LEADER 04199nam 2200469 450 001 9910136186503321 005 20170914092042.0 010 $a2-8076-0077-8 035 $a(CKB)3710000000915473 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4722533 035 $a(PPN)229192068 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000915473 100 $a20161104h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aEurope between imperial decline and quest for integration $epro-European groups and the French, Belgian and British empires (1947-1957) /$fLaura Kottos 210 1$aBruxelles, [Belgium] :$cP.I.E. Peter Lang,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (240 pages) 225 0 $aEuroclio,$x0944-2294 ;$vVolume 97 311 $a2-8076-0078-6 311 $a2-8076-0076-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aIntroduction -- European integration and the empires : a recent interest -- Filling a gap in the historiography -- Methodological approaches -- 1. Going transnational -- Non-influential actors -- Political and economic groups at national level : influential actors? -- 2. Groups and networks -- Forgotten actors : transnational -- Pro-European networks (1947-1957) -- Origins and networks of early European pressure groups -- Pro-European colonial networks -- 3. A political Eurafrica -- An "entente cordiale"? (1948-1950) -- French and Belgian federalists towards Eurafrica (1952-1954) -- 4. A European commonwealth -- Unionist projects (1947-1949) : a consensus? -- A British precondition : securing the participation of independent commonwealth countries (1950-1951) -- The British section of ELEC (1951-1954) -- 5. From Strasbourg to Rome : assessing the influence of groups -- Transnational pressure groups upstream of the decision -- During the decision : exerting pressure on national decision-makers -- Following the decision : an introduction to policy implementation. 330 2 $a"The book assesses the role of three pro-European pressure groups (the European Union of Federalists, the Socialist Movement for the United States of Europe, and the European League for Economic Cooperation) and their impact in fostering new relations between Europe and the colonies between 1947 and 1957. It argues that the association of the overseas territories into the European Economic Community in 1957, the founding stone of today's European policy for aid and development, was to a large extent the result of the intense intellectual activity that took place in these transnational groups upstream of the signature of the Treaty of Rome. A transnational approach of these groups uncovers the broader objectives of the European policy: that the association would in the long run revive the declining links between Europe and its overseas territories. On the one hand, part of the influential British and continental pro-European elites wanted to create a European Commonwealth which would establish new preferential and intergovernmental links between countries of the Council of Europe, the British Dominions and the European colonies. On the other hand, a number of French and Belgian pro-Europeans wanted to create a Eurafrican community, a federation linking Europe and Africa economically and politically. Both the European Commonwealth and the Eurafrican community were designed in response to postwar challenges: the dollar gap, the communist threat in the Third World, the rise of new African and Asian nationalisms, and the position of European powers in a new globalised world"--Provided by publisher. 606 $aEuropean federation 607 $aEurope$xEconomic integration$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aEurope$xColonies$zAfrica$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aEurope$xColonies$zAsia$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aEuropean federation. 676 $a341.242 700 $aKottos$b Laura$01234797 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910136186503321 996 $aEurope between imperial decline and quest for integration$92868441 997 $aUNINA