European Integration

This course explores the nature of the European integration, its development since its creation and its present state. The course focuses both on the study of the institutional configuration of the EU and the policies that this international organization implements. This course studies the development and evolution of the process of post-war integration in Europe, its main actors and political structure and institutional organization. The course thus focuses on the history, development and main challenges of the European integration process and it examines the basic structures and processes of European Union governance. The course will also look into the rationale of integration, including theoretical concepts and approaches, institutions, actors, policies and, decision- and policy-making. Finally, the course examines a number of contemporary events and recent challenges facing the EU, including security challenges, plethora of current European Union?s crises, the issue of enlargement (recent and future), the withdrawal of the United Kingdom and other occurring challenges.