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
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- 01 Jun 2011
- Article Type:
- Introduction
- Pages:
- 1–3 (3 total)
The European Conceptual History Project (ECHP)
Mission Statement
Editorial Board
After a complex integration process which has taken more than half a century, most Europeans—and non-Europeans—no longer identify Europe with simply an economic common market; yet the final political status of the European Union is still an open question. In general, Europe is usually regarded as the birthplace of a set of values claiming universal validity and serving as the basic political reference for citizens and institutions throughout the world. The emergence and spread of such significant concepts as civilization, democracy, liberalism, parliamentarism, (human) rights, or tolerance, for example, are generally associated with modern European history.
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2011
- Article Type:
- News
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- 111–116 (6 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)
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)
Myths and Maps of Europe
Chiara Bottici and Benoît Challand
Both the name Europe and the political entity Europe are relatively recent inventions. Although the name can be traced back as far as 700 BCE, the term in its contemporary meaning only became widespread after 1700 CE. The political entity is an even more recent construct. It was only with the first steps toward European construction in the second half of the twentieth century that the contours of a political community bearing this name emerged, even if its borders were still far from clearly defined. Yet even with the existence of today’s European Union (EU) the meaning of the term remains highly contested. Does Europe mean only the EU? Is it a geographical or a political entity? Where are its boundaries? How did these boundaries come about?
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
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- 01 Sep 2009
- Article Type:
- Introduction
- Pages:
- 1–8 (8 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
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- 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
- Pages:
- 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)
Rethinking World War I
Occupation, Liberation, and Reconstruction
George Robb and W. Brian Newsome
Youth , was released to critical acclaim in 2015. 1 An important historical initiative to emerge from the centennial has been the appeal for family records related to the war by Europeana, a digital library supported by the European Union. 2 In the
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2016
- Article Type:
- Introduction
- Pages:
- 1–8 (8 total)
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