OVERVIEW

The course is intended to promote the knowledge of both historical facts and theories which inspired projects leading to the early attempts at unifying Europe.

This academic year the course will be held by Prof. Lara Piccardo.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course is intended to promote the knowledge of both historical facts and theories which inspired projects leading to the early attempts at unifying Europe. Initiatives by political parties and social forces as well as movements will be taken into consideration. Events will be considered on the basis of both a political and an economic approach. An adequate knowledge of contemporary history and, in particular, of the II post-world war period is required. Particular attention will be paid to the founding fathers of Europe.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims to provide the student with:

* In-depth historical notions about the history of European integration from 1945 to present

* Notes on the history of the idea of ​​Europe

* Direct knowledge of documentary and oral sources on the history of European integration

* Knowledge of different historiographic trends on the subject

* The ability to apply a methodology that allows the student to prepare and present specific papers, based on an individual search on historical sources

* Appropriate tools to analyze and understand the complexity of the European Union, between national efforts and supranational integration, that can be practically used to prepare dossiers with innovative proposals on topical issues

TEACHING METHODS

The lessons are frontal.

Students will be involved in the simulation of a meeting of an EU institution or a European supranational body.

During the course, thematic seminars on topical issues of the European integration process will be organized and recommended 

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

PROGRAM

Roots of Europe. A moving Europe

The idea of ​​Europe in the history

The turning point of the end of 700

Characters and major figures of nineteenth-century Europeanism

The First World War and the Society of Nations. Einaudi's criticism at SdN

Projects, movements, ideas of European unification in Europe between the two wars

The Briand Plan

The Franco-British Union Monnet project

Europe's idea and European constitution projects in the Second World War and in the post-war period

The movements for the European unity

Europe at the start of the Cold War

Strategies for European unification

Jean Monnet and Altiero Spinelli

The American attitude towards European unification: from the period between the two wars to the Marshall Plan

The OEEC

The Brussels Pact

The Hague Congress

The Council of Europe

The Schuman Plan

The ECSC

The CED

The founding fathers of Europe: Alcide De Gasperi, Konrad Adenauer, Robert Schuman, Paul-Henri Spaak

Article 38 of the CED and the draft European Community Policy

The Ad Hoc Assembly

From the fall of the CED to the WEU

The Treaties of Rome

The common agricultural policy

Italy in the EEC and its entry into EMS: 1958-1978

De Gaulle's European policy. The Fouchet Plans and the empty chair crisis

Kennedy's proposal of equal partnership of July 1962

Europe in the late 1960s and early 1970s and the international context

The enlargements of the EEC / EU

The crisis of the Bretton Woods system

The Hague Conference and the re-launch of the integration process: completion, enlargement, deepening

The first monetary unification projects. The Werner Plan

The Money Serpent

EMS

From direct EP elections to the Spinelli project

The European Single Act

The Treaty of Maastricht and the constitutional last twenty years

Italy's entry into monetary union

The Treaty of Nice

The Laeken Declaration and the Constitutional Treaty

The Treaty of Lisbon

The Euroscepticism

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Recommended texts:

- U. MORELLI, Storia dell’integrazione europea, Milano, Guerini, 2011

- D. PREDA, Alcide De Gasperi: European Founding Father, Brussels, Peter Lang, 2017

Non-attending students must also report on one of the following volumes:

• Sergio Fabbrini, Sdoppiamento Una prospettiva nuova per l'Europa, Bari, Laterza, 2017
• Gianfranco Pasquino, L’Europa in trenta lezioni, Torino, Utet, 2017
• Andrea Bosco, The Round Table Movement and the Fall of the Second
  British Empire, Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars, 2017
• The History of European Monetary Union. Comparing Strategies amidst Prospects for Integration and National Resistance, Daniela Preda ed., Bruxelles, P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2016
• Le madri fondatrici dell'Europa, a cura di Maria Pia di Nonno, Roma, Edizioni Nuova Cultura, 2017
• Giuliana Laschi, L' Europa e gli altri. Le relazioni esterne della Comunità dalle origini al dialogo Nord-Sud, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2016
• Sandro Guerrieri, Un Parlamento oltre le nazioni. L'Assemblea comune della CECA e le sfide dell'integrazione europea (1952-1958), Bologna, Il Mulino, 2016.
• Esistenza e storia in Simone Weil, a cura di Luigi Antonio Manfreda, Federica Negri e Aldo Meccariello, Asterios ED., 2016
• L’Unione europea nelle relazioni internazionali, a cura di Giovanni Finizio e Umberto Morelli, Roma, Carocci, 2015
• Daniele Pasquinucci, I confini e l’identità: il Parlamento europeo e gli allargamenti della CEE 1961-1986, Pavia, Jean Monnet Interregional Centre of Excellence, 2013
• Daniela Preda, Avanti adagio. I Trattati di Roma e l’unità europea, Padova, Cedam, 2013
• Piero Graglia, Altiero Spinelli, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2008
• Roberto Ducci, Le speranze d’Europa (carte sparse 1943-1985), a cura di Guido Lenzi, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2007

Erasmus students will have to submit a detailed report on a theme of their choice and report on one of the following volumes:

U. MORELLI, L’Unione europea. Storia, istituzioni, politiche, Loescher 2007

S. PISTONE, L'integrazione europea. Uno schizzo storico, UTET, 1999.

W. LOTH, Building Europe, a history of European integration, Berlin, de Gruyter, 2015

M. T. BITSCH, Histoire de la construction européenne, Ed. Complexe, 1999.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

LARA PICCARDO (President)

MARIA ELEONORA GUASCONI

GUIDO LEVI

DANIELA PREDA

ANGELICA RADICCHI

LESSONS

LESSONS START

Tuesday 19 February 2019.

Tue. h. 8.00-10.00

We. h. 10.00-12.00

Th. h. 8.00-10.00

Class schedule

HISTORY OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

The exam aims to ascertain the adequate knowledge of the topics covered by the course and its duration varies, modulating with respect to individual cases, in order to allow such verification. The exam is oral and includes questions on both the institutional and the monographic part. Students attending the course will prepare dossiers and present oral reports, which will be included in the overall evaluation. Non-attending students will have to deepen a theme chosen by reading a volume among those published on aulaweb

ASSESSMENT METHODS

The Commission is designated by the Department Council and chaired by the course professor. The evaluation is based mainly on the knowledge of the subject, but also on the quality of the exposure, the correct use of the specialized lexicon and the critical reasoning ability on the study carried out.

Exam schedule

FURTHER INFORMATION

The professor is European Jean Monnet Chair ad personam of European Integration History and Policy