Dr Mareike Kleine

This course is available on the MSc in Culture and Conflict in a Global Europe, MSc in Culture and Conflict in a Global Europe (LSE & Columbia), MSc in Culture and Conflict in a Global Europe (LSE & Sciences Po), MSc in European and International Politics and Policy, MSc in European and International Politics and Policy (LSE and Bocconi), MSc in European and International Politics and Policy (LSE and Sciences Po), MSc in Political Economy of Europe in the World, MSc in Political Economy of Europe in the World (LSE and Fudan) and MSc in Political Economy of Europe in the World (LSE and Sciences Po). This course is not available as an outside option to students on other programmes. This course uses controlled access as part of the course selection process. For information on controlled access courses, including eligibility, application processes, deadlines, and departmental contact details, please refer to the Controlled Access Courses webpage.

To apply for a place, ALL students should submit a statement via LSE for You outlining your specific reasons for applying, how it will benefit your academic/career goals, and how you meet any necessary pre-requisites (maximum 200 words).

The first round of offers will be made from 12-noon on the Friday before Autumn Term week 1. The final deadline for applications is 12-noon on the Friday of Autumn Term week 2.

For queries contact: ei@lse.ac.uk

Globalization has reconfigured the conditions of political, economic, and social life by creating dense patterns of cross-border interdependence. It has contributed to reductions in poverty and interstate war, but it has also generated new forms of conflict, inequality, and vulnerability. These developments raise fundamental questions of governance: how collective action can be organized beyond the nation-state, which actors and institutional forms are most salient, and what makes governance arrangements effective, legitimate, and just.

The course addresses these questions by situating European integration within the broader study of global and regional governance. The European Union serves as a central case that allows us to examine competing claims that it is a model, a cautionary tale, or one among several regional experiments.

The course is structured around a set of conceptual tensions, such as multilateralism versus regionalism, legalization versus networks, and interdependence versus vulnerability. Readings draw on International Relations, Comparative Politics, and International Political Economy. They include theoretical arguments as well as empirical studies from Europe and other world regions. The course does not provide a descriptive survey of institutions. Instead, it highlights analytical debates and normative controversies and invites students to connect scholarship to contemporary global challenges.

15 hours of seminars and 10 hours of lectures in the Winter Term.

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

Research paper.

Research paper.

Students are required to summit a draft and a final non-assessed research paper outline in the WT. 

• Weiss, Thomas G., and Rorden Wilkinson (eds.). 2018. International Organization and Global Governance (2nd edition). Oxon and New York: Routledge.
• Schneider, Christina J. 2017. The political economy of regional integration. Annual Review of Political Science 20: 229-248.
• Rodrik, Dani. 2000. How Far Will International Economic Integration Go? The Journal of Economic Perspectives 14 (1): 177-186.

Essay (100%, 5000 words).

Students submit by the beginning of the following term a 5,000 word research essay. Deadlines to be confirmed in class.