Selections of the following literature (parts of the literature will be recurring course literature during the programme)
- Booth, Wayne, Gregory Colomb and Joseph Williams, The Craft of Research, Chicago, 2008, third edition (e-book and core book for writing processes in the whole program)
- Boucher, David and Poul Kelly (eds.), Political Thinkers - From Socrates to the Present, Oxford University Press, Third Edition 2017
- Buzan, Barry and Richard Little (2000), International Systems in World History, Oxford Univerity Press (available as an e-book at the library).
- Caine, Barbara and Glenda Sluga, Gendering European History 1780-1920, Sidney (2000, 2002), selected chapters
- Dinan, Desmond (ed.) (2014), Origins and Evolution of the European Union, Oxford University Press, 2nd edn.
- Ghervas, Stella. Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2021 (Selected chapters).
- Hansen, Peo & Stefan Jonsson (2014), Eurafrica - The untold history of European Integration and colonialism, London Bloomsbury (Selected chapters)
- Hobsbawm Eric John. The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789-1848. Reprinted. History of Civilisation. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1975 (Selected chapters).
- Huges, Robert. Shock of the New: Art and the Century of Change. (Special Edition). Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2009. (Selected chapters)
- Judt, Tony. Postwar?: a history of Europe since 1945. Penguin Press, 2005 (Selected chapters).
- Jönsson, Christer, Sven Tägil & Gunnar Törnqvist (2000), Organizing European Space, Sage. (Available as an e-book at the library)
- Kenealy, Daniel, Peterson, John and Corbett, Richard (eds.) (2018) 5th edn. The European Union: How Does it Work? Oxford University Press.
- Kümin, Beat (ed.), The European World 1500-1800 - An introduction to Early Modern History (3rd edition 2017, e-book)
- May, Tim, Social Research – Issues, methods and process, Open University Press: Buckingham, 2011 (also used in the third semester). Selected parts, E book
- Mazower, Mark. Dark continent?: Europe’s twentieth century. Penguin Books, 1999 (Selected chapters).
- McMahon, Robert J. The Cold War?: a very short introduction. Second edition. Very short introductions: 87. Oxford University Press, 2021 (Selected chapters).
- Osterhammel, Jürgen, The transformation of the world?: a global history of the nineteenth century. America in the world. Princeton University Press, 2014 (Selected chapters).
- Rietbergen Peter. Europe: A Cultural History, London: Routledge, 2004 (Selected chapters).
- Sewell, Mike. The Cold War. Cambridge Perspectives in History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004 (Selected chapters).
- Tosh, John; The pursuit of History, Fourth Edition or later, Longman, 2010 (2006), e-book, selected chapters but also used later in the program
- Tägil, Sven (ed.) Europe – The return of History, Lund, 2001. Selected chapters. Also used in later courses
- Weller, Shane, The idea of Europe - A Critical History, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2021
+ articles and other literature ca: 800 additional pages