International Affairs U 4535

The History and Political Development of
the European Union
Fall 2000

Professor Kathrina Zippel

Class: T 2:10 - 4 p.m.                                                    Office Hours: T 4 - 6 p.m. or by appointment

Room: 413 IAB                                                              in Room: 1225 IAB

Phone: (212) 854-1554                                                  Email: ksz12@columbia.edu

see also Syllabus

Weekly Lecture Notes

Week 7, October 17: 
Labor Markets: Issues of Gender Relations, Discrimination, and Employment

Week 8, October 24:
Midterm Exam.

Mid Term Answers and Grading Sheet (expected Tuesday November 14th)

Week 9: October 31:
Labor Markets: Issues of Employment and Social Protection (continued from Week 7)
  Lecture 9

Week 10: November 7:  no class.

Week 11: November 14:

European Integration in the 1990s: The Treaties from Maastricht and Amsterdam
Lecture 11

Readings: 
1. Dinan, Chapters 6-7
2. Nelson & Stubb, Part One: Preamble to the Maastricht Treaty
EU document: "The Amsterdam Treaty: a Comprehensive Guide," 

Recommended:
Neunreither and Wiener, Chapters 1-4

Useful WWW sites:

http://www.europa.eu.int/scadplus/leg/en/lvb/a09000.htm  
http://europa.eu.int/scadplus/leg/en/s50000.htm
http://europa.eu.int/abc/obj/treaties/en/entr2a.htm#11

Extra Credit Option Week 11

Extra Credit Option Week 11/12

Week 12: November 21:
Past and Future Enlargements, Agenda 2000
Lecture 12

Readings: 
Wallace & Wallace, Chapter 16
Redmond & Rosenthal, Chapters 1, 10-11
EU documents: "Enlargement" http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/enlargement/index.htm

Recommended:
Redmond & Rosenthal, other chapters; Preston, Chapters 1-9; Mayhew, Chapters 1, 15-16; Rossilli, Chapters 10-11; Neunreither and Wiener, Chapters 9-12

**** NEW **** Lecture 12

Week 13: November 28:
The EU as an International Economic and Political Actor: Common Foreign and Security Policy; US-EU Relations
Lecture 13

Readings:
Piening, Chapters
Dinan, Chapters 17-18
Wallace & Wallace, Chapter 17
EU documents:  Transatlantic Cooperation: http://www.eurunion.org/partner/transcorpdocs.htm
The New Transatlantic Agenda: http://www.eurunion.org/partner/agenda.htm

Recommended:
McCormick, Chapter 15  

**** NEW ****Lecture 13

Week 14: December 5^th:
Evaluating the Role of the EU in the New Millennium
Lecture 14

Readings:
Wallace & Wallace, Chapter 19
Rossilli, Chapters
Recommended:
McCormick, Conclusion

Friday December 15^th: FINAL EXAM