LEADER 03763nam 2200721 a 450 001 9910815833903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-6146-4 010 $a0-8014-6098-0 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801460982 035 $a(CKB)2550000000036263 035 $a(OCoLC)732957098 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10468018 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000529828 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11347684 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000529828 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10557248 035 $a(PQKB)10573860 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001495768 035 $a(OCoLC)966859735 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse51851 035 $a(DE-B1597)478626 035 $a(OCoLC)1013962889 035 $a(OCoLC)979575517 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801460982 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138139 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10468018 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL767988 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138139 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000036263 100 $a20100617d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEurope united$b[electronic resource] $epower politics and the making of the European Community /$fSebastian Rosato 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (279 p.) 225 1 $aCornell studies in security affairs 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8014-7849-9 311 $a0-8014-4935-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aExplaining international cooperation -- Origins : heavy-industry integration, 1945-1950 -- Setback : military integration, 1950-1954 -- Triumph : economic integration, 1955-1957 -- Beyond postwar Europe. 330 $aThe construction of the European Community (EC) has widely been understood as the product of either economic self-interest or dissatisfaction with the nation-state system. In Europe United, Sebastian Rosato challenges these conventional explanations, arguing that the Community came into being because of balance of power concerns. France and the Federal Republic of Germany-the two key protagonists in the story-established the EC at the height of the cold war as a means to balance against the Soviet Union and one another.More generally, Rosato argues that international institutions, whether military or economic, largely reflect the balance of power. In his view, states establish institutions in order to maintain or increase their share of world power, and the shape of those institutions reflects the wishes of their most powerful members. Rosato applies this balance of power theory of cooperation to several other cooperative ventures since 1789, including various alliances and trade pacts, the unifications of Italy and Germany, and the founding of the United States. Rosato concludes by arguing that the demise of the Soviet Union has deprived the EC of its fundamental purpose. As a result, further moves toward political and military integration are improbable, and the economic community is likely to unravel to the point where it becomes a shadow of its former self. 410 0$aCornell studies in security affairs. 606 $aEuropean cooperation 606 $aBalance of power 607 $aEurope$xForeign relations$y1945- 607 $aEurope$xEconomic integration 607 $aEurope$xMilitary relations 615 0$aEuropean cooperation. 615 0$aBalance of power. 676 $a341.24/2 700 $aRosato$b Sebastian$f1972-$01166285 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815833903321 996 $aEurope united$94036652 997 $aUNINA