2014/2015

2015/2016

DM270

SPS/04 (POLTICIAL SCIENCE)

DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

WORLD POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

PERCORSO COMUNE

2°

(28/09/2015 - 12/12/2015)

6

40 lesson hours

ENGLISH

ORAL TEST

CONFALONIERI MARIA ANTONIETTA - 6 ECTS

Students are expected to have, or in any case to acquire prior to the course, the basic notions of political science, while the basic notions of policy analysis and European political organization can be acquired through extra readings during the course.

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The second module will focus on the comparative analysis of the policy process with reference to some of the institutional systems of regional integration examined in the first module. In particular, the focus will be on the EU, as the most developed case of regional integration, MERCOSUR, the Andean Community of Nations, and ASEAN. The analytical tools will be provided by the most influential theories of European Integration (in particular neo-functionalism and inter-governamentalism) and of the EU policy making process (namely institutional theory in its variants). These theories will be presented in the first part of the module. Their explanatory potential will then be evaluated with reference to different institutional contexts of regional integration, taking into account different policy areas.

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As a first approach to the issues that will be examined, students are invited to read: Jacques Ziller, ‘The Challenge of Governance in Regional Integration – Key Experiences from Europe’, EUI Working papers Law n° 2005/11 (accessible on-line in the electronic reserved area 'Area riservata').

For students who wish to deepen their background knowledge of international law and of the legal and public-policy aspects of European integration, the following books are recommended:

1. Antonio CASSESE, International law, Oxford University Press, Oxford-New York, second edition, 2005;

2. Neil NUGENT, The Government and Politics of the European Union, 7th Edition, Palgrave-McMillan, 2010, pp. 1-50.

3. Robert SCHÜTZE, European Constitutional Law, Cambridge University press, 2012.

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This course comprises two modules (6 credits each), the first on law of regional integration, the second on politics of legal integration. The teaching of the modules will be coordinated so as to concentrate on the same cases of regional integration from different but complementary disciplinary perspectives.