This course probes the EU as an experiment in global governance. The emphasis will be on the debate about European identity – especially vis-a-vis migrants, Islam, cultural and sexual minorities – and on the question of democracy in a multi-level system of governance.
Drawing on literatures from multiple disciplines, w e will review the emergence of the idea of Europe and of European identity in an international context, probe different facets of an emerging European society and culture, and interrogate experiments in European governance and their lessons for global governance. Topics covered include the emergence of Europe as an idea and identity, EU enlargement and the Europeanization of Eastern Europe, the impact of migrants on European society, the creation of a European Islam, the treatment of sexual and racial minorities in Europe, the creation of a society of Europeans, the integration and structuring of a new market, the role of language diversity, the scaling up and down of state authority, the problem of supra-national democracy, governmentality of the European Union, and the projection of European values into the world.
Course Outline:
February 23 – Introduction: Globalization and Europe
Recommended:
Antje Wiener and Thomas Diez, eds. European Integration Theory. Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press, 2nd ed. 2009.
WHAT IS EUROPE?
March 2 – Europe: Idea and Project
DRAFT RESEARCH PROPOSAL DUE
Anthony Pagden, Europe: Conceptualizing a Continent. Chapter 1 in A. Pagden ed. The Idea of Europe: From Antiquity to the European Union. Cambridge, 2002.
Bianacamaria Fontana, The Napoleonic Empire and the Europe of Nations. Chapter 5 in A. Pagden ed. The Idea of Europe.
James Tully, The Kantian Idea of Europe: Critical and Cosmopolitan Perspectives. Chapter 15 in A. Pagden ed. The Idea of Europe.
Neil Fligstein, Euroclash: The EU, European Identity, and the Future of Europe. Oxford University Press, 2008, chapter 2.
Recommended:
Fligstein, Euroclash, chapter 1.
Craig Parsons, A Certain Idea of Europe. Ithaca: CornellUniversity Press, 2003.
Luisa Passerini, From Ironies of Identity to the Identities of Irony. In A. Pagden, ed. The Idea of Europe: From Antiquity to the European Union. Cambridge, 2002.
March 9 – External Others
Iver B. Neumann, Making Europe: The Turkish Other. In I.B. Neumann, Uses of the Other: ‘The East’ in European Identity Formation. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999, pp. 39-63.
Holly Case, Being European: East and West. In Jeffrey T. Checkel and Peter J. Katzenstein, eds., European Identity. CambridgeUniversity Press, 2009.
Katarina Z.S. Schwartz, “Masters in Our Native Place”: The Politics of Latvian National Parks on the Road from Communism to “Europe.” Political Geography 25, 1 (January 2006): 42-71.
Recommended:
David D. Laitin, Culture and National Identity: ‘The East’ and European Integration. West European Politics 25, 2 (April 2002): 56-80.
Dieter Fuchs and Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Eastward Enlargement of the European Union and the Identity of Europe. West European Politics 25, 2: 19-54.
Dubravka Ugresic, Nice People Don’t Mention Such Things. European Journal of Women’s Studies 1998, 5: 297.
Gerard Delanty, Inventing Europe: Idea, Identity, Reality. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995.
Gerard Delanty Europe Becoming: The Civilisational Consequences of Enlargement. In Ralf Rogowski and Charles Turner, eds., The Shape of the New Europe. CambridgeUniversity Press, 2006.
Merje Kuus, Geopolitics Reframed: Security and Identity in Europe’s Eastern Enlargement. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
March 16 – Internal Others: Migrants
Douglas R. Holmes, Experimental Identities (after Maastricht). In Jeffrey T. Checkel and Peter J. Katzenstein, eds. European Identity. CambridgeUniversity Press, 2009.
Christian Joppke, Transformation of Immigrant Integration: Civic Integration and Antidiscrimination in The Netherlands, France, and Germany. World Politics 59, 2 (January 2007): 243-273.
Didier Bigo, Security and Immigration: Toward a Critique of the Governmentality of Unease. Alternatives 27 (2002): 63-92.
Recommended:
Adrian Favell, Immigration, Migration, and Free Movement in the Making of Europe. In Jeffrey T. Checkel and Peter J. Katzenstein, European Identity. CambridgeUniversity Press, 2009.
Martin Schain, The Success and Failure of Integration Policy in France and Britain: Convergence of Policy and Divergence of Results. In Elisabeth Prügl and Markus Thiel, eds. Diversity and European Integration, pp. 39 – 58. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Willem Maas, Migrants, States, and EU Citizenship’s Unfulfilled Promise. Citizenship Studies 12, 6 (December 2008): 583-596.
William Walters and Jens Henrik Haahr, In/Secure Community. Chapter 5 in Governing Europe: Discourse, Governmentality and European Integration. New York: Routledge, 2005
March 23 – European Islam
Bassam Tibi, Europeanizing Islam or the Islamization of Europe. In Timothy A. Byrnes Peter J. Katzenstein, eds. Religion in an Expanding Europe. (Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press, 2006).
Jytte Klausen, Europe’s Muslim Political Elite: Walking a Tightrope. World Policy Journal 22, 3 (Fall 2005): 61 (8).
Kathleen Cavenaugh, Islam and the European Project. Muslim World Journal of Human Rights 4, 1 (September 2007): 1112.
Christian Joppke, Veil: Mirror of Identity. Polity Press, 2009, chapters 1 and 5.
Recommended:
Talal Asad, Muslims and European Identity: Can Europe Represent Islam? In A. Pagden, ed. The Idea of Europe: From Antiquity to the European Union. Cambridge, 2002.
Tariq Modood, Multiculturalism, Muslims, and Citizenship. Routledge 2006.
AlSayyad, Nezar and Manuel Castells, eds. Muslim Europe or Euro-Islam: Politics, Culture, and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books,2002.
Jonathan Laurence and Justin Vaisse, Integrating Islam: Political and Religious Challenges in Contemporary France. Washington, DC: Brookings, 2006. (also in French: Intégrer L’Islam – La France et ses musulmans: Enjeux et réussites.
Jytte Klausen, The Islamic Challenge: Politics and Religion in Western Europe. OxfordUniv. Press, 2005.
Aziz Al-Azmeh and Effie Fokas, Islam in Europe: Diversity, Identity, and Influence. CambridgeUniversity Press, 2007.
Joan W. Scott. The Politics of the Veil. PrincetonUniversity Press, 2007.
March 30 – Internal Others: Sexual and Racial Minorities
Conor O’Dwyer and Katrina Z.S. Schwartz, Return to (Illiberal) Diversity? Resisting Gay Rights in Poland and Lativia. In Elisabeth Prügl and Markus Thiel, eds. Diversity and European Integration, pp. 115-134. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Gabriel N. Toggenburg, Diversity Before the European Court of Justice: The Case of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights. In Prügl and Thiel, pp. 135-154.
Dovile Budryte and Vilana Pilinkaite-Sotirovic, European Norms, Local Interpretations: Minority Rights Issues and Related Discourses in Lithuania after EU Expansion. In Prügl and Thiel, pp. 221-236.
Recommended:
European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, Homophobia and Discrimination on Grounds of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the EU Member States: Part II – The Social Situation. Vienna: European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, 2009. http://fra.europa.eu/fraWebsite/attachments/FRA_hdgso_report_Part%202_en.pdf.
Simhandl, Katrin, “Western Gypsies and Travellers” – “Eastern Roma”; The Creation of Political Objects by the Institutions of the European Union. Nations and Nationalism 12, 1 (January 2006): 97-115
April 6 – Easter Vacation
A NEW EUROPEAN ECONOMY, SOCIETY AND CULTURE
April 13 – European Economy
Fligstein, Euroclash, chapters 3-4.
Adrian Smith, Power Relations, Industrial Clusters and Regional Transformations: Pan-European Integration and Outward Processing the in Slovak Clothing Industry. Economic Geography 79, 1 (January 2003): 17 (24).
Linda McCarthy, European Economic Integration and Urban Inequalities in Western Europe. Environment and Planning A (March 2000): 391 (20).
Recommended:
William Walters and Jens Henrik Haahr, Benchmarking Europe, Chapter 3 in W. Walters and J.H. Haahr, Governing Europe: Discourse, Governmentality and European Integration. New York: Routledge, 2005
Guntra A. Aistara, Maps from Space: Latvian Organic Farmers Negotiate their Place in the European Union. Sociologia Ruralis 49, 2 (April 2009).
April 20 – European Society
Fligstein, Euroclash, chapters 5-6.
Recommended:
Colin H. Williams, Let Freedom Reign: The Impress of EU Integration on Minority Survival. In Elisabeth Prügl and Markus Thiel, eds. Diversity and European Integration, pp. 185-204. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Elaine Weiner, Eastern Houses, Western Bricks? (Re)Constructing Gender Sensibilities in the European Union’s Eastward Enlargement. Social Politics 16, 3 (2009): 303.
Sylvia Walby, The European Union and Gender Equality: Emergent Varieties of Gender Regime. Social Politics 11, 1 (Spring 2004): 4-29.
April 27 – European Polity
Fligstein, Euroclash, chapters 7-8
Juan Díez Medrano, The Public Sphere and the European Union’s Political Identity. In Checkel and Katzenstein, European Identity.
Daniel C. Thomas, Constitutionalization through Enlargement: The Contested Origins of the EU’s Democratic Identity. Journal of European Public Policy 13, 8 (December 2006): 1190-1210.
Recommended:
Mark A. Pollack, Theorizing the European Union: International Organization, Domestic Polity, or Experiment in New Governance? Annual Review of Political Science 8 (2005): 357-98.
GOVERNING EUROPE
May 4 – Democratic Deficits
James A. Caporaso, Dilemmas of Democracy in the European Union. In J.A. Caporaso, The European Union: Dilemmas of Regional Integration, pp. 42-84 Boulder: Westview, 2000.
Jürgen Habermas, Why Europe Needs a Constitution. In Ralf Rogowski and Charles Turner, eds., The Shape of the New Europe.
Philippe Schmitter, Why Constitutionalise the European Union? In Rogowski and Turner.
Dario Castiglione, Political Identity in a Community of Strangers. In Jeffrey T. Checkel and Peter J. Katzenstein, eds., European Identity.
Andrew Moravcsik, Reassessing Legitimacy in the European Union. Journal of Common Market Studies 40 (2002): 603-624.
Recommended:
Michael Th. Greven and Louis W. Pauly, eds. Democracy Beyond the State? The European Dilemma and the Emerging Global Order. Rowman and Littlefield, 2000.
Kraus, Peter A. 2008. A Union in Diversity: Language, Identity and Polity-Building in Europe. Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press.
William Walters and Jens Henrik Haahr, Of Democratic Deficits. Chapter 4 of W. Walters and J.H. Haahr, Governing Europe: Discourse, Governmentality and European Integration. New York: Routledge, 2005.
May 11 – Research Week
May 18 – A Postmodern State?
Caporaso, James A. (1996) The European Union and Forms of State: Westphalian, Regulatory or Post-Modern? Journal of Common Market Studies 34, 1 (March): 29-52.
Neil Brenner, Metropolitan Institutional Reform and the Rescaling of State Space in Contemporary Western Europe. European Urban and Regional Studies 10, 4 (2003): 297-324.
Philippe Schmitter, Imagining the Future of the Euro-Polity with the Help of New Concepts. In Gary Marks et al., Governance in the European Union, pp. 121-150. London: Sage Publications.
Recommended:
Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks, Multi-level Governance and European Integration. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000.
Gary Marks, Fritz W. Scharpf, Phillippe C. Schmitter, and Wolfgang Streeck, Governance in the European Union. London: Sage Publications, 1996.
William Walters and Jens Henrik Haahr, Benchmarking Europe, Chapters 1, 2, 6 in W. Walters and J.H. Haahr, Governing Europe: Discourse, Governmentality and European Integration. New York: Routledge, 2005
May 25 – Sub-nation and the European State
David D. Laitin, The Cultural Identities of a European State. Politics and Society 25, 3 (September 1997): 277-302.
Will Kymlicka, The Evolving Basis of European Norms of Minority Rights: Rights to Culture, Participation and Autonomy. In John McGarry and Michael Keating, eds., European Integration and the Nationalities Question. London and New York: Routledge, 2006.
Michael Keating, Nations Without States: The Accommodation of Nationalism in the New State Order. In Michael Keating and John McGarry, eds., Minority Nationalism and the Changing International Order. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Recommended:
Jürg Steiner, Switzerland in the European Union: A Puzzle. In Michael Keating and John McGarry, eds., Minority Nationalism and the Changing International Order. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Michael Keating, Europe, the State, and the Nation. In John McGarry and Michael Keating, eds., European Integration and the Nationalities Question. London and New York: Routledge, 2006.
Lavinia Bucsa, European Integration and Ethnic Mobilization in Newly Admitted Countries: The Case of the Hungarian Minority in Romania. In Elisabeth Prügl and Markus Thiel, eds. Diversity and European Integration, pp. 205-220. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
June 1 – Projecting European Values
Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida, Europe: Plea for a Common Foreign Policy. In Daniel Levy, Max Pensky, and John Torpey, eds., Old Europe, New Europe, Core Europe. Transatlantic Relations after the Iraq War. London: Verso, 2005.
Ian Manners, Normative Power Europe Reconsidered: Beyond the Crossroads. Journal of European Public Policy 13, 2 (2006): 182-199.
Jean-Cristophe Maur, Exporting Europe’s Trade Policy. The World Economy 28, 11 (November 2005).
Recommended:
Aggarwal, Vinod K. and Edward A. Fogarty, eds. EU Trade Strategies: Between Regionalism and Globalization. Palgrave, 2004.
Stephanie B. Anderson, Crafting EU Security Policy: In Pursuit of a European Identity. Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008.
