Download or read book The United States and the Unity of Europe written by Max Beloff and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Nordic States and European Unity written by Christine Ingebritsen and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of European unity, which the Nordic states have historically resisted, has recently become the foremost concern of Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, and Finland. Christine Ingebritsen provides a timely analysis of Nordic economic and security policies in the wake of the vast transformation of regional politics between 1985 and 1995. The Nordic States and European Unity addresses two central questions: Why did all five Nordic states trade autonomy for integration after 1985? And why do some follow the British pattern, resisting supranationalism, while others prefer the German strategy of embedding their policies in a common European project?Through extensive interviews with representatives of trade unions, government ministries, parliamentary committees, social movements, and military and industrial organizations, Ingebritsen charts adjustments to the idea of a regional system of governance. She highlights crucial differences among these nations as they seek to protect their borders against new security threats. In particular, Ingebritsen shows how the political influence of leading sectors affects each state's capacity to pursue an integrationist policy. Economic sectors are not uniformly affected by European policy coordination, and the experience of the Nordic states demonstrates this difference. Her work shifts the focus of political economics away from enduring, domestic institutions toward an understanding of institutions as sectoral and transnational.
Download or read book The United States and Europe written by United States. Department of State. Office of Media Services and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Negotiating Unity and Diversity in the European Union written by Florian Bieber and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-21 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how the European Union has been responding to the challenge of diversity. In doing so, it considers the EU as a complex polity that has found novel ways for accommodating diversity. Much of the literature on the EU seeks to identify it as a unique case of cooperation between states that moves past classic international cooperation. This volume argues that in order to understand the EU’s effort in managing the diversity among its members and citizens it is more effective to look at the EU as a state. While acknowledging that the EU lacks key aspects of statehood, the authors show that looking at the EU efforts to balance diversity and unity through the lens of state policy is a fruitful way to understand the Union. Instead of conceptualising the EU as being incomparable and unique which is neither an international organisation nor a state, the book argues that EU can be understood as a polity that shares many approaches and strategies with complex and diverse states. As such, its effort to build political structures to accommodate diversity offers lessons to other such polities. The experience of the EU contributes to the understanding of how states and other polities can respond to challenges of diversity, including both the diversity of constituent units or of sub-national groups and identities.
Download or read book The United States of Europe written by U. S. Marine U.S. Marine Corps Command and Staff College and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-11-08 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE EUROPEAN UNION WAS THE CULMINATION OF OVER NINETY YEAR'S WORK TO INTEGRATE THE CONTINENT. INITIALLY INSPIRED BY PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON'S "FOURTEEN POINTS" FOLLOWING THE FIRST WORLD WAR, THE MOVEMENT SHOWED PROMISE IN THE 1920'S BEFORE ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL DISCORD LED TO THE SECOND WORLD WAR. THE GROUNDBREAKING FORMATION OF THE EUROPEAN COAL AND STEEL COMMUNITY AND THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (EEC) IN THE 1950'S PROVIDED THE BLUEPRINT FOR UNIFICATION EFFORTS TO FOLLOW. ATTEMPTS TO EXPAND THE EEC IN THE 1960'S WERE REBUFFED BY FRENCH PRESIDENT CHARLES DE GAULLE, WHILE THE OIL CRISIS OF THE 1970'S FED SEVERE ECONOMIC INSTABILITY ACROSS EUROPE. THE ECONOMIC BOOM OF THE MID-1980'S, FOLLOWED BY THE FALL OF THE SOVIET UNION AND THE END OF THE COLD WAR, PROVIDED THE ENVIRONMENT FOR INCREASED ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL COOPERATION ACROSS THE CONTINENT, WHICH RESULTED IN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE EUROPEAN UNION IN THE 1990'S. DURING THIS PROCESS, THE UNITED STATES ABANDONED ITS ISOLATIONIST TENDENCIES AND PROVIDED STRONG SUPPORT FOR THE INTEGRATION MOVEMENT. WHETHER THE EU BECOMES A "UNITED STATES OF EUROPE" OR A "UNITED EUROPE OF STATES," THE FUNDAMENTAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EUROPE AND AMERICA REMAINS A STRONG AND CRUCIAL ATLANTIC ALLIANCE.
Download or read book European Integration Beyond Brussels written by Matthew Broad and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-14 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Europe is a continent whose history has, in one form or another, long been dominated by integration. And yet the European integration process is often treated as synonymous with the evolution of just one particular, and until recently geographically quite limited, Western-centred organisation: the European Union (EU). This trend obscures the multitude of ways European states have acted collectively on both sides of the Iron Curtain – and continue to do so throughout the continent today. With contributors drawn from history and political science, this book explores some of these diverse integration efforts ‘beyond Brussels’. We shine a light on international organisations, trade frameworks, and various political, social, scientific and cultural forms of unity in both Eastern and Western Europe. In so doing, the book seeks to redefine the history of the European integration process not only as a less purely EU-centric phenomenon but as a less strictly Western European one too.
Download or read book Conditions of European Solidarity What holds Europe together written by Krzysztof Michalski and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book addresses contemporary developments in European identity politics as part of a larger historical trajectory of a common European identity based on the idea of 'solidarity.' The authors explain the special sense in which Europeans perceive their obligations to their less fortunate compatriots, to the new East European members, and to the world at large. An understanding of this notion of 'solidarity' is critical to understanding the specific European commitment to social justice and equality. The specificity of this term helps to distinguish between what the Germans call "social state" from the Anglo-Saxon, and particularly American, political and social system focused on capitalism and economic liberalism. This collection is the result of the work of an extremely distinguished group of scholars and politicians, invited by the previous President of the European Union, Romano Prodi, to reflect on some of the most important subjects affecting the future of Europe.
Download or read book The United States and the European Pillar written by William C. Cronwell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major study of Atlantic political relations since World War 2 that uses a comparative perspective to analyze U.S. foreign policy and U.S.-European relations in the context of a Western Europe attempting to speak with one voice. The book examines U.S. policy toward European unity and the evolution of a West European pillar in foreign policy and defence, contrasts U.S. and European approaches toward specific global issues, and considers Atlantic relations in light of the dramatic European upheavals in 1989-90.
Download or read book Grand Designs and Visions of Unity written by Jeffrey Glen Giauque and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-04-03 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1950s, against the unfolding backdrop of the Cold War, American and European leaders began working to reshape Western Europe. They sought to adapt the region to a changing world in which European empires were rapidly disintegrating, Soviet influence was spreading, and the United States could no longer shoulder the entire political and economic burden of the West yet hesitated to share it with Europe. Focusing on the four largest Atlantic powers--Britain, France, Germany, and the United States--Jeffrey Giauque explores these early stages of European integration. Giauque uses evidence from newly opened international archives to show how a mix of cooperation and collaboration shaped efforts to unify postwar Europe. He examines the "grand designs" each country developed to advance its own interests, specific plans for collaboration or accord, and the reactions of the other Atlantic powers to these proposals. Competing national interests not only derailed many otherwise sound plans for European unity, Giauque says, but also influenced such nascent European institutions as the Common Market, the antecedent of today's European Union. Indeed, beyond examining the origins of the European community, this comparative study provides insight into national attitudes and aspirations that continue to shape European and American policies today.
Download or read book Visions Of European Unity written by Philomena Murray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveying the ideals and visions held by the founders of the European Community, this timely book also assesses the concepts and theories surrounding the European Union today. This volume is the first to explore the theoretical cleavages among Monnet, Spinelli, the federalists, and the functionalists together with the views of the Socialist, Labour
Download or read book Stay the Course written by Simon Serfaty and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1997-03-30 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serfaty argues that U.S. interests in Europe have become so significant as to create an increasingly common Euro-Atlantic space from which disentanglement is no longer possible. The reality of this space does not mean an Americanization of Europe any more than it does the Europeanization of America. Serfaty points to the ways the United States is connected to Europe, the areas of friction, and the outlook for future common interests and joint approaches to challenges throughout the world. By pointing to the ways the United States is connected to Europe, by examining the areas of friction, and projecting future common interests and joint approaches to challenges throughout the world, Serfaty shows why staying the course is vital to European as well as American interests. A significant analysis for scholars, researchers, and policy makers concerned with contemporary American and European foreign policy and relations.
Download or read book Uniting of Europe written by Ernst B. Haas and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The University of Notre Dame Press is pleased to bring Ernst Haas's classic work on European integration, The Uniting of Europe, back into print. First published in 1958 and last printed in 1968, this seminal volume is the starting point for anyone interested in the pre-history of the European Union. Haas uses the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) as a case study of the community formation processes that occur across traditional national and state boundaries. Haas points to the ECSC as an example of an organization with the "power to redirect the loyalties and expectations of political actors." In this pathbreaking book Haas contends that, based on his observations of the actual integration process, the idea of a "united Europe" took root in the years immediately following World War II. His careful and rigorous analysis tracks the development of the ECSC, including, in his 1968 preface, a discussion of the eventual loss of the individual identity of the ECSC through its absorption into the new European Community. Featuring a new introduction by Haas analyzing the impact of his book over time, as well as an updated bibliography, The Uniting of Europe is a must-have for political scientists and historians of modern and contemporary Europe. This book is the inaugural volume of Notre Dame's new Contemporary European Politics and Society Series.
Download or read book American Interest in the European Community written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Europe and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eisenhower Kennedy and the United States of Europe written by Pascaline Winand and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "During the Eisenhower and Kennedy years, key American policy-makers considered European unity as a potential element of stability and prosperity for the West and as a factor of strength for the Atlantic Alliance. These policy-makers were part of a unique network of American and European friends and colleagues who 'co-conspired' to further the cause of European integration." "Using a wide range of official and private papers, as well as interviews with many of the participants in the events, this book assesses the impact of American Europeanists on U.S. foreign policy under Eisenhower and Kennedy. Dr. Winand convincingly demonstrates the decisive impact the United States has had in shaping post-war Europe and provides definitive analyses of the key issues and events of the period: the birth of Euratom and the European Economic Community, the Free Trade Area Negotiations, the O.E.C.D., British membership in the Community, the idea of an 'Atlantic partnership between equals', and the story of the ill-fated Multilateral Force." "Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the United States of Europe will quickly come to be seen as a centrally important work on this defining period in modern European history."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Britain and European Unity 1945 1992 written by John W. Young and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Europe in Crisis written by Mark Hewitson and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period between 1917 and 1957, starting with the birth of the USSR and the American intervention in the First World War and ending with the Treaty of Rome, is of the utmost importance for contextualizing and understanding the intellectual origins of the European Community. During this time of 'crisis,' many contemporaries, especially intellectuals, felt they faced a momentous decision which could bring about a radically different future. The understanding of what Europe was and what it should be was questioned in a profound way, forcing Europeans to react. The idea of a specifically European unity finally became, at least for some, a feasible project, not only to avoid another war but to avoid the destruction of the idea of European unity. This volume reassesses the relationship between ideas of Europe and the European project and reconsiders the impact of long and short-term political transformations on assumptions about the continent's scope, nature, role and significance.
Download or read book European Law in the Past and the Future written by R. C. van Caenegem and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R. C. van Caenegem considers the historical reasons behind European legal diversity.
