Transnational Networks in Regional Integration [electronic resource] : Governing Europe 1945-83 /
Kaiser, W.editor.
Leucht, B.editor.
Gehler, M.editor.
Shows that networks in European integration governance were not a phenomenon that developed in the 1980s out of a 'hollowing out' of the nation-states in the 1970s. Based throughout on newly accessible sources, the authors discuss various networks and show how they contributed to constitutional choices and policy decisions after World War II.
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Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Transnational Networks in European Integration Governance: Historical Perspectives on an Elusive Phenomenon; Expertise and the Creation of a Constitutional Order for Core Europe: Transatlantic Policy Networks in the Schuman Plan Negotiations; The Bilderberg Group: Promoting European Governance Inside an Atlantic Community of Values; The European Committee for Economic and Social Progress: Business Networks between Atlantic and European Communities
Informal Politics and the Creation of the European Community: Christian Democratic Networks in the Economic Integration of EuropeThe Making of the European Union's Constitutional Foundations: The Brokering Role of Legal Entrepreneurs and Networks; Shaping the Common Agricultural Policy: Networks and Political Entrepreneurship in the European Commission; Brandt, Kreisky and Palme as Policy Entrepreneurs: Social Democratic Networks in Europe's Policy Towards the Middle East; Saving Migrants: A Transnational Network Supporting Supranational Bird Protection Policy
On the Long and Winding Road to European Union Membership: Austrian Party Elites in Transnational Political NetworksPlus ça change? Diachronic Change in Networks in European Integration Governance; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Shows that networks in European integration governance were not a phenomenon that developed in the 1980s out of a 'hollowing out' of the nation-states in the 1970s. Based throughout on newly accessible sources, the authors discuss various networks and show how they contributed to constitutional choices and policy decisions after World War II.
Europe—History.
History, Modern.
Political sociology.
European Union.
Political science.
Public policy.
European History.
Modern History.
Political Sociology.
European Union Politics.
Political Science.
Public Policy.