Origins of a european polity: A new research agenda for European union history

The History of the European Union: Origins of a Trans- and Supranational Polity 1950-72

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-11

  Kaiser, Wolfram ^a,b   Leucht, Brigitte ^c   Rasmussen, Morten ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies Department   (Belgium)

^c GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

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EID: 84919551452     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203926482     Document Type: Chapter

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2. On the isolation of EU history in the historiography of Europe see Wolfram Kaiser, 'Bringing People and Ideas Back in: Historical Research on the European Union', in David Phinnemore and Alex Warleigh (eds.), Reflections on European Integration, Basingstoke: Palgrave 2008 - forthcoming.
3. See in greater detail Wilfried Loth, 'Walter Lipgens (1925-84)', in Heinz Duchardt et al. (eds.), Europa-Historiker. Ein biographisches Handbuch, vol. 1, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2006, pp. 317-36;
4. Wolfram Kaiser, '"Überzeugter Katholik und CDU-Wähler": Zur Historiographie der Integrationsgeschichte am Beispiel Walter Lipgens', Journal of European Integration History, vol. 8, no. 2 (2002), pp. 119-28.
5. Walter Lipgens, 'Der Zusammenschlu ß Westeuropas. Leitlinien für den historischen Unterricht', Geschichte in Wissenschaft und Unterricht, vol. 34 (1983), pp. 345-72.
6. Walter Lipgens, A History of European Integration, vol. 1: 1945-1947, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982 [German 1977];
7. idem., Europa-Föderationspläne der Widerstandsbewegungen, 1940-1945: eine Dokumentation, Munich: Oldenbourg, 1968;
8. idem. (ed. with Wilfried Loth), Documents on the History of European Integration, 4 vols, Berlin: De Gruyter, 1984-91.
9. See, for example, many contributions in Ariane Landuyt and Daniele Preda (eds.), I movimenti per l'unità europea 1970-1986, Bologna: Mulino, 2000;
10. Sergio Pistone (ed.), I movimenti per l'unità europea dal 1945 al 1954, Milan: Jaca, 1992;
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13. Idem., The European Rescue of the Nation-State, London: Routledge, 1992.
14. Idem., The Rise and the Fall of a National Strategy 1945-1963 (The United Kingdom and the European Community, vol. 1), London: Frank Cass, 2002, p. 6.
15. Idem., 'Conclusion: the Value of History', in idem. et al., The Frontier of National Sovereignty. History and Theory 1945-1992, London: Routledge, 1993, pp. 182-201, here p. 187.
16. Morten Rasmussen, 'The Hesitant European - History of Denmark's Accession to the European Communities 1970-73', Journal of European Integration History, vol. 11, no. 2 (2005), pp. 47-74.
17. Starting with Raymond Poidevin (ed.), Histoire des débuts de la construction européenne (mars 1948 mai 1950), Brussels: Bruylant, 1986.
18. The most recent volume Antonio Varsori (ed.), Inside the European Community. Actors and Policies in the European Integration 1957-1972, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2006 is a partial exception to the rule.
19. Keith Middlemas, Orchestrating Europe. The Informal Politics of European Union 1973-1995, London: Fontana, 1995.
20. By way of introduction see Wolfram Kaiser, 'Transnational Mobilization and Cultural Representation: Political Transfer in an Age of Proto-Globalization, Democratization and Nationalism 1848-1914', European Review of History, vol. 12, no. 2 (2005), pp. 403-24.
21. Piers Ludlow, The European Community and the Crises of the 1960s: Negotiating the Gaullist Challenge, London: Routledge, 2006.
22. As we also argue in succinct form in Wolfram Kaiser and Brigitte Leucht, 'Informal Politics of Integration: Christian Democratic and Transatlantic Networks in the Creation of ECSC core Europe', Journal of European Integration History vol. 14, no. 1 (2008) pp. 35-49;
23. Ann-Christina Knudsen and Morten Rasmussen, 'A European Political System in the Making 1958-70: The Relevance of Emerging Committee Structures', Journal of European Integration History, vol. 14, no. 1 (2008) pp. 51-67.
24. John Lewis Gaddis, 'History, Science, and the Study of International Relations', in Ngaire Woods (ed.), Explaining International Relations since 1945, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, pp. 32-48.
25. See also Bent Flyvbjerg, Rationality and Power: Democracy in Practice, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998 [Danish 1996].
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27. James Mahoney and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, 'Comparative Historical Analysis: Achievements and Agendas', in idem. (eds.), Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 3-40, here p. 20.
28. Andrew Moravcsik, 'De Gaulle Between Grain and Grandeur: The Political Economy of French EC Policy 1958-70 (Part 1)', Journal of Cold War Studies, vol. 2, no. 2 (2000), pp. 3-43;
29. idem., 'De Gaulle Between Grain and Grandeur: The Political Economy of French EC Policy 1958-70 (Part 2)', Journal of Cold War Studies, vol. 2, no. 3 (2000), pp. 4-68.
30. Cf. Frank Schimmelfennig, 'Transnational Socialization. Community-Building in an Integrated Europe, in Wolfram Kaiser and Peter Starie (eds.), Transnational European Union. Towards a Common Political Space, London: Routledge, 2005, pp. 60-82.
31. As an excellent introduction to current concepts and debates in political science research on the EU see Angela Bourne and Michelle Cini (eds.), Palgrave Advances in European Union Studies, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2006.
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33. idem., Politics in Time. History, Institutions, and Social Analysis, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004.
34. Andrew Moravcsik, The Choice for Europe. Social Purpose and State Power from Messina to Maastricht, London: University College London Press, 1998.
35. For a detailed competent critique of Moravcsik's interpretation of de Gaulle's European policy, see Robert H. Lieshout, Mathieu L.L. Segers and Anna M. van der Vleuten, 'De Gaulle, Moravcsik, and The Choice for Europe. Soft Sources, Weak Evidence', Journal of Cold War Studies, vol. 6, no. 4 (2004), pp. 89-139.
36. Craig Parsons, A Certain Idea of Europe, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003.
37. Wolfram Kaiser, Christian Democracy and the Origins of European Union, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
38. See also Wolfram Kaiser, 'History meets Politics: Overcoming the Interdisciplinary Volapük in Research on the EU', Journal of European Public Policy, vol. 15, no. 2 (2008), pp. 300-313.
39. See also some of the contributions by younger EU historians in Ann-Christina Lauring Knudsen, Jens Runge Poulsen and Morten Rasmussen (eds.), The Road to a United Europe. Interpretations of the Process of European Integration, Brussels: Peter Lang forthcoming.