@book{2025:marhold:european_u,
title = {European Union, How Comes?},
year = {2025},
note = {It was by no means evident that Europe would ever find a path towards
unification. Of course, World War II led to the self-destruction of
the old system of international relations between sovereign nation
states. Nevertheless, the nation states were revived in a new setting.
Moreover, there were now ‘superpowers’: The US and the Soviet
Union, who shaped the post-war world. The European Union struggled to
emerge as a player of its own right. Its history was never a straight
path forward towards ever-increasing membership and decision-making
power at the EU level; it was marked by ups and downs, by enthusiasm
and drama. This story helps us to understand what the EU is today.},
edition = {1},
publisher = {Nomos},
address = {Baden-Baden},
series = {Denkart Europa | Mindset Europe},
volume = {37},
author = {Marhold, Hartmut}
}