On 9 May 1950, in an elegant salon of the Quai d’Orsay in Paris, France’s Foreign Minister Robert Schuman proposed that France and Germany, plus any other democratic nation in Western Europe that wanted to join, establish a “community” to regulate and govern the coal and steel industries across national borders. France and Germany had been at, or preparing for, war for most of the nineteenth and twentieth century, at huge costs to millions of citizens. Moreover, in 1950 iron and steel remained central to national economic success and war-making power. The Schuman Plan therefore clearly spoke to deeper issues.
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European Union
Are the Founding Ideas Obsolete?
Isabelle Petit and George Ross
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2011
- Article Type:
- Introduction
- Pages:
- 1–3 (3 total)
From the Editors
In the lead article to this open issue of German Politics and Society,
Michael Werz offers an insightful and ambitious sweep of the
large questions confronting Germany and the European Union in the
context of the twentieth century's legacies. Particularly welcome are
Werz's criticisms of the increasingly crucial role that anti-Americanism
has played in the establishment of a putatively multicultural identity
in Europe. Werz demonstrates how the American experience has
great relevance for Europe and how German and European intellectuals
do their cause a great disservice by dismissing this experience as
irrelevant, inferior—or worse.
In German Politics and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2001
- Article Type:
- Editorial
- Pages:
- vi–vii (1 total)
French Cinema
Globalization, Representation, and Resistance
Graeme Hayes and Martin O'Shaughnessy
It is now twelve years since French brinkmanship pushed American negotiators and the prospects of a world trade deal to the wire, securing the exclusion of cultural products and services from the 1993 GATT agreement and the maintenance of European systems of national quotas, public subsidies, and intellectual property rights in the audiovisual sector. The intervening period has not been quiet. Although the Multilateral Agreement on Investment was sunk when Lionel Jospin pulled the plug on negotiations in October 1998, the applications of new central European entrants to join the European Union and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development have been accompanied by a continuing guerrilla battle fought by successive American administrations against the terms and scope of the exclusion.
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2005
- Article Type:
- Introduction
- Pages:
- 1–13 (13 total)
Introduction
Politics and Power After the 2017 Bundestag Election
Eric Langenbacher
rather critical take on Germany’s dominant leadership role in the European Union in recent years. German leadership since the Euro Crisis, including policy decisions during the refugee crisis of 2015, have greatly contributed to the severe legitimacy
In German Politics and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2018
- Article Type:
- Introduction
- Pages:
- 1–4 (4 total)
Introduction
Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski, Julian Pänke, and Jochen Roose
, “Germany in the European Union: Gentle Giant or Emergent Leader?” International Affairs 72, no. 1 (1996): 9–32. 2 Simon Bulmer, “Germany and the Eurozone Crisis: Between Hegemony and Domestic Politics,” West European Politics 37, no. 6 (2014): 1244
In German Politics and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2020
- Article Type:
- Introduction
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- 1–6 (6 total)
Introduction
Pegida as a European Far-Right Populist Movement
Helga Druxes and Patricia Anne Simpson
-right parties and identitarian movements that increasingly situate themselves in the political mainstream, exacerbates an ongoing struggle to preserve the reality, if not the ideals, of the European Union ( eu ), now more centrally in the crosshairs of far
In German Politics and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2016
- Article Type:
- Introduction
- Pages:
- 1–16 (16 total)
Introduction
Using Popular Culture to Trace and Assess Political Change
Niko Switek
,” German Politics and Society 38, no. 2 (2020). 3 At the time of writing, the composition of the coalition government that will be formed had not been determined. 4 Simon Bulmer and William E. Paterson, “Germany in the European Union: Gentle Giant or
In German Politics and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2021
- Article Type:
- Introduction
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- 1–7 (7 total)
Introduction
Merkeldämmerung
Eric Langenbacher
of reunification in eastern Germany) and fostering entrepreneurship were mentioned. Instead, a variety of reforms to the state administration, education, and the European Union were highlighted. The most attention, however, was devoted to
In German Politics and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2018
- Article Type:
- Introduction
- Pages:
- 1–30 (30 total)
The Ampel Coalition's Foreign Policy Challenges
Jack Janes
: Washington should encourage European countries to leverage the European Union, nato , and other, flexible formats to rationalize the fragmented defense and industrial landscape by investing together in modern capabilities, building a strong and resilient
In German Politics and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2022
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 104–118 (15 total)
Introduction
A White Republic? Whites and Whiteness in France
Mathilde Cohen and Sarah Mazouz
of Black group activism, was created. 41 During this decade of growing minority activism, antidiscrimination law gained significant momentum with the enactment of the European Union's Race Equality Directive of 2000 and its transposition into French
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Jun 2021
- Article Type:
- Introduction
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- 1–25 (25 total)