UID:
almafu_9959230658202883
Format:
1 online resource (219 p.)
Edition:
2nd ed.
ISBN:
1-135-25797-3
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1-282-28420-7
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9786612284205
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0-203-87361-0
Content:
The new edition of this accessible introduction to the history of the European Union (EU) has been fully revised and updated to reflect the significant changes within the EU over the past decade. Revealing the politics beneath the surface, national rivalries and changing positions behind events, meetings and treaty negotiations, the text:provides a thematic history of European economic and political integration in its economic, military, monetary and political contextsoutlines the major schools of thought regarding the causes and motives for European
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface to the second edition; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Prologue; Part I Origins; 1 Definition and theories of European integration, 1945-95; 2 The impact and significance of the European federalist movements and the Council of Europe (1949); 3 Conditions in Europe and American and British policies, 1945-49: Integration or co-operation?; Part II Development; 4 The Schuman Plan (1950) and the European Coal and Steel Community (1951); 5 German rearmament, the European Defence Community and the demise of the European army, 1950-54
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6 From the Common Market and the Treaties of Rome (1957) to the first enlargement (1973)7 EMU, the first stage (1973) to the EU (1991); 8 From Single Market (1992) to single currency (2002); 9 EU Treaty changes and EU external relations, 1998-2008; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-43561-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-43560-9
Language:
English
