The Foundations of Europe

European Integration Ideas in France, Germany and Britain in the 1950s

Thomas Hörber (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XIV, 312 Seiten

2006 | 2006
VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
978-3-531-15133-5 (ISBN)

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The 1950s can reasonably be called the foundation period of Europe. At the start of the decade pioneering institutions such as the OEEC, the Council of Europe and NATO were already in place. By the end of the 1950s all the major European communities, the ECSC, the EEC and Euratom had been established. 1954 saw a serious crisis for European integration when the European Defence Community treaty was rejected. The replacement in West European Union gave new impetus to European cooperation and new hope for full British involvement. Nevertheless, throughout the decade, it was not at all clear that European integration would be a success, particularly with Britain outside and a colonial alternative open to France, too. ^ One reason for focusing on the early integration period must, therefore, be seen in the wide divergence between Britain, France and Germany with regard to their concept for Europe. Britain's accession to the ECs in 1973 marked the end of the fundamental disaccord whether European integration should happen at all, notwithstanding the continued existence of greatly different opinions on the shape and the way cooperation should take. Not so earlier in the 1950s; British intergov ernmental preference and the continental European supranational choice, could not be reconciled and kept Britain away. The supranational aspiration survived, even with de Gaulle in power.

Dr. Thomas Hörber is Lecturer in History and Political Science at the University of Victoria, Canada.

France.- Germany.- Britain.- Conclusions.

"[...] die durch diese Studie erstmalig erfolgte umfassende Analyse der damaligen Parlamentsdebatten [ist] auch über den reinen historischen Erkenntnisgewinn lohnend - führt sie uns doch klar vor Augen, dass europäische Integration stets mehr als nur eine Reihe von nicht-öffentlichen Regierungs- und Ministerialverhandlungen sein kann und muss." www.vorwaerts.de, 05.06.2007

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.8.2006
Reihe/Serie	Forschungen zur Europäischen Integration
Zusatzinfo	XIV, 312 p.
Verlagsort	Wiesbaden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	455 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
Schlagworte	Bundesrepublik Deutschland (1949-1990); Politik/Zeitgeschichte bis '67 • EG • Europäische Integration • Europa; Politik/Zeitgeschichte • European Integration • European integration process • Frankreich; Politik/Zeitgeschichte • Friedensprozess, europäischer • Großbritannien; Politik/Zeitgeschichte • NATO • Parlamentsakten
ISBN-10	3-531-15133-9 / 3531151339
ISBN-13	978-3-531-15133-5 / 9783531151335
Zustand	Neuware