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Towards a Marxist theory of European integration

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The significance of the European Communities (EC) remains obscure. The reason is that orthodox integration literature is fundamentally ahistorical: it fails to give an adequate account of the roots of modern European integration. And however admirable the project might be in itself, we cannot rectify the failure simply by chronicling the admittedly much ignored origins of the EC in the 1950s. For the EC is systematically connected to earlier cases of integration in Europe. Only by understanding the evolution of these integrational forms—from early modern Britain, to nineteenth century Germany, to contemporary Europe—can one begin to make sense of the EC. In brief, one must seek to understand the “present as history,” a task that few writers on regional integration have yet attempted, and none with any success.

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At various stages in writing this article I have been helped greatly by Bob Higgins, Peter Katzenstein, Jonathan Knight, Addie Napolitano, David Nichols, Paul Raskin, anonymous reviewers of International Organization and, especially, Joan Cocks.

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