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Engineering European Unity: The Quest for the Right Solution Across Centuries book cover

1st Edition

Engineering European Unity The Quest for the Right Solution Across Centuries

By Éva Bóka Copyright 2023
254 Pages
by Central European University Press

Which European and non-European ideas and practices facilitated the shaping of European unity? Or rather, which pursuits led to deadlocks in the cooperation between states? The book seeks answers to these questions by surveying the historical attempts at realizing supranational patterns of governance in Europe since the Middle Ages. The main focus is on the nineteenth and twentieth century... Read more
Preface, Introduction: The Idea of European Unity, the Western System of Liberties, and the Dichotomy of Federalism versus Intergovernmentalism, 1 The Most Important Achievements of the Idea of European Unity in the Field of State and International Organization before the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789), 2 A New Democratic Constitutional Federal State in Opposition to Feudalism and Colonization: The Constitution of the United States of America (1787) and Its Influence in Europe, 3 The Dilemma of Democratization of the Idea of European Unity (1789–1815), 4 The European Phenomenon of Nation State and National Empire, and the Chances of a European Federation (1815–1919), 5 The Crisis of Realization of the Western System of Liberties and the Idea of European Unity between the Two World Wars, 6 Fight for a Democratic Europe, 7 In Search of a New Europe: Three Alternatives, 8 Realizing the Idea of European Unity in the Framework of the Council of Europe, 9 Shaping the Supranational European Union, 10 Outlook: Future Paths and Perspectives, 11 The World and Europe (EU): Some Responses to the Challenge of European Modernity, 12 Concluding Thoughts, Bibliography, About the Author, Index

Biography

Éva Bóka, PhD, Dr Habil, is researcher in history. She was lecturer at Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary, and at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. Her researches, publications, and courses cover four major fields: 1. The history of early-modern European diplomacy and the relationship of Europe with the Ottoman Empire; 2. Central European and Hungarian political thinkers on the democratization of the states and international relations; 3. The history of the idea of European unity, the history of European integration and the history of Europe’s (EU’s) relations with the world. 4. Modernization (democratization) of the states and the international relations in the Western World and East Asia (the United States, Europe (EU), China, Japan, and South Korea). She is the author of several books and articles on the history of Europe and the Ottoman Empire; the idea of European unity; the history of the European integration policy; and Europe’s (EU’s) relations with the world.

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