European Union Studies
The interdisciplinary concentration in European Union Studies is designed to familiarize students pursuing doctorates in European history, European languages, political science, economics, business, and sociology with theories pertaining to current developments unfolding in Continental Europe and their likely impact on the rest of the world. The concentration encourages students to focus their disciplinary interests on a living experiment, unique in its conception and execution, and provides them with an opportunity to observe, assess, and evaluate one of the most extraordinary political events of the day.
The continuing process of European integration is exceptional in its voluntary reduction of national sovereignty among democracies, with the center of decision-making in a number of areas moving from the national to the supranational level. Additionally, widening and deepening of European integration is scheduled to progress to a European economic and monetary union throughout the next decade and to propel cohesion in common foreign and security policies. Further enlargement of the European Union (EU) remains a challenge, particularly in the area of cooperative legal matters, a task of monumental proportions.
Students who wish to pursue the concentration must be enrolled in a doctoral program at the Graduate Center and are expected to meet its requirements. The core courses in Political Science are P SC 86301 The Political Economy of the European Union: Past, Present, Future and P SC 86305 Interests, Institutions, and Public Policy in the European Union. Other courses can be selected from various courses offered in the history, political science, economics, and sociology programs or other relevant programs. Proficiency in one or more European languages other than English is strongly encouraged. Elective courses for the concentration afford students an opportunity to explore the European Union from different disciplinary perspectives.
For further information, interested students should contact Professor Hugo M. Kaufmann, European Union Studies Studies Center, The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016, 1-212-817-2052 or
Christa Altenstetter, Ph.D. Program in
Political Science, The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016, 1-212-817-8675.
