INTL 330 – INSTITUTIONS AND POLITICS OF THE
EUROPEAN UNION
KOC UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE OF ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES AND ECONOMICS
DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Spring 2005
INSTRUCTOR: Professor Ziya Öniş
OFFICE: CASE 150
OFFICE HOURS: Monday 14:00-16:00
E-mail: zonis@ku.edu.tr
COURSE DESCRIPTION
European integration that began in the post-World War II era has being transforming
European nations through common political, cultural, and socioeconomic structures
and organizations. Underlying values and principles of European integration are
democracy, human rights, and a social market economy. In this course we shall
examine the basic history, institutions, principles and policies of the European Union.
We shall analyze the common legal, political and economic structures through which
EU members interact with one another. The European Union is in the process of
expanding its borders to new members in Eastern and Southeastern Europe. What are
the conditions of the EU enlargement? We will look at the issues that candidate
countries are facing such as democracy, human rights, identity and religion, as well as
economic adjustment and reform.
BASIC TEXTS
Desmond Dinan (2004). Europe Recast: A History of the European Union.
Basingstone Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan
Frasee Cameron, ed. (2004) The Future of Europe: Integration and Enlargement.
London: Routledge
SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTS
John McCormick (1998). The European Union: Politics and Policies. Colorado:
Westview Press.
William Nicoll and Trevor C. Salmon (2001) Understanding the European Union,
New York: Longman, 2001
ASSESSMENT
Midterm Exam: 25%
Term Paper (15 pages, double spaced): 25%
Final Exam: 40 %
Class Participation: 10%
I) EUROPEAN UNION AND INTEGRATION
1) Theories of Integration
Stephen George (1996). “European Integration in Theory and Practice.” In
Politics and Policy in the European Union. New York: Oxford University
Press. Pp. 35-56.
2) International Context of the European Integration
Stephen George, “The International Context.” pp. 57-91.
3) History of the European Union
Desmond Dinan, Ch. 1-5
Stephen George, “The History of the European Union.” pp. 1-19.
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4) Institutions of the European Union
Stephen George, “The Institutions and Decision-Making System.” pp. 20-34.
John McCormick, ch.6 -9
William Nicoll and Trevor C. Salmon, chs. 4-8
The midterm will be on April 14.
5) Policy Process of the EU
Desmond Dinan, chs. 6-7
John McCormick, chs. 11, 12, 13
William Nicoll and Trevor C. Salmon, chs. 9-11
Simon Hix (1999), The Political System of the European Union. New York:
Palgrave, chs. 8-10
II) EXPANSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY/UNION : SOUTHERN
AND EASTERN ENLARGEMENTS
Fraser Cameron, Chs 1-6
Laurence Whitehead (1996). “Democracy by Convergence: Southern Europe.”
In ed. Laurence Whitehead, The International Dimensions of Democratization.
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New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. 261-284.
Geoffrey Pridham (1991). “The Politics of the European Community,
Transnational Networks and Democratic Transition in Southern Europe.” In
Encouraging Democracy: The International Context of Regime Transition in
Southern Europe. London: Leicester University Press. pp. 212-245.
Ziya Öniş (2004) “ Diverse but Converging Paths to European Union
Membership: Poland and Turkey in Comparative Perspective”. East European
Politics and Societies, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 481-512.
III) EUROPE AS A GLOBAL ACTOR
1) External Relations and Common Security and Defense Policy
Fraser Cameron, Ch. 7
Stephen George, “European Political Co operation/ Common Foreign and
Security Policy.” pp. 261-274
Simon Hix (1999), ch.12
2) Europe: Challenges for the Future
Desmond Dinan, Chs. 8-9
Fraser Cameron, Chs8-9
Simon Hix (1999), ch.11
Special Issue on Making Sense of the EU, Journal of Democracy (2003),
Vol.14, No.4
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Robert Kagan (2003) Paradise and Power. America and Europe in the New
World Order.London: Atlantic Books.
Fuat Keyman and Ziya Öniş (2004), “ Helsinki Copenhagen and Beyond:
Challenges for the New Europe and the Turkish State”. In Mehmet Uğur and
Nergis Canefe, eds., Turkey and European Integration. London: Routledge
ACADEMIC HONESTY
Honesty and trust are important to all of us as individuals. Students and faculty
adhere to the following principles of academic honesty at Koc University:
1) Individual accountability for all individual work, written or oral. Copying from
others or providing answers or information, written or oral, to others is cheating.
2) Providing proper acknowledgment of original author.
Copying from another
student’s paper or from another text without written acknowledgment is plagiarism.
3) Study or project group activity is effective and authorized teamwork.
Unauthorized help from another person or having someone else write one’s paper or
assignment is collusion.
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