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Democratic and Economic Evolution of Europe

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 9 November 2020
End Date: Sunday, 13 December 2020
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 13 November 2020
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 27 November 2020

Description

This course is designed to provide sufficient knowledge and understanding of recent economic developments and democratisation processes in Europe as a whole and within the EU as an institution. It will examine the institutional and policy changes that have happened since the European "reunification" in 1989, but significant attention will be paid to the economic and political history of the continent also.

This course is designed to provide sufficient knowledge and understanding of economic developments and democratisation processes in Europe as a whole since 1945 and of the institutional and economic policy changes that have happened in the EU, its member states and in the countries of former Eastern Europe since the European “reunification” in 1989. The course examines the different composition of political and economic institutions, mechanisms and outcomes in Western and Eastern Europe during the 1945-1989 period which are presently mixed together by the process of thorough economic and democratic transition of the countries of former communist Eastern Europe and their accession into the EU. Particular consideration is given to the examination of the political, economic and social issues resulting from the recent process of rapid EU enlargement to the East which affects not only the direct Enlargement actors but also carries global importance.

Learning Outcomes

  • This course will enable students to become familiar with the context, origins and major problems of economic development and the democratisation processes in Europe as a whole since 1945, and the institutional and economic policy changes that have happened in the EU, its member states and in the countries of former Eastern Europe since the end of the Cold War. In particular, through their work in this course, students are expected to be able to:
  • understand and define the nature and meaning of political and economic differences between Western and Eastern Europe during their Cold War division,
  • understand, describe and analyse the basic economic and socio-political motives for the creation of the EU’s predecessor, the European Economic Community, and also for the EU’s recent eastern enlargement,
  • define the major socio-political and economic development problems which were faced by the EU and its member states on one side and by the candidates and potential candidates for EU membership from the region of ex-communist Eastern Europe on the other in the period after the end of the Cold War,
  • develop an awareness of theoretical debates relating to the themes and topics examined

Prerequisites

Any 15 points at 100 level from EURA or POLS, or
any 60 points at 100 level from the Schedule V of the BA, or
LAWS, GEOG, or
the Schedule V of the BCom.

Restrictions

EURA224, EURO224, EURA324, EURO324

Equivalent Courses

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Milenko Petrovic

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Lavigne, Marie,1935-; The economics of transition : from socialist economy to market economy ; 2nd ed; Macmillan Press, 1999.

Schulze, Max-Stephan; Western Europe : economic and social change since 1945 ; Addison Wesley Longman, 1998 ((chapters 1-9)).

Additional and optional readings are listed in the Course Outline (available for enrolled students on LEARN).

Course links

Library portal
LEARN The full Course Outline is available on LEARN (only for students enrolled in this course).

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $777.00

International fee $3,375.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .

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