Sally Rohan - The Western European Union: International Politics Between Alliance and Integration

This full-term study of the Western European Union (WEU) brings to life the history of Europes search for a co-operative security and defence order, from its post-World War II origins to the present day. Establishing the WEU as a support organization, designed to promote the two security ideas of collective defence and integration through the primary organizations of alliance and community, this book offers a window onto the challenges faced in the development and management of NATO and the evolving European Communities/European Union (EC/EU) over time. As the WEUs historical journey unfolds, the frequently competing visions of the future organization of the European security space are exposed in the fluctuating nature of its own functional evolution and devolution. A hybrid organization driven by its dual support role, the constructively ambiguous and conveniently autonomous WEU was to provide a mechanism through which divergent interests could converge and inherent tensions be relieved, preventing NATO and EC/EU stagnation. This book offers fresh insight into the means by which the gradual transformation of the institutional framework of European security was enabled, and it stakes the WEUs claim as a fundamental and life-long contributor to the stability of the European security system.

Sally Rohan is a European Security specialist and Senior Lecturer with Kings College, London. Based at the UKs Defence Academy, she has presented widely on European Security issues, has served as UK faculty member of the European Security and Defence College and is a life-member of the Central European Academy of Science and Art.

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Edited by Peter Catterall

2 Managing Domestic Dissent in First World War Britain

Brock Millman

3 Reforming the Constitution

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Edited by Peter Catterall, Wolfram Kaiser and Ulrike Walton-Jordan

4 Pessimism and British War Policy, 19161918

Brock Millman

5 Amateurs and Professionals in Post-war British Sport

Edited by Adrian Smith and Dilwyn Porter

6 A Life of Sir John Eldon Gorst

Disraelis Awkward Disciple

Archie Hunter

7 Conservative Party Attitudes to Jews, 19001950

Harry Defries

8 Poor Health

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Edited by Virginia Berridge and Stuart Blume

9 Mass Conservatism

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Edited by Stuart Ball and Ian Holliday

10 Defining British Citizenship

Empire, Commonwealth and Modern Britain

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11 Television Policies of the Labour Party, 19512001

Des Freedman

12 Creating the National Health Service

Aneurin Bevan and the Medical Lords

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13 A Social History of Milton Keynes

Middle England/Edge City

Mark Clapson

14 Scottish Nationalism and the Idea of Europe

Atsuko Ichijo

15 The Royal Navy in the Falklands Conflict and the Gulf War

Culture and Strategy

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16 The Labour Party in Opposition 19701974

Prisoners of History

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17 The Civil Service Commission, 18551991

A Bureau Biography

Richard A. Chapman

18 Popular Newspapers, the Labour Party and British Politics

James Thomas

19 In the Midst of Events

The Foreign Office Diaries of Kenneth Younger, February 1950-october 1951

Edited by Geoffrey Warner

20 Strangers, Aliens and Asians

Huguenots, Jews and Bangladeshis in Spitalfields 16662000

Anne J. Kershen

21 Conscription in Britain 19391963

The Militarization of a Generation

Roger Broad

22 German Migrants in Post-War Britain

An Enemy Embrace

Inge Weber-Newth and Johannes-Dieter Steinert

23 The Labour Governments 19641970

Edited by Peter Dorey

24 Government, the Railways and the Modernization of Britain

Beechings Last Trains

Charles Loft

25 Britain, America and the War Debt Controversy

The Economic Diplomacy of an Unspecial Relationship, 19171941

Robert Self

26 Reginald McKenna

Financier among Statesmen, 18631916

Martin Farr

27 Inside the Welfare State

Foundations of Policy and Practice in Post-War Britain

Virginia A. Noble

28 British Military Intervention and the Struggle for Jordan

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29 The Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, 18541946

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30 The Western European Union

International Politics between Alliance and Integration

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