Transnational Networks in Regional Integration Governing Europe 1945-83

Contributors to this volume use newly available sources to challenge the widely held assumption that European integration developed in the 1980s. They demonstrate how various networks influenced constitutional choices and policy decisions after World War II.

WOLFRAM KAISER is Professor of European Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK, and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Belgium. He has published widely on European integration, Christian democracy and the history of globalization.
 
BRIGITTE LEUCHT is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, UK. She has published widely on European integration and transatlantic relations.
 
MICHAEL GEHLER is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Hildesheim, Germany and Senior Fellow at the Centre for European Integration Studies at the University of Bonn, Germany. He has published widely on the history of European integration, Austria and Germany.

Transnational Networks in European Integration Governance: Historical Perspectives on an Elusive Phenomenon; W.Kaiser, B.Leucht & M.Gehler
Expertise and the Creation of a Constitutional Order for Core Europe: Transatlantic Policy Networks in the Schuman Plan Negotiations; B.Leucht
The Bilderberg Group: Promoting European Governance Inside an Atlantic Community of Values; V.Aubourg
The European Committee for Economic and Social Progress: Business Networks between Atlantic and European Communities; S.M.R.Pérez
Informal Politics and the Creation of the European Community: Christian Democratic Networks in the Economic Integration of Europe; W.Kaiser
The Making of the European Union's Constitutional Foundations: The Brokering Role of Legal Entrepreneurs and Networks; A.Vauchez
Shaping the Common Agricultural Policy: Networks and Political Entrepreneurship in the European Commission; A-C.L.Knudsen
Brandt, Kreisky and Palme as Policy Entrepreneurs: Social Democratic Networks in Europe's Policy towards the Middle East; O.Rathkolb
Saving Migrants: A transnational Network Supporting Supranational Bird Protection Policy; J.H.Meyer
On the Long and Winding Road to European Union Membership: Austrian Party Elites in Transnational Political Networks; M.Gehler
Plus ça Change? Diachronic Change in Networks in European Integration Governance; W.Kaiser