History museums in Europe are transnationalizing their narratives. In contemporary historical sections they also increasingly include references to European integration and the present-day European ...Union. This "transnational turn" within a predominately European narrative frame meets the "educational turn." Museums attempt to transform themselves into more interactive spaces of communication. The meeting of these "turns" creates particular challenges of engaging and educating adolescents. I argue that in responding to these challenges, history museums in Europe so far use three main strategies: personalizing history, simulating real life decision-making situations, and encouraging participative narrating of the adolescents' own (transnational) experiences.
International organizations (IOs) have played a leading role in identifying and supporting research into environmental hazards. They have propagated transnational collaboration to combat air and ...water pollution, acid rain and global warming, for example. As several chapters in this book demonstrate, they have also framed environmental issues and developed new policy-making concepts and tools for environmental protection such as the notion of ‘sustainable development’ in the 1987 Brundtland Report.¹ Too often, however, research on environmental history focuses only on environmental policy making as a clearly delineated field. Such an approach fails to capture how heavily environmental protection has been contested
This article surveys recent political science literature on the EU, which draws upon its history. It addresses its shortcomings from an interdisciplinary perspective before proceeding to discuss ...current historical scholarship on the EU. It argues that this research can - inter alia - help to test neo-functionalist theoretical assumptions, understand the origins of bargaining as a multi-level game, explore competing institutionalist assumptions empirically, and introduce a temporal dimension into the study of networks in and as EU governance. It is high time that history-sensitive political scientists and social science-literate contemporary historians make more of the unexplored opportunities of interdisciplinary co-operation.
International organizations are ubiquitous in contemporary Europe and the wider world. This special issue takes a historical approach to exploring their relations with each other in Western Europe ...between 1967 and 1992. The authors seek to 'provincialize' and 'de-centre' the European Union's role, exploring the interactions of its predecessors with other organizations like NATO, the OECD and the Council of Europe. This article develops the new historical-research agenda of co-operation and competition among IOs and their role in European co-operation. The first section discusses the limited existing work on such questions among historians and in adjacent disciplines. The second section introduces the five articles and their main arguments. The third section goes on to elaborate common findings, especially regarding what the authors call the vectors for the development of policy ideas and practices and their transfer across different institutional platforms.
The history of European integration is not easy to tell – in books or, for that matter, in museums. Most importantly, it appears to lack drama. This lack of drama creates a dilemma for museum ...practitioners who wish to tell stories about the contemporary history of Europé as shared history. In these circumstances, one prominent way of telling stories about European integration history in museums, and the focus of this article, is the biographical approach. Drawing upon research in all of the museums mentioned in this article and many more, and some 60 interviews with museum practitioners from across Europé, this article first discusses three biographical approaches to narrating European integration history in museums. It proceeds to draw out general conclusions about the prospects of mainstreaming European integration in history museums, and about the particular opportunities and pitfalls of the biographical approach and its different varieties.
This book is part of the ‘Making Europe: Technology and Transformations 1850-2000’ Series, launched by the Foundation for the History of Technology at Eindhoven University of Technology in the ...Netherlands. Thus it is not surprising that in all the books of the series, including this one, technology is seen as a major force for change in the world in general and for the progress of European integration in particular. This book is part of the ‘Making Europe: Technology and Transformations 1850-2000’ Series, launched by the Foundation for the History of Technology at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. Thus it is not surprising that in all the books of the series, including this one, technology is seen as a major force for change in the world in general and for the progress of European integration in particular.
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