| 回 | 項目 | 内容 |
| 第1回 | Guidance | 1) Self-introduction.
2) Textbook and Course Evaluation will be explained.
3) General knowledge of the EU will be discussed. |
| 第2回 | Economic Integration and the World | 1) General definition of economic integration and the dramatic increase of regional economic integration since the 90's, 2) Current regional economic integration worldwide and its relationship with WTO rules, will be explained.
[Required preparation:] Read Chapter 1 |
| 第3回 | Theory of Economic Integration | 1) Each stage of economic integration (FTA/EPA, Customs Union, Common Market) will be explained.
2)History of EU towards single market will be summarized.
[Required preparation:] Read Chapter2, 6, 7 |
| 第4回 | Post-war monetary system | After Bretton Woods international monetary system and its relation ship with the European economy will be explained.
[Required preparation:] Read assigned materials. |
| 第5回 | Theory of Monetary Integration | The concepts of monetary integration and its gains and losses will be discussed.
[Required preparation:] Read Chapter 10 |
| 第6回 | European Monetary Union: (1) Dollar and the European Economy | 1) Monetary speculation between Dollar and European currency, especially Deutsche Mark, and its impacts on the European economy
2) The Snake in the tunnel,
will be explained.
[Required preparation:] Read Chapter 11 |
| 第7回 | European Monetary Union: (2) the Operation of the EMU | Functions of the Eurosystem and the ECB will be explained.
[Required preparation:] Read Chapter 12 |
| 第8回 | EU Enlargement: 2004 to the present | 1) History of the EU enlargement,
2) Impacts and dynamics of 2004 middle and Eastern European countries' accession will be discussed.
[Required preparation:] Read assigned materials. |
| 第9回 | The Financial Market and the Euro | The history of EU financial market integration and changes of market participants behaviour will be explained.
[Required preparation:] Read assigned materials. |
| 第10回 | Regional inequalities in the EU | ) Regional disparities within the EU and the causes
2) EU regional policy
will be explained.
[Required preparation:] Read assigned materials. |
| 第11回 | The Eurozone in Crisis: (1) The Global Financial Crisis | 1) The economic bubble & burst of the US
2) EU financial institutions and the US economic bubble
will be explained.
[Required preparation:] Read assigned materials. |
| 第12回 | The Eurozone in Crisis: (2) The Public Debt Crisis in the Eurozone | Public debt crisis in eurozone: Greece to GIIPS will be explained.
[Required preparation:] Read assigned materials. |
| 第13回 | Exit from the Crisis | The EU policy reactions to the eurozone crisis: its effectiveness and limits will be explained.
[Required preparation:] Read assigned materials. |
| 第14回 | The UK and the EU | The background of the UK national's decision to leave the EU and the challenges both the UK and the EU would face will be discussed.
[Required preparation:] Read assigned materials. |
| 第15回 | Japan and the EU economy | The impacts of Japan-EU Economic Partnership Agreement will be explained.
[Required preparation:] Read assigned materials. |
