Wolfram Kaiser is Professor of European Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Belgium.Brigitte Leucht lectures in European Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK and is a Visiting Lecturer at the Graduate Institute of International and Developmental Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.Morten Rasmussen is Assistant Professor of Contemporary European History at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

• 1. Origins of a European Polity 2. Transnational Networks in European Governance 3. Supranational Governance in the Making 4. Transatlantic Policy Networks in the Creation of the First European Anti-Trust Law 5. Transnational Business Networks Propagating EC Industrial Policy 6. Socialist Party Networks in Northern Europe 7. Transnational Communication in the European Public Sphere 8. DG IV and the Origins of a Supranational Competition Policy 9. The Origins of Community Information Policy 10. Delegation as a Political Process 11. The European Commission and the Rise of Coreper 12. Interdisciplinarity in Research on the EU

'...the book is of intrinsic interest to students and specialists in all areas of the EU, and valuable to historians and political scientists alike. Indeed the leitmotif of the need for academic cohesiveness in a truly comparative and theoretically grounded framework proves a vital lesson on how all future research in the field should be conducted. It is perhaps this more than anything that makes The History of the European Union a seminal piece in the undoubtedly crowded library of European integration literature.' - Matthew Broad, Journal for Contemporary European Research, Vol.6, No.2, 2010, 289-291'...the goal of the book is worthy, the insights valuable ... It should appeal to EU integration scholars and advanced students coming at the topic from a number of disciplines.' - European History Quarterly, Vol. 40 No. 4. 2010, 728