Week 10: March 11 & 13

Current Topics

Topics: Lecture 1, Lecture 2 and Website and Sources

Governance: Draft Constitution, Treaty of Lisbon
Debt Crisis

Assigned Readings:

Dinan, Ever Closer Union, ch. 6

Assignments: March 13 due

March 13 (Thursday): Research Paper due

The research paper may be on any topic relevant to the subject matter of the course. Students are encouraged to submit to Professor Sheridan a statement of their intended topic by Feb. 14 at the latest, to receive feedback and possible recommendations of sources.

Minimum research requirements for the paper are the use of one book-length study, plus three additional sources, one of which must be an "original source" in the sense used in this course, such as an official European Union document. The sources besides the book and the original source may be other books, chapters of books, or scholarly articles. All of the research materials for the paper must be "serious"; that is, they must be works with scholarly or analytical content.

The length of the research paper is 10-12 pages (12-point type, double-spaced pages) or 3000-3600 words. The paper is due March 13.

The course website provides numerous aids for locating books and other sources to be used in researching the paper. These aids include especially the Bibliography and the General Reference and Subject Guides of the University of Pittsburgh Center for West European Studies, and All Resources. Consult scholarly journals, such as The Journal of Common Market Studies, as well as books, in your search for studies to use for your paper.

MARCH 18 (Tuesday): Final Examination, 1:00 - 3:00 pm

Resources:

Draft Constitution

A Constitution for Europe-Overview

Enlargement

Nello, Susan Senior and Karen E. Smith. The European Union and Central and Eastern Europe: the Implications of Enlargement in Stages (1998)
Padoa-Schioppa, Tommaso ed. Europe after 1992: Three Essays (1991)
Shlaim, Avi and G.N. Yannopoulos. The EEC and Eastern Europe (1978)
Van Ham, Peter. The EC, Eastern Europe and European Unity: Discord, Collaboration and Integration Since 1947 (1993)

Cultural Policy

Council of Europe. Language Learning for European Citizenship: Final Report of the Project Group (1989-96), compiled and edited by John Trim (1997)
Council of Europe. In from the Margins: A Contribution to the Debate on Culture and Development in Europe (1997)
Council of Europe. The Council of Europe and Cultural Heritage 1954-2000. Intergovernmental Work: Basic Texts (2001)
D'Angelo, Mario and Paul Vespérini. Cultural Policies in Europe: Regions and Cultural Decentralisation (2000)
Grosjean, Etienne. Forty Years of Cultural Cooperation at the Council of Europe 1954-1994 (1997)