1st Edition
Federalism and the European Union The Building of Europe, 1950-2000
By Michael Burgess
Copyright 2000
304 Pages
by
Routledge
308 Pages
by
Routledge
308 Pages
by
Routledge
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A revisionist interpretation of the post-war evolution of European integration and the European Union (EU), this book reappraises and reassesses conventional explanations of European integration. It adopts a federalist approach which supplements state-based arguments with federal political ideas, influences and strategies. By exploring the philosophical and historical origins of federal ideas and... Read more
Chapter 1 Federalism, the state and the European idea; Chapter 2 Federalism and federation in Western Europe; Chapter 3 Federalism and the building of Europe, 1950–72; Chapter 4 Federalism and the struggle for European Union, 1973-84; Chapter 5 Federalism, European Union and the Single European Act, 1985-88; Chapter 6 Maastricht: the last treaty of the Cold War, 1989-93; Chapter 7 From Maastricht to Amsterdam, 1994-98; Chapter 8 The European Union as an intellectual puzzle; Chapter 9 Federalism and European Union;
Biography
Michael Burgess
