A Certain Idea of Europe

Craig Parsons

Published by Cornell University Press 2006

A Certain Idea of Europe

Craig Parsons

In the series Cornell Studies in Political Economy

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501732089

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About this book

The quasi-federal European Union stands out as the major exception in the thinly institutionalized world of international politics. Something has led Europeans—and only Europeans—beyond the nation-state to a fundamentally new political architecture...

Author / Editor information

Craig Parsons is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University and Director of the Maxwell European Union Center.

Reviews

Parsons's book is a welcome addition to the study of the European Union.... Parsons provides a vivid discussion on the early dynamics of French efforts to influence the evolution of European institutions from their inception after World War Two.... The book is both substantively and theoretically rich, and provides a wealth of bibliographic resources, analytical footnotes, and a well-organized index.... Highly recommended. General readers and upper-division undergraduates and above.

Parsons provides a full and intricate history of French diplomacy on the question of European Community building. It stands in its own right as a new and scholarly contribution to French postwar history and politics up to the end of the 1970s.

Kathleen R. McNamara, Georgetown University:

Audacious and ambitious, Parsons's book is a must-read for all students of the European Union. His emphasis on the institutionalization of ideas and his rich empirical research offer a serious challenge to much of the prevailing wisdom about the construction of national interests in Europe.

Claire Herbert:

A Certain Idea of Europe is a political journey, from the immediate post-war period to the European Union of the late 1990s that follows the place of French ideas in the establishment and development of the European Union we know today.... Parsons succeeds in piercing the strategic skin of the French political approach to Europe for most of the 20th century and analysing the ideas beneath.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
INTRODUCTION: The Institutional Construction of Interests Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I: Choosing the Community Model
ONE. The Parting of the Ways Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
TWO. The Battle Widens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
THREE. The Choice for the Community Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	90
FOUR. Accepting the Community Model Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
PART II: From Community to Union
FIVE. Making the Community Monetary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
SIX. Relaunching the Community Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
SEVEN. Entering Euroland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	202
CONCLUSION: Ideas into Interests Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243

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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 272
Illustrations
- Other: 2 line drawings
Keywords: History; Europe; Political Science & Political History

eBook

Published: July 5, 2018
ISBN: 9781501732089