EUROPEAN UNION INTEGRATION AND DYNAMICS OF EUROPEANIZATION

PSIR502

Course Code: PSIR502
Semester: -
Theory+Practice: 3 + 0
ECTS: 10

Course Type

Elective Course

Course Level

Master's Degree Without Thesis

Year of Study

Semester

ECTS

Name of Lecturer(s)

Associate Professor Hakan Yavuzyılmaz

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

Understand the EU integration process from different theoretical perspectives
Gain knowledge on the mechanisms by which the EU produces effects in member and non-member countries
Understand the current problems and obstacles against EU integration and EU-induced domestic transformations
Acquires comparative skills to conduct independent academic research on EU integration and Europeanization.

Mode of Delivery

Face to face

Prerequisites

Recommended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Description

This course aims to understand the fundamental dynamics of the process by examining the European Union integration process from both a historical and theoretical perspective. In the course, different theoretical perspectives on the European Integration process will be examined and the EU integration process will be analyzed descriptively/historically and theoretically through these perspectives. In the second part of the course, the mechanisms by which the EU produces political, economic and socio-cultural effects in member and non-member countries will be evaluated through different cases within the framework of Europeanization and EU enlargement theories. At the end of the course, it is aimed that students will understand the EU integration process from different theoretical perspectives, the mechanisms by which the EU produces effects in member and non-member countries, and the obstacles to EU integration and enlargement, and gain the competence to make critical and scientific analyses regarding current problems.

Course Contents

WEEK	TOPICS
1^st Week	Introduction to the Course: What is European Union Integration?
2^nd Week	Integration Theories I
3^rd Week	Integration Theories II
4^th Week	The Institutional Structure of the EU
5^th Week	The Concept of Europeanization
6^th Week	Dynamics of Europeanization
7^th Week	EU Enlargement Policy and Theories on Enlargement
8^th Week	Eurozone and EU?s Political Economy
9^th Week	EU,Populism, and Autocratization
10^th Week	From Integration to Differentiated Integration: Changing Dynamics of Transformation
11^th Week	Critical Approaches to EU?s Transformative Power
12^th Week	Pressures on EU Integration: Migration
13^th Week	Pressures on EU Integration: Euroscepticism and Authoritharian Populism
14^th Week	Pressures on EU Integration: Brexit

Recommended or Required Reading

Börzel, T. A., & Risse, T. (2000). When Europe hits home: Europeanization and domestic change. European Integration online Papers, 4(15). https://doi.org/10.25932/publishup-2559
Börzel, T. A., & Risse, T. (2024). Governance under pressure: The EU and domestic change. Oxford University Press.
Cini, M., & Perez-Solorzano Borragan, N. (Eds.). (2022). European Union Politics (6th ed.). Oxford University Press.
De Vries, C. E. (2018). Euroscepticism and the future of European integration. Oxford University Press.
Dinan, D. (2021). Europe recast: A history of European Union (3rd ed.). Red Globe Press.
Dimitrova, A., & Smilova, R. (2009). The EU?s post-accession conditionality: Democracy and rule of law in Bulgaria and Romania. Europe-Asia Studies, 61(1), 51?75. https://doi.org/10.1080/09668130802576871
Fabbrini, S. (2019). Europe?s future: Decoupling and reforming. Cambridge University Press.
Featherstone, K., & Radaelli, C. (Eds.). (2003). The politics of Europeanization. Oxford University Press.
Grabbe, H. (2006). The EU?s transformative power: Europeanization through conditionality in Central and Eastern Europe. Palgrave Macmillan.
Graziano, P., & Vink, M. (Eds.). (2007). Europeanization: New research agendas. Palgrave Macmillan.
Hix, S., & Hoyland, B. (2022). The political system of the European Union (4th ed.). Red Globe Press.
Kelemen, R. D., Blauberger, M., & van Hüllen, V. (2020). The European Union?s authoritarian equilibrium. Journal of European Public Policy, 27(3), 481?499. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2020.1712455
Leruth, B., Ganzle, S., & Trondal, J. (2019). Differentiated integration and disintegration in the EU after Brexit: Risks versus opportunities. Journal of Common Market Studies, 57(6), 1383?1394. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.12957
Leruth, B., & Lord, C. (2015). Differentiated integration in the European Union: A concept, a process, a system or a theory? Journal of European Public Policy, 22(6), 754?763. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2015.1021196
Schimmelfennig, F., & Sedelmeier, U. (Eds.). (2005). The Europeanization of Central and Eastern Europe. Cornell University Press.
Schimmelfennig, F. (2019). Differentiated integration and European Union politics. In F. Schimmelfennig (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.1142
Sedelmeier, U. (2008). Post-accession compliance in the EU?s new member states. Journal of European Public Policy, 15(6), 806?825. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501760802196549
Sedelmeier, U. (2011). Europeanisation in new member and candidate states. Living Reviews in European Governance, 6(1), 1?52. https://doi.org/10.12942/lreg-2011-1
Sedelmeier, U. (2014). Anchoring democracy from above? The European Union and democratic backsliding in Hungary and Romania after accession. Journal of Common Market Studies, 52(1), 105?121. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.12082
Vachudova, M. A. (2005). Europe undivided: Democracy, leverage, and integration after communism. Oxford University Press.
Wiener, A., Börzel, T. A., & Risse, T. (Eds.). (2019). European integration theory (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture
Discussion
Presentation

Assessment Methods and Criteria

	Quantity	Percentage (%)
Assignment	3	25
Project	1	50
Oral Exam	15	25
Total(%)		100
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%)		100
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%)		0
Total(%)		100

ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload

Activities	Quantity	Duration (Hour)	Total Workload (Hour)
Midterm exam
Preparation for Quiz
Individual or group work	14	5	70
Preparation for Final exam
Course hours	14	3	42
Preparation for Midterm exam
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam
Homework	3	45	135
Project	1	60	60
Total Work Load			307
Total Work Load / 30 (h)			10.23
ECTS Credit of the Course			10

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

Programme Qualifications / Learning Outcomes

	LO1	LO2	LO3	LO4
K1	X	X	X	X
K2	X	X	X	X
K3	X
K4	X	X	X	X
K5	X	X	X	X
K6	X	X	X	X
K7			X	X
K8				X