French Agriculture and the Political Integration of Western Europe. Toward ‘an ever closer Union among the European Peoples’, Landmarks in European Unity: 22 texts on European integration, A Reader's Guide to Britain and the European Communities, Towards One Europe and Six European States: The Countries of the European Community and their Political Systems

1971 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 817-819
Author(s):  
D. Swann
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
European Community ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Integration ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
European Unity

The European identity formation in Ukraine

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

scholarly journals Les Conditions D’Approfondissement de L’Union Européenne

Federalism-E ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-44
Author(s):  
Jonathan Gagnon
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
European Integration ◽  
European Community ◽  
Political Integration ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Integration Process ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Main Assumption ◽  
The Creation

Since the creation of the first European Community in 1951, countries of Europe have somewhat integrated somewhat their political and economic realms into one supranational entity. It has been observed by some that throughout the integration process, economic factors, rather than political factors, have dominated the integration of Europe. This main assumption is challenged by the author in this article. However, if the alleged predominance of the economy in European integration is proven, further questions regarding the conditions for a authentic political integration of the European Union, more than 50 years after its creation, will be assessed.[...]

3. The Chosen People

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Beller
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Jewish Question ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
Political Force ◽  
Radical Transformation

In the century before antisemitism emerged as a powerful political movement in the early 1880s, European Jewry had been through a radical transformation. ‘The Chosen People’ looks at developments around that time to help explain the path antisemitism took. Modernization of the European economy, society, and political systems from the mid-17th century onwards added to radical changes in thought and attitudes towards Jews. They needed to be integrated into society, and how to do this became known as the ‘Jewish Question’. Attempts to solve the ‘Jewish Question’ were more successful in Western Europe than in Russia and Central Europe. But Jewish difference persisted, partially explaining the political force of antisemitism.

Political Authority and European Community: The Challenge of the Christian Political Tradition

1994 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Joan Lockwood O'Donovan
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
European Community ◽  
Political Authority ◽  
European Countries ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Integration ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
The West ◽  
Community Or ◽  
Political Tradition

Today the whole of Europe, East and West, is caught up in the search for new political and economic structures, sadly, along violent and atavistic as well as peaceful and constructive paths. In the West the fulcrum of change is the halting movement of countries toward economic and political ‘integration’ within the European Community. The issue of what form, or forms, the Community should take (whether federal, confederal, or more loosely associative) is understandably divisive, for its resolution will determine the political shape, not only of the member states, but also of those western European countries (should there be any eventually) that remain either outside the Community or only partially integrated in it. Moreover, it will decisively influence the political and economic aspirations and possibilities of the Community's eastern European neighbours, and even of their Soviet or ex-Soviet neighbours. Thus are we justified in viewing the fate of the European Community as the fate of Europe. Consequendy, it is a task of theoretical and practical moment to attempt to grasp the civilisational meaning of the projected European union with the help of some points of reference from western Europe's past and present.

The Emergence of a European Sovereignty

1974 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luxemburgensis
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
European Integration ◽  
European Community ◽  
The Political ◽  
Fundamental Characteristic ◽  
Institutional Process

THE FACT THAT A PARALLEL CAN BE DRAWN BETWEEN THE PROCESS of European integration and an emerging sovereignty illustrates the political nature of European integration. No matter what definitions of sovereignty are used – and we will come back to that – it is clear that the European Community has one fundamental characteristic: it is a framework within which an attempt is being made to translate into action, through an institutional process, a complex of economic, social, and human aspirations. If politics consist in making possible what is desirable, then the Community does indeed deal with politics. What is important is the degree of originality and autonomy in the community, rather than references to such notions as ‘subject to international law’ or ‘political recognition’. Much has been written on the concept of sovereignty and on various aspects of its changing nature.

The Politics of Belgium and Denmark: A Comparative Perspective

1987 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-48
Author(s):  
John Fitzmaurice
Keyword(s):  
European Community ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Small State ◽  
Present Essay ◽  
Salient Features ◽  
Basic Characteristics

COMPARATIVE EXERCISES BETWEEN THE POLITICAL SYSTEMS of countries with little obvious common ground may not lead to convergences being discovered, but may be useful in bringing out, by the decorator's well known principle of contrast, the strongest and most salient features of each. It is in this spirit that the present essay has been undertaken, for the author would not seek to claim any evident link or close comparative yield from examination of these two countries.They do, however, have more basic characteristics in common than might be imagined, at first sight. First, they both fall into the category of ‘small democracies’. Certainly Belgium with a population of 9.9 million is considerably larger than Denmark with its 5.1 million, but Belgium remains nevertheless in both world and even European Community terms a ‘small state’.

European Elite Attitudes Revisited: The Future of the European Community and European-American Relations

1975 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 323-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert J. Lieber
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
European Community ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The United States ◽  
European American ◽  
The Past ◽  
European Unity ◽  
The Future

‘I don’t give a s— about the lira.‘These, as well as comparable sentiments about the pound sterling expressed by a recent U.S. President and preserved on tape for posterity, may symbolize a growing American lack of interest in Western Europe. In turn, European views of the United States may now be less exalted than at any time in the past three decades. In a period when misunderstandings, apocalyptic visions and contradictory judgements abound regarding the future of European unity and European-American relations, it is worth examining some evidence of recent European elite attitudes in order to facilitate more reliable judgementsor at least less impressionistic ones.

scholarly journals The Four Petty Kingdoms of Upplǫnd: Equestrian Graves and the Political Integration of the Norwegian Highlands in Late Viking Age Norway

Viking ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 84 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Frode Iversen
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Integration ◽  
Viking Age ◽  
Regional Power ◽  
Military Administration ◽  
Early National ◽  
Military Systems ◽  
Administrative Units ◽  
North Western

In continental and north-western Europe armed cavalry – aided by the introduction of the stirrup – was closely linked to the emergence of feudalism but was this also the case in Scandinavia? Were the resulting military specialists linked to the growing national kingdoms, or to local and regional power spheres ruled by petty kings? I will investigate this in the  historical region of Upplǫnd – the last Norse area to be integrated into the Kingdom of Norway by Óláfr Haraldsson  around AD 1020. Two thirds of Norway’s 51 known equestrian graves are located in this inland area and I will employ a  novel way of investigating their relationship to local administrative units, such as þriðjungar (thirds), herǫð (hundreds), and not least fjórðungar (fourths), as well as travel routes and settlements. There is little that suggests that these graves were linked to an early national aristocracy, and its ruling Scandinavian dynasty – Ynglingene – as has been argued in previous research. Equestrian grave traditions survived longer in Upplǫnd than elsewhere in Scandinavia, which was not Christianised until the 11th century, and it is unlikely that the buried had served the uniting and converting King Óláfr. It is also difficult to establish links between historically known lendr menn (the most prominent retainers of the king) families, and such graves. However, a new revelation is that the farms where such graves were located, were situated along the  boundaries between local fjórðungar, which were judicial districts, as well as subsidiaries of local military administration in the herǫð. This suggests that these locations had important warning and supervision roles in local military systems. 

At home in the Basel biotope (1968-1974)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathieu Segers
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Financial Economic ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
Bretton Woods ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Status ◽  
Post War

In 1973, the United Kingdom finally became a member of the European Community, together with Denmark and Ireland. This meant the beginning of the end of any serious ambition to develop the political dimension of European integration beyond the status quo. At the same time, the integration process faced new challenges posed by the collapse of the Bretton Woods system. The Netherlands was on the brink of embarking on its happiest period in post-war Western Europe. The ‘new’ European integration that had emerged from the ashes of Bretton Woods, and would include the United Kingdom, became increasingly instrumental, focusing on the market and the management of international financial-economic and monetary affairs: things the Dutch felt they were good at.

Three Uses of Political Economy in Analyzing European Integration

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert O. Hirschman
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
European Integration ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Integration ◽  
Customs Unions ◽  
Economics And Politics

This chapter considers the interrelated processes of economic and political integration in Europe. It first notes a case—the economic theory of customs unions—in which the very distinctions made and concepts created for the purpose of analyzing the economics of integration have implications that throw light on the politics of the process. The chapter then discusses situations where economic and political phenomena are perceived to have analogical structures. In such cases, exploring the analogy can be conducive to a better understanding of both phenomena involved. Though the chapter notes that the major contributions economists can make to an understanding of the politics of integration fall within the aforementioned statements, it also proposes a third category of useful interaction between economics and politics: the transfer of concepts and modes of analysis originally elaborated for the purpose of understanding the economy to the political terrain.

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