Crises in European Integration : : Challenges and Responses, 1945-2005 / / ed. by Ludger Kühnhardt.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Caplan, Jane,; Diedrichs, Udo,; Elvert, Jürgen,; Garton Ash, Timothy,; Gehler, Michael,; Görtemaker, Manfred,; Hagen, Jürgen von,; Jopp, Mathias,; Kocka, Jürgen,; Kühnhardt, Ludger,; Loth, Wilfried,; Pöttering, Hans-Gert,; Ritter, Gerhard A.,; Stargardt, Nicholas,; Szöllösi-Janze, Margit,; Traguth, Thomas,; Wessels, Wolfgang,
• HerausgeberIn: Kühnhardt, Ludger,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2008]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: New German Historical Perspectives ; 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (176 p.)

While the major trends in European integration have been well researched and constitute key elements of narratives about its value and purpose, the crises of integration and their effects have not yet attracted sufficient attention. This volume, with original contributions by leading German scholars...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Editorial Preface
• Introduction. European Integration: Success through Crises
• 1 Sources of European Integration: The Meaning of Failed Interwar Politics and the Role of World War II
• 2 The Failure of EDC and European Integration
• 3 The Institutional Paradox: How Crises Have Reinforced European Integration
• 4 Through Crises to EMU: Perspectives for Fiscal Union and Political Union
• 5 Opportunity or Overstretch? The Unexpected Dynamics of Deepening and Widening
• 6 Learning from Failure: The Evolution of the EU’s Foreign, Security and Defense Policy in the Course of the Yugoslav Crisis
• 7 Challenges and Opportunities: Surmounting Integration Crises in Historical Context
• 8 Frontiers and Chances for the European Union
• Select Bibliography
• Notes on Contributors
• Index