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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In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Jun 2011
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in one of the most brutal massacres perpetrated in Western Europe after the Second World War. Since the end of the 1980s, historians and activists proposed narratives of these events that mainly portray the Algerians as victims of a colonial
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Jun 2016
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Pegida as a European Far-Right Populist Movement
Helga Druxes and Patricia Anne Simpson
inequalities among them. Aftereffects from the break-up of the East bloc can be felt in the escalation of antiminority violence in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as “the smouldering slow burn of the legacies of colonialism” in Western Europe. 2 These
In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Sarah Wiliarty and Louise K. Davidson-Schmich
the AfD's entry onto the national political scene. The contributors—an interdisciplinary group representing several generations of German politics scholars—draw on comparative examples from across western Europe and throughout German history to
In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Mar 2020
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Memorial
Allan Mitchell, 1933—2016
Volker Berghahn
-German confrontation that has dominated Western Europe ever since.” Although his work deserved greater recognition during his life-time, it is to be hoped that its central importance to modern European history will continue be recognized and cited now that he is no
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Mar 2018
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- Obituary
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Introduction
A White Republic? Whites and Whiteness in France
Mathilde Cohen and Sarah Mazouz
ideas and theories from one place to another, particularly when they migrate to the Western European context, is that they might “shed [their] insurrectionary force” and become “tamed and domesticated somewhat.” 59 Interestingly, Said chose France as
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Jun 2021
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