European Integration and the Global Financial Crisis

Michele Di Donato is Assistant Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Pisa in Italy. His research focuses on the international history of the European Left, the Cold War and late-twentieth century globalisation.Silvio Pons is Professor of Contemporary History at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa in Italy. He is the president of the Gramsci Foundation in Rome and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Cold War Studies.

• Chapter 1. Introduction (Michele Di Donato).- Part 1: The European Community and Late 20th Century Globalization.- Chapter 2. The Single Market: A Race to the Bottom or Convergence towards High Standards? (1985-1997) (Laurent Warlouzet).- Chapter 3. Economic and Monetary Union (Lucia Quaglia).- Chapter 4. Global Europe at the End of the Cold War. The Demise of the North-South Dimension? (Sara Lorenzini).- Chapter 5. The Accession of the Neutrals: (Re)assessing the First Post-Cold War Enlargement of the EU (Maximilian Graf).- Part 2: Political Cultures and Societal Actors.- Chapter 6. The End of European History? The European People’s Party and the Transformation of Europe from Cold War to post-Cold War (Wolfram Kaiser).- Chapter 7. The European Social Democrats: Neoliberalism or Internationalism? (Michele Di Donato) .- Chapter 8. The European Trade Union Confederation: A Labor Movement among EU Institutions and their Constraints (Paolo Borioni).- Part 3: Negotiating the New Europe: National Perspectives.- Chapter 9. Flawed Designs? France and the Maastricht treaty (Frédéric Bozo) .- Chapter 10. Negotiating the New Europe: Germany (Guido Thiemeyer) .- Chapter 11. The High Point of British Europeanism? John Major, Britain and the Maastricht Negotiations (N. Piers Ludlow) .- Chapter 12. Italy and the Maastricht Treaty: An Unpredictable Fateful Choice? (Antonio Varsori) .- Chapter 13. Greece and the Maastricht Treaty: The Fortress That Wasn’t, (Nicos Christodoulakis) .- Chapter 14. The Iberian Peninsula and the Challenge of European integration (Maria Elena Cavallaro).- Part 4: Conclusion.- Chapter 15. Europe beyond the Cold War (Federico Romero)