The Political History of European Integration
The Maastricht Treaty in 1992 was based on neoliberal ideas of a marketdriven European economy and democracy, and continues to be seen as a step towards a new stage of unification: towards a more federal Europe based on market integration.
The authors demonstrate that European integration as a federal project actually came to an end around 1970. The European Economic Community (EEC), the precursor of the EU, was never thought of as a democracy. The authors locate a shift in thinking about legitimacy and further integration in the 1980s, when the idea of a European democracy was connected with a plan for the internal market: the market would pave the way for democracy. Since then, there has been growing tension between the official line about a democratic EU and the institutional capacity to carry it through. This tension has undermined integration. The book suggests that, instead of democracythrough-market, there are signs of increasing social disintegration, political extremism and populism in the wake of economic integration.
Providing a more realistic historical understanding of European integration, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of political science, history and European studies.
Hagen Schulz-Forberg is Associate Professor for Global and European History, Aarhus University, Denmark.
Bo Strth holds a Chair in Nordic, European and World History at the Renvall Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland. He recently co-edited A European Memory? Contested Histories and Politics of Remembrance and European Solidarities: Tensions and Contentions of a Concept.
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