Volume 22 (2016), Edition 1

What should an ideal European Union look like? In 1975, Léo Tindemans attempted to answer this question by asking the opinion of socio-economic elites in the then nine Member states. These national perceptions of Europe are the core of our...

Against the background of terrorist threats, but also in the light of European integra­tion objectives, the nine EC member states began during the 1970s to align policies in the area of internal security. The principal forum for this was the...

Historical research has perceived the 1970s as a period of crisis for economic coop­eration of the Western industrialized countries. The article tries to evaluate whether this is also true for energy policy during and after the oil crisis of...

In recent years, historians have devoted much attention to the prominent role played by the major Western European powers - in primis France and the Federal Republic of Germany - in stabilising the troubled Southern European scenario of the...

The partnership between Italy and Britain has been a constant, albeit troubled, topic in the process of European integration. After the United Kingdom had become a member state, a London-Rome axis had been envisioned, to counteract the special...

After considerable time, the paper revisits the issue of inception of the Council of Europe. The existing studies prevailingly focused on internal-external linkages of foreign policy-making in specific national cases. This article, in contrast,...

The process of applying for membership of an international organization entails em­bracing certain set of values the organisation is known to promote, especially as re­gards European integration. This study - based on a critical and qualitative...

Through the course of a sequence of different chapters, this article, which is based upon the research literature, after some preliminary thoughts and terminology at the beginning, will give answers to different questions: How is the history of...