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Bringing together political, diplomatic, economic, cultural, and
contemporary history, this book explores why and how European
integration came to pass. It tells a fascinating story of ideals
and realpolitik, political dreams and geographical realities, and
planning and chaos. Mathieu Segers reveals that the roots of
today's European Union lie deep in Europe's past and encompass more
than war and peace, or diplomacy and economics. Based on original
archival and primary source research, Segers provides an integrated
history of the beginnings of European integration and the emergence
of post-war Western Europe and today's European Union. The Origins
of European Integration offers a broad perspective on the genealogy
of post-war Western Europe, providing readers with a deeper
understanding of contemporary European history and the history of
transatlantic relations.
Split into two volumes, The Cambridge History of the European Union
focuses on European integration from a diachronic,
multidisciplinary and multi-institutional angle to provide the most
comprehensive and contemporary history of the European Union to
date. The volumes do not present a strict timeline of historical
events; instead they look at the various themes and changes over
time in order to shed light both on the more well-known and on the
lesser-known moments in European history. Ranging from the first
steps of European integration to the latest developments, the fifty
essays from experts across the field provide a wholly unique
perspective that changes the way we look at European integration
history. This is a much-needed addition to the history of the
European Union.
Bringing together political, diplomatic, economic, cultural, and
contemporary history, this book explores why and how European
integration came to pass. It tells a fascinating story of ideals
and realpolitik, political dreams and geographical realities, and
planning and chaos. Mathieu Segers reveals that the roots of
today's European Union lie deep in Europe's past and encompass more
than war and peace, or diplomacy and economics. Based on original
archival and primary source research, Segers provides an integrated
history of the beginnings of European integration and the emergence
of post-war Western Europe and today's European Union. The Origins
of European Integration offers a broad perspective on the genealogy
of post-war Western Europe, providing readers with a deeper
understanding of contemporary European history and the history of
transatlantic relations.
Volume II examines the history of the European Union from an
inside-out perspective, focusing on the internal developments that
shaped the European integration process. Split into three parts,
Part I covers the principles that have defined European
integration, exploring the treaties and their changes through time,
with Brexit being a core milestone. Part II considers the different
instruments within the architecture of European integration, with
special focus on the development of policies, the euro and
enlargement. Part III concentrates on the various narratives
surrounding European integration, in particular the concepts, goals
and ideas that both spoke and failed to speak to the hearts and
minds of Europeans. This includes the 'longue durée' concept,
peace, European culture, (the absence of) religion, prosperity, as
well as (a lack of) solidarity and democracy.
This Open Access book offers a novel view on the benefits of a
lasting variation between the member states in the EU. In order to
bring together thirty very different European states and their
citizens, the EU will have to offer more scope for variation.
Unlike the existing differentiation by means of opt-outs and
deviations, variation is not a concession intended to resolve
impasses in negotiations; it is, rather, a different structuring
principle. It takes differences in needs and in democratically
supported convictions seriously. A common core remains necessary,
specifically concerning the basic principles of democracy, rule of
law, fundamental rights and freedoms, and the common market. By
taking this approach, the authors remove the pressure to embrace
uniformity from the debate about the EU's future. The book
discusses forms of variation that fall both within and outside the
current framework of European Union Treaties. The scope for these
variations is mapped out in three domains: the internal market; the
euro; and asylum, migration and border control.
Volume I examines the history of the European Union from an
outside-in perspective, asking the following questions: how does
the European Union look from the outside, and which outside forces
shaped and guided the process of European integration? Split into
three parts, the first addresses the main external events that have
steered the European integration process, with emphasis placed on
critical junctures following the Second World War, such as the
division and reunification of Germany and the Eastern enlargement.
Part II considers the various international trends that have shaped
European integration, with particular focus on globalisation and
geopolitics. While the first two parts pay special attention to
institutions, countries, international organisations and the main
actors, Part III focuses on the role of ideas, networks, public
opinion and memory that influenced the development of the European
Union.
What is Europe? This question is ever more pressing, as present day
Europe wallows in crisis - its deepest since the process of
European integration took off in the 1950s. The current state of
affairs sets the stage for this book. It brings together leading
international thinkers and scholars of different generations in a
feverish quest to better understand Europe's present state. In
their essays these authors engage in the paradoxes and puzzles of
European identity and culture. They present new answers to the
eternal question regarding 'the essence of Europe'. An anthology of
influential texts from the making of present-day Europe completes
the book as a very European exercise in thinking and re-thinking
Europa, its culture, history and present.
This Open Access book offers a novel view on the benefits of a
lasting variation between the member states in the EU. In order to
bring together thirty very different European states and their
citizens, the EU will have to offer more scope for variation.
Unlike the existing differentiation by means of opt-outs and
deviations, variation is not a concession intended to resolve
impasses in negotiations; it is, rather, a different structuring
principle. It takes differences in needs and in democratically
supported convictions seriously. A common core remains necessary,
specifically concerning the basic principles of democracy, rule of
law, fundamental rights and freedoms, and the common market. By
taking this approach, the authors remove the pressure to embrace
uniformity from the debate about the EU's future. The book
discusses forms of variation that fall both within and outside the
current framework of European Union Treaties. The scope for these
variations is mapped out in three domains: the internal market; the
euro; and asylum, migration and border control.
On 9 May 1950, France launched a revolutionary plan for
supranational cooperation in Western Europe. The Netherlands was
taken completely by surprise. In the decades that followed,
European integration moved forward at an unprecedented pace, taking
the Netherlands with it. Geography and the post-war world seemed to
leave the country no other choice. European integration forced -
and is still forcing - the Netherlands on a far-reaching 'journey
to the continent'. For the Netherlands, European integration
represents a difficult journey to a new old world that often seems
far off. How has that journey progressed so far? Why did the
Netherlands join the common European market and currency from the
very beginning? Was this course inevitable? And where has it
brought the country? Using new, international source material, The
Netherlands and European Integration, 1950 to Present digs deeply
into the history of the Netherlands in Europe - a subject that is
today more topical than ever.
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