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Recent historiographical controversies in the history of European cooperation and integration (HEC-RS-EURINT-24)

HEC-RS-EURINT-24

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This research seminar explores what recent controversies animated the field of European cooperation and integration history, and how these controversies reignite — or not — older ones. Is European integration a primarily economic or political project? Is the European Economic Community a sui generis endeavour? Can we talk of a European foreign policy? Is it possible to write a supranational history of Europe?
The seminar will discuss the ways in which the history of European integration is written and how it develops in parallel to other related fields and disciplines (e.g. sociology, political science, international relations…). We will reflect on the main interpretations and methodological tools with the aim of familiarizing researchers with the varieties of approaches, methods, and analytical scope of the genre. 
The following programme is set up above all to provide a broad overview of methods, sources and time periods in order to allow a reflection and debate on them, as well as an engagement with ongoing research from EUI fellows and external guests. After a general introduction, each session tackles one debate or controversy, related (but not limited) to: the role of market forces, the US and European integration, Eastern Europe and the cold war, supranational history, the euro, European bureaucrats, the distinctiveness of European integration, social welfare vs. free trade, and the place of European integration history in European studies. 
 

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