Surpassing realism : the politics of European integration since 1945 /

Surpassing realism : the politics of European integration since 1945 /

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Author / Creator:Gilbert, Mark, 1961-
Imprint:Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2003.
Description:xvii, 277 p. : 1 map ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Governance in Europe
Subject:
European Union.
European Union -- Economic integration.
European Union.
International economic integration.
Politics and government
European Union countries -- Politics and government.
Europe.
Europe -- European Union countries.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4910302
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ISBN:0742519139 (cloth : alk. paper)
0742519147 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:This book evolved from a course of lectures given at the University of Trento, Italy in the academic year 1999-2000.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations and Acronyms
  • Chronology 1945-2002
  • 1. Introduction: An Unusual New Polity
  • Structure and Content
  • Themes
  • Terminology
  • 2. Enemies to Partners: The Politics of Cooperation in Western Europe 1945-1950
  • The American Vision for Europe: The Marshall Plan and the OEEC
  • A "Harmonious Society": The Vision of the European Movement
  • Cooperation between Governments: The British Vision
  • The German Question and the Schuman Plan
  • 3. Spillovers and Setbacks: From the Schuman Plan to the Common Market 1950-1958
  • The Coal and Steel Community
  • The Defense Community
  • From Messina to Rome
  • The Treaties of Rome: 25 March 1957
  • The Uniting of Europe
  • 4. In The Shadow of the General: De Gaulle and the EEC 1958-1969
  • The EEC's First Four Years
  • The "Union of States"
  • The First British Negotiation for Entry
  • The "Empty Chair" Crisis and the Luxembourg Compromise
  • Positive and Negative Integration
  • 5. Weathering the Storm: The EC during the Economic Crises of the 1970s
  • Thinking Positive 1969-1972
  • Monetary Turmoil 1971-1974
  • Foreign Policy Failures and the Tindemans Report
  • The European Monetary System
  • Beyond the Common Market
  • 6. The 1992 Initiative and the Single European Act
  • France Sees the Light
  • The British Budgetary Question
  • Mediterranean Enlargement
  • The 1992 Initiative and the Dooge Committee
  • The Single European Act
  • Evaluating the Single European Act
  • 7. The Maastricht Compromise
  • The "Paquet Delors" and the Delors Report
  • The Bruges Speech
  • German Unification and Its Consequences
  • The "Hour of Europe"
  • The Maastricht Treaty
  • Making Sense of Maastricht
  • 8. Europe since Maastricht
  • Adopting the Euro
  • Enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe
  • The Institutional Question
  • The EU's Growing World Role
  • A Constitutional Convention
  • Bibliographical Essay
  • Index
  • About the Author

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