Questions for Week 13 – Theories I

 

I’ll be covering internal and external security as well.

 

 

 

1.     How can we conceptualize the EU? What does it consists of? How does it differ from the nation state? And from an international organization?

 

 

 

 

 

2.     How do federalism and the EU compare?

 

 

 

 

 

3.     What is a state centric view of the EU?

 

 

 

 

 

 

4.     What is multi-level governance?

 

 

 

 

 

5.     What is a rich definition of sovereignty, intergovernmentalism, and supranationalism?

 

 

 

 

 

 

6.     What is the new version of neofunctionalism? Can you think of any scholars who have used this approach? And how do they apply this approach to study the relaunching of the European integration?

 

 

 

 

 

7. What is the new version of intergovernmentalism? How does it differ from neofunctionalism in explaining the relaunching of European integration?

 

 

 

 

 

8. What is new institutionalism and when would it be appropriate to apply this theory to the study of the EU?

 

 

 

 

 

9. How does policy network approaches differ from new institutionalism?

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

Questions for Week 12 – Enlargement

 

I will be covering Structural Funds & Enlargement issues

 

  1. How did the last round of enlargement differ from previous enlargements?

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. What is the CEEC?

 

 

  1. What is the issue about Turkey?

 

 

 

 

  1. Why was the EU willing to take on 10 more member states?

 

 

 

 

  1. What were some of the costs or drawbacks of enlargement?

 

 

 

 

 

  1. How does the process of enlargement unfold?

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. What is widening and what is deepening and how do they relate?

 

 

 

  1. What were some of the central developments that contributed to the fall of Communist states?

 

 

 

 

  1. What happened to Communist parties?

 

 

 

10. What is a centrally planned economy and why did they collapse?

 

 

 

 

  1. How would you describe the transition from centrally planned to market economies?

 

 

 

 

 

  1. How did the end of the Cold War affect Germany and the EU?

 

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Questions for Week 11

 

Remember that we will still be examining monetary integration and cohesion/structural funds. We will definitely not cover pages 442-62. You can skip reading those pages for now.

 

  1. What is the size of the EU budget in relation to its member states?

 

 

  1. Why did the EU suffer from budgetary crises? How were they resolved? And what is the situation at present?

 

 

 

 

 

  1. What are the sources of income for the EU? And where does it money go? Which item is the largest allocation? And why?

 

 

 

 

 

  1. What are compulsory expenditures?

 

 

 

 

 

  1. What is the respective role of each institution in the budgetary process?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. What are the main features of the budgetary process? And how does it differ from other policy making processes in the EU?

 

 

 

 

  1. How would you describe EU external trade policy?

 

 

 

 

 

  1. What is the WTO?

 

 

 

  1. What are association agreements?

 

 

 

 

  1. How does the Commission reach a position on international trade?

 

 

 

 

  1. How would you describe the emergence of an European foreign security defense policy? What have been the main obstacles?

 

 

 

 

 

 

12.What are the key elements of CFSP?

 

 

 

 

 

13.  Why is CFSP underdeveloped?

 

 

 

 

14.What was the breakthrough of St Malo?

 

 

 

 

15.How are CFSP objectives supposed to be achieved?

 

 

 

 

 

16.But what role does NATO play in obstructing further development of CFSP?

 

 

 

 

 

17.What institutions are involved in policy making under the CFSP pillar?

 

 

 

 

 

 

18.What role does the Commission play?

 

 

 

 

 

19.In what fashion does the EU provide development assistance?

 

 

 

 

20.What is the Lome Convention?

 

 

 

 

 

 

21.What is ACP?

 

 

 

 

Questions for Week 10

 

 

  1. What are the sources for EU law

 

 

  1. What are the differences between regulations, directives, decisions, and recommendations, and opinions?

 

 

 

 

  1. How would you describe content of EU law?

 

 

 

 

 

  1. What is meant by primacy? And what is meant by direct effect?

 

 

 

 

  1. What are the procedures in the Court?

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. What type of questions are brought before the court?

 

 

 

 

  1. What has been the impact and influence of the ECJ?

 

 

 

 

  1. What is the relationship between treaty and policy initiatives?

 

 

 

 

 

  1. What are the main features/pillars of the SEM and describe the tools used by the Commission to push forward the SEM.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. What is the ERM/EMS and how does it relate to EMU?

 

 

 

 

  1. What is the evolution of Justice and Home Affairs?

 

 

 

 

12. What are the characteristics of EU policies?

 

 

 

WEEK 9

 

  1. How would you describe Europe in 1950? How does it differ from Europe in 2004? How did it differ from the US in 1950?

 

 

 

  1. What changes took place in the 1970s and onward? Of the trends described which one/s is/are most significant?

 

 

 

 

 

  1. What drove economic growth and prosperity after 1950?

 

 

 

 

  1. What were some of the institutional innovation to secure sustained growth?

 

 

 

 

  1. What is Keynesian demand stimulus?

 

 

 

 

  1. What is corporatism?

 

 

 

 

  1. What is inflation?

 

 

 

  1. What is the snake?

 

 

 

  1. What is Ostpolitik?

 

 

 

  1. What is détente?

 

 

 

 

  1. What were the consequences of the dual track rearmament decision?

 

 

 

 

  1. What is deepening?