Wolfram Kaiser
Biographic Data
| ID | 263428 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wolfram Kaiser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wolfram |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaiser |
| SIGNATURE | KAISER W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Portsmouth |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8522-9087 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 139 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The European Parliament and the Origins of New Policy Fields: A Creative Political Laboratory in the Long 1970s
Contributing to the growing literature on post-war European democracy from a transnational and comparative perspective, this article explores the role of the European Parliament in pushing the European Community to engage in new transnational policy fields in the long 1970s. Drawing on a wide range of archival sources, parliamentary debates and media coverage, it compares three then-new issue areas and policy fields with limited or no explicit le…
Histories of the European Parliament during the Cold War: Transnational Democracy in the Making
This article introduces and discusses the incipient historiography of the European Parliament. It argues that more systematic research in this direction has strong potential to overcome limitations of research both on European integration and the member states. It can encourage and support those working on national history, or histories, to leave their intellectual ghettos and explore both vertical and horizontal connections in contemporary Europ…
Destined to Brexit? British Pathways to Membership in the European Communities 1945–73
This article explores whether and how the United Kingdom was destined to Brexit before it even joined the European Communities in 1973. Drawing on archival sources, media reports and literature about Britain's arduous relationship with ‘Europe’, it argues that four features made the Brexit outcome more likely. They were the accession to the EC as a measure of last resort which prevented the construction of a new sustainable narrative about a brig…
Strategic leadership in the EU multilevel parliamentary field: The EPP Group’s Erasmus Programme
Towards a European Constitution? The European Parliament and the Institutional Reform of the European Communities 1979-84
Drawing on archival sources of the European Parliament (EP), the EP Groups, and Spinelli’s private papers as well as contemporary media reports and 13 semi-structured interviews with eyewitnesses, this article examines the EP’s attempt to foster European union after its first direct election in 1979. In tracing the conflicts and compromises within the EP during the preparation of its Draft Treaty on European Union (DTEU) the article makes a three…
Victimizing Europeans: Narrating Shared History in the European Parliament’s House of European History
La Maison de l'histoire européenne du Parlement européen à Bruxelles, qui a ouvert ses portes en 2017, est le premier musée en Europe consacré à l'histoire de l'Europe moderne. Basé sur une analyse attentive de son exposition permanente, une observation non participante, une analyse documentaire et des entretiens, cet article explore et interprète le maître-récit du musée sur la Première Guerre mondiale, les régimes totalitaires et la Seconde Gue…
Counter-narratives in the European Parliament: Far Left and Far Right Groups and European ‘union’ in the 1980s
This article proposes a temporal perspective for understanding the dynamics of political mobilisation around narratives and counter-narratives of European ‘union’, which extends back to the Cold War period. As a starting point, it focusses on the narratives by far left and far right Groups about European ‘union’ in the European Parliament during the 1980s. Analysing narrative entrepreneurs and their storytelling during six debates on reforming th…
Narrative Ju-jitsu: Counter-narratives to European union
Recent scholarship has increasingly recognised the crucial role of political narratives in and for European integration. Since its earliest days, supporters have justified integration by telling stories about its beneficial contribution to peace, prosperity, and democracy. In this article and the special issue, we contribute to the burgeoning literature on (counter)narratives to European ‘union’ (any integration beyond intergovernmental cooperati…
Der verkannte Bürger: Eine andere Geschichte der europäischen Integration seit 1950
In this accessible short book, Hartmut Kaelble, the German doyen of Gesellschaftsgeschichte, or the social history of European integration, aims to tell what he calls an ‘alternative history’. In his view, the citizens of the present-day European Union (EU) are usually seen as passive objects of a project promoted by transnational elites. Indeed, one might add in the light of the Brexit debate, they are now even sometimes portrayed as their victi…
International organizations and Holocaust remembrance: From Europe to the world
International organizations have increasingly become engaged in developing transnational memory frames for the Holocaust. Based on document analysis and interviews with transnational norm entrepreneurs, this article explores the role and interaction of three organizations: the European Union, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance and UNESCO. It employs the multi-level governance approach to analyze how Prime Minister Göran Persson and …
Continuity and Change in European Cooperation during the Twentieth Century
To sign the treaty creating the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) the foreign ministers of Belgium, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands met in Paris in April 1951. In a solemn Joint Declaration they stressed that through the newly created organisation, ‘the Contracting Parties have given their determination to set up the first supranational institution and thus lay the real foundations of an organ…
Transnational Practices Governing European Integration: Executive Autonomy and Neo-Corporatist Concertation in the Steel Sector
The European Coal and Steel Community was marked by institutional innovations. They have masked strong continuities in administrative and business communities and their governance practices, however, which persisted after 1945. Based on fresh research in national and international organisation archives, this article explores the origins before, during and after the First World War of two key elements of these practices, their evolution over time …
Narrating European integration: Transnational actors and stories
This article introduces the special issue on narrating European integration. Narratives, or stories, are a key mechanism for constructing individual and collective identities, and other politically important elements of discourse. The articles in this special issue go beyond most existing work on narratives. First, they examine the actors and networks, ranging from EU institutions to political parties and social groups, which create, foster and d…
One narrative or several? Politics, cultural elites, and citizens in constructing a ‘New Narrative for Europe’
European Union (EU) institutions have cultivated narratives of European integration for a long time. For its 2013–2014 ‘A New Narrative for Europe’ project, however, the European Commission for the first time explicitly used the ‘narrative’ label. Drawing on non-participant observation, semi-structured interviews and qualitative discourse analysis, this article contrasts the drafting process and the resulting declaration’s narrative structure and…
Multiple connections in European co-operation: International organizations, policy ideas, practices and transfers 1967–92
International organizations are ubiquitous in contemporary Europe and the wider world. This special issue takes a historical approach to exploring their relations with each other in Western Europe between 1967 and 1992. The authors seek to ‘provincialize’ and ‘de-centre’ the European Union’s role, exploring the interactions of its predecessors with other organizations like NATO, the OECD and the Council of Europe. This article develops the new hi…
N. Piers Ludlow, Roy Jenkins and the European Commission Presidency, 1976–1980: At the Heart of Europe
Limits of Cultural Engineering: Actors and Narratives in the European Parliament's House of European History Project
Concerned about the EU's apparent lack of cultural legitimacy, EU institutions have increasingly engaged in the transnational politics of history to enhance European identity and foster EU legitimacy. The House of European History museum project in Brussels marks a high point in the European Parliament's history politics. Based on document analysis and interviews, an analysis of the project's origins and evolution highlights the narrow limits of …
International Organizations and Environmental Protection: Conservation and Globalization in the Twentieth Century
Clash of Cultures: Two Milieus in the European Union's ‘A New Narrative for Europe’ Project
Framing narratives about shared history, norms and the future can be an important practice of creating transnational memory in Europe.This was the task of the European Union's "A New Narrative for Europe" project initiated by the European Parliament and implemented by the European Commission during 2013-14.Some 20 people from the cultural sphere formed a socalled Cultural Committee that eventually submitted the declaration "New Narrative for Euro…
Bill Davies. Resisting the European Court of Justice: West Germany's Confrontation with European Law, 1949–1979
Only some contemporary historians of Europe since 1945 will have heard of two landmark decisions by the the European Court of Justice (ECJ): Van Gend & Loos (1963) and Costa vs. ENEL (1964). In these decisions the ECJ established the linked doctrines of direct effect and of the precedence of European Economic Community law over national law. In fact, it is hard to imagine how the highly integrated present-day European Union (EU) could operate wit…
Laurent Warlouzet, Le choix de la EEC par la France. L’Europe économique en débat de Mendès France à de Gaulle (1955–1969)
The Origins of Christian Democracy: Politics and Confession in Modern Germany
Journal Article The Origins of Christian Democracy: Politics and Confession in Modern Germany Get access The Origins of Christian Democracy: Politics and Confession in Modern Germany. By Maria D. Mitchell. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2012. 343 pp. £85.00 (hardback). Wolfram Kaiser Wolfram Kaiser University of Portsmouth Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 31, Issue 4, Decemb…
Europaisierung wider Willen. Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland in der Agrarintegration der EWG 1955-1973
For a long time the historiography of European integration was dominated by traditional diplomatic history accounts of the intergovernmental negotiations of ‘national interests’. More recently, some contemporary historians have studied transnational relations as one way of overcoming the conceptual and methodological limits of the state-centric approach. In his book, Kiran Patel uses the somewhat related concept of Europeanization—defined here as…
From Great Men to Ordinary Citizens? The Biographical Approach to Narrating European Integration in Museums
The history of European integration is not easy to tell – in books or, for that matter, in museums. Most importantly, it appears to lack drama. This lack of drama creates a dilemma for museum practitioners who wish to tell stories about the contemporary history of Europé as shared history. In these circumstances, one prominent way of telling stories about European integration history in museums, and the focus of this article, is the biographical …
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Narrating European integration: Transnational actors and stories
This article introduces the special issue on narrating European integration. Narratives, or stories, are a key mechanism for constructing individual and collective identities, and other politically important elements of discourse. The articles in this special issue go beyond most existing work on narratives. First, they examine the actors and networks, ranging from EU institutions to political parties and social groups, which create, foster and d…
Limits of Cultural Engineering: Actors and Narratives in the European Parliament's House of European History Project
Concerned about the EU's apparent lack of cultural legitimacy, EU institutions have increasingly engaged in the transnational politics of history to enhance European identity and foster EU legitimacy. The House of European History museum project in Brussels marks a high point in the European Parliament's history politics. Based on document analysis and interviews, an analysis of the project's origins and evolution highlights the narrow limits of …
Clash of Cultures: Two Milieus in the European Union's ‘A New Narrative for Europe’ Project
Framing narratives about shared history, norms and the future can be an important practice of creating transnational memory in Europe.This was the task of the European Union's "A New Narrative for Europe" project initiated by the European Parliament and implemented by the European Commission during 2013-14.Some 20 people from the cultural sphere formed a socalled Cultural Committee that eventually submitted the declaration "New Narrative for Euro…
One narrative or several? Politics, cultural elites, and citizens in constructing a ‘New Narrative for Europe’
European Union (EU) institutions have cultivated narratives of European integration for a long time. For its 2013–2014 ‘A New Narrative for Europe’ project, however, the European Commission for the first time explicitly used the ‘narrative’ label. Drawing on non-participant observation, semi-structured interviews and qualitative discourse analysis, this article contrasts the drafting process and the resulting declaration’s narrative structure and…
History meets Politics: Overcoming Interdisciplinary Volapük in Research on the EU
This article surveys recent political science literature on the EU, which draws upon its history. It addresses its shortcomings from an interdisciplinary perspective before proceeding to discuss current historical scholarship on the EU. It argues that this research can – inter alia – help to test neo-functionalist theoretical assumptions, understand the origins of bargaining as a multi-level game, explore competing institutionalist assumptions em…
Bringing History Back In To the Study of Transnational Networks in European Integration
This article discusses the results of recent historical research on the governance of networks and their impact on policy-making in the formative period of the EU. It concludes that historically aware research on networks in EU governance has great potential. In particular, in can contribute to enhancing our knowledge about the formation and dynamics of networks; conceptualising the role of supranational institutions such as the Commission in ins…
Transnationalism and Early European Integration: The Nouvelles Equipes Internationales and the Geneva Circle 1947–1957
Based on the analysis of primary sources from party archives and the private papers of politicians in six countries, this article evaluates the influence of Christian Democrat transnationalism on European integration in the crucial formative period from 1947 to 1957. It shows how the Christian Democrats' co-operation in the Nouvelles Equipes Internationales and the Geneva Circle shaped and re-enforced their historical orientations, ideological pr…
Narrative Ju-jitsu: Counter-narratives to European union
Recent scholarship has increasingly recognised the crucial role of political narratives in and for European integration. Since its earliest days, supporters have justified integration by telling stories about its beneficial contribution to peace, prosperity, and democracy. In this article and the special issue, we contribute to the burgeoning literature on (counter)narratives to European ‘union’ (any integration beyond intergovernmental cooperati…
From Great Men to Ordinary Citizens? The Biographical Approach to Narrating European Integration in Museums
The history of European integration is not easy to tell – in books or, for that matter, in museums. Most importantly, it appears to lack drama. This lack of drama creates a dilemma for museum practitioners who wish to tell stories about the contemporary history of Europé as shared history. In these circumstances, one prominent way of telling stories about European integration history in museums, and the focus of this article, is the biographical …
Austria in the European Union
This article gives an overview of the process of domestic adjustment and of the formation of Austrian policy priorities within the European Union (EU). It argues that, while certain problems of economic and political adjustment, including the neutrality issue, are still being addressed, the coalition government of Social Democrats and Christian Democrats is basically determined to establish Austria in the integration core in Europe if and when di…
International organizations and Holocaust remembrance: From Europe to the world
International organizations have increasingly become engaged in developing transnational memory frames for the Holocaust. Based on document analysis and interviews with transnational norm entrepreneurs, this article explores the role and interaction of three organizations: the European Union, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance and UNESCO. It employs the multi-level governance approach to analyze how Prime Minister Göran Persson and …
Multiple connections in European co-operation: International organizations, policy ideas, practices and transfers 1967–92
International organizations are ubiquitous in contemporary Europe and the wider world. This special issue takes a historical approach to exploring their relations with each other in Western Europe between 1967 and 1992. The authors seek to ‘provincialize’ and ‘de-centre’ the European Union’s role, exploring the interactions of its predecessors with other organizations like NATO, the OECD and the Council of Europe. This article develops the new hi…
Introduction: Networks in European Union Governance
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Transnational Mobilization and Cultural Representation: Political Transfer in an Age of Proto-Globalization, Democratization and Nationalism 1848–1914
Political transfer boomed in Europe, the Atlantic world and beyond in the second half of the nineteenth century. Drawing on a variety of empirical examples, this article addresses three core dimensions of political transfer: the changing structural conditions for transfer; the transfer agents and their strategies; and the means they could employ drawing upon new forms of collective networking across borders, diffusing information, and visualizing…
Co-operation of European Catholic Politicians in Exile in Britain and the USA during the Second World War
Christian Democracy had a formative influence on western Europe after 1945. This article studies the transnational co-operation of European Catholic politicians in exile during the second world war and evaluates how this might have influenced postwar developments. It argues that Catholic transnationalism was not well organized. The analysis of its contacts in the People and Freedom Group and the International Christian Democratic Union also shows…
Continuity and Change in European Cooperation during the Twentieth Century
To sign the treaty creating the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) the foreign ministers of Belgium, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands met in Paris in April 1951. In a solemn Joint Declaration they stressed that through the newly created organisation, ‘the Contracting Parties have given their determination to set up the first supranational institution and thus lay the real foundations of an organ…
Counter-narratives in the European Parliament: Far Left and Far Right Groups and European ‘union’ in the 1980s
This article proposes a temporal perspective for understanding the dynamics of political mobilisation around narratives and counter-narratives of European ‘union’, which extends back to the Cold War period. As a starting point, it focusses on the narratives by far left and far right Groups about European ‘union’ in the European Parliament during the 1980s. Analysing narrative entrepreneurs and their storytelling during six debates on reforming th…
Christian Democracy in Twentieth-Century Europe
Tom Buchanan and Martin Conway (eds), Political Catholicism in Europe 1918-1965, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1996; pp. 312; ISBN 0 19 820319 5 Martin Conway, Catholic Politics in Europe 1918-1945, London, Routledge, 1997; pp. 118; ISBN 0 415 06401 5 Jean-Dominique Durand, L'Europe de la Democratie chretienne, Paris, Editions Complexe, 1995; ISBN 2 87027 536 6 Ellen L. Evans, The Cross and the Ballot. Catholic Political Parties in Germany, Sw…
A Never-Ending Story: Britain in Europe
Books reviewed in this article: Baker, David and Seawright, David (eds.) Britain For and Against Europe. British Politics and the Question of European Integration Buller, Jim National Statecraft and European Integration. The Conservative Government and the European Union, 1979-1997. Eltis, Walter Britain, Europe and EMU Ellison, James Threatening Europe. Britain and the Creation of the European Community, 1955-58 Gowland, David and Turner, Arthur…
Strategic leadership in the EU multilevel parliamentary field: The EPP Group’s Erasmus Programme
Transnational Practices Governing European Integration: Executive Autonomy and Neo-Corporatist Concertation in the Steel Sector
The European Coal and Steel Community was marked by institutional innovations. They have masked strong continuities in administrative and business communities and their governance practices, however, which persisted after 1945. Based on fresh research in national and international organisation archives, this article explores the origins before, during and after the First World War of two key elements of these practices, their evolution over time …
Cultural Transfer of Free Trade at the World Exhibitions, 1851-1862
Vive la France! Vive la République? The Cultural Construction of French Identity at the World Exhibitions in Paris 1855–1900
This article analyses how the world exhibitions were instrumentalised for national identity-building in 19th-century France. It argues that they probably strengthened a broadly consensual conception of a superior French culture and civilising mission. In contrast, it is doubtful whether the Second Empire and the Third Republic succeeded in hijacking them to sustain their political visions of the French nation. The exhibitions crystallised critici…
Between haiderisation and modernisation: The German free democrats since party unification
This article examines the development of the German Free Democrats (FDP) since party unification in 1990. Two‐fifths of the FDP's membership now come from the new Lander which adds considerably to the party's internal volatility while it is faced with a dual policy and functional crisis. The current internal debate indicates the extent of the resulting disorientation and illustrates the post‐unification search for a new identity. There now appear…
Between haiderisation and modernisation: The German free democrats since party unification
This article examines the development of the German Free Democrats (FDP) since party unification in 1990. Two‐fifths of the FDP's membership now come from the new Lander which adds considerably to the party's internal volatility while it is faced with a dual policy and functional crisis. The current internal debate indicates the extent of the resulting disorientation and illustrates the post‐unification search for a new identity. There now appear…
Austria in the European Union
This article gives an overview of the process of domestic adjustment and of the formation of Austrian policy priorities within the European Union (EU). It argues that, while certain problems of economic and political adjustment, including the neutrality issue, are still being addressed, the coalition government of Social Democrats and Christian Democrats is basically determined to establish Austria in the integration core in Europe if and when di…
A Study in Ambivalence: Austria and European Integration 1945–95
During the Cold War era the smaller states in Western Europe were confronted with numerous external pressures. These included most of all the need for closer economic co-operation within Western Europe to sustain the process of post-war economic and political reconstruction and the impact on Europe of the confrontation between the new superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union. The responses of the smaller states to these external pressu…
The political reform debate in Britain since 1945: The European dimension
Political reform has been a key issue in contemporary British history. The roots of the reform debate are mostly indigenous. However, it is argued here that the European dimension has had a growing, if often indirect influence on this debate at two levels. First, in the course of the debate about British decline since the early 1960s, other West European democracies began to provide reference points for the reform debate both in academia and in p…
Coping with Decline: Recent Books on British Diplomatic and Political History
p laul Kennedy has identified a pattern in the histories of the great powers: nations which rise inevitably fall. It is counter-intuitive, but a nations strength (primarily economic and military) is the cause of its eventual demise. As nations ascend they extend their commitments and resources. At a critical moment commitment turns into over-commitment and resources become over-stretched. The political result is
Vive la France! Vive la République? The Cultural Construction of French Identity at the World Exhibitions in Paris 1855–1900
This article analyses how the world exhibitions were instrumentalised for national identity-building in 19th-century France. It argues that they probably strengthened a broadly consensual conception of a superior French culture and civilising mission. In contrast, it is doubtful whether the Second Empire and the Third Republic succeeded in hijacking them to sustain their political visions of the French nation. The exhibitions crystallised critici…
Co-operation of European Catholic Politicians in Exile in Britain and the USA during the Second World War
Christian Democracy had a formative influence on western Europe after 1945. This article studies the transnational co-operation of European Catholic politicians in exile during the second world war and evaluates how this might have influenced postwar developments. It argues that Catholic transnationalism was not well organized. The analysis of its contacts in the People and Freedom Group and the International Christian Democratic Union also shows…
Transnationalism and Early European Integration: The Nouvelles Equipes Internationales and the Geneva Circle 1947–1957
Based on the analysis of primary sources from party archives and the private papers of politicians in six countries, this article evaluates the influence of Christian Democrat transnationalism on European integration in the crucial formative period from 1947 to 1957. It shows how the Christian Democrats' co-operation in the Nouvelles Equipes Internationales and the Geneva Circle shaped and re-enforced their historical orientations, ideological pr…
A Never-Ending Story: Britain in Europe
Books reviewed in this article: Baker, David and Seawright, David (eds.) Britain For and Against Europe. British Politics and the Question of European Integration Buller, Jim National Statecraft and European Integration. The Conservative Government and the European Union, 1979-1997. Eltis, Walter Britain, Europe and EMU Ellison, James Threatening Europe. Britain and the Creation of the European Community, 1955-58 Gowland, David and Turner, Arthur…
Culture Wars: Secular-Catholic Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Across nineteenth-century Europe, the emergence of constitutional and democratic nation-states was accompanied by intense conflict between Catholics and anticlerical forces. At its peak, this conflict touched virtually every sphere of social life: schools, universities, the press, marriage and gender relations, burial rites, associational culture, the control of public space, folk memory and the symbols of nationhood. In short, these conflicts we…
‘Clericalism – that is our enemy!’: European anticlericalism and the culture wars
Spaniards always stand behind their priests – either with candles in hand to light a procession, or with sticks to beat them up. As this old joke suggests, both Catholic popular piety and militant anticlericalism took on forms in the Iberian peninsula that were extreme by European standards. But the joke also reminds us that the culture wars waged across Europe against clerical influence and ultramontanism were not confined to liberal elites and …
Political Catholicism in Europe 1918-1945: Volume 1
European Union Enlargement: A Comparative History
Christian Democracy in Europe Since 1945: Volume 2
For the first time, this book reveals the actual roles of the Christian Democratic (CD) parties in postwar Europe from a pan-European perspective. It shows how Christian Democratic parties became the dominant political force in postwar Western Europe, and how the European People's Party is currently the largest group in the European Parliament. CD parties and political leaders like Adenauer, Schuman and De Gasperi played a particularly important …
Christian Democracy in Twentieth-Century Europe
Tom Buchanan and Martin Conway (eds), Political Catholicism in Europe 1918-1965, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1996; pp. 312; ISBN 0 19 820319 5 Martin Conway, Catholic Politics in Europe 1918-1945, London, Routledge, 1997; pp. 118; ISBN 0 415 06401 5 Jean-Dominique Durand, L'Europe de la Democratie chretienne, Paris, Editions Complexe, 1995; ISBN 2 87027 536 6 Ellen L. Evans, The Cross and the Ballot. Catholic Political Parties in Germany, Sw…
Transnational Mobilization and Cultural Representation: Political Transfer in an Age of Proto-Globalization, Democratization and Nationalism 1848–1914
Political transfer boomed in Europe, the Atlantic world and beyond in the second half of the nineteenth century. Drawing on a variety of empirical examples, this article addresses three core dimensions of political transfer: the changing structural conditions for transfer; the transfer agents and their strategies; and the means they could employ drawing upon new forms of collective networking across borders, diffusing information, and visualizing…
Cultural Transfer of Free Trade at the World Exhibitions, 1851-1862
Christian Democracy and the Origins of European Union
Major study of the role of European Christian democratic parties in the making of the European Union. It radically re-conceptualises European integration in long-term historical perspective as the outcome of partisan competition of political ideologies and parties and their guiding ideas for the future of Europe. Wolfram Kaiser takes a comparative approach to political Catholicism in the nineteenth century, Catholic parties in interwar Europe and…
The Conservative Party and European Integration since 1945 * Britannia, Europa and Christendom: British Christians and European Integration
History meets Politics: Overcoming Interdisciplinary Volapük in Research on the EU
This article surveys recent political science literature on the EU, which draws upon its history. It addresses its shortcomings from an interdisciplinary perspective before proceeding to discuss current historical scholarship on the EU. It argues that this research can – inter alia – help to test neo-functionalist theoretical assumptions, understand the origins of bargaining as a multi-level game, explore competing institutionalist assumptions em…
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Deutschlands Ringen mit der Relance. Die Europapolitik der BRD wahrend der Beratungen und Verhandlungen uber die Romischen Vertrage
Although it has mattered much for the setting up and the evolution of the present-day European Union, (West) German integration policy has been much less well researched than French or, for that matter, British European policy after 1945. This book aims to redress the balance by concentrating on the German role in the formation of the European Economic Community and the atomic energy authority EURATOM in the mid-1950s. In the first third of the b…
Introduction: Networks in European Union Governance
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Bringing History Back In To the Study of Transnational Networks in European Integration
This article discusses the results of recent historical research on the governance of networks and their impact on policy-making in the formative period of the EU. It concludes that historically aware research on networks in EU governance has great potential. In particular, in can contribute to enhancing our knowledge about the formation and dynamics of networks; conceptualising the role of supranational institutions such as the Commission in ins…
Europaisierung wider Willen. Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland in der Agrarintegration der EWG 1955-1973
For a long time the historiography of European integration was dominated by traditional diplomatic history accounts of the intergovernmental negotiations of ‘national interests’. More recently, some contemporary historians have studied transnational relations as one way of overcoming the conceptual and methodological limits of the state-centric approach. In his book, Kiran Patel uses the somewhat related concept of Europeanization—defined here as…
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