The course introduces the history of European integration and the theoretical principles that underlie it, illustrating the methodological tools for critically accessing documentary sources and the complexity of historiographical interpretations on the subject.
At the end of the course the student is able to: - know the historical processes that led to the first attempts at European unification, the theoretical principles underlying them, the initiatives of movements, parties, political, economic and social forces in favor of continental unity from the second post-war period to the present day; - be aware of the historical dimension of the reality of the European Union and its possible evolutions; - understand the historiography and sources of European integration; - develop in-depth papers on specific topics
The teaching consists of lectures, for a total of 36 hours, and attendance is recommended.
Those who have attended 70% of the lessons are considered attending students.
Attending students may be involved in the simulation of a meeting of an EU institution or a European supranational body.
During the course, in-depth thematic seminars will be organized and recommended on topical issues of the European integration process.
Roots of Europe. A moving Europe
The idea of Europe in the history
The turning point of the end of 18th century
Characters and major figures of nineteenth-century Europeanism
The First World War and the Society of Nations. Einaudi’s criticism at the League of Nations
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 EDC
The founding fathers of Europe: Alcide De Gasperi, Konrad Adenauer, Robert Schuman, Paul-Henri Spaak
Article 38 of the EDC and the draft European Community Policy
The Ad Hoc Assembly
From the fall of the EDC 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 Monetary Snake
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 texts:
- U. MORELLI, Storia dell’integrazione europea, Milano, Guerini, 2011
- D. PREDA, Alcide De Gasperi: European Founding Father, Brussels, Peter Lang, 2017
Furthermore:
- Corrado Malandrino, Stefano Quirico, L’idea di Europa. Storie e prospettive, Carocci, 2020
Non-attending students must also report on one of the following volumes:
Raffaella Cinquanta, Fabio Zucca (a cura di), La paura del «Leviatano» europeo. Globalizzazione, euroscetticismo e crisi della democrazia, Milano, Ledizioni, 2022
Robert Belot, La Resistenza e la rinascita dell'idea europea (1942-1947), Bologna, Il Mulino, 2022
Giuliana Laschi, L'Europa agricola, dalla fame agli sprechi. Storia della PAC (1945-2004), Bologna, Il Mulino, 2022
Daniele Pasquinucci, Il frutto avvelenato. Il vincolo europeo e la critica all'Europa, Milano, Mondadori Education, 2022
Stefano Quirico, L'Europa di Wilhelm Röpke. Liberalismo, federalismo, nazione, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2022
Sante Cruciani, Maria Paola Del Rossi (a cura di), Diritti, Europa, federalismo. Bruno Trentin in prospettiva transnazionale (1988-2007), Firenze , Firenze University Press; Roma , Liberetà, 2023
Francesca Tortorella, Un antifascisme européiste. Giustizia e libertà et Partito d'azione (1929-1947), Bologna, Il Mulino, 2022
Matteo Antonio Napolitano, Verso l’Europa unita. Il percorso politico-istituzionale di Giulio Bergmann, Roma, Aracne, 2020.
Francesco Bonini, Sandro Guerrieri (a cura di), La scrittura delle Costituzioni. Il secondo dopoguerra in un quadro mondiale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2020
Lara Piccardo, Dalla Patria all’Umanità. L’Europa di Giuseppe Mazzini, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2020
Giorgio Grimaldi, I Verdi italiani e l’Europa. Il Sole che ride dagli albori all’azione nel Parlamento europeo (1978-2009), Bologna, Il Mulino, 2020
Giorgio Grimaldi, I Verdi in Germania. L’ecologia in politica dai movimenti all’Europa, Pavia, Collana del Jean Monnet Interregional Centre of Excellence, 2020
Raffaella Cinquanta, Partigiani di tutta Europa, unitevi!”. L’ideale dell’Europa unita nelle riviste clandestine della Resistenza italiana, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2020
Euroscepticisms. Resistance and Opposition to the European Community/European Union, a cura di Guido Levi e Daniela Preda, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018
Daniela Preda, Alcide De Gasperi: European Founding Father, Brussels, Peter Lang, 2017
Guido Levi, L’europeismo ai tempi della Costituente, Padova, Cedam, 2020
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.
Ricevimento: Daniela Preda: Tuesday 14-17 and by appointment at the DISPI.
Ricevimento: By appointment by writing an email to luca.barbaini@unige.it. During the semesters, even after lessons.
DANIELA PREDA (President)
LARA PICCARDO
MARIA ELEONORA GUASCONI (President Substitute)
LUCA BARBAINI (Substitute)
II semester, February/March 2024.
The exam consists of an oral interview and includes questions both on the institutional part and on the monographic one. The interview will have the purpose of ascertaining adequate knowledge of the topics covered by the course and its duration varies, modulating with respect to individual cases, in order to allow this verification.
Attending students, during the course, will have to prepare dossiers and present oral reports, which will form part of the overall assessment. Non-attending students will have to deepen a topic of their choice by reading a volume among those published on this teaching sheet and on aulaweb.
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.
Students with “Special Needs”: the compensatory/dispensative tools recognized by the Department coordinator, Prof. Aristide Canepa, and by the University Service for students with special needs are applied. It is suggested to contact by Prof. Canepa and the lecturer of this course at the beginning of the lectures.
