Compare and contrast Irish and British positions to the European Union.

Compare and contrast Norwegian and Finnish positions to the European Union.

Compare and contrast Irish and British positions to the European Union.

Assess Peter Mair’s argument that membership of the European Union has “hollowed out” the democracy of its member states: Peter Mair, “Ruling the Void? The Hollowing of Western Democracy,” New Left Review 42 (November-December 2006): 25–51.

Compare and contrast how Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s film, The Lives of

Others (2006) and Anna Funder’s book, Stasiland (London: Granta, 2003) depict the

impact of the East German spy agency on individuals and society during and after the

regime’s collapse