STORIA DELL'INTEGRAZIONE EUROPEA

The course aims at offering a general frame for the historical process of European Integration from the end of World War II and the postwar reconstruction to the signing of the Treaty of Lisbon. The history of the European Community is outlined in the light of the Twentieth Century International History. The course will focus on some aspects of the integration process, with reference to the most significant communitarian policy areas.

The course is articulated partly in lectures and partly in seminary class work. During the seminars, students will work in groups reading texts and presenting their readings and historical sources. Assessment test will be scheduled at the end of each module.

Analyzing the most significant steps in the history of the construction of the European Union since the foundation of the CECAS, the course will focus on the gradual institutional transformations regulating the changeable processes of decision making within the Community and the dynamics of the widening of the Community from a “Europe of the Six” to the Europe of the twenty-seven introducing new themes in the communitarian agenda. The history of the communitarian Europe will be analyzed within the framework of the geopolitical changes characterizing the second half of the Twentieth century. The main themes will be dealt with, from the “Golden Age” to the “cold war”, from the crisis of the Seventies to the thaw and the breaking down of the Communist world, from the beginning of international cooperation to the processes of globalization.

The course will offer in-depth focus on the evolution of some sector policies whose development has contributed to the strengthening of the communitarian acquis and on some historiographical interpretations of the fundamental steps in its development.

A. International History of the second half of the Twentieth Century (3 ECTS)

Texts:

• T. Detti, G. Gozzini, Storia contemporanea. Il Novecento, Milano, Mondadori, 2002, chapters 12-21, pp. 21-442.

B. History of the European Integration (3 ECTS)

Texts:

• L. Rapone, Storia dell’integrazione europea, Roma, Carocci, 2015,

pp. 200.

• T. Detti, G. Gozzini, L'età del disordine. Storia del mondo attuale (1968-2017), Bari, Laterza, 2018, pp. 210.

C. Monographic course (3 ECTS)

A book chosen from the following:

- F. Di Sarcina, L' Europa delle donne: la politica di pari opportunità nella storia dell'integrazione europea (1957-2007), Bologna, Il Mulino, 2010, pp. 357.

- A. Landuyt, Idee d’Europa e integrazione europea, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2004. pp. 7-234, 505-545.

- S. Paoli, Il sogno di Erasmo. La questione educativa nel processo di integrazione europea, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2010, pp. 561.

- L. Scichilone, L’Europa e la sfida ecologica. Storia della politica ambientale europea (1969-1998), Bologna, Il Mulino, 2008, pp. 292.

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

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All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.