SS377 Politics of Europe Overview Materials At the turn of the last century, many saw Europe as representing the triumph of Tim Bale, European Politics: A western, liberal institutions. Composed of strong democratic states bound by Comparative Introduction (4th international institutions, Europe represented the triumph of western, liberal Edition, 2017) governance. The continent had emerged from the shadow of its war-torn past and Jonathan Olsen and John arrived at what Fukuyama famously called “the end of history.” But the halcyon McCormick, The European th st predictions of the late 20 century were belied by the events of the 21 . Financial Union: Politics and Policies (6th crises, slow growth, terrorism, immigration, populist movements, and Russian Edition, 2017) hostility have caused many Europeans to revisit some of their fundamental William Drozdiak, Fractured assumptions about the proper form of government – and so will we. This course Continent: Europe’s Crises and explores the development, structure, and future of European government. It is the Fate of the West (2017) focused on answering the questions: “What caused the political and economic Stanley Sloan, Defense of the institutions of European states,” and “how well can these institutions handle the West (2016) challenges of the future?” In order to answer these questions the course will take a broad, interdisciplinary approach incorporating material from comparative Milestones politics, international relations, international political economy, and history. Although our investigation is centered on Europe, the lessons we learn will have Map Quiz implications for how we think about the future of democracy generally. This course will continue to develop analytical approaches introduced in SS201 (Economics), SS366 (Comparative Politics), and SS307 (International Relations). Paper #1 Due It first covers the theories necessary to understand institutional variations and their effects. It then dives deeply into the empirics of European institutions and the EU Block One WRIT in particular. Finally, it address directly the myriad contemporary challenges Europeans face as they move into the 21st century.
Format Paper #2 Due
− 3.0 Credit Hours − 30 Lessons @ 75 min each Block Two WRIT − Assignments: map quiz, two writs, three policy papers, TEE − Prerequisite: SS307/357; Co-requisite: SS366 or permission of instructor Paper #3 Due
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Course Objectives As a result of having taken SS377, each cadet will be able to:
◼ Apply to European states and European Union politics the methodology and logic of conducting comparative social science research, with emphasis on theories of historical institutionalism. ◼ Critically read a wide range of scholarly literature and apply that literature to journalist account of contemporary political events in Europe. ◼ Understand the successes and failures of European integration, including the current issues affecting fiscal and monetary policy in Europe and the rest of the world. ◼ Conduct comparative analysis of states to understand how a state’s internal makeup influences its behavior internationally. ◼ Understand the impact of the international environment on Europe. ◼ Communicate verbally and in writing analysis and arguments about complex international and global issues clearly and effectively.
Requirements The graded requirements, worth a total possible 1,000 points, are: 1. Map Quiz (50 Points) The quiz will test your knowledge of the map of Europe, and the status of European states with regard to three central institutions: the European Union (EU), the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and the Euro currency area, or Eurozone.
2. Party Families and Institutions Presentations (50 Points) You will each choose one European state or European party family. If you have a state, prepare a five minute presentation in which you classify that state’s institutions according to its executive, judicial, representation, electoral, and economic institutions. If you have a party family, describe its main positions, party leadership, strength, and one national political party that is in that party family.
3. Cadet Teach (100 Points) You will each choose a lesson and lead the class by providing your classmates a short brief and guiding the discussion. You should plan on leading/guiding the discussion for 30 minutes.
4. Writs x 2 (75 Points Each, 150 Points Total) These will be given in-class and will focus on material from the first two blocks of the course.
5. Term End Exam (250 Points)
6. Policy Papers x 3 (100 Points Each, 300 Points Total):
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These will be policy papers in which you will need to persuade a policymaker to take a certain course of action. Prompts will be provided approximately one month prior to due date.
7. Engagement Points (100 Points) As a seminar-style class, active engagement is vital to creating the proper learning environment. Active participation requires doing the readings before class and thinking critically about them and the topics of discussion. It can take a variety of forms, including speaking in class, asking questions, dialoging with peers, or emailing questions or thoughts about a topic or class discussion, just to name a few ways of interacting with classmates.
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Course Schedule
19 AUG Block One: State Institutions 1 (Introduction – Democracy in Retreat?)
21 AUG 2 (What are institutions?) 27 AUG 3 (Why did Europe develop democratic institutions?) 30 AUG 4 (What is political identity?) 6 SEP 5 (How can political identity cause separatism?) 10 SEP 6 (How do executive and judicial institutions vary across Europe?) 12 SEP Map Quiz 7 (How do representative institutions vary across Europe?) 16 SEP 8 (How do electoral and party systems vary across Europe?) 18 SEP 9 (How does the institutionalization of interests vary across Europe?) 23 SEP Paper #1 Due – NLT 1600 10 (How do redistributive institutions vary across Europe?) 27 SEP 11 (Is there a European political identity?) 01 OCT Block Two: Intl. Institutions 12 (What are the origins of European integration?) Block One Writ 03 OCT 13 (How was the European Union created?) 07 OCT 14 (The European Council and Commission) 09 OCT 15 (The Parliament, Council of Ministers, and Court of Justice) 16 OCT 16 (EU Policymaking: The Single Market) 18 OCT 17 (EU Policymaking: Internal Policies) 22 OCT 18 (EU Policymaking: The Common Foreign and Security Policy) 24 OCT 19 (The Euro and the European Central Bank) 28 OCT Paper #2 Due – NLT 1600 20 (Does the EU have a democratic deficit?) 30 OCT 21 (NATO) 04 NOV Block Two Writ 22 (European Convention on Human Rights) 08 NOV Block Three: Critical Junctures 23 (Europe’s Troubled Neighborhood: Russia, Turkey, North Africa) 14 NOV 24 (Migration) 18 NOV 25 (Greece and the Euro Crisis) 20 NOV 26 (Populism) 25 NOV 27 (Brexit) 03 DEC Paper #3 Due: 06 1600 DEC 28 (The US and Europe) 09 DEC 29 (Separatism and the Balkans) 11 DEC 30 (The Future of Europe and the West)
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Learning Objective: Describe the causes and effects of different configurations of state institutions and political identities.
Lesson 1: Introduction – Democracy Assigned Reading (12 pages) in Retreat? SS377 Course Syllabus.
Lesson Objectives: Drozdiak, William. Fractured 1. What challenges are facing not only Continent: Europe's Crises and the Europe, but the ideals of Western Fate of the West. WW Norton & liberalism? Company, 2017. 2. What is this course all about, how is it Introduction, xi-xxi structured, and what is expected of you? Council on Foreign Relations, Academic Conference Call with Charles Kupchan (Online). Listen to first 13 minutes
Lesson 2: What are institutions and Assigned Reading (22) how do they change? North, Douglass. "An introduction to institutions and institutional change." Lesson Objectives: In Institutions, Institutional Change 1. What is an institution? and Economic Performance (1990) 2. What kinds of institutions are there? 3-6 3. What role do institutions play in society? 4. What is “path dependence”? Capoccia, Giovanni, and R. Daniel 5. What are “critical junctures” and what Kelemen. "The study of critical does “contingency” mean in the context of junctures: Theory, narrative, and institutional change? counterfactuals in historical institutionalism." World Politics 59, no. 3 (2007) 341-354, 357-359, 363-369
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Lesson 3: Why did Europe develop Assigned Reading (36) democratic institutions? Dankwart Rustow. “Transitions to democracy: Toward a dynamic model,” Lesson Objectives: Comparative Politics, 2, no .3 (1970): 1. According to Rustow, what causes 337-343, 350-363 democracy? 2. Are there any structural components that David Stasavage. “Representation and need to be present (economic, cultural) for consent: why they arose in Europe and democracy to survive? not elsewhere.” Annual Review of 3. Does Stasavage’s essay provide evidence Political Science 19 (2016): in support of Rustow’s theory or against 145-162 it? 4. What instances of contingency does Stasavage indicate are key to explaining Suggested: European democracy? Blaydes and Chaney. “The feudal revolution and Europe’s rise: Political divergence of the Christian west and the Muslim world before 1500 CE.” American Political Science Review 107(1). pp 16-34.
Lesson 4: What is political identity? Assigned Reading (43) Connor, Walker. "The nation and its Lesson Objectives: myth." International Journal of 1. What is a nation? Comparative Sociology 33, no. 1 2. What is the relationship between ethnicity (1992): 48-55 and nationality? 3. How and when was the French nation created? Weber, Eugen. Peasants into 4. In what sense are nations “imagined.” Frenchmen: The modernization of rural France, 1870-1914. Stanford University Press, 1976. 110-113, 310-314, 328-336
Muller, Jerry Z. "Us and them: The enduring power of ethnic nationalism." Foreign Affairs (2008): 18-35
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Lesson 5: How can political identity Assigned Reading (33) cause separatism? Bale, Tim. European politics: A comparative introduction. Palgrave Lesson Objectives: Macmillan, 2017. 1. How do sub-national and supra-national Chapter 2, 39-53 identities challenge national identity? 2. What is the difference between federal and Drozdiak, William. Fractured unitary systems? Continent: Europe's Crises and the 3. How have nationalist movements in the Fate of the West. WW Norton & UK, Spain, France, and Belgium Company, 2017. responded to attempts at federalism? “Madrid,” 93-112 4. How does the presence of the EU affect these nationalist movements? Cunningham, Kathleen. "Divide and conquer or divide and concede: How do states respond to internally divided separatists?" American Political Science Review 105, no. 2 (2011) Read abstract, intro, skim through evidence and tables
Lesson 6: How do executive and Assigned Reading (49) judicial institutions vary across Bale, Tim. European politics: A European states? comparative introduction. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Lesson Objectives: Chapter 3, 71-102 1. What are differences between unitary and federal systems? Drozdiak, William. Fractured 2. How does the degree of political influence Continent: Europe's Crises and the in the bureaucracy vary across states? Fate of the West. WW Norton & 3. How do different configurations of Company, 2017. executive institutions affect public trust in “Rome,” 113-131 government or perceptions of corruption? 4. What institutions in Italy might contribute Suggested: to its poor government performance? Gerring, John, Strom C. Thacker, and Carola Moreno. "Centripetal democratic governance: A theory and global inquiry." American Political Science Review 99, no. 4 (2005): 567- 581.
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Lesson 7: How do representative Assigned Reading (23) institutions vary across Europe? Bale, Tim. European politics: A comparative introduction. Palgrave Lesson Objectives: Macmillan, 2017. 1. How does the parliamentary approach to Chapter 4, 105-112, 118-134 the executive and legislative functions differ with the presidential approach? Arend Lijphart. “Democracies: Forms, 2. How is the head of government different performance, and constitutional from the head of state? engineering.” European Journal of 3. What does it mean to “form a Political Research 25, no. 1 (1994) government?” 1-17
Lesson 8: How do electoral and Assigned Reading (30) party systems vary across Europe? Bale, Tim. European politics: A comparative introduction. Palgrave Lesson Objectives: Macmillan, 2017. 1. What are social cleavages and how do Chapter 5, 143-154; Chapter 6, 187- parties align with them? 201 2. What are the differences between majoritarian and proportional voting Video - CGP Grey, “The Problems systems? with First Past the Post Voting 3. Why do voting systems matter? What are Explained” their effects? 4. What are the major political “party families” in Europe? Video - CGP Grey, “Mixed-Member Proportional Representation
Suggested: Cusack, Iversen, and Soskice. “Economic interests and the origins of electoral systems.” American Political Science Review 101, no. 3 (2007)
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Lesson 9: How does the Assigned Reading (46) institutionalization of interests vary Bale, Tim. European politics: A across Europe? comparative introduction. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Lesson Objectives: Chapter 8, 261-276 1. What is “civil society?” Berman, Sheri. "Civil society and the 2. According to Putnam, how can civil collapse of the Weimar Republic." society be good for a democracy? World politics 49, no. 3 (1997) 3. According to Berman, how can civil 402-413 society cause problems for democracies? Putnam, Robert D., Robert Leonardi, 4. What are pluralism, corporatism, and and Raffaella Y. Nanetti. Making consociationalism? Which is the best democracy work: Civic traditions in approach for a state when engaging with modern Italy. Princeton University civil society? Press, 1994. 3-7, 163-183 Suggested: Martin and Swank. "The political origins of coordinated capitalism." American Political Science Review 102, no. 2 (2008): 181-198.
Lesson 10: How do redistributive Assigned Reading (58) institutions vary across Europe? Iversen, Torben, and Anne Wren. "Equality, employment, and budgetary Lesson Objectives: restraint: the trilemma of the service 1. What are three types of welfare systems economy." World Politics 50, no. 4 defined by Iversen? (1998) 2. Why do democracies take such different 512-519, 534-546 approaches to welfare systems? Iversen, Torben, and David Soskice. 3. What role do voting systems play in "Electoral institutions and the politics determining how much a state of coalitions: Why some democracies redistributes? redistribute more than others." 4. How does ethnic composition effect how American Political Science Review much a state redistributes? 100, no. 2 (2006): 165-181. 1-2 (abstract and intro), table 4 on 173, examine table 5 on 175, read 175 Alesina, Alberto, and Edward Ludwig Glaeser. Fighting poverty in the US and Europe: A world of difference. Oxford University Press, 2004. Chapter 6, “Race and Redistribution” 133-154, 166-181
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Lesson 11: Is there a European Assigned Reading (52) political identity? Alesina, Alberto, Guido Tabellini, and Francesco Trebbi. “Is Europe an Lesson Objectives: optimal political area?” Brookings 1. What are separate, cross-cutting, nested, Papers on Economic Activity, February and blended identities? 2017. 2. What are primordial, sacred, and civic 191-207 identities? 3. Describe the Europeanization of identities Risse, Thomas. A community of in Germany, Spain, France, and Poland. Europeans?: Transnational identities 4. According to Alesina et al, how does the and public spheres. Cornell University cultural diversity of Europe compare to Press, 2015. that of the US. Do these differences 23-36, 63-86 constitute a barrier to federation?
Block 2: International Institutions
Learning Objective: Describe European international institutions and identities and explain their causes and effects.
Lesson 12: What are the origins of Assigned Reading (35)
European integration? Olsen, Jonathan and John McCormick. The European Union: Politics and Lesson Objectives: Policies. Westview, 2017. 1. What was the “German problem” the 1-10, 17-23, 33-49 Allied powers faced after WWII? 2. Who were some of the key leaders of the Kant, Immanuel. Perpetual peace: A integration movement and what did their philosophical sketch. Cambridge: backgrounds have in common? Cambridge University Press, 1970. 3. What was the Schumann Declaration? 71-74 4. Why did the European Defense Community and European Political Community fail? 5. What was the impact of the Suez and Hungarian crises on US-Europe relations and what role did this play in furthering European integration?
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Lesson 13: How was the European Assigned Reading (52) Union created? Olsen, Jonathan and John McCormick. The European Union: Politics and Lesson Objectives: Policies. Westview, 2017. 1. What did the Treaty of Rome accomplish? 53-68, 72-90 2. What was the Single European Act (1986) and what did it do? Drozdiak, William. Fractured 3. What is the Treaty on European Union Continent: Europe's Crises and the (1992) and how did it change the European Fate of the West. WW Norton & Community? Company, 2017. “Brussels,” 73-92 4. Why did the constitutional treaty fail? 5. What is the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (2007) and how did it Suggested: change the EU? Schimmelfennig, Frank. "The 6. What circumstances created the need for community trap: Liberal norms, each round of EU reform? rhetorical action, and the eastern enlargement of the European Union." International Organization 55, no. 1 (2001)
Lesson 14: The European Council Assigned Reading (26) and Commission Olsen, Jonathan and John McCormick. The European Union: Politics and Lesson Objectives: Policies. Westview, 2017. 1. What are the main forms of individual 95-113, 176-184 EU laws? 2. What are summits and conclusions? Video- BBC, “How the European 3. What is the composition of the College of Commission Works” Commissioners? How are they selected? 4. What are the Commission’s main duties? 5. What is infringement procedure and how Video- BBC, “How the European does it work? Council Works”
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Lesson 15: The European Parliament, Assigned Reading (51) Council of Ministers, and Court of Olsen, Jonathan and John McCormick. Justice The European Union: Politics and Policies. Westview, 2017. Lesson Objectives: 116-131, 134-154, 157-173 1. How often do the various councils meet? 2. What is the Committee of Permanent Video- CJEU, “How the Court Representatives (COREPER) and why is it Works” important? 3. What is the ordinary legislative procedure? Video- EU Parliament, “Between 4. How many judges sit on the CJEU and how Party Lines” are the selected? 5. What is the relationship between the CJEU and national courts? Suggested Burley, Anne-Marie, and Walter Mattli. "Europe before the Court: a political theory of legal integration." International organization 47, no. 1 (1993): 58-68
Lesson 16: EU Policymaking: The Assigned Reading (52) Single Market Olsen, Jonathan and John McCormick. The European Union: Politics and Lesson Objectives: Policies. Westview, 2017. 1. Where does the majority of the EU 217-235, 237-245 budget go? 2. How is the EU funded? What are the different sources of its revenue? Look over the EU Commission’s 3. What elements of policy in a “Single Market Scorecard” European country are most heavily influenced by the EU and which and Drozdiak, William. Fractured left to the member states? Continent: Europe's Crises and the 4. How is the Schengen Area different Fate of the West. WW Norton & from the Single Market and how do Company, 2017. they relate to each other? “Berlin,” 1-26
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Lesson 17: EU Policymaking: Assigned Reading (36) Internal Policies Olsen, Jonathan and John McCormick. The European Union: Politics and Lesson Objectives: Policies. Westview, 2017. 1. What is the purpose of cohesion policy? 254-274, 277-293 2. How do EU policies in justice and home affairs affect national law enforcement? 3. What makes the Common Agriculture Policy such a persistent target for reform? 4. Why did it take so long for environmental policy to become prominent in the EU?
Lesson 18: EU Policymaking: The Assigned Reading (50)
Common Foreign and Security Olsen, Jonathan and John McCormick. Policy The European Union: Politics and Policies. Westview, 2017. Lesson Objectives: 296-316 1. What forces drove the creation of the Common Foreign and Security Policy? Sloan, Stanley. Defense of the West. 2. What are the Petersburg Tasks? Manchester University Press, 2016. 3. What are the EU battlegroups? 77-79, 155-173, 238-248 4. What overseas missions has the EU led to date? 5. In what concrete ways does the EU’s Suggested: global economic power translate into Koenig-Archibugi, Mathias. political influence around the world? "Explaining government preferences for institutional change in EU foreign and security policy." International Organization 58, no. 1 (2004): 137-174
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Lesson 19: The Euro and the Assigned Reading (50) European Central Bank Olsen, Jonathan and John McCormick. The European Union: Politics and Lesson Objectives: Policies. Westview, 2017. 1. How is the creation of the euro connected 186-188 to the Bretton Woods agreement (1944)? 2. How does Germany’s trade surplus within Varoufakis, Yanis. And the weak suffer Europe cause problems for the euro? what they must? Europe's crisis and 3. Why could sovereign debt cause problems America's Economic Future. Nation for the euro? Books, 2016. 4. What kind of reforms are needed to ensure 1-26, 58-63 the euro’s viability? Stiglitz, Joseph E. The euro: How a common currency threatens the future of Europe. WW Norton & Company, 2016. 85-97, 118-123
Barbieri and Vallee. “A Fiscal Union for the Eurozone.” Foreign Affairs. Sep. 26, 2017
Lesson 20: Does the EU have a Assigned Reading (38) democratic deficit? Olsen, Jonathan and John McCormick. The European Union: Politics and Lesson Objectives: Policies. Westview, 2017. 1. What are the main arguments regarding the EU’s “democratic deficit?” 231, 196-212 2. How/why is a European civil society developing? Moravcsik, Andrew. "The myth of 3. In what ways are social preferences Europe's' democratic deficit'." translated to the EU institutions? Intereconomics 43, no. 6 (2008) 4. How are EU leaders held accountable to EU 331-340 citizens? 5. Which side of the argument do you find Follesdal and Hix. "Why there is a most persuasive? democratic deficit in the EU." Journal of Common Market Studies 44, no. 3 (2006) 551-557
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Lesson 21: NATO Assigned Reading (52) Sloan, Stanley. Defense of the West: Lesson Objectives: NATO, The European Union and the 1. What were the terms of the “transatlantic transatlantic bargain. Oxford University bargain”? Press, 2016. 2. In what way is NATO different from other 345-349, 3-17, 83-99, 307-326 alliances in world history? 3. What are the arguments on both sides of the Burns, Nicholas and Douglas Lute. “burden sharing” issue? “NATO at Seventy: An Alliance in 4. What fundamental differences continue to Crisis.” Harvard Kennedy School, put stress on the Alliance? 2019. Executive Summary, 1-13
Suggested: Wallander, Celeste A. "Institutional assets and adaptability: NATO after the Cold War." International Organization 54, no. 4 (2000): 705-735.
Schimmelfennig, Frank. "NATO enlargement: A constructivist explanation." Security Studies 8, no. 2-3 (1998): 198-234.
Lesson 22: The European Convention Assigned Reading (28) on Human Rights Moravcsik, Andrew. "The origins of human rights regimes: Democratic Lesson Objectives: delegation in postwar Europe." 1. What is the Council of Europe? International Organization 54, no. 2 2. Why did the CoE create the European Court (2000) of Human Rights? 217-220, 222, 225-229, 233 3. How are the rulings of the Court enforced? 4. Why would states choose to join the Watch: Film on the ECHR jurisdiction of the ECHR?
Skim: Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (1950).
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Learning Objective: Describe the loosening of structural constraints and explain how the behavior of key actors affects the future of European institutions and identities.
Lesson 23: Europe’s Troubled Assigned Reading (48)
Neighborhood: Russia, Turkey, North Drozdiak, William. Fractured Africa Continent: Europe's Crises and the Fate of the West. WW Norton & Company, Lesson Objectives: 2017. 1. What are the tensions between the US, EU, “Europe’s Troubled Neighborhood,” and Turkey? 210-231, “Riga,” 171-189 2. Why wasn’t Turkey allowed into the EU? 3. Why does Mearsheimer argue the Ukraine crisis was provoked by the West? Mearsheimer, John J. "Why the Ukraine 4. What flaws does McFaul see in crisis is the West's fault: the liberal Mearsheimer’s reasoning? delusions that provoked Putin." Foreign Affairs. 93 (2014)
McFaul, Michael and Stephen Sestanovich, "Faulty powers: Who started the Ukraine crisis?" Foreign Affairs. 93 (2014)
Lesson 24: Migration Assigned Reading (30) Hainmueller, Jens, and Daniel J. Lesson Objectives: Hopkins. "Public attitudes toward 1. What major waves of migration affected immigration." Annual Review of Europe in the past? Political Science 17 (2014) 2. What are they main factors driving 225-237 migration to Europe 3. What is the economic impact of migration? 4. Who are the losers? Drozdiak, William. Fractured 5. Why do most economists think that free Continent: Europe's Crises and the Fate trade is overall a good thing? of the West. WW Norton & Company, 2017. “Copenhagen, 152-170” (18)
Suggested: Zolberg, Aristide R., and Long Litt Woon. "Why Islam is like Spanish: cultural incorporation in Europe and the United States." Politics & Society 27, no. 1 (1999): 5-38.
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Lesson 25: Greece and the Euro Assigned Reading (35) Crisis Drozdiak, William. Fractured Continent: Europe's Crises and the Fate Lesson Objectives: of the West. WW Norton & Company, 1. Who are the “troika,” and what policies did 2017. “Athens,” 190-209 they demand Greece accept? 2. In what ways did the European “bail-outs” Varoufakis, Yanis. And the weak suffer of Greece benefit northern European what they must?: Europe's crisis and countries like France and Germany? America's Economic Future. Nation 3. What is Golden Dawn and where did it get Books, 2016. its support? ix-xvii, 198-211
Lesson 26: Populism Assigned Reading (50) Lesson Objectives: Drozdiak, William. Fractured 1. What factors contributed to the rise of the Continent: Europe's Crises and the Fate Law and Justice party in Poland? of the West. WW Norton & Company, 2. How does Law and Justice pose a threat to 2017. “Warsaw,” 132-151 Polish democracy? 3. What is it that makes a political party Golder, Matt. "Explaining variation in “populist” in nature? the success of extreme right parties in 4. During the interwar period, why were Western Europe." Comparative Political Finland and Czechoslovakia able to keep Studies 36, no. 4 (2003) populists out of power while Germany and 338-444, 446, 454-456, 459-462 Italy were not?
Capoccia, Giovanni. "Defending democracy: Reactions to political extremism in inter-war Europe." European Journal of Political Research 39, no. 4 (2001) 431-446, 449-453
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Lesson 27: Brexit Assigned Reading (21) Lesson Objectives: Drozdiak, William. Fractured 1. Who were the key actors behind the Brexit Continent: Europe's Crises and the Fate vote? What incentives did they face? of the West. WW Norton & Company, 2. What economic and cultural forces caused 2017. voters to support the leave campaign? “London,” 27-48 3. What are likely to be the political and economic effects of the Brexit vote? Suggested: 4. What are (were) the negotiating stakes for both the UK and the EU as they work(ed) Inglehart, Ronald, and Pippa Norris. towards a Brexit deal? "Trump, Brexit, and the rise of populism: Economic have-nots and cultural backlash." (2016).
Lesson 28: The US and Europe Assigned Reading (51)
Lesson Objectives: Howorth, Jolyon, and Anand Menon. 1. What is balancing? When do states balance "Still not pushing back: why the and why? European Union is not balancing the 2. How does Howorth respond to the United States." Journal of Conflict argument that EU defense integration is a Resolution 53, no. 5 (2009): form of balancing against the United 727-744. States? 3. Has the election of Donald Trump changed Drozdiak, William. Fractured the trajectory of the transatlantic Continent: Europe's Crises and the Fate partnership? How? of the West. WW Norton & Company, 2017. “Washington DC,” 232-253’
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Lesson 29: Separatism and the Assigned Reading (35) Balkans Gagnon Jr, V. P. "Yugoslavia in 1989 and after." Nationalities Papers 38, no. Lesson Objectives: 1 (2010) 1. What was Yugoslavia like prior to 1989? 23-39 2. Were the ethnic groups in Yugoslavia “inherently incompatible?” Oberschall, Anthony. "The 3. What incentivized conservative in the manipulation of ethnicity: from ethnic Yugoslavia government to emphasize cooperation to violence and war in ethnic grievances and mobilize support Yugoslavia." Ethnic and racial studies along ethnic lines? 23, no. 6 (2000) 4. How did the Dayton Accords attempt to 982-1001 build trust between ethnic groups?
Lesson 30: The Future of Europe and Assigned Reading (26) the West Drozdiak, William. Fractured Continent: Europe's Crises and the Fate Lesson Objectives: of the West. WW Norton & Company, 1. In what way is the EU connected to 2017. American values? “Epilogue: A Post-American Europe,” 2. What possible futures can you imagine for 254-266 the EU? 3. Is political extremism returning to Europe? Suggested: The United States? Wendt, Alexander. "Why a world state is inevitable." European Journal of International Relations 9, no. 4 (2003) 504-530
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