COURSE UNIT TITLE

: EUROPEAN ECONOMIC INTEGRATION AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
STR 5034 EUROPEAN ECONOMIC INTEGRATION AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Strategic Research

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR UTKU UTKULU

Offered to

Strategic Research

Course Objective

European Union is a regional integration approach which based on economic integration. The main objective of this course is to analyse and understand the evaluation of European economic integration, its dynamics and future perspectives in scope of globalisation, regionalisation and current economic evolvement.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To understand the economic integration theory
2   To understand the customs union, single market and harmonization of economic policies stage of European integration
3   To analyse economic integration forms by comparison
4   To evaluate EU with regards to economic integration
5   To address economic integration in historical process and to dispute today's European integration including monetary union stage
6   To perform global based strategic analyses.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Historical Development of Economic Integration: European Integration in 1815-1945
2 Historical Development of Economic Integration: Post 1945: From European Economic Community to European Union
3 Economic Integration, Regionalisation and Globalisation Relations: The Reasons that Lead Countries to Integration: GATT Case
4 Economic Integration, Regionalisation and Globalisation Relations: Post 1990: Paradigm Change in Regional Integration, Global Period of Regionalism
5 Generation Approach in Regionalism: EU s Interregional Trade Strategies
6 Customs Union - Common Trade Policy (CTP) - Evolution of European Single (Internal) Market
7 Fundamental Freedoms of Single (Internal) Market: Free Movement of Goods - Fundamental Freedoms of Single (Internal) Market: Free Movement of Services, Free Movement of Factors of Production
8 Types and Concept of Economic Integration
9 Customs Unions and Their Effects: Short Term (Static) Effects - Customs Unions and Their Effects: Medium and Long Term (Dynamic) Effects
10 The EU Turkey Scenarios in the Process of Enlargement : Migration, Growth and Full Membership Perspectives
11 Concepts of Optimum Currency Area and Monetary Union European Monetary Union
12 Global Economic Crisis and Its Reflections on the European Monetary Union
13 The European Union as a Global Actor
14 General Evaluation

Recomended or Required Reading

Aggarwal, Vinod K. ve Edward A. Fogarty, Between Regionalism and Globalization: European Union Interregional Trade Strategies .

Balkır, C. Uluslararası Ekonomik Bütünleşme: Kuram, Politika ve Uygulama AB ve Dünya Örnekleri, Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, Istanbul, 2010.

Balkır, C. ve Allen Williams (ed.)(1993), Turkey and Europe, Pinter Publishers, London. McDonald, F. And S. Dearden, European Economic Integration, Longmans. 3rd ed.

Blanchard, O. (2004) The Economic Future of Europe, MIT, Department of Economics, Working Paper Series, 2004/4, Feb. 2004.

El-Agraa, Ali M. (1994), The Economics of the European Community, 4th Ed. Harvester Wheatsheaf Press Iktisadi Kalkınma Vakfı, Avrupa Birliği nin Ortak Ticaret Politikası,

Meunier, S. Managing Globalization The EU in International Trade Negotiations , Journal of Common Market Studies, 45(4), 2007, 905-926.

Mundell, R. A. , A Theory of Optimum Curreny Areas, The American Economic Review, 51(4), 1961, 657-665.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, class discussions, student assignments and presentations.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FCG* 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST* 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

To be announced.

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Plagiarism of any type will result in disciplinary action.
Attending at least 70 percent of lectures is mandatory.
All assignments should be submitted on time. Otherwise will not be accepted.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Professor Utku Utkulu; utku.utkulu@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 4 56
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Preparation for final exam 1 25 25
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 3 42
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 149

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9
LO.1
LO.24
LO.34
LO.4
LO.54
LO.6

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