MSc European Political Economy

Full-year programme. Students must take two compulsory courses and optional courses to the value of one-and-a-half units and a dissertation as shown. Additionally, all students must take EU410 Interdisciplinary Research Methods and Design and EU450 European Union: Contemporary Issues, in preparation for the dissertation. Students without a strong background in economics are strongly encouraged to take EU409 Basic Economic Concepts for European Political Economy as an additional course to support their studies.

Paper

Course number and title

1

EU452

European Political Economy

2

A. Political Economy: Theory and Practice

 

EU455

Concepts in Political Economy (H)

 

B. Political Economy in Action:
One of the following half units: 

 

EU425

Interest Representation and Economic Policy-Making in Europe (H)

EU439

Political and Fiscal Integration and Disintegration in EU Member States (H)

EU443

European Models of Capitalism (H)

EU446

Patterns of Economic Integration in Europe: Institutions and Politics of EMU (H)

 

EU449

The Political Economy of Transition and EU Accession in Central and Eastern Europe (H)

 

EU453

The Political Economy of European Welfare States (H)

3

Courses to the value of one full unit from the following:
Institutions, Politics and Policies of the EU:

 

EU420

European Union Law and Government (H)

EU421

Policy-Making in the European Union (H)

EU429

Economic and Social Policy in Mediterranean Europe (H)

EU430

Europeanization: The Comparative Politics of Domestic Change (H)

EU436

Law and Governance of the Single European Market (n/a 11/12)

EU464

Migration and Mobility in the European Union (H)

SA4F7

The Economics of European Social Policy (H)

SA4M1

Politics of Social Policy: Welfare and Work in Comparative Perspective (H)

 

European Identity and Ideas:

 

EU424

The Idea of Europe (H)

EU426

The West: Identity and Interests (H)

EU432

The Philosophy of Europe (H)

EU437

Europe Beyond Modernity (H)

EU447

Democracy, Ideology and the European State (H)

EU448

Minorities and Migration in Europe (H) (n/a 11/12)

GV4A5

Public Policy Responses to International Migration (H)

 

Regional courses:

 

EU423

Greece and the European Union (H) (n/a 11/12)

 

EU434

The Political Economy of Southeast Europe (H)

EU438

Turkey: Political Economy and European Integration (H)

EU440

Greece and South-East Europe: Government, Economy and Foreign Policy (H)

EU461

Economic History of Southeastern Europe and the Middle East, 1820-1970 (H)

 

Courses from 2B above not already taken
*A half unit from another MSc programme

4

EU499

Dissertation

Notes

*A half unit from another MSc programme (only to be taken with the permission of the teacher responsible and the MSc EPE Programme Director. Admission will depend on the student having the necessary background and on the availability of space).

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