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Offered: M/W 10:35 am – 11:30 am
Frequency Offered: YearlyEvery semester
Prerequisites: None
Cross-listed with PHI 125.001
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Frequency Offered: Regularly
Prerequisites: None
Cross-listed with GEO 396.001
Course Description
For twenty years (1985-2005), the process of European Integration was a spectacular success. Europe added new member states, expanded to include the former Communist states of Eastern and Central Europe, and introduced a common currency and a common Schengen boundary. Then starting in 2005, things started to go wrong. This course focuses on the strengths and weaknesses of the European project---a project to build a common system of governance. We focus on such issues as: Europe's Monetary Union; the Greek Crisis; the Refugee Problem; Germany's economic superiority; demographic decline; the failure to incorporate Europe's Muslim populations; the Geopolitical problems of dealing with Russia and the United States, and Brexit.
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