Contributor(s): Professor Jennifer Jackson-Preece, Professor Sara B Hobolt, Professor Maurice Fraser, Professor Kevin Featherstone, Professor Paul De Grauwe | What is Europe - just a landmass, an area on the map? Or is it an idea; a way of thinking, of organising states in union? Is there such a thing as a "European identity"? And, in the midst of changing global patterns, can Europe resist the forces of fragmentation? In this short film, faculty of LSE's European Institute talk about what defin...
Jan 27, 2016•10 min
Contributor(s): Faculty and associates of the Hellenic Observatory | The Hellenic Observatory, located in the LSE's European Institute, celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2016. To celebrate this important milestone it has produced a special video which showcases the Observatory’s achievements and activities over the last 20 years.
Jan 21, 2016•6 min
Contributor(s): Dr Robert Hancké | Dr Bob Hancké, Director of the Executive MSc in the Political Economy of Europe, gives insight into this specialist executive degree within the European Institute at LSE.
Sep 28, 2015•3 min
Contributor(s): John Walker, Emilie Turunen | Students from the Executive MSc in the Political Economy of Europe, class of 2015, provide an insight into the degree programme.
Sep 28, 2015•53 sec
Contributor(s): Paul Glynn, Lenin Duenas, Pablo Calvillo | Students from the Executive MSc in the Political Economy of Europe, class of 2015, provide an insight into the degree programme.
Sep 28, 2015•2 min
Contributor(s): Lenin Duenas, John Walker | Students from the Executive MSc in the Political Economy of Europe, class of 2015, provide an insight into the degree programme.
Sep 28, 2015•2 min
Contributor(s): Emilie Turunen | Students from the Executive MSc in the Political Economy of Europe, class of 2015, provide an insight into the degree programme.
Sep 28, 2015•50 sec
Contributor(s): Lenin Duenas | Students from the Executive MSc in the Political Economy of Europe, class of 2015, provide an insight into the degree programme.
Sep 28, 2015•54 sec
Contributor(s): Dr Jennifer Jackson-Preece | The securitization of minorities and migrants in Europe has coincided with a growing rejection of multiculturalism in favour of new discourses that place a greater emphasis on social cohesion predicated upon a shared nation-state identity. This course will examine the ways in which different constructions of membership and belonging underscore contested narratives on diversity and the competing policy responses this has engendered.
Apr 15, 2014•3 min
Contributor(s): Dr Waltraud Schelkle | This course is the core course for the MSc Political Economy of Europe. It introduces key concepts that help understand the different processes of political-economic integration of different welfare states and 'model(s) of capitalism'.
Apr 15, 2014•3 min
Contributor(s): Dr Jonathan White | This course investigates democracy, ideology and the state as three core features of modern Europe. It charts their emergence as concepts, their historical evolution as political practices, and their fate in Europe today.
Apr 15, 2014•2 min
Contributor(s): Professor Paul De Grauwe | This course consists of two parts. The first part deals with the theory of optimal currency areas. This theory analyses the costs and the benefits of joining a monetary union. It also focuses on the incomplete nature of the Eurozone. The second part analyses monetary and fiscal policies in a monetary union.
Apr 15, 2014•2 min
Contributor(s): Dr Robert Hancké | This course provides an assessment of the origins, internal logic and viability of the different ways of organising advanced capitalist political economies in Europe today. The aim of the course is to provide students with an in-depth understanding of the different models of capitalism in Europe, and the implications of capitalist diversity for different policy areas.
Apr 15, 2014•2 min
Contributor(s): Dr Mareike Kleine | This course is an introduction to the causes and nature of European integration. The topic is presented from a historical, social scientific and normative perspective. We critically examine various theories of, and current debates about European integration by studying the process of integration, its effect on EU member states and third actors, and its constitutional character. The first part of the course analyses different stages in the integration process, ...
Apr 15, 2014•3 min
Contributor(s): Professor Maurice Fraser | This course examines the cultural and intellectual origins of Europe in Ancient Greece and Christendom; the emergence of a shared European cultural space in the Middle Ages and Renaissance; contested definitions of Europe's final frontier and eligibility for EU membership; rationales of empire and the distinction between 'civilisation' and 'barbarism'; the fissile interplay of rationalism and romanticism; the uses and abuses of instrumental reason; secu...
Apr 15, 2014•3 min
Contributor(s): Dr Sara Hagemann | This course analyses the European Union as an emerging 'political system', where there as an on-going interaction between the processes of government (the operation of the institutional and legal framework), public policy (the adoption and impact of policy decisions and EU legislation), and politics (the interests, ideas, opinions and values of the political actors - e.g. citizens, businesses, regions, government ministers, bureaucrats, party leaders). The prin...
Apr 15, 2014•2 min
Contributor(s): Professor Paul de Grauwe | Professor Paul de Grauwe introduces the European Institute at LSE.
Dec 11, 2012•2 min
Contributor(s): Professor Kevin Featherstone | Professor Kevin Featherstone of the European Institute talks about the Master's programme in EU Politics (formerly Politics and Government in the European Union).
Dec 10, 2012•3 min
Contributor(s): Dr Simon Glendinning | Dr Simon Glendinning of the European Institute talks about the Master's programme in European Studies: Ideas, Ideologies and Identities (formerly European Studies: Ideas and Identities).
Dec 10, 2012•4 min
