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Contents

18.1 The Precedents for European Integration..................................................................................................... 650

18.1.1 The Survival of the Universal Model......................................................................

650

18.1.2 “Composite Monarchies” as aPrime Example of Unions of States inEurope 652

18.1.3 Assembly-Based Integration: The Singular Case of the Swiss

Confederation....................................................................................................................................... 657

18.1.4 Westphalia’s Peace and the Triumph of the Europe of States................................. 662

18.1.5 Europe Between Imperialism and Coordination: 1789 to 1914.............................. 663

18.2 The Idea of Europe from 1918 to 1939........................................................................................................ 664

18.2.1 Europe Lies in Ruins, at the Mercy of the United States and the Soviet

Union.................................................................................................................................................... 664

18.2.2 The Resurgence of Nationalisms and Disunity in Europe....................................... 665

18.2.3 Some Attempts at Integration.................................................................................. 667

18.3 European Integration During World War II.......................................................................................................... 672

18.3.1 The Franco-British Union (June 1940)................................................................... 672

18.3.2 Hitlerian Europe.................................................................................................... 673

18.3.3 The “Integrationist” Idea in Anti-Hitlerian Europe................................................

674

18.4 European Integration During the Post-War Period (1945-1949).......................................................................... 677

18.4.1 Europe in 1945...................................................................................................... 677

18.4.2 A First, Unsuccessful Attempt at Integration: The Congress of The Hague

(1948), and the Failure to Form a Federal Europe............................................................................... 681

18.5 Step by Step Integration: The Invention of the “Community Method” (1950)............................................ 684

18.5.1 The Pioneers: Jean Monnet and Robert Schuman.................................................. 684

18.5.2 The Schuman Declaration of May 9, 1950............................................................. 687

18.6 From the European Coal and Steel Community to the European Economic

Community (1951-1957)............................................................................................................. 689

18.6.1 The 1951 Treaty of Paris and the Creation of the ECSC........................................ 689

18.6.2 From the Failure of the EDC to the Treaties of Rome (1951-1957)..................... 690

18.7 The Extension of the Community Method to Create a Common European Market,

and the Institutionalization of European Integration (1957-1965).............................................. 691

18.7.1 The Court of Justice of the European Communities and the European

Parliament............................................................................................................................................. 691

18.7.2 The European Free Trade Association: A British “Tantrum”................................ 692

18.7.3 The Merging of Community Executives................................................................ 692

18.8 A Step Back in the Integration Process: A Return to the Intergovernmental Method

(1966-1986).................................................................................................................................

693

18.8.1 The Rejection of Qualified Majority Voting and the Return of Unanimity:

The Luxembourg Compromise............................................................................................................. 693

18.8.2 On the Path Towards Expansion............................................................................ 693

18.8.3 The Democratization of the Integration Process: An Elective European

Parliament............................................................................................................................................. 694

18.9 Returning to the Community Method: From the Single European Act

to the Maastricht Treaty (1986-1992).......................................................................................... 694

18.9.1 The Schengen Agreement....................................................................................... 695

18.9.2 The Single European Act........................................................................................ 695

18.10 Combining the Community and the Intergovernmental Methods: From the Europe

of Communities to the European Union (1992-2009)................................................................ 695

18.10.1 The Maastricht Treaty and the Appearance of the Structured Integration

Pillar...................................................................................................................................................... 696

18.10.2 Towards an Economic and Monetary Union: The Euro as a Common

Currency.............................................................................................................................................. 697

18.10.3 Many New Members............................................................................................. 698

18.10.4 The Need to Reorganize the EU: From Amsterdam to Lisbon............................. 698

18.11 The EU of the Twenty-First Century.................................................................................... 699

18.11.1 The Lisbon Treaty................................................................................................ 699

18.11.2 A Legally Complex Integration........................................................................... 700

18.12 A Provisional Conclusion for an Unfinished Process: What Kind of Integration Are

Europeans Looking For?............................................................................................................. 702

References........................................................................................................................................... 711

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Source: Aguilera-Barchet Bruno. A History of Western Public Law. Between Nation and State. Springer,2015. — 788 p.. 2015

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