Experiencing Europe

Prof. Dr. Wilfried Loth

doi:10.5771/9783845213323

Summary

In order to evaluate the perspectives of deepening and widening of the EU it is necessary to review what happened in the several fields of European integration so far. How did the EC/EU change from its beginnings, and in which respect is the present situation different from the past? Which trends of evolution can be observed, and which factors may influence the future evolution?

In this volume, 19 historians from seven countries, all of them well known experts of the field, are balancing the different aspects of the European experience. Based on broad archival research, the volume offers a comprehensive look on the history of European integration and a discussion of the present situation and possible developments in the light of this balance. All chapters were discussed in international teams and written by co-authors from different member states. Thus, they will represent not only the current state of knowledge, but for the first time also a coherent European perspective on the history of European integration. Experiencing Europe is seen as a response to the challenges Europeans have to meet in the 20th and 21st centuries.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2009
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8329-4124-6
ISBN-Online: 978-3-8452-1332-3
Publisher: Nomos, Baden-Baden
Series: Veröffentlichungen der Historiker-Verbindungsgruppe bei der Kommission der EG
Volume: 12
Language: English
Pages: 362
Product type: Edited Book

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 8
Introduction No access Pages 9 - 16 Gérard Bossuat, Eric Bussière, Robert Frank, Wilfried Loth, Antonio Varsori
1. The History of European Integration: From Integration History to the History of Integrated Europe No access Pages 17 - 32 Jost Dülffer
2. Widening, Deepening and Opening Out: Towards a Fourth Decade of European Integration History No access Pages 33 - 44 N. Piers LUDLOW
THE DEVELOPMENT OF ECONOMIC INTEGRATION No access Pages 45 - 102 Eric Bussière, Michel DUMOULIN, Sylvain Schirmann
EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONS AND POLITICAL INTEGRATION No access Pages 103 - 126 Marie-Thérèse Bitsch, Wilfried Loth
1. The Concept and Debates on the Idea No access Pages 127 - 133 Hartmut Kaelble
2. Between Public and Private Sphere: Permeability and Interactions No access Pages 134 - 141 Luisa Passerini
3. Culture in the Public Sphere as an Issue of European Construction: Missions and Experiences No access Pages 142 - 151 Marie-Françoise Lévy, Marie-Noële Sicard
4. Cultural, Memorial and Reference Sphere, Public Sphere and European Democracy No access Pages 152 - 168 Robert Frank
1. Development of European Social Policy No access Pages 169 - 192 Antonio Varsori
2. A Social Europe (1970-2006)? No access Pages 193 - 216 Josefina Cuesta Bustillo
1. Origins and Development of the External Personality of the European Community No access Pages 217 - 254 Gérard Bossuat
2. Foreign and Security Policy after the End of the Cold War No access Pages 255 - 268 Anne Deighton
1. The Enlargement of the European Community, 1950-95 No access Pages 269 - 304 Johnny Laursen
2. Eastern Enlargement in Perspective: A Comparative View on EC/EU Enlargements No access Pages 305 - 325 Anne Faber
3. Central Europe in the ‘Fifth’ Enlargement of the European Union No access Pages 326 - 346 Antoine Marès
Conclusion No access Pages 347 - 358 Robert Frank
Notes on the Contributors No access Pages 359 - 362