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European Integration Beyond Brussels

Unity in East and West Europe Since 1945

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Editors:
  1. Matthew Broad

    1. Institute for History, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

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  2. Suvi Kansikas

    1. Centre for European Studies, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

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  • Offers new perspectives on European integration by showing the range of international organizations beyond the EC or EU which have sought to unify European states
  • Takes a broad approach to European unity, including a number of chapters on organizations in Eastern Europe
  • Brings together historians and political scientists to provide a broad range of perspectives on the history of European integration up until the present day

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Recasting the History and Politics of European Integration ‘Beyond Brussels’

    • Matthew Broad, Suvi Kansikas
    Pages 1-22

  6. European Integration: Past and Future, East and West, Brussels and Beyond

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 313-313
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    2. Conclusions

      • Anne Deighton
      Pages 315-322

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 323-340
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About this book

Europe is a continent whose history has, in one form or another, long been dominated by integration. And yet the European integration process is often treated as synonymous with the evolution of just one particular, and until recently geographically quite limited, Western-centred organisation: the European Union (EU). This trend obscures the multitude of ways European states have acted collectively on both sides of the Iron Curtain – and continue to do so throughout the continent today. With contributors drawn from history and political science, this book explores some of these diverse integration efforts ‘beyond Brussels’. We shine a light on international organisations, trade frameworks, and various political, social, scientific and cultural forms of unity in both Eastern and Western Europe. In so doing, the book seeks to redefine the history of the European integration process not only as a less purely EU-centric phenomenon but as a less strictly Western European one too.

Reviews

“Providing new insights on a range of understudied actors, structures and for a of cooperation, this book contributes indeed to a broader understanding of the manifold strands that together constitute the larger context of European integration. … the book constitutes through its case studies, conceptualisation approaches, and suggestions for further studies a nonetheless important and valuable addition to the literature in the wider and increasingly diverse field of European integration historiography.” (Mechthild Roos, H-Soz-Kult, hsozkult.de, April 14, 2022)

“The book does a much better job than most edited volumesin drawing out links and connections between the various contributions. … Overall, this book is an excellent contribution to the literature: it summarizes the discussion, challenges established notions, provides a string of contributions with fresh findings, and prepares the ground for further debate.” (Kiran Klaus Patel, Connections, April 8, 2022)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute for History, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

    Matthew Broad

  • Centre for European Studies, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

    Suvi Kansikas

About the editors

Matthew Broad is a Lecturer in International Relations at the Institute for History, Leiden University, The Netherlands. 


Suvi Kansikas is Docent and Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Helsinki, Finland.



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