Major study of the role of European Christian democratic parties in the making of the European Union. It radically re-conceptualises European integration in long-term historical perspective as the ...outcome of partisan competition of political ideologies and parties and their guiding ideas for the future of Europe. Wolfram Kaiser takes a comparative approach to political Catholicism in the nineteenth century, Catholic parties in interwar Europe and Christian democratic parties in postwar Europe and studies these parties' cross-border contacts and co-ordination of policy-making. He shows how well networked party elites ensured that the origins of European Union were predominately Christian democratic, with considerable repercussions for the present-day EU. The elites succeeded by intensifying their cross-border communication and coordinating their political tactics and policy making in government. This is a major contribution to the new transnational history of Europe and the history of European integration.
Culture Wars Clark, Christopher; Kaiser, Wolfram
08/2003
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Across nineteenth-century Europe, the emergence of constitutional and democratic nation-states was accompanied by intense conflict between Catholics and anticlerical forces. At its peak, this ...conflict touched virtually every sphere of social life: schools, universities, the press, marriage and gender relations, burial rites, associational culture, the control of public space, folk memory and the symbols of nationhood. In short, these conflicts were 'culture wars', in which the values and collective practices of modern life were at stake. These 'culture wars' have generally been seen as a chapter in the history of specific nation-states. Yet it has recently become increasingly clear that the Europe of the mid- and later nineteenth century should also be seen as a common politico-cultural space. This book breaks with the conventional approach by setting developments in specific states within an all-European and comparative context, offering a fresh and revealing perspective on one of modernity's formative conflicts.
Transnational perspectives on Christian Democrats in
exile
This book focuses on the political exile of Catholic Christian
Democrats during the global twentieth century, from the end of the
First ...World War to the end of the Cold War. Transcending the common
national approach, the present volume puts transnational
perspectives at center stage and in doing so aspires to be a
genuinely global and longitudinal study. Political Exile in the
Global Twentieth Century includes chapters on continental
European exile in the United Kingdom and North America through
1945; on Spanish exile following the Civil War (1936-39),
throughout the Franco dictatorship; on East-Central European exile
from the defeat of Nazi Germany and the establishment of Communist
rule (1944-48) through the end of the Cold War; and Latin American
exile following the 1973 Chilean coup.
Encompassing Europe (both East and West), Latin America, and the
United States, Political Exile in the Global Twentieth
Century places the diasporas of twentieth-century Christian
Democracy within broader, global debates on political exile and
migration.
Contributors: Paolo Acanfora (University of Rome La Sapienza),
Leyre Arrieta (University of Deusto), Gemma Caballer (University of
Barcelona), Justinas Dementavičius (Vilnius University), Joaquín
Fermandois (Catholic University of Chile / San Sebastián
University), Élodie Giraudier (Harvard University), Carlo
Invernizzi Accetti (City University of New York), Katalin Kádár
Lynn (Independent Scholar), Wolfram Kaiser (University of
Portsmouth), Piotr H. Kosicki (University of Maryland), Sławomir
Łukasiewicz (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin),
Christopher Stroot (University of California San Diego)
This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed
Content).
This volume is the first to comprehensively explore the environmental activities of regional bodies, professional communities, the United Nations, NGOs, and other international organizations during ...the 20th century.
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the European Union is an increasingly dense transnational social and political space. More and more non-governmental organisations develop transnational ...links, which are usually more intensive within the EU, even if they often extend beyond its borders to the wider world. This multi-disciplinary volume explores the importance of these structures, actors and relations for EU and European governance in the context of the theoretical debate about European integration in the social sciences. This book delivers:
theoretical chapters examining and discussing the main conceptual perspectives to studying the transnational EU to provide a current overview
empirical case studies of transnationalism in practice on transnational party, trade union and police cooperation to transnational education policy-making and transnational consensus-building in EMU governance.
This volume will be of great interest to students in social sciences, contemporary history and law.
Contents, Notes on Contributors, Acknowledgements, List of abbreviations, The European Union as a transnational political space: Introduction, Wolfram Kaiser and Peter Starie, Part 1. Conceptual Perspectives Chapter 1. Transnational Western Europe since 1945: Integration as political society formation, Wolfram Kaiser, Chapter 2. Transnational networks: Informal governance in the European political space, Karen Heard-Lauréote, Chapter 3. Transnational socialization: Community-building in an integrated Europe, Frank Schimmelfennig, Chapter 4. Transnational business: Power structures in Europe’s political economy, Bastiaan van Apeldoorn, Part 2. Transnationalism in Practice, Chapter 5. Trade unions as a transnational movement in the European space 1955-1965: Falling short of ambitions?, Patrick Pasture Chapter 6. The alliance of European Christian democracy and conservatism: Convergence through networking, Karl Magnus Johansson Chapter 7. German political foundations: Transnational party go-betweens in the EU enlargement process, Dorota Dakowska, Chapter 8. Transnational actors in the European Higher Education Area: European opportunities and institutional embeddedness, Erik Beerkens Chapter 9. Copweb Europe: Venues, virtues and vexations of transnational policing, Monica Den Boer Chapter 10. Transnational consensus building in EMU economic governance: Elite interaction and national preference formation, Daniela Schwarzer, Index.
Exhibiting Europe in museums Kaiser, Wolfram; Poehls, Kerstin; Krankenhagen, Stefan
2014., 20140415, 2014, 2014-05-01, Letnik:
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Museums of history and contemporary culture face many challenges in the modern age. One is how to react to processes of Europeanization and globalization, which require more cross-border cooperation ...and different ways of telling stories for visitors. This book investigates how museums exhibit Europe. Based on research in nearly 100 museums across the Continent and interviews with cultural policy makers and museum curators, it studies the growing transnational activities of state institutions, societal organizations, and people in the museum field such as attempts to Europeanize collection policy and collections as well as different strategies for making narratives more transnational like telling stories of European integration as shared history and discussing both inward and outward migration as a common experience and challenge. The book thus provides fascinating insights into a fast-changing museum landscape in Europe with wider implications for cultural policy and museums in other world regions.
To sign the treaty creating the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) the foreign ministers of Belgium, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands met in Paris ...in April 1951. In a solemn Joint Declaration they stressed that through the newly created organisation, ‘the Contracting Parties have given their determination to set up the first supranational institution and thus lay the real foundations of an organised Europe’. The ministers represented the ECSC as a radical rupture with history, as if Europe had been completely disorganised until the new organisation's creation. In a similar vein, the ECSC Treaty emphasised the member states’ resolution ‘to substitute for historic rivalries a fusion of their essential interests; to establish, by creating an economic community, the foundation of a broad and independent community amongst peoples long divided by bloody conflicts’. Since 1951 official European Union (EU) documents and other sources have forged a similar image, one which has been undergirded by assumptions about the creation of the ‘core Europe’ of the ECSC as a collective ‘supranational’ break with a past characterised by severe ideological divisions and extreme nationalism.
Concerned about the EU's apparent lack of cultural legitimacy, EU institutions have increasingly engaged in the transnational politics of history to enhance European identity and foster EU ...legitimacy. The House of European History museum project in Brussels marks a high point in the European Parliament's history politics. Based on document analysis and interviews, an analysis of the project's origins and evolution highlights the narrow limits of cultural engineering from above by EU institutions, however. The constraining dissensus in EU politics has forced the European Parliament to rely entirely on the curators and professional historians to legitimize its museum as one that conforms to prevailing curatorial and historical standards. As a result, the first permanent exhibition differs markedly from the original plan. Its narrative has become East Europeanized and the history of European integration proper has been marginalized.
The History of the European Union Kaiser, Wolfram; Leucht, Brigitte; Rasmussen, Morten
2009, 20080905, 2008, 2008-09-05, Letnik:
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This book radically re-conceptualises the origins of the European Union as a trans- and supranational polity as it emerged between the Schuman Plan of May 1950 and the first enlargement of the ...European Communities at the start of 1973.
Drawing upon social science theories and debates as well as recent historical research, Wolfram Kaiser and Morten Rasmussen in their introductory chapters discuss innovative ways of narrating the history of the EU as the emergence of a transnational political society and supranational political system. Building on these insights, eight chapters based on multilateral and multi-archival research follow each with case studies of transnational networks, public sphere and institutional cultures and policy-making which illustrate systematically related aspects of the early history of the EU. In the concluding chapter, leading political scientist Alex Warleigh-Lack demonstrates how greater interdisciplinary cooperation, especially between contemporary history and political studies, can significantly advance our knowledge of the EU as a complex polity.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Politics, European Studies and History.
1. Origins of a European Polity 2. Transnational Networks in European Governance 3. Supranational Governance in the Making 4. Transatlantic Policy Networks in the Creation of the First European Anti-Trust Law 5. Transnational Business Networks Propagating EC Industrial Policy 6. Socialist Party Networks in Northern Europe 7. Transnational Communication in the European Public Sphere 8. DG IV and the Origins of a Supranational Competition Policy 9. The Origins of Community Information Policy 10. Delegation as a Political Process 11. The European Commission and the Rise of Coreper 12. Interdisciplinarity in Research on the EU
'...the book is of intrinsic interest to students and specialists in all areas of the EU, and valuable to historians and political scientists alike. Indeed the leitmotif of the need for academic cohesiveness in a truly comparative and theoretically grounded framework proves a vital lesson on how all future research in the field should be conducted. It is perhaps this more than anything that makes The History of the European Union a seminal piece in the undoubtedly crowded library of European integration literature.' - Matthew Broad, Journal for Contemporary European Research, Vol.6, No.2, 2010, 289-291
'...the goal of the book is worthy, the insights valuable ... It should appeal to EU integration scholars and advanced students coming at the topic from a number of disciplines.' - European History Quarterly, Vol. 40 No. 4. 2010, 728
Wolfram Kaiser is Professor of European Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Belgium.
Brigitte Leucht lectures in European Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK and is a Visiting Lecturer at the Graduate Institute of International and Developmental Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.
Morten Rasmussen is Assistant Professor of Contemporary European History at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
This article explores whether and how the United Kingdom was destined to Brexit before it even joined the European Communities in 1973. Drawing on archival sources, media reports and literature about ...Britain's arduous relationship with ‘Europe’, it argues that four features made the Brexit outcome more likely. They were the accession to the EC as a measure of last resort which prevented the construction of a new sustainable narrative about a brighter future in ‘Europe’; the political elites’ use of the issue of EC membership or further integration for short term party gains; highly exaggerated hopes that membership in and by itself would cure Britain's economic ills or give it a new global leadership role; and a colonial style diplomacy that severely underestimated Britain's growing dependency on its continental European neighbours. In conclusion, the article argues that it nevertheless required the formation of a parochial political elite of little Englanders to achieve the extreme outcome of Brexit.
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