History of Europe and European integrationModule History of European institutions
Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: ELENA GAETANA FARACIExpected Learning Outcomes
The course aims to provide tools for understanding the history and process of European integration from the Second World War to our days. In particular, the mechanisms of operation of the European Union will be analysed, starting from the historical and political origins that led to the creation of the Community institutions. It will deal with the theoretical principles underlying it, the role of the powers, but also the protagonists who have contributed.
Course Structure
Frontal lessons, in-depth seminars and laboratory activities with active involvement of students
Required Prerequisites
Knowledge of historical, political, institutional events of the contemporary age in Europe.
Attendance of Lessons
Recommended, but not mandatory.
Detailed Course Content
The idea of Europe over the centuries.
Europe between the two wars and the birth of the first European movements.
The idea of Europe between the two wars and in the Resistance.
The Manifesto of Ventotene.
The Atlantic Charter and European movements.
The United States and European integration.
The early stages of the Cold War (Marshall Plan, OEEC, Brussels Treaty).
The start of integration on the basis of functionalism (ECSC, CED project).
The relaunch of Europe (Treaties of Rome) and the EEC.
The years of De Gaulle.
Integration in the second half of the sixties: towards the impasse.
The problem of Britain.
The 1969 relaunch and the Hague summit.
The Common Agricultural Policy.
The hairpin bend of the seventies.
The Community of Nine, the creation of the European Monetary System and the direct election of the European Parliament.
From the Single Act to Maastricht.
The reunification of Germany, the European Union and the common currency and the European Central Bank.
Enlargement to the East and the Europe of 25.
From Lisbon to Brexit.
The Mediterranean policy of the European Union and cooperation.
The European institutions.
Textbook Information
1) C. Malandrino, S. Quirico, L’idea di Europa. Storie e prospettive, Carocci, Roma 2020 (from p. 13 to p. 131).
2) L. Rapone, Storia dell’integrazione europea, Carocci, Roma 2015.
3) P.S. Graglia, L’Unione Europea. Perché stare ancora insieme, Il Mulino, Bologna 2022 (from p. 47 to p. 131).
During the lectures, the teacher will provide in-depth materials and handouts, which will also be available on the Studium platform.
| Author | Title | Publisher | Year | ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C. Malandrino, S. Quirico | L’idea di Europa. Storie e prospettive | Carocci | 2020 | 9788829000852 |
| L. Rapone | Storia dell’integrazione europea | Carocci | 2015 | 9788843077809 |
| P. S. Graglia | L’Unione Europea. Perché stare ancora insieme | Il Mulino | 2022 | 9788815295668 |
Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | From the system of nation States to the idea of Europe. | C. Malandrino, S. Quirico, L’idea di Europa. Storie e prospettive, Carocci, Roma 2020 (from p. 13 to p. 131). |
| 2 | European integration and the political-institutional system: from the ECSC to Brexit. | L. Rapone, Storia dell’integrazione europea, Carocci, Roma 2015. |
| 3 | The institutions of the European Union. | P. Graglia, L’Unione Europea. Perché stare ancora insieme. Il Mulino, Bologna 2022, (from p. 47 to p. 173). |