European Integration Beyond Brussels: Unity in East and West Europe Since 1945

349 Pages·2020·3.166 MB·English

by  Matthew Broad, Suvi Kansikas

SECURITY, CONFLICT AND COOPERATION
IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
European Integration
Beyond Brussels
Unity in East and
West Europe since 1945
Edited by
matthew broad
suvi kansikas
Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the
Contemporary World
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LSE Ideas
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European Integration
Beyond Brussels
Unity in East and West Europe Since 1945
Editors
Matthew Broad Suvi Kansikas
Institute for History Centre for European Studies
Leiden University University of Helsinki
Leiden, The Netherlands Helsinki, Finland
Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World
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cknowledgements
This collection emerged out of a two-day conference held at the University
of Helsinki back in October 2017. The conference would have not been
possible without the financial support of either the European Commission
as part of a larger project funded from the European Union’s Horizon
2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Marie Skłodowska-
Curie grant agreement no. 658375 or the Academy of Finland under
grant no 295567. Nor would it have taken place without the generosity of
Helsinki’s Centre for European Studies. We would therefore like to thank
all these institutions for their assistance and the latter also for the kind
hospitality during a (mercifully) mild Finnish autumn. Various scholars
and policy experts contributed to the intellectual content of the confer-
ence itself. We are particularly grateful to all the paper-givers, Juhana
Aunesluoma and Linda Risso for their unending encouragement and
advice and those who lent their considerable insights and wisdom without
providing a paper, notably Juha Jokela, Hanna Ojanen, Marja-Leena
Vuorenpää and Anneli Puura-Märkälä. We want to thank the editors of the
Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World series, John
W. Young and Effie G.H. Pedaliu, for having faith in the project. At
Palgrave Macmillan, Molly Beck and Maeve Sinnott also proved a con-
stant source of help and guidance. On a personal note, we would like to
thank Ezequiel Gonzalez Ocantos and Mikael Forsström, each of whom
throughout has acted as a solid source of inspiration and reassurance.
Leiden and Helsinki M B and S K
October 2019
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ontents
1 Recasting the History and Politics of European
Integration ‘Beyond Brussels’ 1
Matthew Broad and Suvi Kansikas
Part I Pan-European Ideas, Structures and Interactions 23
2 ‘Integration, Nobody Knows What It Means’: European
Cooperation and the United Nations Economic
Commission for Europe (UNECE), 1947–56 25
Daniel Stinsky
3 Inventing a ‘European Space of Discussions’: The UEFA-
EBU Relationship, c.1950s–1970s 49
Philippe Vonnard
4 Mediating in the Cold War: How the Socialist Group of
MEPs Became a Driver of Brussels-Moscow Rapprochement 71
Alexandra Athanasopoulou Köpping
5 Environmental Security for the Promotion of Pan-
European Integration: The OSCE as a ‘Europeanising
Actor’ in the Balkans 93
Emma Hakala
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Part II Imagining, Negotiating and Building Regional
Integration 115
6 Not Giving Up Sovereignty: The British Labour Party’s
Alternative Vision of International Cooperation,
1933–1951 117
Ettore Costa
7 Less than Membership but More than Association:
Establishing the European Economic Area, 1989–1993 141
Juhana Aunesluoma
8 Regional Integration in the Eastern Bloc: Energy
Cooperation Between CMEA Countries, c.1950s–80s 169
Falk Flade
9 Industrial Policy and Technological Cooperation in the
EAEU: The Case of Eurasian Technology Platforms 191
Anna Lowry
Part III European Integration At and Around the
Subregional Level 219
10 Uniting Europe from Afar: Exile Plans for a Central
European Federation in the Cold War 221
Pauli Heikkilä
11 Remain or Leave? Britain and the European Launcher
Development Organisation (ELDO) in the Context of
Brexit 247
John Krige
12 Subregional Integration in East Central Europe:
Strategies in the In-Between Sphere 269
Katalin Miklóssy
CONTENTS ix
13 Subregional Groupings in Post-Communist Europe:
More Than Just ‘Cooperation’? 291
Martin Dangerfield
Part IV European Integration: Past and Future, East and
West, Brussels and Beyond 313
14 Conclusions 315
Anne Deighton
Index 323
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otes on ontributors
Juhana Aunesluoma is the Director of the Centre for European Studies
and Vice-Dean of International Affairs and Public Engagement in the
Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland. He teaches and
has written extensively on contemporary European and international his-
tory, with a particular emphasis on recent events in European societies,
politics and integration and post-1945 developments in European secu-
rity, trade and institutions.
Matthew Broad is Lecturer in History of International Relations at the
Institute for History, Leiden University, Netherlands. His research inter-
ests lie in the history of European integration, diplomacy, British foreign
policy, Anglo-Nordic relations and the Cold War. His first monograph
Harold Wilson, Denmark and the Making of Labour European Policy,
1958–72 was published in 2017.
Ettore Costa is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for European
Research, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He received his PhD from
La Sapienza University of Rome during which he was a visiting scholar at
the University of Exeter, UK. His research applies a comparative and
transnational approach to the study of European political history, the
political use of culture and the relationship between North and South
Europe. These themes formed the basis of his first book, The Labour Party,
Denis Healey and the International Socialist Movement: Rebuilding the
Socialist International During the Cold War 1945–1951 (2018).
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