
Alcide de Gasperi:European Founding Father
Daniela Preda(Author)
Peter Lang Verlag
Published on 17. April 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
354 pages
978-2-8076-0131-4 (ISBN)
Description
Alcide De Gasperi is universally recognized as a Founding Father of Europe, but his enlightened action in favour of European unification is little known outside of Italy.
At the beginning of the 1950s, he became one of the most steadfast advocates of a European federation as a response to the problems of peace in Europe and Franco-German reconciliation. Foreseeing the limits of functional integration, he strongly supported the creation of a European political community as a framework in which to insert the nascent communities. After retracing the fundamental stages in the Europeanist education of the political leader from Trentino, the book focuses on his determination in fighting to give constituent power to the European Defense Community (EDC) Assembly, to convene the ad hoc Assembly, charged with studying and drawing up a treaty for the European Political Community, and to gain approval for the treaty.
In a Europe that today is questioning its future, reflecting on De Gasperi's thoughts and Europeanist actions means rediscovering the founding values of the process of European unification, its accompanying ideals, and the historical reasons that have given expression to it.
More details
Series
103
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Bruxelles
Belgium
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
458 gr
ISBN-13
978-2-8076-0131-4 (9782807601314)
DOI
10.3726/b13476
Schweitzer Classification
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Daniela Preda
Alcide de Gasperi's Europe
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04/2018
1st Edition
Peter Lang Verlag
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Daniela Preda
Alcide de Gasperi's Europe
E-Book
04/2018
1st Edition
Peter Lang Verlag
€70.49
Available for download
Person
Daniela Preda is Full Professor at the University of Genoa, where she teaches Contemporary History and History of European Integration. She is Jean Monnet Chair ad personam in "History and Politics of European Integration".
Content
Contents: The Years of Political Education - The Interwar Period: The Long Eve - The Second War Period - The Reconstruction - The Start of European Unification - The Western Turning Point and the Landing to Federalism - Europeanism and Atlanticism - The Schuman Plan - The Pleven Plan - The European Political Community Project - The Seeds of Peace