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The content of the course is articulated in four main themes which view the European reality from the view points of European studies, political science, international relations, culture, history and philosophy. Within these themes special lectures will tackle issues of political leadership, ideology and practice, policies, security issues, relations withtheEU’s vicinity as well as with more distant actors. Questions of values, of identity and civilization, of the origin of European Integration, be adressed in the secondhalfof the course. A special session will target the english-writing skills of participating students.

Τα μαθήματα “Social Policy” και “Topics on European Studies” προσφέρονται από κοινού και στα δυο Τμήματα της Σχολής (ΠΕΔΙΣ και ΚκΕΠ) μόνο αν υπάρχουν φοιτητές/τριες Erasmus στο τρέχον εξάμηνο. Εφόσον προσφερθούν, μπορούν να τα επιλέξουν και οι φοιτητές/τριες των δύο Τμημάτων ΠΕΔΙΣ και ΚκΕΠ.

ΜΑΘΗΣΙΑΚΑ ΑΠΟΤΕΛΕΣΜΑΤΑ

The main objective of the course is to combine contributions from various disciplines to a critical approach of the European idea and reality. Drawing from the fields of European studies, political science, international relations, history, cultural studies, law, philosophy, its aim is to provide a deeper comprehension of the European heritage and the perspectives of European integration. 

By the end of the course, students are expected to have deepened their understanding of the European Idea, the dynamics of European integration, the institutions and policies of the European Union and its relations with the rest of the world as well as the complexity of the European identity.

ΓΕΝΙΚΕΣ ΙΚΑΝΟΤΗΤΕΣ

Search for, analysis and synthesis of data and information, with the use of the necessary technology

Adapting to new situations

Decision-making

Working independently

Teamwork

Working in an international environment

Working in an interdisciplinary environment

Production of new research ideas 

Respect for difference and multiculturalism

Showing social, professional and ethical responsibility and sensitivity to gender issues

Criticism and self-criticism

Productionof free, creative and inductive thinking

ΠΕΡΙΕΧΟΜΕΝΟ ΜΑΘΗΜΑΤΟΣ

Three hours lectures on a weekly basis. 

UNITS
	Theme: Europe.  Institutions and basic values
1.	Introduction to the course. European Studies as a field of Study.  Unravelling the Union’s toolbox for defending common values (Assist. Prof.  Evaggelia Psychogiopoulou)
	Theme: Europe. The political science perspective.
2.	Toleration: Adventures of a european idea (Assist. Prof. Sotiris Vandoros)
3.	Populism in contemporary European politics (Dr Giorgos Archontas)
	Theme: Europe. The international relations perspective.
4.	Reflecting on the Fundamentals of EU Foreign and Security Policy(Assoc. Prof.  Stathis Fakiolas)
5.	European Neighbourhood Policy (Assoc. Prof. Panagiota Manoli)
	Theme: Europe.History, culture and philosophy
6.	Theorigins of European integration (Assist. Prof. Antonis Klapsis)
7	The origins of the European Idea (Assist. Prof. Dimitris Rozakis)
	Theme: Perfecting our English
8	English-writing skills improvement (Dr Maria Rontou)

ΤΡΟΠΟΣ ΠΑΡΑΔΟΣΗΣ

The main learning resources of the course will draw on the live lectures given for each subject matter and also on a special lecture destined to the improvement of the students’writing capacity in English.This lecture will comment on submitted essays and will identify and correct common writing errors. 

ΧΡΗΣΗ ΤΕΧΝΟΛΟΓΙΩΝ ΠΛΗΡΟΦΟΡΙΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΕΠΙΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΩΝ

There will be an extensive use of the e-class platform (teaching material, announcements, submission of assignments and especially the possibility of on going conversation and feedback thanks to the eclass module “chat”). 

In all PSIR classrooms there are projectors and access to internet which facilitate teaching performance. 

The PSIR Departmental library provides abundant bibliographical support and reading facilities.

The semester grades will be accessible in a classwebplatform (https://e-secretary.uop.gr/classweb/)

ΟΡΓΑΝΩΣΗ ΔΙΔΑΣΚΑΛΙΑΣ

The learning activities of the course will be based on the weekly lectures, the interaction of teachers and students through the eclass platform and the writing of a full length essay with presentation as well as the final examination at the end of the semester.

ΑΞΙΟΛΟΓΗΣΗ ΦΟΙΤΗΤΩΝ 

The course will be assessed by means of a written essay and a written examination. 

Final grades of students are based on the evaluation of the submitted and presented essay (70%) and the results in the final exams (30%).

ΣΥΝΙΣΤΩΜΕΝΗ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΓΡΑΦΙΑ

GENERAL READING

• Jan Hansen, Jochen Hung, Jaroslav Ira, Judit Klement, Sylvain Lesage, Juan Luis Simal and Andrew Tompkins, The European Experience. A Multi-Perspective History of Modern Europe, Open Books Publishers, 2023 
• George Delanty, The European Heritage, Routledge, 2018

SUGGESTED READING BY THEMES

EUROPE. INSTITUTIONS AND BASIC VALUES

1. Introduction to the course. European Studies as a field of Study – Unravelling the Union’stoolbox for defending common values

• Didier Bigo, Thomas Diez,Evangelos Fanoulis, Ben Rosamond, Yannis A. Stivachtis (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Critical European Studies, London: Routledge, 2021
• M. Bonelli, M. Claes, B. de Witte and K. Podstawa (eds), Usual and Unusual Suspects: New Actors, Roles and MechanismstoProtect EU Values, 2022 7(2) European Papers 641-737 (special section), https://www.europeanpapers.eu/en/e-journal/EP_eJ_2022_2.

EUROPE. THE POLITICAL SCIENCE PERSPECTIVE

2. Toleration: Adventures of a european idea

• Lacorne, Denis, The Limits of Tolerance. Enlightenment Values & Religious Fanaticism, New York: Columbia University Press, 2019
• Sardoč, Mitja (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Toleration, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

3. Populism in contemporary European politics

• Margret Canovan. “Trust the people! Populism and theTwo Faces of Democracy”. Political Studies, 47. 1999, pp. 2-16
• Roger Eatwell & Matthew Goodwin. National populism: The revolt against Liberal Democracy. London: Pelican Books 2018
• Ernesto Laclau. Politics and Ideology in MarxistTheory: Capitalism, Fascism, Populism. London: NLB/Atlantic Highlands Humanities Press. 1977
• Cas Mudde. “The Populist Radical Right: A Pathological Normalcy”. West European Politics 33-6. 2010, pp. 1167-1186
• Cas Mudde & Rovira Cristóbal Kaltwasser. Populism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2017
• Takis S. Pappas, Populism and Crisis Politics in Greece. London: Palgrave 2014

EUROPE. ΤΗΕINTERNATIONAL RELATIONS PERSPECTIVE

4. Reflecting on the Fundamentals of EU Foreign and Security Policy

• Marianne Riddervold, Jarle Trondal & Akasemi Newsome (eds), The Palgrave Handbookof EU Crises, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021
• E. Conde, Zhaklin V. Yaneva, & Marzia Scopelliti (eds), The Routledge Handbook of European Security Law and Policy, London and New York: Routledge, 2020 

5. European Neighbourhood Policy

• Manoli P. «A Structural Foreign Policy Perspective of the European Neighbourhood Policy» in Theorizing the European Neighbourhood Policy,. S. Gstohl και S. Schunz eds. London and New York: Routledge, 2017, p. 124 – 142  

EUROPE. CULTURE, HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY

6. Theorigins of Europe an integration

• Patel,   Kiran  Klaus   &   Wolfram  Kaiser,   “Continuity  and   Change   in  European Cooperation during the Twentieth Century,  Contemporary European History, 27.2, 2018, p. 165-182.
• Roobol, Wim, “Aristide Briand’s Plan: The Seed of European Unification”, in Menno Spiering and Michael Wintle (eds.),  Ideas of Europe since 1914: The Legacy of the First World War, Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills 2002, p. 32-46

7. The origins of the European Idea

• Catriona Seth and Rotraud von Kulessa (eds.),( 2017), The Idea of Europe: Enlightenment Perspectives. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0123
• Shane Weller (2021)  The Idea of Europe A Critical History Cambridge University Press)
• Zielonka Jan (2007): Europe as Empire. The Nature of the Enlarged European Union [2006], Oxford UP

 

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