'Thank You M. Monnet'

Richard T. Griffiths is emeritus professor of Economic and Social History at Leiden University and former director of European Union Studies within the Humanities Faculty. He also lectures at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok.

• Introduction 1 The European Integration Experience, 1945-1958 2 The Founding Fathers 3 The Marshall Plan and Western European Reconstruction 4 The Management of Markets: Business, Governments and Cartels in Post-war Europe 5 Europe's First Constitution: The European Political Community, 1952-1954 6 Agricultural Pressure Groups and the Origins of the Common Agricultural Policy 7 'Thank You, M. Monnet; I'll Take Care of That': Some Counterfactual Reflections on Institutional Creation and the Origins of European Integration 8 The Dynamics of Policy Inertia: The UK's Participation in and Withdrawal from the Spaak Negotiations 9 The European Integration Experience, 1958-1973 10 'An Act of Creative Leadership': The End of the OEEC and the Birth of the OECD 11 The United Kingdom and the Free Trade Area: A Post Mortem 12 'Two Souls, One Thought'? The EEC, the USA and the Management of the International Monetary System 13 A Dismal Decade? European Integration in the 1970s 14 EFTA and European Integration, 1973-1994: Vindication or Marginalisation? 15 The Concentric Circles of the European Union's Trade Regime, 1989 to the Present 16 Lessons from the Euro Experience 17 European Identities 18 The Landscape of European Studies Notes Bibliography Publications of Richard T. Griffiths

"I have long wished that something like this would be available [...] The collection is marked by an outstanding talent for disentangling complex historical processes and to illustrate key issues quite briefly. The author takes great pleasure in debunking myths, [..] and he does so with great skill and remarkably little malice." - Professor Helge Ø. Pharo, University of Oslo