This text argues that the process of West European integration was encouraged and facilitated by the Cold War, in which the threat posed by the Soviet Union temporarily inhibited internal conflicts, and in which American hegemony provided the relatively stable and secure economic, political and military framework in which the major West European countries were able to co-operate and take major steps towards the ultimate ideal of a European Union.
Autorentext
Dr Peter van Ham is Senior Research Fellow at the Clingendael Institute, The Netherlands, and Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium.
Inhalt
1. Introduction
2. European Integration Without the East, 1945-1950
3. From Paris to Rome, 1951-1957
4. Moscow's Response to West European Integration, 1947-1973
5. The EC's Common Commercial Policy
6. The Lack of an ES Ostpolitik, 1957-1985
7. The EC and the CMEA: Deaf-Mutes Communicate
8. 1989 and 1992, Two Revolutions?
9. Brussels' Lighthouse: Coordinating Western Economic Assistance to the East
10. Wider or Deeper? The EC's Economic Security Dilemma
11. Epilogue: Discord and Collaboration in the 1990s
Notes
Bibliography
Index