Political System of the European Union
3
2023-2024
01020102
Other areas
Portuguese
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
6.0
Elective
1st Cycle Studies
Recommended Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of English language.
Teaching Methods
The course combines lectures focusing on the analysis and critical evaluation of the European integration dynamics, in its diffrent dymensions (also including both teacher presentations and debates with students, based on the recommended readings), with more practical classes where distinct methods of teaching will be used, including analysis of historical and EU official documents; handling of the Lisbon Treaty; simulation exercise; and debates of reading materials.
Learning Outcomes
Main learning outcome:
- Understand the historical na politcal processes that underlay european integration.
Specific learning outcomes and skills:
- Develop capacities to analyse the legal and political framework of the European Union, particularly the division of competences among EU instituions and its decision-making procedures;
- Develop capacities to map and criticaly analyse the normative and functional dimensions of the EU's public policies that have a bigger impact in the Union's international presence, namely thorugh the application of diffrenet theoretical frameworks;
- Develop practical skills of analysis and problem solving as well as of ellaboration of concrete proposals for political action by the different EU institutions.
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
Part I. the EU and the process of European integration
1. What is the European Union? Theoretical views of the European integration process
2. The Founding Treaties: from the European Communities to the European Union
3. From the Constitutional Treaty to the Lisbon Treaty
4. The dynamics of European desintegration
Part II. Institutions and decision-making processes
5. Decision-making in the EU
6. European Institutions: European Commission, European Parliament, Council of the EU, European Council
7. The new actors in the EU's multilevel governance
Part III. EU policies (for example)
8. EU External Relations
9. The EU's Foreign, Security and Defense policies
10. The Area of Liberty, Security and Justice
11. The Economic and Monetary Union
Part IV. Practical exercise
12. Simulation of a EU institution.
Head Lecturer(s)
Sarah Carreira da Mota
Assessment Methods
Assessment
Participation: 20.0%
In-class presentation: 20.0%
Individual and group assignment: 60.0%
Bibliography
CAMISÃO, Isabel; FERNANDES, Luís Lobo (2005) Construir a Europa: o processo de integração entre a teoria e a história. São João do Estoril: Principia
CAMPOS, João Luiz da Mota de; CAMPOS, João Mota de (2010) Manual de direito europeu: o sistema institucional, a ordem jurídica e o ordenamento económico da União Europeia. Coimbra: Coimbra Editora.
NUGENT, Neill (2010) The government and politics of the European Union. 7th ed.. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Michelle Cini, Nieves Pérez-Solórzano Borragán (eds) (2013) EUROPEAN Union politics. 4th ed.. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Peterson, J. e Shackleton, M. (org.) The Institutions of the European Union, 3ª ed. Oxford: Oxford UP
União Europeia (2009) Tratado de Lisboa. Bruxelas: União Europeia.