HSS553 - Affaires européennes (2023-2024)

European affairs

Michel MANGENOT - François-Gilles Le THEULE

This course has two aims: present the European Union as it is, as it works to the concrete and exceed the traditional opositions between State and Europe or national sovereignty and supranationality. It includes to two questions: how do we work within the EU but also how do we work with the EU?

After a theorical introduction (how to think Europe) and a historical framework (where does EU come from?), the course analysis operationally the procedures, steps and actors of the European decisions processes. It

The three-hour written final exam (50%) consists on a case study with professional . In PC, the continuous assessment (50%) consists on an oral presentation per student.

Bibliography

Synthetical presentation:

DOUTRIAUX (Yves), LEQUESNE (Christian), Les institutions de l’Union européenne après la crise de la zone euro, Paris, La Documentation française, coll. « Reflexe Europe », 9 édition, 2013, 320 pages.

Textbooks:

Options:

COHEN (Antonin), Le régime politique de l’Union européenne, Paris, Repères, La Découverte, 2014, 128 pages.

QUERMONNE (Jean-Louis), Le système politique de l’Union européenne, Paris, LGDJ, coll « Clefs », 9^ème édition, 2015, 158 pages.

In more detail:

COSTA (Olivier), BRACK (Nathalie), Le fonctionnement de l’Union européenne, Bruxelles, Editions de l’Université de Bruxelles, 3^ème édition 2017, 434 pages.

Reference material and work tools:

CHARLETY (Véronique), LAFARGE (François), MANGENOT (Michel), MESTRE (Christian), SCHIRMANN (Sylvain), dir., Dictionnaire encyclopédique de la gouvernance européenne, Bruxelles, Larcier, 2018.

COSTA (Olivier), MERAND (Frédéric), dir., Traité d’études européennes, Bruxelles, Bruylant, 2018.

SAURUGGER (Sabine), Théories et concepts de l’intégration européenne, Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 2010, 483 pages

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Michel MANGENOT

Director of the Institut d'études européennes (IEE) of the Université Paris VIII

Professor of political science, member of the CRESPPA-LabToP 

Coordinator of the Master European Union and globalization

Vice-president of the French Association of political science

http://www.cresppa.cnrs.fr/labtop/mangenot-michel/