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.
Author(s): Matthew Broad, Suvi Kansikas
Series: Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 362
City: Cham
Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Abbreviations
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Recasting the History and Politics of European Integration ‘Beyond Brussels’
Widening the Scope of EC/EU Integration History
European Integration Beyond the EU
Structure of the Book
Part I: Pan-European Ideas, Structures and Interactions
Chapter 2: ‘Integration, Nobody Knows What It Means’: European Cooperation and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), 1947–56
The UNECE: A Cold War Technical Agency
UN Universalism and European Regionalism
The UNECE and Subregional Organisations
The UNECE and the ‘Hidden Integration’ of Europe
The UNECE and East-West Cooperation
Conclusions
Chapter 3: Inventing a ‘European Space of Discussions’: The UEFA-EBU Relationship, c.1950s–1970s
Two Europes, One Similar Goal?
Establishing European Exchanges
ECCC Final: The Most Important European Event?
Conclusion: Studying the ‘Space of Inter-European Relations’
Chapter 4: Mediating in the Cold War: How the Socialist Group of MEPs Became a Driver of Brussels-Moscow Rapprochement
The EP and the EC-Soviet Relationship During Perestroika
Preparing the Delegation
Moscow and Its Short-Term Impact
Long-Term Implications?
Conclusions
Chapter 5: Environmental Security for the Promotion of Pan-European Integration: The OSCE as a ‘Europeanising Actor’ in the Balkans
The OSCE, European Integration and Europeanisation
The OSCE in Post-Conflict Western Balkans
The OSCE Approach to Environmental Security
The OSCE in the Environment and Security Initiative
Aarhus Centres: An OSCE Flagship for Environmental Security and Democracy
Conclusions
Part II: Imagining, Negotiating and Building Regional Integration
Chapter 6: Not Giving Up Sovereignty: The British Labour Party’s Alternative Vision of International Cooperation, 1933–1951
International Socialist Cooperation
Estrangement from Continental Socialists
From Old Arguments to New Debates
Conclusions
Chapter 7: Less than Membership but More than Association: Establishing the European Economic Area, 1989–1993
Jacques Delors and the Idea of a ‘Third Way’
Hopes and Cracks in the EFTA Camp
A Successful Treaty?
Chapter 8: Regional Integration in the Eastern Bloc: Energy Cooperation Between CMEA Countries, c.1950s–80s
The Cold War and the Establishment of the CMEA
The Energy Sector as a Main Field of Activity
Intra-bloc Energy Trade and the Global Oil Crises
Conclusions
Chapter 9: Industrial Policy and Technological Cooperation in the EAEU: The Case of Eurasian Technology Platforms
What Explains the EAEU?
Towards a New Approach to Eurasian Integration
ETPs as a Case Study of Technological Cooperation in the EAEU
The Importance of European and Russian Precedents in the Creation of ETPs
Industrial Cooperation in the EAEU: The Legal and Institutional Framework
Conclusions
Part III: European Integration At and Around the Subregional Level
Chapter 10: Uniting Europe from Afar: Exile Plans for a Central European Federation in the Cold War
Liberation and Unification: The Origins of Central and Eastern European Cooperation
‘You’ve Got to Fight for Your Right to Party’
Regions Within and Versus Europe
The West: And the Rest
The Final Divide
Conclusions: Disunity in Unification
Chapter 11: Remain or Leave? Britain and the European Launcher Development Organisation (ELDO) in the Context of Brexit
A Brief Account of the Origins of the ELDO
The Turning Point: December 1965 to July 1966
The US Steps in, the British Cabinet Confirms Its Decision to Leave: And Then Changes Its Mind at the Last Minute
Conclusion: Britain’s Leaving the ELDO and Its Leaving the EU
Chapter 12: Subregional Integration in East Central Europe: Strategies in the In-Between Sphere
The Power of Historical Experience
The Role of Parallel Subregional Organisations in European Integration
Divide et impera: EU’s Stand on the V4
Streamlining Cooperation Within the EU
Conclusions
Chapter 13: Subregional Groupings in Post-Communist Europe: More Than Just ‘Cooperation’?
Subregional Initiatives in Europe
Subregionalism and European Integration
Visegrad Cooperation: Within and Beyond the EU?
Internal and Externally Focused Cooperation Via the International Visegrad Fund
Visegrad Plus
Visegrad Defence Cooperation
Conclusions
Part IV: European Integration: Past and Future, East and West, Brussels and Beyond
Chapter 14: Conclusions
Index
