Author

Publication

2003-08-01 - Cornell University Press

Language

English

Word Count

64,000 words, Guess

Page Count

256 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

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Classifications

  • LCCJN30.P38 2003

Description

"A Certain Idea of Europe traces the progressive victory of this project in France, where the battle over European institutions erupted most divisively. Drawing on archival materials and extensive interviews with French policy-makers, the author carefully traces a fifty-year conflict between radically different European plans. Only through aggressive leadership did the advocates of a supranational "community" Europe succeed at building the EU and binding their opponents within it." "Parsons puts the causal impact of ideas, and their binding effects through institutions, at the center of his book. In so doing he presents a strong logic of social construction - a sharp departure from other accounts of EU history that downplay the role of ideas and ideology."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

Today's European Union traces its institutional origins to French foreign minister Robert Schuman's proposal of a European Coal and Steel Community in May 1950.

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Other Editions

  • A Certain Idea of Europe (Cornell Studies in Political Economy)HardcoverCornell University Press2003-08-01

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