Reinventing Europe (eBook, PDF)

The History of the European Union, 1945 to the Present
Redaktion: Leucht, Brigitte; Warlouzet, Laurent; Seidel, Katja

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Reinventing Europe provides a thorough exploration of the history of the European Union, tracing its development from inception to recent times. It is the first book of its kind to contextualize the history of the EU within the wider frames of European and global history. The volume also breaks new ground by successfully highlighting the roles individuals, member states, transnational actors and European institutions played in both advancing and slowing down European integration in the EU.

With chapters from leading academics in the UK, the US and across Europe who draw on sources in a variety of languages, the book presents a balanced and comprehensive account of this sometimes controversial Union. It is made up of three main parts which in turn cover:

· A narrative survey of the EU
· A historical analysis of the key institutions and policies
· Critical themes and vital geographical spaces

There is also a historiographical essay which handily charts the literature in the field, as well as 50 illuminating images, a range of maps, text boxes and primary source extracts, a bibliography and a useful glossary.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350213098
• Artikelnr.: 67269802

Autorenporträt

Brigitte Leucht is Reader in International History and Politics at University of Portsmouth, UK. She is the editor, along with Catherine Barnard and Albertina Albors-Llorens of Cassis de Dijon: 40 Years On (2021), and with Wolfram Kaiser and Morten Rasmussen, of The History of the European Union: Origins of a Trans- and Supranational Polity 1950-72 (2009). Katja Seidel is Senior Lecturer in History at University of Westminster, UK. She has published widely on a range of European policy areas, institutions and actors. She is the author of The Process of Politics in Europe: The Rise of European Elites and Supranational Institutions (2010). Laurent Warlouzet is Professor of History and Chair of European History at Paris-Sorbonne University, France. He is the author of Governing Europe in a Globalizing World (2018), which explores the evolution of European economic and social policies in the 1970s and 1980s.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Introduction
Part I: Chronology
1: The formation of the European Coal and Steel Community and the European
Economic Community and Euratom, 1945-1958 Brigitte Leucht (University of
Portsmouth, UK)
2: From the early Common Market to the crises of the 1960s, 1958-1968
Katja Seidel (University of Westminster, UK)
3: From The Hague summit to the Maastricht Treaty, 1969-1992 Laurent
Warlouzet (Paris-Sorbonne University, France)
4: Treaty reform, enlargement and economic crisis, 1993-2021 Magdalena
Frennhoff Larsén (University of Westminster, UK)
Part II: Institutions and Policies
Institutions
Introduction: EU Institutions and the development of a trans- and
supranational community? Katja Seidel (University of Westminster, UK)
5: The European Commission: a government in the making? Katja Seidel
(University of Westminster, UK)
6: The Court of Justice of the European Union and Integration Through Law
Bill Davies (American University, USA)
7: The European Parliament: empowering the talking shop Christian Salm (
Foundation for European Progressive Studies, Belgium)
Policies
8: Economic integration at the centre: construction of a Single Market, and
the rise of competition policy Laurent Warlouzet (Paris-Sorbonne
University, France)
9: Milk lakes and butter mountains: the common agricultural policy Katja
Seidel (University of Westminster, UK)
10: Economic and monetary union: from 1957 to the euro crisis Alexis Drach
(Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis, France)
11: A citizens' Europe? Consumer and environmental policies Brigitte Leucht
(University of Portsmouth, UK)
and Jan-Henrik Meyer (Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal
Theory, Germany)
12: A European society? Social policy and migration Simone Paoli
(University of Pisa, Italy)
Part III: Themes and Geographical Spaces
13: Ideas in favour of European integration from the 19th century until
today Katja Seidel (University of Westminster, UK)
14: The European Union in international politics and trade: a global power
in the making? Brigitte Leucht (University of Portsmouth, UK)
15: Eastern Europe in the history of European integration: from the
periphery to the centre? Ferenc Laczo (Maastricht University, Netherlands)
and Vera Scepanovic (Leiden University, Netherlands)
16: The Franco-German relationship at the heart of EU history Katja Seidel
(University of Westminster, UK) and Carine Germond (Norwegian University of
Science and Technology, Norway)
17: In or out? Britain and the European project Mathias Haeussler (Ruhr
University Bochum, Germany)
18: Integrating or breaking up Europe? Euroscepticism and opposition to
Europe Carine Germond (Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
Norway)
19: Interpretations of European integration history and introduction to
research tools Brigitte Leucht (University of Portsmouth, UK), Katja Seidel
(University of Westminster, UK) and Laurent Warlouzet (Paris-Sorbonne
University, France)
Appendix: Chronology
Appendix: Glossary
Bibliography
Index