HY411      One Unit
European Integration in the Twentieth Century

This information is for the 2025/26 session.

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A prior knowledge of 20th century European history will be an advantage. Students unfamiliar with the subject should do some preliminary reading. A reading knowledge of French and/or German will be useful but in no sense essential.

The antecedents and development of Western European integration from the First World War to the 1990s. European integration before 1914; German and Allied projects during the First World War; inter-war developments and the Briand Plan; the Nazi New 'Order'; Resistance and Allied planning during the Second World War; the impact of the Marshall Plan; Federalism and Christian Democracy; the Schuman Plan and the Coal and Steel Community; the European Defence Community project; the Treaties of Rome; the Common Agricultural Policy; the integration policies of the Six and Britain; de Gaulle and the Communities; enlargement; monetary integration; developments in the 1970s and 1980s; Treaty of Maastricht.

2 hours of seminars in the Spring Term.
15 hours of seminars and 3 hours of lectures in the Winter Term.
7 hours of lectures and 13.5 hours of seminars in the Autumn Term.

This course has a reading week in Week 6 of Autumn and Winter Term.

Three essays will be required in the course of the year. The essay in the WT will be an assessed piece of work counting towards the final assessment. 

Full bibliographies are provided. As introductory reading, students should consult: P M Stirk, A History of European Integration since 1914 (London, 1996); D. Dinan, ed, Origins and Evolution of the  European Union (Oxford, 2006);M. Gilbert, European Integration: a Concise History (Lanham, Md, 2012); J Gillingham, Coal, Steel, and the Rebirth of Europe, 1945-55 (Cambridge, 1991); A S Milward, The Reconstruction of Western Europe,1945-51 (London, 1984); A S Milward, The European Rescue of the Nation State (London, 1992); N P Ludlow, Dealing with Britain: the Six and the First UK Application to the EEC (Cambridge, 1997); W I Hitchcock, France Restored: Cold War Diplomacy and the Quest for Leadership in Europe, 1944-1954 (Chapel Hill, 1998); A Moravcsik, The Choice for Europe: Social Purpose and State Power from Messina to Maastricht (Cornell, 1998); N P Ludlow, The European Community and the Crises of the 1960s (London, 2006); W. Kaiser, Christian Democracy and the Origins of the European Union (London, 2008); W. Kaiser, B. Leucht and M. Rasmussen, . The History of the European Union: Origins of a Trans- and Supranational Polity 1950-72 (London, 2009); A C Knudsen, Farmers on Welfare: The Making of Europe's Common Agricultural Policy (Cornell, 2009).

Exam (75%), duration: 180 Minutes in the Spring exam period

Essay (25%)