englischHow can the new dynamic in European integration politics during the second half of the 1980’s be explained? What were the driving forces behind the Single European Act, the achievement of the Single Market, the Schengen agreement, the EC’s expansion to the south, and the new steps towards [...]

englischDid the establishment of the EPC in the 1970s, the predecessor of today’s EU Common Foreign and Security Policy, lead to the ‘Europeanisation’ of national foreign policies and the ‘socialisation’ of the actors involved? Based on a thorough analysis of sources, this study aims to answer these [...]

englischThis book explores reconciliation in East-Central Europe amid the process of EU integration, with historical references and analyses of current political and diplomatic processes in the region. It is a useful tool for scholars and students alike who wish to explore an up-to-date collection [...]

englischAt a time when extreme notions of sovereignty and exaggerated demands for centralized regulation are tending to lead the European Union into difficulties, a more profound knowledge of the roots of European integration seems desirable. This is what this biography of Jean Monnet, the inventor [...]

englischThe years 1973-1983 in the history of the European integration process are flanked by two periods of great expansion in the membership of the European Community and in its policies. By contrast, these ‘middle’ years have been described as a period characterised by economic crisis and [...]

englischRegional integration in Europe is challenged by the recent boost of globalisation. The origins are to be found in the „long“ 1970s of European Integration History from 1969 to the mid-eighties which can be regarded as a period of adaption to global transformation processes. In part for the [...]

englischIn this volume, based on an international colloquium at the Faculty of European Studies, Babes-Bolyai University, in Cluj-Napoca, the integration of former member states of the Soviet bloc into the European Union is for the first time discussed in its broad historical context. 30 scholars [...]

Max Kohnstamm (*1914) is a pioneer of post-war European unification. As Jean Monnet’s right-hand man he was closely involved in the establishment and design of the European Union (EU) as we know it today. Up to the present day he devotes himself to a solid European and international community of [...]

Pour comprendre ce que l'Union européenne peut devenir au XXIe siècle, il est indispensable d'avoir une vue d'ensemble sur les origines et les développements de cette organisation atypique dont les domaines de compétence, définis par les traités européens, modèlent la vie et les sociétés des [...]

englischIn order to evaluate the perspectives of deepening and widening of the EU it is necessary to review what happened in the several fields of European integration so far. How did the EC/EU change from its beginnings, and in which respect is the present situation different from the past? Which [...]