POLS 364F - The European Union

CR: 3
Prerequisites: One French course above FREN 202, junior standing, and approval of the Resident Director. The goal of this course is to better understand this “unidentified political object” (Jacques Delors) that is the European Union, We will study the following points: 1) the different stages of the construction of the organization from the CECA (European Coal and Steel Community), to the Treaty of Amsterdam (1997), from the six-nation to the fifteen-nation Europe; 2) the description of the EU institutions and their functions; 3) law in the EU and the principles behind it; 4) the major common policies in the EEC and in the EU: agriculture, economic, foreign, and those regarding intra-European travel; 5) the major issues: the problems of foreign policy and shared security, institutional reforms, budget, etc. Course offered in Paris in the Junior Year in France program.