This module aims to examine the relationship between Europe and the wider world and the way in which this relationship impacts upon EU policies in various domains.

This module will place Europe in a global context and explore issues such as how the EU and its member states have reacted to the ideological, economic and security pressures of globalisation through the examination of themes such as political governance foreign and security policy, youth culture, social policies, and economic and labour market policies.

 On completion of the module a student should be able to:

• Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of the key concepts and arguments concerned with globalisation;
• Critically analyse and evaluate the impact of globalisation on the EU and its Member States in a number of political, economic, social and ideological domains;
• Critically evaluate EU and Member States’ responses to globalisation
• Critically evaluate links between theory and practice as far as EU and national responses to globalisation in several domains are concerned

 Teaching is by ten 2-hour seminars in which students will present seminar papers for discussion; and via feedback on written essays.

Throughout this module students will develop the following skills:

·         Analytical skills associated with coherent and clear argumentation

·         The ability to analyse conflicting evidence and theoretical interpretations

·         The ability to present complex ideas, orally and in writing, in a coherent, structured manner

·         The ability to write in good, grammatically correct English in an  appropriate academic style

·         The ability to assimilate and sift information for appropriateness

A sound knowledge of the place of the EU in the wider world

The module is assessed by 1 x 3,000 word essay (70%) and a 2,000 word presentation write-up (30%)

This will enable students to display skills of argumentation, selection and analysis of conflicting, complex evidence - both theoretical and empirical – concerning the place of the EU in the wider world, as well as writing skills associated with presenting arguments in a clear, structured manner and written in good, grammatically correct English

 Failed essays can be resubmitted for a minimum pass mark (50%) in the August resit period.

What is globalisation?

European political identity and globalisation
European (political) governance and globalisation
Social Europe and globalisation
European labour and globalisation
European economic governance (EMU) and globalisation
European trade and aid policies in the age of globalisation

Ideological perspectives on globalisation
European counter cultures and globalisation
Critique of Globalisation

Subject to change in line with staff availability

Globalisation

David Held et al, Debating Globalization, Polity, 2005.

Jan Aart Scholte, Globalization. A Critical Introduction, Palgrave, 2000, especially: part 1 (chapters 1-4) and part 3 (chapters 9-12). Second edition published 2005.

Manfred B. Steger, Globalization: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2003.

Colin Hay and David Marsh (eds.), Demystifying Globalization, Macmillan, 2000.

Ulrich Beck, What is Globalization?, Polity, 2000

Will Hutton, The World We’re In, Abacus, 2003

Frank J. Lechner and John Boli, The Globalization Reader, Blackwell, 2004, second edition.

Philippe Legrain, Open World: The Truth about Globalisation, Abacus, 2003

Vivien A. Schmidt, The Futures of European Capitalism, Oxford University Press, 2002, esp. chapter 1

Political Governance

Jonah Levy  (ed.),The State after Statism,  Harvard University Press, 2006.

Paul Hirst and G. Thomson, Globalisation in Question, 1996.

C. Hay and B. Rosamond (2002). ‘Globalisation, European Integration and the discursive construction of economic imperatives’, Journal of European Public Policy 9, 2: 147-167.

Rosamond, B. (2001)  ‘Discourses of Globalisation and European Identities’. In T. Christiansen, K.E. Jorgensen and A. Wiener (eds) The Social Construction of Europe  London:Sage, pp. 158-173

Marcussen, M., Risse,  T., Engel-Martin, D., Knopf, H.-J. and Roscher, K. 2001.  ‘Constructing Europe? The Evolution of Nation-State Identities’. In T. Christiansen, K.E. Jorgensen and A. Wiener (eds), The Social Construction of Europe,London: Sage, pp. 158-173.

Economic governance

David Andrews et al. (eds), Governing the World's Money, Cornell University Press, 2002

Benjamin Cohen, The Geography of Money, Cornell University Press, 1998

Kenneth Dyson, The Politics of the Euro Zone, Oxford University Press, 2000

Kenneth Dyson (ed.) The Euro at 10, Oxford University Press, 2008

Kenneth Dyson and Martin Marcussen (eds), Central Banks in the Age of the Euro, Oxford University Press, 2009

Peter Hall and David Soskice (eds), Varieties of Capitalism, Oxford University Press,

Social Model/Labour

Adnett, N and Hardy, S. T. (2005) The European Social Model: modernisation or evolution? Cheltenham/Northampton MA: Edward Elgar.

Alber, J. (2006) ‘The European Social Model and the United States’, European Union Politics, 7 (3), pp. 393 – 419.

Hyman, R. (2005) ‘Trade Unions and the Politics of the European Social Model’, Economic and Industrial Democracy, Vol. 26, No. 1, 9-40

Jepsen, M and Serrano Pascual, A. (2005) ‘The European Social Model: an exercise in deconstruction’ Journal of European Social Policy, Vol. 15, No. 3, 231-245.

Kittel, B. (2002) EMU, EU Enlargement and the European Social Model: Trends, Challenges and Questions. MPIfG Working Paper 02/1, Cologne.

Martin, A. and Ross, G. (2004) Euros and Europeans. Monetary Integration and the European Model of Society. Cambridge: CUP. (Especially Chaps 1, 10-13).

Rhodes (1998) ‘Globalisation, Labour Markets and Welfare States: A Future of ‘Competitive Corporatism’?’ in M. Rhodes and Y. Mény (eds), The Future of European Welfare: A New Social Contract?, London: Macmillan 1998, pp. 178-203.

Scharpf, F. W. (2002), ‘The European Social Model: coping with the challenges of diversity’, Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 40, pp. 645-670.

Vaughan-Whitehead, D. (2003) EU Enlargement Versus Social Europe? The uncertain Future of the European Social Model. Cheltenham/Northampton MA: Edward Elgar. Especially Ch. 1.

Wincott, D. (2006) ‘The Idea of the European Social Model: Limits and Paradoxes of Europeanization’ in K. Featherstone and C. Radaelli (eds) The Politics of Europeanization. Oxford: OUP.

Trade and Aid Policies towards the developing world

Adekeye Adebajoand Kaye Whiteman, The EU and Africa: From Eurafrique to Afro-Europa, Cape

Town, Wits University Press, 2012

Bretherton, Charlotte and Volger, John, The European Union as  Global Actor (2nd Edition), Routledge, 2006

Flint, Adrian, Trade, poverty and the environment: the EU, Cotonou and the African-Caribbean-Pacific

bloc, Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

Sicurelli, Daniela, The European Union's Africa Policies, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2010

Smith, Hazel, European Union Foreign Policy, Pluto Press, 2003

Holland, Martin, European Union and the Third World, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2002

Orbie, Jan (ed), Europe's global role : external policies of the European Union, Aldershot , Ashgate, 2008

Counter cultures

Ronald Fraser, ed., 1968. A Student Generation in Revolt. London/New York 1988.

Antonio Gramsci, Gramsci Reader. Selected Writings 1916-1935. London 1999.

Greil Marcus. Lipstick traces. A Secret History of the 2oth Century. London 2001.

Steve Giles/Maike Oergel eds., Counter-Cultures in Germany and Central Europe. Oxford 2003.

Gerrit-Jan Berendse, “German anti-Americanism in context”. Journal of European Studies 33 (2003) 3/4: 333-50.

Axel Schildt/Detlef Siegfried, eds., Between Karl Marx and Coca-Cola. Youth Culture in Changing European Societies, 1960-1980. New York/Oxford 2006.

Timothy Shary/Alexandra Seibel, Youth Culture in Global Cinema. Austin, TX 2007.

Gerrit-Jan Berendse/Ingo Cornils , eds., Baader-Meinhof Returns. Memory and Cultural Memory of German Left-Wing Terrorism. Amsterdam/New York 2008.

Critique of Globalisation

Todd McGowan (2004), The End of Dissatisfaction? Jacques Lacan and the Emerging Society of Enjoyment, Albany, Suny Press.

Teresa Brennan (2002), Globalisation and its Terrors, London and New York, Routledge.

Slavoj Žižek (2002), For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor, 2^nd edition, London, Verso.

Slavoj Žižek (2008), In Defense of Lost Causes, London and New York, Verso.

Eva Illouz (2007), Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism, Cambridge and Malden/MA, Polity.

Anthony Elliott and Charles Lemert (2005), The New Individualism: The Emotional Costs of Globalisation, London and New York, Routledge.

Fabio Vighi and Heiko Feldner (2006), ‘United States of Europe or Free Trade Zone? No Thanks! Slavoj Žižek on the Future of Europe’, in European Journal of Social Theory, 9/1, pp. 337-355.