Crises in European Integration

Ludger Kühnhardt has been Director at the Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI) and Professor of Political Science at Bonn University since 1997. He has been advisor to political leaders in Europe and Africa. As a Public Policy Scholar he has worked at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C. As Visiting Professor he has taught and studied at renowned universities across the world, including St. Antony’s College Oxford, Stanford University, Dartmouth College, Seoul National University, Cape Town University, and the College of Europe in Bruges. He has conducted research in comparative region-building in all continents.

• Editorial PrefaceJane Caplan (Executive Editor), Timothy Garton Ash, Jürgen Kocka, Gerhard A. Ritter, Nicholas Stargardt, Margit Szöllösi-JanzeIntroduction: European Integration: Success through CrisesLudger KühnhardtChapter 1. Sources of European Integration: The Meaning of Failed Interwar Politics and the Role of World War IIWilfried LothChapter 2. The Failure of EDC and European IntegrationManfred GörtemakerChapter 3. The Institutional Paradox: How Crises Have Reinforced European IntegrationJürgen ElvertChapter 4. Through Crises to EMU: Perspectives for Fiscal Union and Political UnionJürgen von HagenChapter 5. Opportunity or Overstretch? The Unexpected Dynamics of Deepening and WideningWolfgang Wessels and Thomas TraguthChapter 6. Learning from Failure: The Evolution of the EU’s Foreign, Security and Defense Policy in the Course of the Yugoslav CrisisMathias Jopp and Udo DiedrichsChapter 7. Challenges and Opportunities: Surmounting Integration Crises in Historical ContextMichael GehlerChapter 8. Frontiers and Chances for the European UnionHans-Gert PötteringSelect BibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex