DPI 431- Global Europe: Democracy, Policy and Governance
Course Instructor: Muriel Rouyer, Adjunct Professor of Public Policy
Office: Ash Center for Democratic governance and Innovation, 24 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 200 North, Office 240 Tel: (617) 496 0112
Email:
Office hours on Wednesdays, 2- 4 pm
Faculty Assistant: Jessica McClanahan - Taubman 459-B, phone: (617) 495 87 63
Shopping session: Thursday, January 24th, 11:40-12:55, L382
First day of class: Tuesday January 29, 2012
Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:40-1:00
Location: L 382
Will Europe successfully face the major challenges of the 21st century? With the euro-crisis, some have chronicled the death of the European community, while others have contended that it will “rule the 21st century.” More soberly, pundits suggest that “Europe will work.” How? is the question addressed by this course. Part I, “Making Supranational Democracy Work,” looks at the European Union as a supranational democracy in the making, in which powerful, responsive institutions and various actors develop innovative methods of regulation and governance. Part II, “European Policies and Politics,” focuses on preferences and interests in the European Union and their controversial impact in the global arena, including the single market, common agricultural policy, social policies, gender equality, global migrations, and multiculturalism. Part III “External governance,” explores different aspects of European external relations, through the examples of trade, enlargement/democracy promotion and foreign policy.
Who can attend the course?
The course is offered to any student interested in the European Union and global politics and democracy, with or without prior knowledge of the subject. Cross-registrants and auditors are welcome.
Course Requirements
q113 Participation (40% of final grade)
Participation is an important part of the requirements and includes several types of exercises which make this class a lively forum where different perspectives and opinions are openly discussed on the basis of scholarly literature, global news, research and informed opinions.
Description of class work:
· Responses to readings: every class, and unless another exercise takes precedence –check with instructor- you will turn-in a short written response (one page 1.5 spaced Times New Roman 12 max) before class and post it on the class- page no later than 9 am so that everybody can read it and discuss it in class. This is to help you assimilate information progressively, formulate your own questions and ideas to fuel the debate, and retrieve information easily when you later need it. In principle, these responses are individual. They should also be original, reflecting your own thoughts or questions.
· Group presentation: Group presentations aim at giving “usable” information to the class and yourselves, and expose the multifaceted aspects of a problem. During group presentations, each group presents, the same day, a specific aspect of a problem related to the class topic. This kind of presentation is not very long (15 min, max, depending on the number of students), should be very clear and concise. There will be two group presentations, one on Euro-lobbying (March 12) and one on Euro-migrations and Multiculturalism (April 18).
· Forum : A forum is a class where you mainly use your knowledge acquired during class so far to discuss and propose new ideas and solutions.
· Expert Workshop : if you attend this class, you will be given the opportunity to attend or/ and participate in Policy-research in progress @Harvard on the topic of Democratic innovation in the EU. On April 30th, I host, at the Ash Center on Democratic Governance and Innovation a seminar on “Green Capitals of Europe” with experts form France, the European Commission, political philosophers and political scientists. The seminar will be semi-public, you have priority access.
· Games and simulations: as teams or individuals, these class-exercises will allow you to understand in context and /or embody, represent and perform different institutional or political roles in European policies or public debates (ex: “question game” on Decision making in the E.U.; Advocacy simulation on the Common Agricultural policy in international context).
Organization of time in each session, division of work students/instructor
I will offer feedback or guidance during discussions and take part in the discussions with the students, plus offer a short “perspective” with important points to remember. Ideally, a division of time between student input and instructor input should follow the proportion 60% students, 40% instructor. Typically, a session would include 10 minutes max individual presentations or exercise of the day, followed by related discussion for about 50 minutes and short feedback and lecturing by the instructor for about 30 minutes.
Class Rules
Please arrive to (and leave) class on time, as late arrivals and early departures disturb the dynamic of the class. Please refrain from eating and avoid the use of laptops (except for presentation purposes); these activities can get in the way of an active learning process. As a general principle, everyone should come to class willing to do the “ 3 R’s”:
- Regular attendance: if you choose to attend this class, you need to commit for every class (unless exceptional circumstances notified to the Instructor)
- Readiness to discuss readings: this means all the participants should come to class having done the readings and being ready to discuss them in a constructive way.
- Reading Responses: in principle, if no other conflicting exercise is scheduled, for every class, you will turn-in a response to the readings of the day (Cf. description of class work below).
q113 Written Work (60 % of final grade)
Written work consists of one mid-term assignment (March, 14), one final paper (May 15) and a short personal report on the final workshop (May 7). The Final Paper is typically an opportunity to further inquire about topics that are mentioned in class but not developed, or to dedicate more attention to an aspect of the course of particular interest to you. It also is a good way to demonstrate intellectual aptitude to critically discuss a problem, possibly for future research or work purposes. Topics can thus vary according to individual preferences, but should remain in connection with the class theme, and be chosen in accordance with the instructor. The paper may highlight a specific policy (or aspect of it), an institution, an agency, a political problem, or confront a theoretical approach to a set of events.
Final papers should be 14-15 pages long (double-spaced, Times New Roman font size 12, 1-inch margins).
It is highly recommended that you choose a topic as early as possible during the semester in order to be able to benefit from guidance and perspectives acquired in class
The Final paper is individual, original, fair, and should demonstrate aptitude to both synthetic and critical reasoning.
“Original” means that the paper does not exist prior to its writing by the student and reflects the ideas of its author. This requirement excludes plagiarism, and authorized reproduction of already existing papers.
Plagiarism will not be tolerated and any suspected act of plagiarism will be forwarded to the relevant authorities of the HKS without notice.
“Fair” means that if you borrow from other people’s work (to a limited extent), you should quote it and acknowledge it appropriately (by the use of quotation marks and footnotes, and in a bibliography). “Critical reasoning” means that you are able to use different sources and put them in perspective in order not to simply repeat what other people say, but are able of highlighting or questioning underlying problems, context and crucial conditions, etc.
Deadlines written work:
March 14 : mid-term assignment
May 7 : expert workshop report
May 15 : Final paper
Deadlines class work:
Group presentations March 12, April 18
March 14, free forum on euro-leadership and narratives for Europ
Required readings:
- Michelle Cini, Nieves Perez-Solorzano Borragan, European Union Politics, Oxford University Press, 2010
- Giandomenico Majone, Europe as the Would-be World Power, Cambridge University Press, 2009
- Assigned readings for each class in course packet (P) and class readings on the web course-page (W).
- Film: Cedric Klapish, “L’Aubrge espagnole” (film screening on March 7)
A list of recommended books will be provided shortly. Most of them should be on the reserves shelf at HKS library.
Nb: The Instructor reserves the right to modify this syllabus before the beginning of classes. After the beginning of class, should changes occur, they will not increase the workload, should be announced clearly and ahead of time, and be motivated by necessary adjustments to class work (due to variation in the number of students of guests, for instance
Weekly Program January 25 -April 30, 2013
1. Tuesday, January 29 : Introduction, distribution of work
Readings:
- Birdsall, Nancy and Fukuyama, Francis: “The post-Washington consensus”, Foreign Affairs, Mar/Apr 2011, Vol. 90 Issue 2, p 45-53, 9p (W)
- Mark Leonard, Why Europe will Run the 21st Century, p. 4-5 (recommended, on reserve shelf)
- Anne-Marie Slaughter, “Problems will be global, and Solutions will be, too”, Foreign policy, 09/10/2011http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/08/15/problems_will_be_global_and_solutions_will_be_too
Introduction
2. Thursday, January 31: The End of the West? A Short History of Europe…
Readings (+/- 71 p)
-Perry Anderson, New Old World, Verso, 2009, Chapter 1 (P)
-Mark Mazower, “What Remains: On the European Union”, The Nation, 24 September 2012 http://www.thenation.com/article/169756/what-remains-european-union?page=full#
- David Marquand, The End of the West, Princeton U.P., p. 16-26 (P)
- Likas Tsoukalis, “The Shattering of Illusions- And What’s Next?”, Journal of Common Market Studies, Annual Review, 2011 Vol. 49, p. 19-44 (W)
3. Tuesday, February 5: Peace and Federalism
Readings (+/-85 p.):
- Jose Igniacio Torreblanca, “vanished frontier earns EU its Nobel Prize’, El Pais, 10 Dec. 2012 in Presseurop http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/3128811-vanished-frontiers-earn-eu-its-nobel-prize
- Mark Leonard, Why Europe will Run the 21 st Century, pp. 61-68 (recommended, on reserve shelf)
- Giandomenico Majone, Europe as the would-be World-Power, chap. 2 and 3 (required book)
- Catherine Guisan, “From the Coal and Steel Community to Kosovo: Reconciliation and its Discontents”, Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS), 2011, Vol. 49, No3, pp. 541-62
- Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace, a philosophical sketch (1795) section II, the “Three Definitive Articles for Perpetual Peace among States” http://www.constitution.org/kant/perpeace.htm
Nobel Prize 2012, Award Ceremony Speech, http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2012/presentation-speech.html
Part I- Making Supranational Democracy Work
4. Thursday, February 7: What kind of power is Europe?
Readings (+/- 46 p)
- Jan Zielonka, Europe as Empire, Oxford U.P., 2007, p.4-20 (P)
- Mark Leonard, Why Europe will run the 21st century, chapter 1 (on reserve shelf)
-Robert Kagan, “Power and Weakness”, Policy Review No 113, Hoover Institution, 20 p. http://www.hoover.org/publications/policy-review/article/7107
5. Tuesday, February 12: The Turkish Question of Europe
Guest speaker: Kivanc Ulusoy, Ash Center for democratic Governance and Innovation, Associate professor of political science at Istanbul University.
Readings (+/- 50 p.):
-K. Ulusoy; "The Changing Challenge of Europeanization to Politics and Governance in Turkey," International Political Science Review, December 2008, Vol. 30, pp. 363-384 (W)
-Jurgen Gerhards, Silke Hans, “Why not Turkey? Attitudes towards Turkish Membership in the EU among 27 European countries”, JCMS, 2011, Vol. 49, No 4 pp. 741-766 (W)
-Katinka Barysch, “Turkey, the EU and the Mediterranean uprisings”, Centre for European Reform blog, March 16, 2 p. 2011 click here
- Charles Grant, A new Neighborhood policy for the EU, Centre for European Reform policy brief, 13 p. March 2011 (W)
6: Thursday, February 14: The EU, How does it work? Institutions and decision-making
Readings (+/- 40 p.)
- Simon Hix and Bjorn Hoyland, The political system of the European Union, Palgrave/Macmillan, 2011, Introduction: explaining the EU political system, pp1-19 (P)
- Michelle Cini, European Politics chap. 13, 14 p. (required book)
- Robert Schuman Foundation, The Lisbon Treaty, 10 easy-to-read fact sheets click here
And Understanding the Budgetary Pact to read click here
February, 15 - Full-Term & Module 3 courses add/drop deadline (without notation); cross-registration deadline
7. Tuesday, February 19: Supranational Institutions, Commission and Parliament
Guest Speaker: Maive Rute, Director, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission
Readings:
- Lisbet Hooghe, “Images of Europe: How Commission Officials Conceive of Their Institution’s Role”, pp. 87-111 (W)
- Michelle Cini, European Union Politics (required book), chap. 8 and 10
- Watch the conference “The European Parliament, a Key Actor in Transnational Democracy, Harvard University, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, featuring Klaus Welle, Secretary General of the European Parliament http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA7gn5KAFd0
8. Thursday, February 21: Member-States in the EU: Obstinate or obsolete? Intergovernmental institutions: Council of Ministers and European Council (of States)
Readings (+/- 60 p.):
-S. Hoffman: «Obstinate or Obsolete? The Case of the Nation State and the Case of Western Europe», Daedalus, 95, 1966 pp. 889-893, (P)
-Michelle Cini, European Union Politics (required book), chap. 9
-Helen Wallace, “Exercising Power and Influence in the E.U.: The Role of Member States” in S. Boulmer & Christian Lequesne, The Member States of the European Union, Oxford University Press, 2005 (P)
- Diana Panke, “Lobbying Institutional Key Players: How States seek to Influence the European Commission, the Council Presidency and the European Parliament”, JCMS, 2012, Vol. 50, No1, pp. 129-150 (W)
- W. Paterson, “The Reluctant Hegemon? Germany moves Centre Stage in the European Union”, JCMS 2011, Vol. 49, Annual review, pp. 57-75 (W).
9: Tuesday, February 26: Old and New Democratic Deficits….
Readings (+/- 47p):
- David Marquand, The End of the West, Princeton U.P., 2011, pp. 115-140 (P)
- A. Moravcsik, “In Defense of the Democratic Deficit. Reassessing Legitimacy in the European Union”, JCMS, 2002, 40, 603-624 http://www.princeton.edu/~amoravcs/library/deficit.pdf
- Simon Hix and Bjorn Hoyland, The Political system of the EU, op. cit., pp. 132-137 (P)
- John Dryzek, Democracy in Capitalist Times, Oxford U.P., 1996, pp. 25-31 (P)
Op-eds :
-Jonathan Neumann, “Greece and the decline of European Democracy”, American Thinker, 2 December 2012, http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/02/greece_and_the_decline_of_european_democracy.html
- Wolfgang Streeck, “Markets and Peoples”, New Left Review, 73, Jan-Feb. 2012, pp. 63-71 (W)