Beschreibung:
Koen van Zon is a political historian who specializes in the history of European integration. He holds a PhD from Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and works currently as a postdoctoral researcher at Utrecht University.
Detailed research that challenges the received wisdom in European integration history that, long before the EU was plagued by Euroscepticism and other forms of contestation, there was a "permissive consensus" between European elites and the general public, which allowed European integration to move forward.