Schedule of Readings

I. Introduction

The European Union: A Guide for Americans (2006). Class handout, or online.

Strongly recommended: How the European Union Works - Your Guide to the EU Institutions (2005). Class handout, or online.

II. Nations as the Building Block of Europe

The Lay of the Last Minstrel by Sir Walter Scott. Canto Sixth, I. (1805) "Breathes there the man, with soul so dead ..."

Victor Hugo, Opening Address to the Peace Congress! ("The United States of Europe"). (Paris, August 21, 1849)

Ernst Renan, What is a Nation? (1882)

Ernest Gellner, "What is a Nation?" Chapter 5: Nations and Nationalism, Cornell University Press (1983), pp. 53-62.

Liah Greenfield, "Is Nation Unavoidable? Is Nation Unavoidable Today?" In Hanspeter Kriesi et al., Nation and National Identity: The European Experience in Perspective. Chur: Rügger (1999), 37-54.

III. Multinationalism as Global Phenomenon

Vladimir Lenin, On the National Question. December 5, 1917. You will need to go to www.soviethistory.org to establish a username and password before you can access this document.

Stalin on the Limitation of National Self-Determination (1918).

First Constitution of the Soviet Union (1924). Articles 1-8.

Constitutive Act of the African Union (2000)

Olufemi Babarinde. The African Union Debuts: Following in the Footsteps of the EU? EUSA Review (Summer 2003), 11-13.

IV. The Genesis of the EEC

Winston Churchill, The United States of Europe (1946). Audio with picture (5 min)

Denis de Rougemont, Message to Europeans (1948).

The Schuman Declaration, 9 May 1950. Video clip in French.

The Monnet Plan (1950). Jean Monnet. Memoirs. New York: Doubleday, 1978. Chapter 12: A Bold Constructive Act, 1949-1950, pp. 288-317. French excerpt.

Treaty of Rome (1957). Preamble. Peruse also the structure of the treaty.

Common Destiny (1958). Documentary film (18:27). View video (Preview). You might need to download free Real Player.

Chronology of European treaties: a brief but useful summary of the amendments to the Treaty of Rome.

V. Erosion of National Particularity: On the Road to Maastricht and Beyond

Ernst Haas (1958). "The Uniting of Europe," Excerpt in Brent F. Nelsen and Alexander C-G. Stubb. 1998. The European Union: Readings on the Theory and Practice of European Integration. Boulder: Lynne Rienner (1998), pp. 139-143.

Stanley Hoffman (1966). Obstinate or Obsolete? The Fate of the Nation-State and the Case of Western Europe. Ronald Tiersky (ed.) Euro-skepticism: a reader. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.

De Gaulle's "non" to British EEC membership (January 1963). Scroll to items 10 and 12 on the page.

RADIO BBC report on the French veto (3:53)

• Cartoon in the Daily Worker
• Cartoon: "Der Eisberg", Simplicissimus. 16.02.1963.
• Cartoon: Second Accession Application, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 26.01.1967, No 22
• Cartoon: The eye of the EEC needle. Ironimus. Die Sechziger Jahre, Karikaturen aus den Jahren 1960-1970.

Britain Signs Treaty of Accession (1972). Video: watch closely!

The Single European Act and the road toward
the Treaty of the European Union (1986-1992)

Margaret Thatcher: The European Family of Nations. Speech. Bruges, 1988.

Jacques Delors. A Necessary Union. Speech, Bruges, 1989.

• British Cartoon on Delors-Thatcher Debate
• Headline of the London Sun, November 1, 1990. "Up Yours, Delors!" See photo.

Treaty on European Union (Maastricht, 1992). Preamble, Articles A-C. For background on the Maastricht Treaty, or a slightly more detailed backgrounder.

Timothy Garton Ash. "The European Orchestra," The New York Review of Books, May 17, 2001

Joschka Fischer, From Confederacy to Federation. Thoughts on the Finality of European Integration (2000).

Three Pillars of the European Union (Nice, 2001).

Jürgen Habermas, Towards a United States of Europe (2006).

VI. Human rights in the EU and Council of Europe: Universal Rights and Cultural Traditions

European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. Rome, 4.XI.1950. Articles 1-14, 19, 46.

Lustig-Prean et/and Beckett v. the United Kingdom, nos/nos. 31417/96 et/and 32377/96 (Sect. 3). See highlighted excerpts.

Refah Partisi (The Welfare Party) and Others v Turkey (2003).

Cornish Stannary Parliament, Case for Cornwall (2006). Pending.

VII. Defining and Protecting Freedoms (Euroskepticism and the MegaState)

The Four Freedoms. European Parliament Fact Sheet, Part III, Sections 3.1 and 3.2 (including 3.2.1-3.2.4)

The European MegaState: Controlling the Four Freedoms

Das Bild. Here's how the EU squanders our money (2005).

EuroPropaganda: Captain Euro. View Introduction and Animated Adventure I.

• For responses to Europropaganda, google "Captain Euro" or "The Raspberry Ice Cream War" (an early comic book with similar content)

Vice President (Institutional Relations and Communication Strategy) Margot Wallstršm - SEC (2006) 1553: Plan D - Wider and deeper Debate on Europe (24/11/2006). Excerpts

• The curious can read Commissioner Wallstrom's blog: for evidence of the "get closer to the people" campaign

I'm EU, You're EU: EU get closer to the people (2006).

Euroscepticism and Europeism. By Vaclav Klaus (President of the Czech Republic).

VIII. The Democratic Deficit

Wikipedia background on the Democratic Deficit

The Metric Martyr. Pounds and penance, The Guardian, January 15, 2001.

Andrew Moravcsik, "In Defence of the Democratic Deficit: Reassessing Legitimacy in the European Union," Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 40 (2002), pp. 603-624.

Philippe C. Schmitter. The European Union is Not Democratic—So What? EUSA Review (Winter 2004), 3-4.

Get Your Facts Straight! European Commission website debunking the attacks of the British Euroskeptical press.

FreeUK.com: Euromyths and Banning Curly Cucumbers

Nigel Farage on Who's Who in the EU Commission. Nigel Farage (UKIP) in the European Parliament (2006).

IX. The European Way

European Values and Identity: EurActiv.

Denis de Rougemont. The Meaning of Europe. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, (1965), 63-66. "Europe Unites"

T.R. Reid. "The European Social Model." The United States of Europe: the new superpower and the end of American supremacy (New York: Penguin Press, 2004), 144-176.

Iraq. Address by Dominique de Villepin, Minister of Foreign Affairs, at the United Nations Security Council. New-York, February 14, 2003. "We are the guardians of an ideal"

Robert Kagan, "Power and Weakness," Policy Review, No. 113 (June and July 2002).

X. Euroculture

Cedric Klapisch, "L'Auberge Espagnole" (2002). 122 min.

Symbols of the European Union: see

• Europe Day (May 9)
• The European Anthem
• The European Motto
• The European Flag

Commodification of Euro symbol: photo exhibit.

Pole wins EU birthday logo prize. BBC News (17 October 2006).

Carl De Keyzer, et al. Euro Visions. Steidl Publishing (2006). On reserve.

Eurovision! Song Contest. In-class viewing.

Giorgia Aiello and Dr. Crispin Thurlow. Symbolic Capitals: Visual Discourse and Intercultural Exchange in the European Capital of Culture Scheme. Language and Intercultural Communication, 6(2) (2006). See the images used in the article.

Paul Hopper, "'Who Wants to be a European?'" Community and Identity in the European Union. Human Affairs (2/2004).

XI. Managing Babel: EU Language Policies

European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (ECRML) (1992).

Many Tongues, One Family. Languages in the European Union: European Council Publication (2004).

Robert Phillipson, English-Only Europe? Challenging Language Policy (London: Routledge, 2003), 1-23.

"After Babel, a New Common Tongue," THE ECONOMIST, Aug. 7, 2004.

Germany's call for multilingualism falls on deaf ears in Finland. EurActiv, Friday 21 April 2006.

XII. Europe and its Others

Anthony Pagden, 'Europe: Conceptualising a Continent', in Anthony Pagden (ed.) The Idea of Europe from Antiquity to the European Union. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2002), 33-54.

Maps and the Construction of the Idea of Europe. In-class presentation.

Progressive map of EU-ization: an EU Postcard (2003).

XIII. Threats to the European Identity: Immigration

FYI: What, Me a Racist? Eurocomics (1998).

Ash Amin, Multiethnicity and the Idea of Europe. Theory, Culture and Society 21(2) (2004):1-24.

Austrian Freedom Party (FPO): Campaign Posters. Background on the FPO.

Joanne van Selm, Immigration Is Becoming a Key Issue for Europe's Future. European Affairs (July 2005).

Rioting in France. What's Wrong with Europe? Spiegel Online International, November 07, 2005. Don't forget to read Part 2.

EU Video: Integration of Immigrants: a Challenge for Europe (2005). (60 min.) In class presentation.

Theo van Gogh. Submission, Part I (2004). In class viewing

Ian Buruma. Letter from Amsterdam. Final Cut. After a filmmaker's murder, the Dutch creed of tolerance has come under siege. The New Yorker, 2005-01-03

The Danish Cartoon Controversy (2005)

Prophet drawings anger Saudi consumers. Copenhagen Post. 26.01.06.

What's a German? The Search for Identity Continues. By Charles Hawley. Spiegel Online, May 09, 2006. Also: follow the links to various citizenship tests.

XIV. Threats to the European identity: Enlargement

Dan Bilefsky, Romania and Bulgaria Celebrate Entry Into European. New York Times, January 2, 2007.

Copenhagen Criteria (1993): from the German Federal Foreign Office.

Andrew Moravcsik and Milada Anna Vachudova. Bargaining Among Unequals: Enlargement and the Future of European Integration. EUSA Review (Fall 2002), 1-3.

European Commission. Transitional arrangements for the Free Movement of Workers from the New Member States following Enlargmenet of the European Union on 1 May 2004.

European Commission, Structural Actions in Support of Enlargement.

Jozsef Borocz, "Goodness Is Elsewhere: The Rule of European Difference," Comparative Studies in Society and History, 48:1 (January 2006), 110-38. (excerpt)

The Polish Plumber (2005)

"Want Brussels to Play Fair? It Must be Earned," Prague Post, Sept. 20, 2006.

EU Video: EU ENLARGEMENT: BULGARIA - 2006 (21:24). In-class viewing.

Nigel Farage (UKIP). A Visit to Romania (BBC News, 2006).

Miroslav N. Jovanovic, (United Nations - Economic Commission for Europe), Turkey in the European Union: Euthanasia or the Rejuvenation of Europe? (Geneva, 2005), pp. 1-38.

Mr. Olli Rehn, Member of the European Commission. "Building a New Consensus on Enlargement: How to Match the Strategic Interest and Functioning Capacity of the EU?" European Policy Center, Brussels 19 May 2006 (choose PDF option).

JŸrgen Habermas Opening up Fortress Europe. Sign and Sight, 06-11-16.

XV. Agreeing on a Common Plan: the Constitutional Flop

Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe (2005). Read Title I and this summary.

Andrew Moravcsik. The European Constitutional Compromise. EUSA Review, Vol. 18, No.2 (Spring 2005), 1-7.

European NO! Campaign

• European NO! Campaign Ads.
• Rule Britannia! Say NO!
• Kampen om EU grunnloven (Norway). Video (2:40)
• Communist Workers' Party of Belgium (WPB). No on the Referendum
• The Czech President on Campaign
• Protests in Basque Bilbao
• Confederation Paysanne: Non ˆ cette Constitution pour l'Europe. English Translation.
• Dutch Reaction to the French Non (TV News)
• Turkey and European Union (3:59). A Turkish view.

Daniel Williams and Craig Whitlock. Nationalism Ignites EU Rebellion. June 6, 2005. Washington Post Foreign Service.

Gideon Rachman, The Death of Enlargement, Washington Quarterly (Summer 2006), pp. 51–56.

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