Visions Of European Unity
1st Edition
Published on 18. April 1996
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-8133-8965-3 (ISBN)
Description
Surveying the ideals and visions held by the founders of the European Community, this timely book also assesses the concepts and theories surrounding the European Union today. This volume is the first to explore the cleavages among early theorists together with the views of the parties today on the challenges of a United States of Europe. The contributors combine their theoretical analyses with extensive use of archival material, party programs, and speeches to provide an authoritative and comprehensive study of value to all scholars interested in European integration. Surveying the ideals and visions held by the founders of the European Community, this timely book also assesses the concepts and theories surrounding the European Union today. This volume is the first to explore the theoretical cleavages among Monnet, Spinelli, the federalists, and the functionalists together with the views of the Socialist, Labour, Social Democratic, Conservative, and Christian Democratic parties on the challenges of a United States of Europe.
The contributors combine their theoretical analyses with extensive use of archival material, party programs, and speeches to provide an authoritative and comprehensive study of value to all scholars interested in European integration.
The contributors combine their theoretical analyses with extensive use of archival material, party programs, and speeches to provide an authoritative and comprehensive study of value to all scholars interested in European integration.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-0-8133-8965-3 (9780813389653)
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Content
Introduction; (Philomena Murray and Paul Rich. ); Visionary Ideals of European Unity After World War I; (P. Rich. ); The New Europe Debate in Wartime Britain; (Peter Wilson. ); Functionalism Versus Federalism: Alternative Visions of European Unity; (Cornelia Navari. ); Jean Monnet and the Federal Functionalist Approach to European Union; (Martin Holland. ); Spinelli and European Union; (P. Murray. ); Conservative and Christian Democrat Debates on European Union; (Richard Dunphy. ); Nationalist or Internationalist? Socialists and European Unity; (P. Murray. ); The Transformation of the European Ideal Since World War II; (P. Rich. ); The Debate on Citizenship and European Union; (Elizabeth Meehan.)