Crises in European Integration Challenges and Responses, 1945-2005 [Paperback]

While the major trends in European integration have been well researched and constitute key elements of narratives about its value and purpose, the crises of integration and their effects have not yet attracted sufficient attention. This volume, with original contributions by leading German scholars, suggests that crises of integration should be seen as engines of progress throughout the history of European integration rather than as expressions of failure and regression, a widely held assumption. It therefore throws new light on the current crises in European integration and provides a fascinating panorama of how challenges and responses were guiding the process during its first five decades.

Editorial Preface
Jane Caplan(Executive Editor),Timothy Garton Ash,J?rgen Kocka,Gerhard A. Ritter,Nicholas Stargardt,Margit Sz?ll?si-Janze

Introduction:European Integration: Success through Crises
Ludger K?hnhardt

Chapter 1.Sources of European Integration: The Meaning of Failed Interwar Politics and the Role of World War II
Wilfried Loth

Chapter 2.The Failure of EDC and European Integration
Manfred G?rtemaker

Chapter 3.The Institutional Paradox: How Crises Have Reinforced European Integration
J?rgen Elvert

Chapter 4.Through Crises to EMU: Perspectives for Fiscal Union and Political Union
J?rgen von Hagen

Chapter 5.Opportunity or Overstretch? The Unexpected Dynamics of Deepening and Widening
Wolfgang WesselsandThomas Traguth

Chapter 6.Learning from Failure: The Evolution of the EUs Foreign, Security and Defense Policy in the Course of the Yugoslav Crisis
Mathias JoppandUdo Diedrichs

Chapter 7.Challenges and Opportunities: Surmounting Integration Crises in Historical Context
Michael Gehler

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