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Jean Monnet Module “Going Global: the History of EC/EU External Relations 1947-2004 / GOGLOB”

prof.ssa Sara Lorenzini a.y. 2015/2016

Textbook: Mark Gilbert, European Integration. A Concise History, 2012 (Italian Version: Mark Gilbert, Storia Politica dell'Integrazione Europea, 2008)

Suggested reading in preparation of the Archival seminar: Antonio Varsori and Guia Migani, in the International Arena during the 1970s. Entering a different world, Peter Lang, 2011.

Week 1 (22-23 February) – A History of Europe: Ideas, origins and historiography

Readings: • L. Kühardt, “European Integration: Success through Crises”, in L. Kühnhardt (ed.), Crises in European integration: Challenges and Responses, 1945-2005, Berghan, New York and Oxford, 2008, pp.1-18 • M. Gilbert, Narrating the Process: Questioning the Progressive Story of European Integration, JCMS, 46/3, pp.641-662

Week 2 (29 February - 1 March) – European Saints and European Villains – Early crises

Readings: • S. Lorenzini, “L'impegno di De Gasperi per un'Europa unita”, in Eckart Conze, Paolo Pombeni, Gustavo Corni, Alcide De Gasperi: un percorso europeo, Bologna, il Mulino, 2006, pp. 195- 230 • A. Milward, “The Lives and Teaching of the European Saints”, in A. Milward, The European Rescue of the Nation , Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1992, p. 318-344 • A. Moravcsik, “De Gaulle between Grain and Grandeur: the Political Economy of French EC Policy, 1958-1970 (Part I), Journal of Studies, vol.2, N.2 (2000), pp.3-43 • A. Moravcsik, “De Gaulle between Grain and Grandeur: the Political Economy of French EC Policy, 1958-1970 (Part II), Journal of Cold War Studies, vol.2, N.3 (2000), pp.117-142

Week 3 (7-8 March) – The Hague Summit and the Crisis of the Seventies Readings:  J. Van Der Harst, “The 1969 Hague Summit: a New Start for Europe?”, Journal of European Integration History, Vol.9 / Issue 2 (2003), pp. 5-10  N. P. Ludlow, “An Opportunity or a Threat? The European Commission and The Hague Council of December 1969”, Journal of European Integration History, Vol.9 / Issue 2 (2003) pp. 11-27

 H. Marhold, "How to tell the history of European integration in the Seventies. A survey of the literature and some proposals", in L'Europe en Formation, 3 (2009), pp.13-38.  D. Basosi, “The US, and a Changing Monetary System, 1969-1979”, in A. Varsori, G. Migani, Europe in the International Arena during the Seventies. Entering a different World, Bruxelles, PeterLang, 2011, pp. 99-116.  Ch. Maier, “Malaise”: The Crisis of in the 1970s”, in Ch. Maier, D. Sargent, N. Ferguson, E. Manela, The Shock of the Global. The 1970s in Perspective, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2011.

Week 4 (14-15 March) – The EC and the Mediterranean: the challenges of and the transition to democracy in .

Readings  E. Grilli, The European Community and the Developing Countries, Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp.1-49.  V. Dimier, The invention of a European development aid bureaucracy : recycling empire Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, pp.80-115.  M. Rempe, «Decolonization by Europeanization? The Early EEC and the Transformation of French-African Relations», KFG Working Paper, 27, 2011.  On Political crisis and democratic transition in Southern Europe: Journal of European Integration History, Vol.15, 2009, pp. 1 – 196; http://www.eu- historians.eu/uploads/Dateien/jeih-29(1).pdf  E. Karamouzi, Telling the Whole Story. America, the EEC and , 1974-1976, in Varsori-Migani, Europe in the International Arena in the 1970s, p.355-374.

Week 5 (21 - 22 March) – Financial and Economic Crises: the European Monetary System, the and its predicaments. Francesco Nicoli

Readings:  Schirm, Stefan (2002) "Globalization and the New Regionalism", Cambridge Polity Press 2002., chapter 3  Mongelli, Francesco Paolo (2008) European Economic integration and the Optimum currency area theory, European Economy, pp 9-17. facoltativo da pp. 19 p 28 (http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/publications/publication12081_en.pdf).  On the : Journal of European Integration History 1/2013, Volume 19, pp. 1-28 e 67-105  E. Mourlon-Druol (2014) “Don’t Blame the Euro: Historical Reflections on the Roots of the Crisis”, West European Politics, 37/6 (2014), pp. 1282-1296. additional readings (elective)

 Crum Ben (2013) "saving the Euro at the cost of democracy?", JCMS, Vol. 51 Issue 4 (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jcms.12019/abstract).  Risse Thomas (2014) "no demos? identity and public spheres in the Eurocrisis", JCMS, Vol 52 Issue 6 (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jcms.12189/abstract)

Week 6 (31 March - 1 April) – The EC/EU as a global player: and .

1) The Seventies and the crisis in Transatlantic Relations. Umberto Tulli Readings:  G. Lundestad, “Empire by Invitation? The United States and Western Europe, 1945-1952”, Journal of Peace Research, Vol.3 No.3 (Sept. 1986), pp. 263-277  Th. A. Schwartz, M. Schultz, “Epilogue: The Superpower and the Union in the Making, U.S. European Relations, 1969-1980” in Id., The Strained Alliance. U.S. – European Relations from Nixon to Carter, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp. 355-376

2) The EC/EU and the challenges in Eastern Europe. Simone Attilio Bellezza Readings: • M.A. Vachudova, “Democratization in Postcommunist Europe. Illiberal Regimes and the Leverage of the ”, in Valerie Bunce, Michael McFaul, Kathryn Stoner-Weiss (eds.), Democracy and Authoritarianism in the Postcommunist World, Cambridge UP, Cambridge 2010, pp. 82-104 • A. Romano, “Untying the Cold War Knots: the EEC and Eastern Europe in the long 1970s”, in Cold War History, Vol.14, N. 2 (2014), pp. 153-173 • C. Schweizer, “, Variable Geometry and the Enlarged European Union”, Europe-Asia Studies, vol. 66 n. 3 (May 2014), pp. 394-420 • Özgür Ünal Eriş, “European Neighborhood Policy as a tool for stabilizing Europe's Neighborhood”, in Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, vol. 12 n. 2 (June 2012), pp. 243-260

April: Research Seminar at the Historical Archives of the European Union (7-8 April)

One introductory lecture by the Director of the Archives of the European Union, Dieter Schlenker, right before

16 – 17 May: final workshop and discussion of students’ papers