European Integration Beyond Brussels
Unity in East and West Europe Since 1945
Editors: Broad, Matthew, Kansikas, Suvi (Eds.)
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- Takes a broad approach to European unity, including a number of chapters on organizations in Eastern Europe
- Brings together historians and political scientists to provide a broad range of perspectives on the history of European integration up until the present day
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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Matthew Broad is a Lecturer in International Relations at the Institute for History, Leiden University, The Netherlands.
Suvi Kansikas is Docent and Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Helsinki, Finland.
- Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Recasting the History and Politics of European Integration ‘Beyond Brussels’
Pages 1-22
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‘Integration, Nobody Knows What It Means’: European Cooperation and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), 1947–56
Pages 25-48
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Inventing a ‘European Space of Discussions’: The UEFA-EBU Relationship, c.1950s–1970s
Pages 49-69
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Mediating in the Cold War: How the Socialist Group of MEPs Became a Driver of Brussels-Moscow Rapprochement
Pages 71-91
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Environmental Security for the Promotion of Pan-European Integration: The OSCE as a ‘Europeanising Actor’ in the Balkans
Pages 93-114
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- European Integration Beyond Brussels
- Book Subtitle
- Unity in East and West Europe Since 1945
- Editors
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- Matthew Broad
- Suvi Kansikas
- Series Title
- Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-45445-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-45445-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-45444-9
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIX, 340
- Topics
