1st Edition

The Political History of European Integration The Hypocrisy of Democracy-Through-Market

By Hagen Schulz-Forberg, Bo Stråth Copyright 2010
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

The Maastricht Treaty in 1992 was based on neoliberal ideas of a market-driven European economy and democracy, and continues to be seen as a step towards a new stage of unification: towards a more federal Europe based on market integration. The authors demonstrate that European integration as a federal project actually came to an end around 1970. The European Economic Community (EEC) - the... Read more

Part 1: A Historical Outline: Confronting Teleological Understandings of European Integration  1. The Mythical Foundation and the Turbulent Founding Years  2. The Market and the Social  3. The Constitution and the ‘Democratic Deficit’  Part 2: The European Public Sphere in History, Theory and Practice  4. The European Public Sphere in Historical Perspective  5. The European Public Sphere in Theory  6. The European Public Sphere in Practice  Part 3: European Values and the European Union  7. European Values and History  8. The Value Production at the Political Centre  9. The Academic Value Production  Part 4: The Contours of a Historical Theory of the EU  10. The Historical Analogies  11. Towards a Realistic Historical Perspective on the European Integration  12. The Future

Biography

Hagen Schulz-Forberg is Assistant Professor in International History, University of Aarhus, Denmark.  Bo Stråth holds a Chair in Nordic, European and World History at the Renvall Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland.  He recently co-edited A European Memory? Contested Histories and Politics of Remembrance and European Solidarities: Tensions and Contentions of a Concept.