FSS:EVSb2096 Britain and the European Union - Course Information
EVSb2096 Britain and the European Union
Faculty of Social StudiesAutumn 2021
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Monika Brusenbauch Meislová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. Monika Brusenbauch Meislová, Ph.D.
Department of International Relations and European Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Olga Cídlová, DiS.
Supplier department: Department of International Relations and European Studies – Faculty of Social Studies - Timetable
- Tue 10:00–11:40 Aula
- Prerequisites
- ! EVS196 Britain and the European Union && !NOW( EVS196 Britain and the European Union )
None - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 2/30, only registered: 0/30 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- European Studies (programme FSS, B-EVS) (6)
- International Relations and European Politics (programme FSS, B-IREP) (2)
- International Relations and European Politics (Eng.) (programme FSS, B-MS)
- International Relations (programme FSS, B-MV) (6)
- Course objectives
- The aim of the course is to provide students with a general overview of the basic themes and issues in the relations between the United Kingdom (UK) and the European Union (EU). Having placed it in the appropriate historical context, the module helps students understand the United Kingdom’s uneasy engagement and entanglement with the European Union. It also sets out the key fundamentals for understanding the issues, events and development, both short-term and long-term, that led to the 2016 in/out referendum (and its result).
- Learning outcomes
- Students will be able to:
- identify and summarize key features and milestones in the UK-EU relations;
- describe the factors that contributed to British voters’ decision of 2016 to leave the European Union;
- identify and describe current trends in negotiations on the UK’s withdrawal from the EU
- to put British attitudes towards the European integration process into a wider context of British foreign policy-making - Syllabus
- British approach to the beginnings of the European integration and the accession process to the EC
- Referendum on the EC membership in 1975
- British EU policy under Margaret Thatcher and John Major
- British EU policy under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown
- British EU policy under David Cameron
- Eurosceptic Mobilization of the Conservative Party
- In/Out Referendum in 2016
- Brexit: negotiations on the UK’s withdrawal from the EU
- Brexit implications on UK-Czech relations
- The UK as a awkward partner? Final evaluation of UK-EU relations
- Literature
- required literature
- McGowan, Lee (2018) Preparing for Brexit: Actors, Negotiations and Consequences. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
- Martill, Benjamin a Staiger, Uta (eds) Brexit and Beyond: Rethinking the Futures of Europe. London: UCL Press.
- Glencross, Andrew (2016) Why the UK Voted for Brexit. David Cameron’s Great Miscalculation. Basingstoke: Palgrace Macmillan
- Goodwin, Matthew and Milazzo, Caitlin (2017) Taking back control? Investigating the role of immigration in the 2016 vote for Brexit. The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 450–464.
- Brusenbauch Meislová, Monika (2018) Issue capture a požadavek na uspořádání referenda o setrvání VB v EU v kontextu euroskeptické mobilizace Konzervativní strany. Acta Politologica, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 36–56.
- Tournier-Sol, Karine (2015) The UKIP Challenge. In: Tournier-Sol, Karine – Gifford, Chris (eds.) The UK Challenge to Europeanization. The Persistence of British Euroscepticism. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 134-147.
- Brusenbauch Meislová, Monika (2018) All things to all people? Discursive patterns on UK–EU relationship in David Cameron’s speeches. British Politics (online first; published online 23 April 2018).
- Spiering, Menno (2015) A Cultural History of British Euroscepticism. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Smith, Julie (2016). David Cameron’s EU renegotiation and referendum pledge: A case of déjà vu? British Politics, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 324-346
- Tonge, Jonathan (2016) The Impact of Withdrawal from the European Union upon Northern Ireland. Political Quarterly. Vol. 87, No. 3, pp. 338-342.
- Todd, John (2016) The UK’s Relationship with Europe: Struggling over Sovereignty. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
- GEDDES, Andrew. The European union and british politics. 1st pub. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2004, xv, 252 s. ISBN 0-333-98121-9. info
- not specified
- Smith, Julie (2018). Gambling on Europe: David Cameron and the 2016 referendum. British Politics, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 1–16.
- Mullen, Tom (2019) Brexit and the territorial governance of the United Kingdom. Contemporary Social Science, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 276-293.
- Allen, N. (2018). “Brexit means Brexit”: Theresa May and post-referendum British politics. British Politics, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 105–120
- Bailey, David and Budd, Leslie (2019) Brexit and beyond: a Pandora’s Box? Contemporary Social Science, Vol. 14, No. 2, p. 157-173.
- Teaching methods
- The course combines lectures and seminars, with the seminars thematically related to the lectures. Apart from traditional teaching methods, also various activating teaching methods (such as, for instance, discussions, heuristic or situational methods and didactic games) will be regularly included.
- Assessment methods
- Requirements for successful completion of the course:
- a presentation given either individually, or in groups (depending on the number of students in the course)
- up-to-date overviews of the current developments in the UK-EU relations
- participation in seminars
- active participation in seminar discussions
- passing a final written test - Language of instruction
- English
- Further Comments
- The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2021, recent)
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