Supranational Integration Processes

-Nation, Federation, Confederation. Integration of States.
-Postcolonial associations of States: the British Commonwealth.
-Free trade areas, customs unions, common markets, economic unions.
-Europe and the European Union: from the medieval universalism to the Treaty of Westphalia; the age of European empires; eurocentrism and colonialism; nationalisms versus the pan-European movement; the two world wars and the crisis of European consciousness; first attempts of integration: the Council of Europe; BENELUX; the birth of the European Communities: ECSC, EEC and EURATOM; institutional problems and successive enlargements; the Single European Act and the treaties of Maastricht, Amsterdam and Nice.
-The economic logic of political and institutional integration.
-Other models of integration: OEEC, COMECON, EFTA.
-Europe to globalization. Integration processes in the American context: LAFTA, LAIA, Mercosur, the Andean Group, NAFTA.
-Integration processes in Africa and Asia.