Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- I A German Solution to Europe's Problems? The Early History of the European Communities, 1950–1965
- Introduction to Part I A New Global Setting
- Chapter 1 The Liberal Project for an Integrated Europe
- Chapter 2 The Rise and Decline of Monnetism
- Chapter 3 More or Less Liberal Europe: The Institutional Origins of Integration
- Chapter 4 All or Nothing? The Founding of the EEC and the End of an Era, 1958–1966
- Conclusion to Part I Needed: A New Integration Scenario
- II From Embedded Liberalism to Liberalism, A Step Forward: European Integration and Regime Change in the 1970s
- III Seeking the New Horizon: Integration from the Single European Act to the Maastricht Treaty
- IV A False Dawn? Challenge and Misdirection in 1990s Europe
- Envoi
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 2 - The Rise and Decline of Monnetism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- I A German Solution to Europe's Problems? The Early History of the European Communities, 1950–1965
- Introduction to Part I A New Global Setting
- Chapter 1 The Liberal Project for an Integrated Europe
- Chapter 2 The Rise and Decline of Monnetism
- Chapter 3 More or Less Liberal Europe: The Institutional Origins of Integration
- Chapter 4 All or Nothing? The Founding of the EEC and the End of an Era, 1958–1966
- Conclusion to Part I Needed: A New Integration Scenario
- II From Embedded Liberalism to Liberalism, A Step Forward: European Integration and Regime Change in the 1970s
- III Seeking the New Horizon: Integration from the Single European Act to the Maastricht Treaty
- IV A False Dawn? Challenge and Misdirection in 1990s Europe
- Envoi
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Jean Monnet has a strong claim to be called the Father of Europe. Monnet deserves almost single-handed credit for creating in 1951 the first of Europe's epochal institutions for integration, the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC). He was also the power behind the grandiose but ill-fated European Defense Community (EDC), a scheme for an integrated armed force composed of multinational units and tied into the NATO command structure that was rejected by France in the summer of 1954. Jean Monnet was, in addition, the moving force behind EURATOM (European Atomic Energy Commission) – a proposal for a continental nuclear power industry – which he put forth in conjunction with the “re-launching” of Europe in 1955. Unlike EDC, EURATOM would not be dead on arrival; instead, along with the ECSC, it would develop into an organ (though only an appendage) of the European Economic Community (EEC). As president from 1954 to 1975 of the Action Committee for the United States of Europe, a lobby for the integration cause, Monnet would be an inexhaustible font of unification and federation initiatives. Yet after the mid-1950s he was reduced to the status of an outsider and could influence the integration process only indirectly through allies in Washington, Bonn, Brussels, and other capitals. Thereafter, many initiatives associated with Monnet stemmed from self-anointed disciples – “monnetists” – acting (sometimes without specific authorization) on his behalf in a manner thought to be consistent with his “spirit.”
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- European Integration, 1950–2003Superstate or New Market Economy?, pp. 16 - 33Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003
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