The purpose of The Journal of European Integration History is to encourage the analysis and understanding of different aspects of European integration, especially since 1945, in as wide a perspective as possible. The Journal publishes the conclusions of research on diplomatic, military, economic, technological, social and cultural aspects of integration. Numbers devoted to single themes as well as to diverse subjects are published in English, French or German. Each number includes reviews of important, relevant publications. Website: www.zgei.nomos.de
The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) established in 1954 constitutes one of the first forms of European cooperation of the post-Second World War period. Historically, CERN developed outside of the institutional frame of the ECSC/EEC...
This article analyses the establishment of the Standing Committee of the Social Sciences in the European Science Foundation in the late 1970s. Using the fields theoretical framework, it focuses on the discussions in the Ad Hoc committee formed to...
Using documents from various European archives, this article examines the development of European research policy in the European Community through the so-called Framework Programmes (FPs) in the 1980s. It is argued that during this period a mutual...
This article traces the history of ‘scientific excellence’ as an increasingly meaningful concept in the context of European scientific integration efforts. It distinguishes between three phases of how the concept was used by policy-makers as...
The establishment of Research Infrastructures in Europe, often referred to as Big Science, has been a consistent focus of ad-hoc intergovernmental politics among member states and international partners since the latter half of the 20th century. In...
In 1977, the EC launched the project of a "European Foundation" in response to the impetus of the Tindemans Report. This project, which falls within a cultural action, quickly encountered a series of obstacles related to the participation of...
This paper examines the history of civil nuclear cooperation between Germany and the United States from 1958 to 1963. Following its reestablishment as a sovereign state in 1955, Germany aimed to adopt nuclear technology from the US. However, this...
The article untangles the economic, political, and ideological threads that run through the actions of Pascal Lamy, one of the key actors in the European Union and later in the World Trade Organisation (WTO), faced with the phenomenon of...