Regieren als komplexer Prozess im Mehrebenensystem: European Union Politics - Einzelansicht

The course will be a mixture of synchronous and asynchronous sequences. There will be some video conferencing, but also short recorded lectures by me, podcasts and webinars, texts to read and work on in groups and breakout rooms, a little quiz here and there, and exchanges in a discussion board. Overall, there are three moodle-courses prepared for you: a virtual EU-library, a virtual EU-explainers walking gallery and a Duisburg 2WW excursion. You will get access to them during the first day of encounter (3.11.2020). Also we will have guest joining us virtually for some of the topics on our agenda. 

Our sessions are scheduled for the following dates 14-18h: 3.11., 10.11., 17.11., 8.12., 15.12., 22.12. and 9.2.2021

Please take note that on 28.1. we will organise the final of "NRW debattiert Europa" here on campus in Duisburg. More infos to be found here: www.nrwdebattierteuropa.eu 

In parallel the Jean Monnet chair organises regular evening events which you might want to find more about here: https://www.uni-due.de/politik/kaeding/termine_20.php 

Also feel free to join us for the IfP@UDE brown bag session (Mittagsforum/Institutskolloquium) for learning about ongoing research at the Institute: https://www.uni-due.de/imperia/md/content/politik/mittagsforum_08_20.pdf   

No single book is exactly coterminous with the syllabus. But the following are useful background readings recommended for the preparation of the seminar:

- Best, E. (2016) Understanding EU Decision-Making, Wiesbaden: Springer

- Hix, S. and B. Hoyland (2011) The political system of the European Union, London: Palgrave

- Kaeding, M., J. Pollack and P. Schmidt (2018) The Future of Europe. Views from the Capitals, eds., London: Palgrave Macmillan.

- von Dermot, Hodson and John Peterson (2017) (eds.) The Institutions of the European Union, Oxford: Oxford University Press

Class discussion will be more interesting if we are all up-to-date on EU current events. In addition to the coverage in international and national newspapers, you might also find www.euractive.com and http://euobserver.com/ helpful.

The European Union’s existence and development impacts the German political system considerably and therefore raises many empirical and theoretical questions. The objective of this class is to explain the evolution of the EU institutions, to gain a deeper theoretical and first-hand practical understanding of what the EU is and does, to investigate the relationship between the different EU institutions and its member states, and to examine how studying the EU can contribute to the study of political systems and governance structures more generally and the political system of Germany in particular.

The course will confront students with the latest academic findings in the field of EU governance (EU institutions, Euroscepticism, European elections 2019, Future of Europe etc.).

At the end of this course you will have gained an overview of the current public and scholarly social scientific and normative debates about European Union politics and a solid understanding of how EU institutions work and how to work with them in practice. 

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