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Abbreviations and Acronyms |
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Chronology: 1945-2019 |
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2 The Ideal of European Unity |
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11 | (22) |
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12 | (4) |
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16 | (4) |
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The Marshall Plan and the OEEC |
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20 | (4) |
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24 | (4) |
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28 | (5) |
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3 The Europe of the Six: From the Schuman Plan to the Western European Union, 1950-55 |
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33 | (24) |
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34 | (4) |
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38 | (6) |
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The Coal and Steel Community |
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44 | (4) |
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48 | (9) |
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4 From Messina to Rome, 1955-58 |
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57 | (22) |
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57 | (3) |
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60 | (2) |
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62 | (4) |
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The Treaties of Rome: March 25, 1957 |
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66 | (6) |
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72 | (7) |
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5 In the Shadow of the General: De Gaulle and the EEC, 1958-66 |
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79 | (26) |
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The EEC's First Four Years |
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80 | (3) |
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83 | (5) |
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The First British Negotiation for Entry |
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88 | (9) |
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The "Empty Chair" Crisis and the Luxembourg Compromise |
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97 | (8) |
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6 Weathering Storms, 1967-74 |
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105 | (24) |
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A World Trading Power and Its Grain Mountain |
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107 | (3) |
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The Hague Summit and Its Consequences |
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110 | (3) |
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113 | (6) |
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Monetary Turmoil, 1971-74 |
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119 | (4) |
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123 | (6) |
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7 Consolidation and Innovation, 1974-79 |
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129 | (22) |
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The Faults and Virtues of Consolidation |
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129 | (7) |
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136 | (3) |
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The European Monetary System |
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139 | (7) |
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A "Parliament" for Europe |
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146 | (5) |
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8 The 1992 Initiative and the Relaunch of the Community |
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151 | (26) |
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152 | (3) |
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The British Budgetary Question |
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155 | (3) |
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Mediterranean Enlargement |
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158 | (4) |
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162 | (5) |
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167 | (5) |
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Evaluating the Single European Act |
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172 | (5) |
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9 The Maastricht Compromise |
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177 | (30) |
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The House That Jacques Built |
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178 | (4) |
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182 | (4) |
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186 | (3) |
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189 | (2) |
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191 | (7) |
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The Treaty on European Union |
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198 | (5) |
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Making Sense of Maastricht |
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203 | (4) |
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207 | (30) |
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208 | (7) |
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215 | (6) |
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The Institutional Question |
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221 | (8) |
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The EU's Growing World Role |
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229 | (8) |
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11 The Challenge of the Political |
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237 | (42) |
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238 | (5) |
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243 | (9) |
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There Goes the Neighborhood |
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252 | (9) |
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261 | (14) |
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The Challenge of the Political |
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275 | (4) |
Notes |
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279 | (36) |
Bibliographic Essay |
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315 | (6) |
Index |
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321 | (14) |
About the Author |
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