COURSE UNIT TITLE

Offered By

European Union

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ESIN CANDAN DEMIRKOL

Offered to

European Union

Course Objective

This course aims to study the economic and political aspects of integration with a focus on different political economy approaches within the subfields of International Political Economy and European studies. At the second part of the module, the emphasis shifts to examine different trajectories of state-society relations in European countries to familarize students with different models of state-capital and labour relations in the Southern, Western and Eastern European countries.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Jones and Amy Verdun (eds.) (2005), The Political Economy of European Integration, Theory and Analysis, Routledge: London.
Barry Eichengreen (2007), The European Economy Since 1945: coordinated capitalism and beyond, Princeton University Press.
Bieler, A. and Morton, A.D. (eds) (2001) Social Forces in the Making of the New Europe: The Restructuring of European Social Relations in the Global Political Economy, Houndsmill: Palgrave.
Crouch, Colin (2005), Capitalist Diversity and Change, Oxford University Press.
Hancké, Bob (ed.), 2009, Debating Varieties of Capitalism: A Reader, Oxford UP.

To be extended further.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The course is based on lectures. Prior to each lecture, students should have completed the relevant readings and have taken down notes for class discussion. A seminar paper will also be prepared by the end of the course.

Assessment Methods

To be announced!

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

1. The learner will be fully prepared to discuss reading assignments and cases.
2. The learner will be able to prepare and present a research paper based on application of a theory within International Political Economy to a particular policy related to European integration.
3. The learner will demonstrate sufficient knowledge on the historical context, institutions and decision-making of economic and political development of European integration.
4. The learner will demonstrate knowledge on different state-society relations of European countries.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

elif.uzgoren@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes