European Integration Theory 2105-PI-M-Z1TIEU
The aim of the course is to familiarize students with the different ways of explanation and theoretical conceptualisation of European integration. Realist theorists discern the roots of European integration in the havoc wreaked in European societies by the II World War, and Europe's particular geopolitical position after 1945. From this perspective the need to oppose the communism during the Cold War contributed to the integration of Western European states. This integration was perceived as a result of power politics. Liberalism takes a more favourable position towards integration. It concentrates on the explanation of cooperation between states. Globalism explains relations between centre and periphery whereas the English School brings in the idea of international society. Our understanding of integration is broadened by dynamically developing constructivism, concentrating on actors' identities and interests.
Early European integration theories, such as functionalism and federalism started to develop already in the interwar period. Federalism assumes the sovereignty of states could be overcome and one European state created. Established in 1960., neofunctionalism is characterised by the aspiration for scientific precision and objectivity through isolating variables and putting forward hypotheses. Liberal intergovernmentalism concentrates on internal decision-making processes, negotiation and coalition formation, importance of relative power and the role of national leaders. From this perspective European integration develops through negotiations taking place at intergovernmental conferences alternating with periods of consolidation. It combines liberal logic of preferences formation with realist mechanism of intergovernmental negotiations where state power plays crucial role.
Until mid-1990, European Studies were dominated by the debate between neofunctionalism and liberal intergovernmentalism, however since that time the division between rationalism and constructivism came to the fore. Institutionalism perceives the role of governments at the initial stages of integration and importance of supranational institutions at further steps. It sees integration as a dynamic, institutionalised and historical process.
Comparative politics perceive European Union as a typical case of a political system with horizontal and vertical division of power. It applies previously developed models of legislative, executive and juridical power transferred from research on political systems of federal states. Multilevel governance perceives the European Union as a particular political system without precedence in history. Doctrines of international law and European law play important role in normative sphere. From the perspective of the discipline of international relations the European Union is a special case of regional cooperation and integration whereas from the point of view of political science it is a unique, separate political system.
The lecture presents premises of international relations and European integration theories. The themes of lectures cover:
1. Taxonomy of international relations theories
2. Realism and its explanation of European integration
3. Liberalism, globalism and the English school and their explanation of European integration
4. Early European integration theories: functionalism, federalism, transactionism, neofunctionalism and its critics
5. Constructivism and its usefulness to the analysis of European integration. Case study: CSDP.
6. New institutionalism (rational choice, historical and sociological)
7. European Union as a political system
8. Multilevel governance, policy networks. What is the European Union?
Classes will be focused on the discssion of main works of European integration theorists in historical perspective. Subject metter of particular classes cover:
1. Introduction, review of the structure of the course, division of presentations
2. Early European integration theories: functionalism, federalism, transactionism
3. Neofunctionalism, critics from intergovernmental perspective
4. Integration through law, liberal intergovernmentalism
5. New institutionalism (rational choice, historical and social)
6. Political theories of European integration, multilevel governance, policy networks
7. Constructivism in the explanation of European integration
8. Summary. Future of European studies
Type of course
Mode
Prerequisites (description)
Learning outcomes
After the course student:
• has broad knowledge concerning theories of European integration
• knows and can properly use theoretical concepts of European studies
• is able to interpret, in theoretical terms, processes within the European Union
• can prepare and present a presentation on the subject of a scientific article and write a short scientific essay on a subject concerning European integration theory.
Assessment criteria
Classes:
• preparation to classes and active participation in discussions on prescribed readings
• presentation on a chosen scientific article
• synthetic note (or presentation) on a presented scientific article
• semester work in a form of 4-5 pages scientific essay
Lecture
• oral examination
Bibliography
Compulsory readinig for lecture:
Paweł Janusz Borkowski, Polityczne teorie integracji międzynarodowej, Difin, Warszawa 2007,
Janusz Ruszkowski, Wstęp do studiów europejskich, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa 2007,
Jacek Czaputowicz, Teorie stosunków międzynarodowych. Krytyka i systematyzacja, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa 2008,
Jacek Czaputowicz, The English School of International Relations and Its Approach to European Integration, Studies & Analyses vol. II, no. 2 (2003), s. 3-55, via internet,
Jacek Czaputowicz, Bezpieczeństwo międzynarodowe. Współczesne koncepcje, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa 2012, pp. 65-70, 131-133, 150-153, 174-179.
Supplementary readings for lecture:
Ben Rosamond, Theories of European Integration, London 2000,
Antje Wiener, Thomas Diez (red.), European Integration Theory, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2009.
Literature for classes:
1. Introduction, review of the structure of the course, division of presentations
2. Early European integration theories: functionalism, federalism, transactionism
Compulsory readings
Altiero Spinelli, Ernesto Rossi, For a Free and United Europe. A Draft Manifesto,
David Mitrany, A Working Peace System: An Argument of for the Functional Development of International Organization,
Karl W. Deutsch et al., Political Community and the North Atlantic Area, International Organization in the Light of Historical Experience,
w: Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, Debates on European Integration. A Reader, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp. 17-86.
Supplementary readings
Richard N., Coudenhove –Kalergi, Pan-Europe, Knopf, New York 1926,
Amatrai Etzioni, Political Unification. A Comparative Study of Leaders and Forces, Holt, Rinehart, Winston, New York 1965,
Arend Lijphart, Consociation and Federation. Conceptual and Empirical Links, Canadian Journal of Political Science vol. 12, no. 3 (September 1979),
Wiesław Bokajło, Teorie i rozwój federalizmu – pojęcia i zasady, w: Wiesław Bokajło, Federalizm. Teorie i koncepcje, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, Wrocław 1998, pp. 25-143.
3. Neofunctionalism and its critics
Compulsory readings
Ernst B. Haas, The Uniting of Europe. Political, Social and Economic Forcess, 1950-1957,
Leon N. Lindberg, The Political Dynamics of European Economic Integration,
Stanley Hoffmann, Obstinate or Obsolete? The Fate of the Nation-State,
Roger D. Hansen, Regional Integration: Reflections on a Decade of Theoretical Efforts,
w: Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, Debates on European Integration. A Reader, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp. 89-178.
Supplementary readings
Paul Taylor, The Functionalist Approach to the Problem of International Order: a Defense, Political Studies vol. 16 no. 3 (1968),
Philippe C. Schmitter, Three Neo-Functional Hypotheses about European Integration, International Organization vol. 23 no. 1, (1969),
Bela Balasa, The Theory of Economic Integration: An Introduction, w: Nelsen F. Brendt, Stubb Alexander, The European Union, Readings on the Theory and Practice of European Integration, Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder London 2003, pp. 179-191,
Janusz Ruszkowski, Ponadnarodowość w systemie politycznym Unii Europejskiej, Wolters Kluwer, Warszawa 2010, pp. 27-95.
P. Cocks, Towards Marxist Theory of European Integration, International Organization vol. 34, no. 1 (1980),
4. Integration through law
Compulsory readings
Wayne Sandholtz, John Zysman, 1992: Recasting the European Bargain,
Anne-Marie Burley, Walter Mattli, Europe Before the Court: A Political Theory of Legal Integration,
Geoffrey Garrett, The Politics of Legal Integration in the European Union,
w: Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, Debates on European Integration. A Reader, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp. 181-263.
Supplementary readings
Franciszek Strzyczkowski, Teorie integracji europejskiej w doktrynie amerykańskiej, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa 2012, pp. 127-212, 213-270,
Wolfgang Wessels, An Ever Closer Fusion? A Dynamic Macropolitical View on Integration Processes, Journal of Common Market Studies vol. 35, no. 2 (June 1997).
Mark A. Pollack, Theorizing the European Union: International Organization, Domestic Polity, or Experiment in New Governance?, Annual Review of Political Science vol. 8, 2005, pp. 357-398,
Joseph H.H. Weiler, Federalism and Constitutionalism: Europe’s Sonderweg, Harvard Jean Monet Working Paper 2000, no. 10,
5. Lliberal intergovernmentalism
Compulsory readings
Andrew Moravcsik, Preferences and Power in the European Community. A Liberal Intergovernmentalist Approach,
w: Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, Debates on European Integration. A Reader, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp. 264-303,
Robert D. Putnam, Diplomacy and Domestic Politics: the Logic of Two-Level Games, International Organisatiin vol. 42, no. 3, 1988, pp. 427-460.
Supplementary readings
Alan S. Milward, The European Rescue of Nation State, London 1992, Routledge, pp. 1-45,
Joseph M. Grieco, The Maastricht Treaty, Economic and Monetary Union and the Neo-realist Research Programme, „Review of International Studies” vol. 21, no. 1 (1995), pp. 21–40,
Sergiusz Trzeciak, Gra o Europę. Negocjacje akcesyjne Polski z Unia Europejską, Polski instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych, Warszawa 2010, pp. 15-65, 235-252,
Puchala Donald J., Of Blind Men, Elephants, and International Integration, Journal of Common Market Studies”, no. 3 (1972) ,
William Wallace, Less than a Federation, More than a Regime: The Community as a Political System, w: Helen Wallace, William Wallace, Carol Webb (red.), Policy-Making in the European Community, London 1983, John Wiley&Sons Ltd., pp. 403-436.
6. New institutionalism (rational choice, historical and sociological)
Compulsory readings
Geoffrey Garrett, George Tsebelis, An Institutional Critique of Intergovernmentalism, International Organisation vol. 50, no. 2 (1996), pp. 269-299,
Paul Pierson, The Path to European Integration. A Historical-Institutionalist Analysis,
w: Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, Debates on European Integration. A Reader, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp. 304-324,
Supplementary readings
Simon J. Bulmer, The Governance of the European Union: A New Institutionalist Approach, Journal of Public Policy vol. 13 no. 4 (1994),
Mark A. Pollack, Delegation, Agency and Agenda-Setting in the European Community, International Organization vol. 52 no. 1 (1997), pp. 99-134,
James G. March, Johan P. Olsen, The New Institutionalism: Organizational Factors in Political Life, American Political Science Review vol. 78 (1984),
Tomasz Grzegorz Grosse, U objęciach europeizacji. Wybrane przykłady z Europy Środkowej i Wschodniej, ISP PAN, Warszawa 2012, pp. 7-124.
James G. March, Johan P. Olsen, Instytucje. Organizacyjne podstawy polityki, Warszawa 2005,
Franciszek Strzyczkowski, Teorie integracji europejskiej w doktrynie amerykańskiej, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa 2012, s. 271-311, 312-367.
7. Multilevel governance, policy networks
Compulsory readings
Simon Hix, Study of the European Union II. The ‘New Governance’ Agenda and its Rival,
Garry Marks, Liesbet Hooghe, Kermit Blank, European Integration from the 1980s. State-Centric v. Multi-level Governance,
Giandomenico Majone, The Rise of the Regulatory State in Europe,
w: Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, Debates on European Integration. A Reader, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp. 327-390,
Supplementary readings
Marcus Jachtenfuchs, Theoretical Approaches to European Governance, European Law Journal vol. 1 no. 2 (1995),
Alec Stone-Sweet, Wayne Sandholtz, European Integration and Supranational Governance, Journal of European Public Policy vol. 4, no. 3,
Alberta Sbragia, Thinking about the European Union. The Uses of Comparison, w: Sbragia Alberta (red.), Euro-politics: Institutions and Policymaking in the New European Community, The Brooking Institution, 1992,
Thomas Risse-Kappen, Explaining the Nature of the Beast: International Relations and Comparative Policy Analysis Meet the EU, Journal of Common Market Studies vol. 34, no. 1 (1996),
Krzysztof Szczerski, Dynamika systemu europejskiego, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Kraków 2008.
8. Constructivism and reflectivism in explanation of European integration
Compulsory readings
Jeffrey T. Checkel, Social Construction and Integration,
Thomas Diez, Speaking ‘Europe’, The Politics of Integrations Discourse,
Ernst Haas, Does constructivism Subsume Neofunctionalism
w: Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, Debates on European Integration. A Reader, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp. 393-446,
Supplementary readings
Thomas Risse, „Let’s Argue!” Communicative Action and world Politics, International Organization vol. 54, no. 1 (2000),
Joseph Jupille, James A. Caporaso, Jeffrey T. Checkel, Integrating Institutions: Rationalism, Constructivism, and the Study of the European Union, Comparative Political Studies vol. 36, no. 1–2 (2003),
Jacek Sroka, Deliberacja i rządzenie wielopasmowe. Teoria i praktyka, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytety Wrocławskiego, Wrocław 2009,
Peter van Ham, European integration. Postmodern Condition. Governance, Democracy, Identity, Routledge 2000, pp. 1-27, 91-123.
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