-The EUs impact on womens (or LGBT+) rights in Central Europe. -The EUs impact on democracy in Central Europe. 1) Choose one of the topics above. 2) Apart from course literature, find TWO research papers (chapters in academic books or academic journal articles, NOT student papers!) relevant for the selected topic. Write short summaries of those papers (half page for each paper). Look specifically for what research questions are posed in the papers and what answers are given. What is the main argument? How does the paper relate to the topic you selected? What is left out? 3) Integrate the arguments from the course literature and your selected readings and write a bullet point list (= an outline for a paper on the selected topic) (1 page). The list can include questions/problems to be discussed, related to the chosen topic. Please observe: In the bullet points you need to include references to your two selected articles and at least one text from the course reading of this week! Opps: During the seminar you will be divided into smaller groups and will discuss Youre prepared topics. The short summaries of research papers and the bullet point list (in one document) In total, the submission should not be longer than 2 pages, Times New Roman, 1, 5 spacing, font 12. Note: what we went through this week is mentioned below with links to the course literatures and the topics that we discussed in the class. So when you integrate the arguments from the course literature with your selected readings you can find the course literature below and select the one that combines well with your selected topics that you have find by yourself. During this week, we will discuss consequences of the Eastern enlargement for Central European countries and for the EU. We will also deal with recent changes in Central Europe and their effects on the EU. Monday: Lecture 1.The Eastern enlargement. What is Central Europe and what did membership in the EU change? Different dimensions of Europeanization. Required readings (and suggested order of reading): The Economist (2012), Time to Scrap Eastern Europe?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya55Q-WdIrQ Schimmelfennig, F. & Sedelmeier, U. (2004) Governance by conditionality: EU rule transfer to the candidate countries of Central and Eastern Europe, Journal of European Public Policy11(4): 661-679 Vachudova, M. (2008) Tempered by the EU? Political Parties and Party Systems Before and After Accession, Journal of European Public Policy15 (6):861-879 Tuesday: Lecture 2. A united EU? A united Central Europe? Required readings: Moravcsik, A. (2017) The future of Europe: Coping with Crisis, Great Decisions [Available at https://www.princeton.edu/~amoravcs/library/Europe%20GREAT%20DECISIONS%202017.pdf] Krastev, I. (2007) The Strange Death of the Liberal Consensus, Journal of Democracy18 (4): 56-63
