Regions and Municipalities in EU governance - Einzelansicht

The Master seminar discusses theoretically and empirically the role, agency, competences and different ways of how regions and local actors are interwoven within the EU multilevel polity and governance. The political and administrative cooperation in Europe will be assessed by focusing on the interaction of different levels (supranational, national/ intergovernmental, regional, local) with regard to actor interaction, networking, governance and/or cooperation in the EU with its regions and municipalities. The seminar is built on paper readings and discussions, input presentations by the lecturer and the students and excursions.

Beck, Joachim (2022): Horizontal Integration, Baden-Baden: Nomos.

Börzel, Tanja A. (2020): Multilevel governance or multilevel government?, in: The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Vol. 22(4), S. 776–783.

Crossey, Nora/Weber, Florian (2023): Borderlands of Governance – Multilevel Cross-border Governance and Trajectories of Local Cross-border Ties in the Franco-German Moselle-Saarland Region, Journal of Borderlands Studies.

Diez, Thomas & Wiener, Antje (2018): Introducing the Mosaic of Integration Theory, in: Working Paper KFG – The Transformative Power of Europe.

Hooghe, Liesbet & Marks, Gary (2019): Grand theories of European integration in the twenty-first century, in: Journal of European Public Policy, Vol. 26(8), S. 1113-1133.

Kajta, Justyna/Makaro, Julita & Debicki, Marcin (2023): Divided Towns, Integration and Cross-border Cooperation. The Cases of Cieszyn/Ceský Tesín and Slubice/ Frankfurt (Oder), Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Vol. 31(4), S. 1164-1177.

Kern, Kristine (2019): Cities as leaders in EU multilevel climate governance: embedded upscaling of local experiments in Europe, in: Environmental Politics, Vol. 28(1), S. 125-145.

Kreienkamp, Julia/ Pegram, Tom & David Coen (2022): Explaining transformative change in EU climate policy: multilevel problems, policies, and politics, in: Journal of European Integration, Vol. 44(5), S. 731-748.

Moodie, John R./Meijer, Mari Wøien/Salenius, Viktor & Kull, Michael (2023): Territorial governance and Smart Specialisation: empowering the subnational level in EU regional policy, Territory, Politics, Governance, Vol. 11(7), S. 1392-1412.

Schakel, Arjan H. (2020): Multi-level governance in a ‘Europe with the regions’, in: The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Vol. 22(4), S. 767–775.

Ulrich, Peter (2021): Participatory Governance in the Europe of Cross-Border Regions. Cooperation – Boundaries – Civil Society. Baden-Baden: Nomos.

The seminar starts on October 30! One of the dates will be a full-day excursion.

 Dates:

• 30.10.25
• 6.11.25
• 20.11.25
• 27.11.25
• 4.12.25
• 11.12.25
• 18.12.25
• 8.1.26
• 15.1.26
• 29.1.26
• 5.2.26

Oral presentation (50% of the grade)

Seminar paper (50% of the grade)

• EU integration theories with the focus on the regional and local level
• Actors and relations within the EU from a regional and local perspectives
• Practical experiences by visiting political actors in Berlin and Brandenburg who work in EU affairs