European Integration Beyond Brussels

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

3. Pan-European Ideas, Structures and Interactions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

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   2. ‘Integration, Nobody Knows What It Means’: European Cooperation and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), 1947–56

      • Daniel Stinsky

      Pages 25-48

   3. Inventing a ‘European Space of Discussions’: The UEFA-EBU Relationship, c.1950s–1970s

      • Philippe Vonnard

      Pages 49-69

   4. Mediating in the Cold War: How the Socialist Group of MEPs Became a Driver of Brussels-Moscow Rapprochement

      • Alexandra Athanasopoulou Köpping

      Pages 71-91

   5. Environmental Security for the Promotion of Pan-European Integration: The OSCE as a ‘Europeanising Actor’ in the Balkans

      • Emma Hakala

      Pages 93-114

4. Imagining, Negotiating and Building Regional Integration

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115

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   2. Not Giving Up Sovereignty: The British Labour Party’s Alternative Vision of International Cooperation, 1933–1951

      • Ettore Costa

      Pages 117-139

   3. Less than Membership but More than Association: Establishing the European Economic Area, 1989–1993

      • Juhana Aunesluoma

      Pages 141-167

   4. Regional Integration in the Eastern Bloc: Energy Cooperation Between CMEA Countries, c.1950s–80s

      • Falk Flade

      Pages 169-190

   5. Industrial Policy and Technological Cooperation in the EAEU: The Case of Eurasian Technology Platforms

      • Anna Lowry

      Pages 191-218

5. European Integration At and Around the Subregional Level

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 219-219

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   2. Uniting Europe from Afar: Exile Plans for a Central European Federation in the Cold War

      • Pauli Heikkilä

      Pages 221-246

   3. Remain or Leave? Britain and the European Launcher Development Organisation (ELDO) in the Context of Brexit

      • John Krige

      Pages 247-267

   4. Subregional Integration in East Central Europe: Strategies in the In-Between Sphere

      • Katalin Miklóssy

      Pages 269-290

   5. Subregional Groupings in Post-Communist Europe: More Than Just ‘Cooperation’?

      • Martin Dangerfield

      Pages 291-312

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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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.

• European unity
• European Union
• European Ecoonomic Community
• Eastern Europe
• Cultural movement
• Brexit
• International organisations
• Trade agreements
• Iron Curtain
• Cold War
• Political unions
• Scientific communities

“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)

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

  Matthew Broad

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

  Suvi Kansikas

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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