J. and B. Stokes (2003) ‘Trade and Economic Relations’ in Peterson,
J. and M. Pollack (eds.), Ch. 3
Berenskoetter, F. S. (2005) ‘Minding the Gap: A Comparison of US and European Security
Strategies, Security Dialogue, 36:1, pp. 71-92.
http://sdi.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/36/1/71
Dec. 19: BAYRAM HOLIDAY
Dec. 26: Conclusion and Overview
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