Europeanisation and Higher Education: Towards a Core Curriculum in European Studies?

[From the Introduction]. As a policy area that remains primarily national in control and orientation, European co-operation in education policy has attracted relatively little attention from a political perspective. This is particularly true where there is a direct engagement with the notion of ‘Europeanisation’. This paper considers the motivations for and implications of increased cooperation in higher education (HE), taking as its main case study a current proposal for European universities to move towards a common core curriculum for the teaching of European Studies. This proposal, although not formally an initiative of the institutions of the European Union, receives support from the European Commission through its funding of the Thematic Network in Political Science, which is driving the core curriculum initiative