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§ 7 (1) 5. a. VO European Integration I: Theories and Politics in Global Contexts (2 / 3.5)

Students are able to reconstruct, analyze and evaluate theoretical models and conceptual proposals concerning EU integration in order to promote an understanding of integration and cooperation processes. They know and are able to characterize the features of the political system of the EU, including inter-institutional negotiation and decision-making processes, functional specialization, the embedding of the EU in international contexts such as the WTO and the UN, and cooperation between the EU and other states and international organizations.

Lecture on the theoretical conceptualization of EU integration and the application with regard to the institutional, inter-institutional and functional scope of EU integration. The focus of this lecture is the discussion and analysis of traditional and recent EU integration theories. The theory models and their explanatory power are analysed with regard to the genesis and transformation of European primary, secondary and tertiary/soft law, criteria of democratic, efficient, effective and transparent policymaking as well as policy-specific questions on the functional scope and density of European integration in the context of increasing socio-economic integration of the EU with other regions of the international community. The focus will therefore be on examples of European trade policy, the foreign policy dimensions of the single market policies and economic and monetary union, development and economic cooperation policies and the common foreign and security policy. Particular attention is paid to the justification, reform, structures and procedures of cross-level decision-making and control institutions.

lecture

Written examination

Bieling/Lerch (Hrsg.): Theorien der europäischen Integration, Wiesbaden 2012

Sieglinde Gstöhl / Dirk de Bièvre: The Trade policy of the European Union, London, Palgrave 2018

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