This co-taught seminar aims to introduce Ph.D. researchers within the CIVICA network to the main theoretical approaches to the EU as an actor and a regulatory regime pushing for specific policies to foster regulatory alignment and core-periphery integration and to develop the capacities of EU Members States. The co-taught seminar will start with two lectures mapping the field of transnational regimes, regulatory integration, and the specificities of study of EU integration and continue with a lecture on the structure of the EU's institutional and decisional processes structuring the EU regulatory regimes. Then, six lectures will approach the main theoretical approaches and some challenges to progressing EU integration in various areas (cohesion funds, food safety, developmental banking, environmental policies, and sustainable agriculture). The co-taught seminar will finalize with a session dedicated to Ph.D. researchers presenting their work and a wrap-up session.
Topics
1. Introduction of participants and presentation of the general outline of the co-taught seminar. Introductory topics - Theoretical approaches to the study of the integration of countries in the EU, Laszlo Bruszt
2. EU as a regulatory regime: Challenges of integration, Matthias Thiemann
3. Institutions and decisional processes structuring the EU regulatory regimes, Arpad Todor
4. Case studies – Cohesion funds and state aid, Laszlo Bruszt
5. Case studies – Food safety, Laszlo Bruszt
6. Case studies – The pursuit of European policies through leveraged finance and development banking, Matthias Thiemann
7. Case studies – The pursuit of European policies through Next Generation EU and the Recovery and Resilience Facility (Matthias Thiemann, Erik Jones or Waltraud Schelkle, EUI - TBC)
8. Limits of Europeanisation through the integration of countries facing institutional backwardness – Environmental policies, Arpad Todor
9. Limits of Europeanisation through decentralized planning – Sustainable agriculture, Arpad Todor
10. Wrapping up - setting the research question right. Seminar dedicated to Ph.D. researchers wishing to present their work, Arpad Todor, Laszlo Bruszt, and Matthias Thiemann
Provisional program: the seminar will take place on 5, 7, 9, 12, 14, 16, 19, 21, and 23rd (2 sessions) of September starting at 2.00 PM CEE.
Teachers:
- Todor Arpad (National University of Political Studies and Public Administration)
- Laszlo Bruszt (Central European University)
- Matthias Thiemann (Sciences Po)
- Waltraud Schelkle (European University Institute)
Entry requirements:
Please provide this information: - Description of the Ph.D. topic (short abstract); - Your study program (main field)
Assessment:
Written assignment in the form of a research proposal