W 1/20 What does "Europe" mean?
Required readings (handed out in class):
Karahasan, "An Argument with a Frenchman"
Drakulic, "What Ivan Said"
To think about:
Europe Map Quiz
M 1/25 Post-War Politics in Western Europe
Required reading:
Kesselman, "Transitions in European Politics" in CR, pp.6-23
W 1/27 - F 1/29 European Political Parties
Required reading:
Steiner, Chapter 1, pp.3-30
Blair, "Britain in the USA" in CR, pp.26-28
To think about:
The range of political issues and positions reflected in the various
European parties. Also, how do the Socialists, Conservatives, and
Liberals differ from US political parties? What does "The Third Way"
stand for?
For Friday 1/29: Check
out the web sites of a couple of the major parties of the country of your
choice. What do the web sites tell you about these parties?
At a minimum, compare the sites of the British Labour and Conservative
Parties.
M 2/1- F 2/5 European Electoral Systems
Required reading:
Steiner, Chapter 2, pp.33-59
To think about:
How do the rules of the political game affect the outcome?
M 2/8 Governments and Heads of State
Required reading:
Steiner, Chapter 3, pp.61-94
Cohen, "Germany's Shift East" in CR, pp.29-30
Suggested reading:
Kramer, "The Once and Future Chancellor" (on Gerhard Schröder)
in CR, pp.31-42
To think about:
How do political institutions help determine political outcomes?
W 2/10 Eastern Europe?
Required reading:
Burgess, "Divided Europe: The New Domination of the East: Introduction"
in CR, pp.43-50
To think about:
What's the difference between how we think about Eastern and Western
Europe? France and Bulgaria? Germany and Poland?
F 2/12 Eastern Europe: Post-war politics
Required reading:
Ost, "Political Economy and Development" in CR, pp.51-64
Suggested reading:
Ost, "The Making of Modern East-Central Europe" in CR, pp.65-85
To think about:
Compare the different post-war trajectories of the two parts of Europe.
W 2/17 TBA
F 2/19 Eurosceptics
Required reading:
Malcolm, "The Case Again Europe" in CR, pp.87-94
To think about:
Is a united Europe a good thing?
M 2/22 The EU and the Social Question
Required reading:
Judt, "The Social Question Redivivus" in CR, pp.95-107
Ibrahim, "Welfare's Cozy Coat Eases Norwegian Cold" in CR, pp.108-109
Suggested reading:
"The Social Charter of the EC" in CR, pp.110-114
Cohen, "Redrawing the Free Market" in CR, pp.135-137
Martin and Schuman, "The opportunity for Europe" and "An end to disorientation"
in CR, pp.138-149
To think about:
The origin of the social welfare state
You must meet with
my be today to discuss your Country Study topic.
W 2/24 The Euro
Required reading:
Frieden, "The Euro: Who Wins? Who Loses?" in CR, pp.115-123
Suggested reading:
Cohen, "Clinging to Its Past, Europe ..." in CR, pp.124-131
Cohen, "Shiny, Prosperous Euroland..." in CR, pp.132-134
M 3/1 Eastern Europe: Social Costs of transition
Required reading:
Nelson, "Social Costs, Social-Sector Reforms, and Politics in Post-Communist
Transformations" in CR, pp.163-175
Suggested reading:
Greskovits, "The Social Response to Economic Hardship" in CR, pp.176-187
Links of interest:
Check out the manifesto of the Hungarian
Democratic Forum, (www.mdf.hu/) a right-center party. Notice in particular
its criticism of the ruling Socialist party.
The Solidarity Electoral Action,
a Polish right-center party directly descended from the Solidarity labor
union, also has its political
program in English. What are its priorities?
W 3/3 Eastern Europe and NATO expansion
Required reading:
"Struggling Ukraine Teeters Between East and West" (handed out in class)
Suggested reading:
Albright, "Enlarging NATO: Why Bigger is Better" in CR, pp.305-307
Hartung on NATO enlargement, in CR, pp.308-310
F 3/5 Midterm
Essay Due
M 3/8 - F 3/12: Spring Break
W 3/17 Nationalism: Strong or weak?
Required reading:
Burgess, "The weakness of nationalism" in CR, pp.204-211
M 3/22 Immigration into Western Europe
Required reading:
Fekete, "Blackening the economy: the path to convergence" in CR, pp.223-231
To think about:
Why have immigrants come to Western Europe? Where have they come
from?
Country Study Due
Monday 3/22, 7pm in Library Video Screening room (5th Floor)
Film:
Hate 
Links of interest:
Le
Front National (National Front) (France)
National Front
(UK)
W 3/24-F 3/26 Anti-Immigrant sentiment in W. Europe
Required reading:
"Just a soccer star, after all," handed out in class
"The Front National:
Real Politics" (from F.N. web site), handed out in class
In Class: Discussion of Hate as well as article
To think about:
What does it mean to be "French"? To be "European"?
M 3/29 Immigration: Germany
Required reading:
Schönwälder, "Migration, Refugees and Ethnic Plurality..."
in CR, pp.232-240
"Germany" in CR, p.243
"Right-Wing March Showcases Germany's Disenchanted" (handed out in
class)
Suggested reading:
Burgess, "Blending into the British Background" in CR, pp.244-252
"Racism in Britain: is Britain a fairer place?" in CR, pp.253-255
To think about:
What was/is the source of anti-foreigner sentiment in Germany?
W 3/31 Racism in Eastern Europe
Required reading:
Cox, "After Stalinism: The Extreme Right in Russia, East Germany, and
Eastern Europe" (handed out in class)
M 4/5 Italy: The Northern League
Required reading:
Ruzza and Schmidtke, "The Northern League" in CR, pp.261-274
Suggested reading:
O'Toole, "Imagining Scotland" in CR, pp.277-286
Links of interest:
The
Northern League (Lega Nord)
Scottish
National Party
W 4/7 Yugoslavia: Historical Background
F 4/9 Yugoslavia: Beginnings of the crisis
In Class: Yugoslavia Death of a Nation, part 1
(You may also want to see on your own the other 5 parts of Yugoslavia:
Death of a Nation, which is in the library, in the 5th floor video
collection)
Required reading:
Silber, Introduction, Chapters 1-2
M 4/12 - M 4/26 Yugoslavia: The wars in Croatia, Bosnia
and Kosovo
Required reading:
Silber and Little, "Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation" chapters 4-7, 9-10,
13-14 (on the war in Croatia); chapters 15-16, 18-19, 21-22, 25 (on the
war in Bosnia)
Film:
Before the Rain (about relations between Albanians and
Macedonians in western Macedonia)
To be shown Thursday, April 22, 7pm Textor 103
Link of interest:
Interview
with Mandy Jacobson, director and writer of Calling the Ghosts
, documentary about concentration and rape camps in Bosnia.
M 4/19 Visit by Ozren Pupovac, undergrad sociology major at Univ. of Zagreb, Croatia
M 4/26 The Situation in Kosovo
Reading to be announced
Suggested readings:
See the instructor for specific suggested readings.
Take-home final essay
is due Thursday, May 6 by 4pm
Last revised 4/16/99