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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Abbreviations and Acronyms | |
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| Chronology 1945-2011 | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Enemies to Partners: The Politics of Cooperation in Western Europe 1945-1950 | |
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| The American Vision for Europe: The Marshall Plan and the OEEC | |
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| A "Harmonious Society": The Vision of the European Movement | |
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| Cooperation between Governments: The British Vision | |
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| The German Question and the Schuman Plan | |
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| Ever Closer Union: From the Schuman Plan to the Economic Community 1950-1958 | |
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| The Coal and Steel Community | |
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| The Defense Community | |
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| From Messina to Rome | |
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| The Treaties of Rome: March 25, 1957 | |
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| Washington's Benevolent Gaze | |
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| In the Shadow of the General: De Gaulle and the EEC 1958-1969 | |
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| The EEC's First Four Years | |
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| The "Union of States" | |
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| The First British Negotiation for Entry | |
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| The "Empty Chair" Crisis and the Luxembourg Compromise | |
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| A Certain Vision of Europe | |
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| Weathering the Storm: The EC during the 1970s | |
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| The Hague Conference and Its Consequences | |
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| From Six to Nine | |
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| Monetary Turmoil 1971-1974 | |
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| Foreign Policy Initiatives and the Tindemans Report | |
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| The European Monetary System | |
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| Beyond the Common Market | |
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| The 1992 Initiative and Relaunch of the Community | |
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| France Sees the Light | |
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| The British Budgetary Question | |
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| Mediterranean Enlargement | |
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| The 1992 Initiative and the Dooge Committee | |
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| The Single European Act | |
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| Evaluating the Single European Act | |
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| The Maastricht Compromise | |
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| The "Delors Package" and the Delors Report | |
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| The Bruges Speech | |
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| German Unification and Its Consequences | |
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| An Obstacle Removed | |
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| The "Hour of Europe" | |
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| The Treaty on European Union | |
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| Making Sense of Maastricht | |
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| EUphoria? | |
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| Adopting the Euro | |
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| Enlargement | |
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| The Institutional Question | |
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| The EU's Growing World Role | |
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| Toward a Twin-Track Europe? | |
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| Brought Back to Earth | |
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| A PIGS' Breakfast? | |
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| European Norms | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliographical Essay | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |