Origins and Evolution of the European Union

Desmond Dinan, Professor of Public Policy and Ad personam Jean Monnet Professor; Director, International Commerce and Policy Program, School of Public Policy, George Mason University

This well-respected text provides a lively, comprehensive, and authoritative account of the emergence and evolution of the European Union from the aftermath of the Second World War to the uncertainties of the present era. It explains the forces, events, and individuals that have shaped one of the most unusual and controversial political entities in history. This second edition, which forms part of the successful New EU series, covers key issues including theantecedents of European integration in the years before the Second World War; the challenges of reconstruction and reconciliation in the early post-war period; the ups and downs of European integration in 1960s and 1970s; the acceleration of European integration in the late 1980s and early 1990s;
almost-continuous enlargement; the eurozone crisis; the constitutionalization of the EU; and Britain's troubled membership. The text is updated throughout and includes new chapters focusing on Britain and European integration, and the constitutionalization of the EU.

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The second edition of this text provides a lively, comprehensive, and authoritative account of the emergence and evolution of the EU from the aftermath of the Second World War to the present era. It explains the forces, events, and individuals that have shaped one of the most unusual and controversial political entities in history.

Part I Continuity and Change; 1 Peter Stirk: Integration and Disintegration before 1945; Part II The Postwar Context; 2 David A. Messenger: Dividing Europe: The Cold War and European Integration; 3 John R. Gillingham: The German Problem and European Integration; Part III Shaping the European Community; 4 Wendy Asbeek Brusse: Liberalization, Convertibility, and the Common Market; 5 Craig Parsons: The Triumph of Community Europe; 6 Jeffrey Vanke: Charles de Gaulle's Uncertain Idea of Europe; Part IV From European Community to European Union; 7 Richard T. Griffiths: Under the shadow of stagflation: European integration in the 1970s; 8 Ann-Christina L. Knudsen: European Integration in the Image and the Shadow of Agriculture; 9 N. Piers Ludlow: From Deadlock to Dynamism: The European Community in the 1980s; 10 Dorothee Heisenberg: From the Single Market to the Single Currency; 11 Jeffrey J. Anderson: The European Union, the Soviet Union, and the End of the Cold War; 12 Anna Michalski: The Enlarging European Union; Part V Abiding Issues; 13 Desmond Dinan: A Special Case: The United Kingdom and the European Union; 14 Berthold Rittberger: The European Union: A Constitutional Order in the Making; Part VI Historiography; 15 Desmond Dinan: The Historiography of European Integration