Enlarging the European Union

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Michael J. Geary

   Pages 1-14

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3. The Commission and Britain’s First Application

   • Michael J. Geary

   Pages 15-42

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4. The Commission and the Irish Application

   • Michael J. Geary

   Pages 43-61

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5. From Veto to Veto: Britain and the Commission

   • Michael J. Geary

   Pages 62-86

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6. Ireland and the Policy of Failure

   • Michael J. Geary

   Pages 87-104

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7. Navigating the Gaullist Veto

   • Michael J. Geary

   Pages 105-132

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8. La Bataille des Chiffres

   • Michael J. Geary

   Pages 133-158

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9. Challenging the Acquis

   • Michael J. Geary

   Pages 159-180

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10. Conclusions

    • Michael J. Geary

    Pages 181-186

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11. Back Matter

    Pages 187-257

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The book presents a new history of the first enlargement of the EU. It charts the attempts by the European Commission to influence the outcome of the British and Irish bids to join the Common Market during the 1960s and 1970s. The most politically divisive EU enlargement is examined through extensive research in British, Irish, EU, and US archives.

• The European Union
• European Studies
• Contemporary European History
• European Politics
• Transatlantic Relations
• Political Science
• EU Politics
• Britain
• empire
• EU Enlargement
• Europe
• European Commission
• European Union
• European Union (EU)
• history
• european union politics

• Maastricht University, The Netherlands

  Michael J. Geary

Michael J. Geary is a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., USA, and Assistant Professor at Maastricht University, The Netherlands. He has previously held a Fulbright-Schuman Fellowship at the Catholic University of America (D.C.), and a European Parliament-Geremek Research Fellowship at the College of Europe (Warsaw). He holds a Ph.D. from the European University Institute, Florence, Italy.

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