EVS103 EC/EU Enlargement

Faculty of Social Studies
Autumn 2013
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 7 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Zdeněk Sychra, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Pavel Dvořák, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Petra Kuchyňková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Ondřej Mocek, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Markéta Pitrová, Ph.D.
Department of International Relations and European Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Olga Cídlová, DiS.
Supplier department: Department of International Relations and European Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Timetable
Tue 12:00–13:30 exP52
  • Timetable of Seminar Groups:
EVS103/1: Tue 29. 10. to Fri 20. 12. Tue 12:55–13:40 exP52, Z. Sychra
EVS103/2: Tue 29. 10. to Fri 20. 12. Tue 12:55–13:40 U43, P. Kuchyňková
EVS103/3: Tue 29. 10. to Fri 20. 12. Tue 12:55–13:40 U53, O. Mocek
EVS103/4: Tue 29. 10. to Fri 20. 12. Tue 12:55–13:40 AVC, P. Dvořák
Prerequisites
EVS104 European Integration
The course is meant to be a follow up course within the field of european studies. It further develops previous courses - European integration and Institutions of the EU – works with information and knowledge acquired in courses mentioned above.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The objective of this course is to analyze enlargement process and compare single rounds of the EC/EU enlargement in context of deepening of the European integration process. Students will be understand to individual phases of EC/EU enlargement: Western Enlargement (1973), first Southern Enlargement (1981), second Southern Enlargement (1986), Northern Enlargement (1995), first Eastern Enlargement (2004) and second Eastern Enlargement (2007), their development, political influence, specifics of accessing countries, course of accession negotiations, relation of supranational and national level, characteristic of relations between candidates and institutions of the Community, strategies and tools of an enlargement process. The course focuses on situation at the level of the Community as well as inside single member states and candidate countries and covers a fairly broad period of time. Attention is primarily payed to relevant events of single enlargement rounds. Students will be able apply previous knowledges about European integraton to intergovermental agenda of access negotiations.
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction to the study. Principles and methods of an enlargement process.
  • 2. The Western Enlargement: Great Britain, Ireland, Denmark, (Norway).
  • 3. The Southern Enlargement: Greece.
  • 4. The Southern Enlargement : Spain, Portugal.
  • 5. In-term exam I. Changes after 1993, the Northern Enlargement : Austria, Finland, Sweden, (Norway).
  • 6. The Northern Enlargement – second part.
  • 7. Strategies and instruments of the Eastern Enlargement, theory of an enlargement process.
  • 8. Video seminar: accession negotiations of the Eastern Enlargement.
  • 9. The Eastern Enlargement I: the Luxembourg group.
  • 10. The Eastern Enlargement I: the Helsinki group.
  • 11. The Eastern Enlargement II: Bulgaria, Romania.
  • 12. Candidate countries, the European neighbourhood policy.
  • 13. Incoming strategy, limits of the further EU's enlargement.
Literature
  • European Union enlargement : a comparative history. Edited by Wolfram Kaiser - Jürgen Elvert. London: Routledge, 2004, xiii, 245. ISBN 041542965X. info
  • Fiala, Petr - Pitrová, Markéta (eds.) (2003): Rozšiřování ES/EU. Brno : Mezinárodní politologický ústav, 2003, třetí vydání.
  • Sedelmeier, U. (2010): Enlargement – From Rules for Accession to a Policy Towards Europe, in: Wallace, H., Pollack, M. A., Young, A. R., Policy-Making in the European Union, Oxford, Oxford University Press, s. 401-429.
  • Fiala, P., Pitrová, M. (2009): Evropská unie. Kapitola 7.7. Dokončení příprav východního rozšíření. Brno: CDK, s. 177-191.
  • Treaty of Lisbon
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Teaching methods
Regular reading, working-out of position papers, discussion in seminar groups, presentation of videomaterials, lectures.
Assessment methods
The course terminates with an exam. Exam is composed of three parts under evaluation in points – final written exam (40 points), essay (26 points), seminar preparation (24 points) and two in-term written exams (10 points). Student may acquire up to 100 points. Essay within 17 000 signs minimum is to be submitted in electronical form through the IS MU. Essay submitted after the deadline will not be accepted and student will obtain zero points in an evaluation. Seminar preparation includes obligatory reading of texts assigned (available in IS MU) and working out a basic position for the discussion (position paper). This position within cca. 2000-3000 signs is to be submitted through a homework vault in IS MU not later than a day before the seminar is held. Each written preparation rates 4 points maximum. To pass the course successfully it is necessary to obtain at least 65 point altogether = 65% of points granted within the course. For more detailed information about evaluation of an exam, essay topic and position paper see Study materials vault in IS MU.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Spring 2020, Autumn 2020, Spring 2021, Autumn 2021, Spring 2022, Autumn 2022.
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