European Integration and the Nation State: Some Thoughts on the 1950s

Based on the international colloquium held in Florence in September 1987, which involved more than a hundred British, French, German and Italian historians, Power in Europe? is part of a larger collaborative research project designed to investigate perceptions of power in Western Europe over the period 1938 to 1958. Although collections of this kind are bound to be uneven in quality, most of the contributions to Di Nolfo's book reach a high standard, and it will be an important source of information and ideas for scholars working on Western European history in the 1950s.

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The Construction of Europe and the Concept of the Nation-State

Contemporary European History ◽

10.1017/s0960777300002046 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 245-260

Author(s):

Bernard Bruneteau

Keyword(s):

European Integration ◽

European Community ◽

Policy Making ◽

Historical Context ◽

Economic Regulation ◽

Nation State ◽

The 1950S

The construction of Europe is often teleologically addressed as a result of an unstoppable trend towards federalism. Another angle on this history gives access to another logic: that of a European kind of nation-state which considers European integration not as an element in its decline, but as a tool to reorganise its power. This new youth for the old nation-state was linked as much to the historical context of the 1950s–1970s as to the specific rules of policy-making and to the economic regulation focus of the European Community.

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Foundings

The Oxford Handbook of Legal History ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198794356.013.56 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 1042-1060

Author(s):

Peter Lindseth

Keyword(s):

European Integration ◽

Western Europe ◽

Nation State ◽

Basic Pattern ◽

General Application ◽

Administrative Governance ◽

Historical Moment

This chapter examines the founding of European integration. Following two world wars, Western Europe sought to reconcile the increased functional demand for delegated regulatory power with their historical experiences and constitutional traditions. Each country’s solution followed the same basic pattern: the vast majority of rules of general application would no longer be in the form of traditional legislation passed by parliament but would take the form of regulations or other subordinate legislation produced within the executive and administrative spheres, adopted pursuant to ‘enabling legislation’ or ‘framework laws’. However, at almost the same historical moment, administrative governance also began to take on an additional supranational dimension. This new dimension involved the shift of regulatory power, both in terms of rulemaking and enforcement/adjudication, to institutions operating outside the confines of the nation-state.

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Labels, Histories, Politics: Indian/South Asian Dance on the Global Stage

Dance Research ◽

10.3366/e0264287508000200 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 26 (2) ◽

pp. 223-243 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

AVANTHI MEDURI

Keyword(s):

South Asian ◽

First Century ◽

Nation State ◽

The South ◽

Global Networks ◽

Indian Nation ◽

The 1950S ◽

Twenty First Century ◽

The Uk

In this paper, I discuss issues revolving around history, historiography, alterity, difference and otherness concealed in the doubled Indian/South Asian label used to describe Indian/South Asian dance genres in the UK. The paper traces the historical genealogy of the South Asian label to US, Indian and British contexts and describes how the South Asian enunciation fed into Indian nation-state historiography and politics in the 1950s. I conclude by describing how Akademi: South Asian Dance, a leading London based arts organisation, explored the ambivalence in the doubled Indian/South Asian label by renaming itself in 1997, and forging new local/global networks of communication and artistic exchange between Indian and British based dancers and choreographers at the turn of the twenty-first century.

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Staging Beckett: Constructing Histories of Performance

Journal of Beckett Studies ◽

10.3366/jobs.2014.0084 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 23 (1) ◽

pp. 11-33 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Anna McMullan ◽

Trish McTighe ◽

David Pattie ◽

David Tucker

Keyword(s):

First Century ◽

Research Project ◽

The 1950S ◽

Twenty First Century ◽

The Uk ◽

Victoria And Albert Museum

This multi-authored essay presents some selected initial findings from the AHRC Staging Beckett research project led by the Universities of Reading and Chester with the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. For example, how did changes in economic and cultural climates, such as funding structures, impact on productions of Beckett's plays in the UK and Ireland from the 1950s to the first decade of the twenty-first century? The paper will raise historiographical questions raised by the attempts to map or construct performance histories of Beckett's theatre in the UK and Ireland.

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Regional strategies for restoring invaded prairies: observations from a multisite collaborative research project

Native Plants Journal ◽

10.2979/npj.2008.9.3.247 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. 247-254 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Amanda G. Stanley ◽

Thomas N. Kaye ◽

Peter W. Dunwiddie

Keyword(s):

Collaborative Research ◽

Research Project ◽

Regional Strategies

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The European identity formation in Ukraine

Історико-політичні проблеми сучасного світу ◽

10.31861/mhpi2016.33-34.102-109 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 102-109

Author(s):

Larysa Kovryk-Tokar

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Cultural Heritage ◽

Identity Formation ◽

European Integration ◽

European Community ◽

Collective Identity ◽

Western Europe ◽

Political Integration ◽

European Identity ◽

European Values

Every nation is quite diverse in terms of his historical destiny, spiritual priorities, and cultural heritage. However, voluntary European integration, which is the final aim of political integration that began in the second half of the twentieth century from Western Europe, provided for an availability of large number of characteristics in common in political cultures of their societies. Therefore, Ukraine needs to find some common determinants that can create inextricable relationship between the European Community and Ukraine. Although Ukrainian culture is an intercultural weave of two East macrocivilizations, according to the author, Ukraine tends to Western-style society with its openness, democracy, tolerance, which constitute the basic values of Europeans. Keywords: Identity, collective identity, European values, European integration

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Introduction: Voting ‘NO”, European Integration and the Nation State: Disintegration, Impasse, or a New Beginning?

Canadian Journal of European and Russian Studies ◽

10.22215/cjers.v2i4.2424 ◽

2006 ◽

Author(s):

Andrej Zaslove ◽

Saime Ozcurumez

Keyword(s):

European Integration ◽

Full Text ◽

Nation State ◽

New Beginning

not available Full text available: https://doi.org/10.22215/rera.v2i4.177

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Giving a Voice to Students with Disabilities to Design Library Experiences: An Ethnographic Study

Societies ◽

10.3390/soc11020061 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 61

Author(s):

Monica Cerdan Chiscano

Keyword(s):

Resource Allocation ◽

Focus Groups ◽

Students With Disabilities ◽

Design Process ◽

Collaborative Research ◽

Management Style ◽

Ethnographic Study ◽

Experience Design ◽

Research Project

Although librarians generally display an inclusive management style, barriers to students with disabilities remain widespread. Against this backdrop, a collaborative research project called Inclusive Library was launched in 2019 in Catalonia, Spain. This study empirically tests how involving students with disabilities in the experience design process can lead to new improvements in users’ library experience. A mix of qualitative techniques, namely focus groups, ethnographic techniques and post-experience surveys, were used to gain insights from the 20 libraries and 20 students with disabilities collaborating in the project. Based on the participants’ voices and follow-up experiences, the study makes several suggestions on how libraries can improve their accessibility. Results indicate that ensuring proper resource allocation for accessibility improves students with disabilities’ library experience. Recommendations for library managers are also provided.

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