History of European Integration

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

European integration is a historical political process that underwent a series of events and changes throughout a period of time, not something that happened automatically or suddenly. The course covers the period from 1945 to 2024. It allows us to grasp continuities and true changes throughout time, and to be in touch with current events. The course is based on active teaching, short texts, audiovisual archives, and the manual that provides a chronology and description of the events that contributed to the integration of the European Union. The dynamics of the community system are clarified by its return to the context of European societies and political cultures, the economic world and the international system. The historical perspective makes us attentive to what European integration owes to circumstances, to strategies, immediate actions and elections, thus shedding light on the parameters of decision-making current and future.