POL42000

Learning Outcomes:

On completion of this module you will:
• have a good understanding of the central normative questions pertaining to the EU, both as a political system and as an actor facing concrete political decisions
• improve your understanding of the EU, especially how it is designed and how it operates in various policy areas
• have developed your ability to read and analyse both abstract and applied philosophical texts;
• have developed your skills in written and oral argument; and
• gain experience writing well-structured extended essays in political theory

Indicative Module Content:

Liberal nationalism
Cosmopolitanism
Republican integovernmentalism
Democratic deficit(S)
Justice deficit(s)
Identity and Communication
Populism
Technocracy
Crisis governance
Migration and refugees

Student Effort Hours:

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:

Lectures
Critical writing
Group work
Oral presentation

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Learning Recommendations:

Introductory courses in both political theory and EU politics would be an advantage. However, neither are essential to be successful in this course.

Module Requisites and Incompatibles

Not applicable to this module.
 

Assessment Strategy

 

Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
• Peer review activities

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Course participants will receive feedback from both the lecturer and student working groups on each of their response papers. Course participants should use this feedback to construct an argumentative strategy for their final essay. This essay will undergo a peer-review process where each course participant will receive tailored feedback from a peer before final submission.

White, Jonathan. 2019. Politics of Last Resort.

2019. Bellamy, Richard. A Republican Europe of States.

2017. Political Theory and the European Union, edited by Richard Bellamy and Joseph Lacey

2018. European Integration Theory (THIRD EDITION), edited by Antje Wiener, Tanja Borzel and Thomas Riise.

Brock, Gillian. 2009. Global Justice: A Cosmopolitan Account.

Cheneval, Francis. 2011. The Government of the Peoples: On the Idea and Principles of Multilateral Democracy.

2010. The Philosophy of International Law, edited by Samantha Besson and John Tasioulas.

2013. Republican Democracy: Liberty, Law and Politics, edited by Andreas Niederberger and Philipp Schink.

2009. Legal Pluralism: National and International Perspectives, edited by Samantha Besson and José Luis Martí.

2008. Law, Democracy and Solidarity in a Post-National Union, edited by Erik Oddvar Eriksen, Christian Joerges and Florian Rödl.

Bruter, Michael. 2005. Citizens of Europe? The Emergence of a Mass European Identity.

2009. European Identity, edited by Jeffrey T. Checkel and Peter J. Katzenstein.

2015. European Public Spheres: Politics is Back, edited by Thomas Risse.

Kymlicka, Will. Politics in the Vernacular: Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Citizenship.

2015. Institutional Cosmopolitanism, edited by Luis Cabrera and Thomas Pogge.

2015. Europe’s Justice Deficit, edited by Dimitry Kockenov, Gráinne De Búrca and Andrew Williams.

Carens, Joseph. 2013. The Ethics of Immigration.

Miller, David. 2016. Strangers in Our Midst: The Political Philosophy of Migration. Oxford: Oxford University Press.