Struggle for the Organization of Europe

The Foundations of the European Union

Inbunden, Engelska, 1999

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This book offers a new view suggesting that European integration has been driven by political rather than economic considerations. The author makes it clear that from the end of the Second World War any plan of economic or monetary cooperation in Europe was almost exclusively motivated by politics. He argues that the very foundation of the organization of Western Europe was based on preventing further conflict between France and the newly partitioned Germany. Specifically, Robert Lieshout analyzes the initial stages of European cooperation between 1947 and 1957. He demonstrates that European institutions usually associated with economic integration, such as the European Economic Community, were actually laid to achieve the political aim of reconciliation between France and Germany. The fact that the very reasons for establishing a more formal organization of Europe have changed, i.e. the re-unification of Germany in 1990, makes for an interesting conclusion on future developments in European integration.This book will be warmly welcomed by both academics and students interested in European integration, international political economy, history, international relations, European Studies and economics.

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Utgivningsdatum1999-05-26
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
FörlagEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781858989754

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'Robert Lieshout makes an important contribution to the growing historical and theoretical literature on the development of European institutionalized cooperation since World War II. Lieshout's main method to pursue this line of inquiry is a careful,thoughtful and engaging historical reconstruction of the political concerns, motives and efforts of the top foreign policy officials of [the] countries [involved]. Lieshout draws for us, in a concise but careful way, all of the key elements of the European diplomatic landscape in the aftermath of World War II. Finally, Lieshout presents a fine analysis of German foreign policy in these years, and especially of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's efforts to pursue European institutionalized cooperation as a mechanism to effect reconciliation with France and to reincorporate Germany into Western Europe as an independent but reliable and, above all, peaceful partner. Lieshout has provided us with a book that is empirically rich and theoretically fruitful. This book, especially when read in conjunction with the works by Lundestad and Moravcsik, provides us with a superb understanding of the diplomacy that produced the Europe of today.'