Liberalising Regional Trade

Socialists and European Economic Integration

Bibliographic Data

ID12269099
AuthorsBrian Shaev (0000-0002-2129-7750, University of Applied Sciences Leiden, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume27
Issue2
Pages258-279
Publication date2018-04-13
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueContemporary European History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0960-7773 • E-ISSN: 1469-2171
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0960777318000073
OpenAlexW2796827281
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited18

The socialist contribution to the creation of the European Economic Community has long been overlooked and misunderstood. Existing scholarship emphasises short-term considerations in explaining why the French Socialist and German Social Democratic Parties supported a European Common Market in 1956–7. This article offers a new perspective by placing these parties’ decisions within a longer context of socialist views on free trade, tariffs and regional economic organisation. Based on fresh archival materials, this article explores how socialist proposals for securing an economic peace after the First World War continued to influence socialist policies on European economic integration in the 1950s

Context (archaeology · Democracy · Economic community · Economic integration · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Geography · German · Perspective (graphical · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Regional Integration · Scholarship · European history and politics · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · Law

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