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Présentation
Basic knowledge of international organizations and European Union.
Acquiring a good knowledge of the EU's institutional architecture and functioning and of its main policies and policy-making processes.
This course is an introduction to the political system of the European Union (EU).
It first provides an overview of the different European intergovernmental organizations (Council of Europe, OECD, NATO, etc.) and of their respective roles in order to highlight the specificity of the EU.
It then focuses on the EU, presenting its various institutions, their interactions and the way they make policy.
The course also offers a survey of key policies of the EU, such as Economic and Monetary Union, Common Agricultural Policy, Common Foreign and Security Policy, etc. The course explores the institutional set-up of the EU, its policy-making processes, its status and action at the global level, but also discusses the democratic legitimacy of its governance.
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Ressources
Helen Wallace, Mark A. Pollack, Alasdair R. Young (2015) <i>Policy-making in the European Union</i>. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Seventh Edition.