European integration : a concise history
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European integration : a concise history
Rowman & Littlefield, c2012
[2nd ed.]
- : pbk
- : cloth
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"This second edition was prepared over the summer of 2010 ..."--P. x
Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-258) and index
Description and Table of Contents
- Volume
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: cloth ISBN 9780742566637
Description
A fully revised and updated edition of Surpassing Realism: The Politics of European Integration Since 1945, this book remains the standard for concise histories of the European Union. Mark Gilbert offers a clear and balanced narrative of European integration since its inception to the present, set in the wider history of the post-war period. Imperial decline and decolonization, the threat and then fall of communism, the impact of American policy, and the democratization of the Mediterranean and central European countries are just some of the contemporaneous historical developments whose intersecting stories have been woven into this book's fabric. The European Union remains a remarkable experiment in regional cooperation, but the aura of success that has enveloped the process of integration for much of the period since the 1950s is dissipating in the wake of dire economic collapses and heated immigration debates. Gilbert concludes by examining the mood of crisis that has taken hold in the EU since 2005 and considers the Union's future.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Enemies to Partners: The Politics of Cooperation in Western Europe 1945-1950
Chapter 3: Ever Closer Union: From the Schuman Plan to the Economic Community 1950-1958
Chapter 4: In the Shadow of the General: De Gaulle and the EEC 1958-1969
Chapter 5: Weathering the Storm: The EC during the 1970s
Chapter 6: The 1992 Initiative and Relaunch of the Community
Chapter 7: The Maastricht Compromise
Chapter 8: EUphoria?
Chapter 9: Toward a Twin-Track Europe?
- Volume
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: pbk ISBN 9780742566644
Description
A fully revised and updated edition of Surpassing Realism: The Politics of European Integration since 1945, this book remains the standard for concise histories of the European Union. Mark Gilbert offers a clear and balanced narrative of European integration since its inception to the present, set in the wider history of the post-war period. Imperial decline and decolonization, the threat and then fall of communism, the impact of American policy, and the democratization of the Mediterranean and central European countries are just some of the contemporaneous historical developments whose intersecting stories have been woven into this book's fabric. The European Union remains a remarkable experiment in regional cooperation, but the aura of success that has enveloped the process of integration for much of the period since the 1950s is dissipating in the wake of dire economic collapses and heated immigration debates. Gilbert concludes by examining the mood of crisis that has taken hold in the EU since 2005 and considers the Union's future.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Enemies to Partners: The Politics of Cooperation in Western Europe 1945-1950
Chapter 3: Ever Closer Union: From the Schuman Plan to the Economic Community 1950-1958
Chapter 4: In the Shadow of the General: De Gaulle and the EEC 1958-1969
Chapter 5: Weathering the Storm: The EC during the 1970s
Chapter 6: The 1992 Initiative and Relaunch of the Community
Chapter 7: The Maastricht Compromise
Chapter 8: EUphoria?
Chapter 9: Toward a Twin-Track Europe?
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