To develop an advanced interdisciplinary understanding of the main approaches to and theories of European integration and an ability to apply them to the enlargement of the European Union (EU).
Contents
1. Introductory lecture by the Jean Monnet professor on the organisation and academic division of labour between European Studies and European Union Studies across various social scientific and other disciplines.ok 2. Discipline-by-discipline overview lectures of the main approaches to and/or theories of European integration in various fields of research. Each overview lecture will be followed by an illustration/application of the main approaches and/or theories discussed on the empirical topic of EU enlargement. Each contributing discipline (lecturer) in turn will thus present the approaches and/or theories specific to the discipline and apply them to the same case of EU enlargement.