Origins and Evolution of the European Union

European integration is now in its sixth decade and the EU is growing in importance as a subject of historical research. This timely book brings together specially commissioned chapters in order to provide a coherent and comprehensive analysis of the origins and evolution of the EU.

Written by leading scholars, The Origins and Evolution of the EU presents current scholarship on the history and historiography of the EU in an easily accessible way. The first part provides a chronological framework for the rest of the book and the next three parts explore particular events, issues and themes in the history of European integration. The final section covers the historiography of European integration.

Readership: Undergraduate and graduate students of EU Politics.

Contents
Introduction , Desmond Dinan
Part I: Continuity and Change
1. Integration and Disintegration before 1945, Peter Stirk
Part II: The Postwar Context
2. Dividing Europe: The Cold War and European Integration, David Messinger
3. The German Problem, John Gillingham
Part III: Shaping the European Community
4. Liberalization, Convertibility, and the Common Market, Wendy Asbeek Brusse
5. The Triumph of Community Europe, Craig Parsons
6. Market Integration: From Coal and Steel to the Customs Union, Stephen Martin
7. Charles De Gaulle and the European Community, Jeffrey Vanke
Part IV: From European Community to European Union
8. European Integration in the 1970s, Richard T. Griffiths
9. European Integration in the Image and Shadow of Agriculture, Ann-Christina Lauring Knudsen
10. From Deadlock to Dynamism: The European Community in the 1980s, Piers Ludlow
11. From the Single Market to the Single Currency , Dorothee Heisenberg
12. The European Union, the Soviet Union, and the End of the Cold War, Jeffrey Anderson
Part V: Widening and Deepening
13. The Enlarging European Union, Anna Michalski
Part VI: Historiography
14. The Historiography of European Integration, Desmond Dinan

Authors, editors, and contributors


Edited by Desmond Dinan, Jean Monnet Professor, Director, International Commerce and Public Policy Program, George Mason University, USA
Contributors:Desmond Dinan, George Mason University, USA
Peter Stirk, University of Durham, UK
David Messinger, Carroll College, USA
John Gillingham, University of Missouri, St Louis, USA
Wendy Asbeek Brusse, Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy, The Netherlands
Craig Parsons, University of Oregon, USA
Stephen Martin, Purdue University, USA
Jeffrey Vanke, Kaplan University, USA
Richard T. Griffiths, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
Ann-Christina Lauring Knudsen, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Piers Ludlow, LSE, UK
Dorothee Heisenberg, John Hopkins University, USA
Jeffrey Anderson, Georgetown University, USA
Anna Michalski, Netherlands Institute of International Relations, The Netherlands

  • ISBN: 0-19-926792-8
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Author: Desmond Dinan
  • Language: English
  • Type: Paperback

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