FF:HIA218 Eur.Federal.in Forties - Course Information

HIA218 European Federalism in the Forties and Sixties

Extent and Intensity

0/2. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

doc. PhDr. Vladimír Goněc, DrSc. (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

prof. PhDr. Jiří Malíř, CSc.
Department of History – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of History – Faculty of Arts

Timetable

Thu 15:50–17:25 J21

Prerequisites

Specialization Master of study: International Relations and European Studies.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

there are 6 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display

Course objectives

Students should acquire the ability to absorb and apply informations and interpret events and trends on the dimensions: the history of European integration, historical experiences and the legal-theoretical issues facing a supranationally organised Europe, as well as the prinicple of subsidiarity for the stated period.

Syllabus

• The way from the resistance programmes after the Second World War to the establishment of the Common Market. Plan for a Franco-British union in 1940. Plans for European integration amongst the French and Italian resistance. Churchill’s speech in Zurich in September 1946. Federalist trends in Western Europe in the first five years after the war. The founding and blocking of the Council of Europe. The creation and operation of the European Coal and Steel Community.Federalism and functionalism.The attempt at a European defence community and its Eurofederalist dimension. The Messina Conference. The treaty structure for the European Economic Community. The establishment of the European Free Trade Association. The phenomenon of a Europeanist culture. Integration trends in Northern Europe. The Brussels Pact and West European Union. The first phase in the operation of the European Economic Community. The diplomatic background to the first years of the EEC (the conflict with de Gaulle’s messianic vision for France. The efforts of the Federal Republic of Germany in the intensification of the integration process. The completion of Franco-German settlement and postwar reconcilliation. The Luxembourg Compromise. The other superpowers and the EEC.) “Europe for Europeans!”

Literature

required literature
• Gerbet, P.: Budování Evropy. Praha: Karolinum 2004 ISBN 80-246-0111-7
• KÖNIG, Petr, Lubor LACINA and Jan PŘENOSIL. Učebnice evropské integrace. Vyd. 1. Brno: Barrister & Principal, 2006, 414 s. ISBN 8073640228. info
• GONĚC, Vladimír. Od "malé Evropy" k "velké Evropě" : dějiny rozšiřování Evropských společenství/Evropské unie : 1950-2002. I. 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2002, 258 s. ISBN 80-210-3016-X. info
• NIESS, Frank. Die europäische Idee : aus dem Geist des Widerstands. 1. Aufl. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2001, 246 s. ISBN 351812160X. info
• GASTEYGER, Curt. Europa zwischen Spaltung und Einigung 1945-1990 :eine Darstellung und Dokumentation über das Europa der Nachkriegszeit. 2. aktualis. Aufl. Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, 1991, 486 s. ISBN 3-89331-095-9. info
• BURGESS, Michael. Federalism and European union : political ideas, influences and strategies in the European community, 1972-1987. 1st pub. London: Routledge, 1991, 225 s. ISBN 0415004985. info

Teaching methods

homeworks on project, its presentation; class discussion over the projects of colleagues

Assessment methods

Final project; credit. It is evaluated the creative and material founded treatment of verified informations.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

Study Materials

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