Who was saving whom? The European Community and the Cold War, 1960s–1970s

Patel, Kiran Klaus

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“…The EU’s internal focus was enabled by the broader, transatlantic NATO (Howorth, this issue; Patel, this issue). The co-existence of NATO and the EU makes it hard to disentangle their respective contributions to peace, although several of the contributors (Howorth, this issue; Patel, this issue) try to do so. It is worth noting the compatibility of the EU’s and NATO’s contributions to promoting peace in western Europe.…”

Section: The Eu As a Peace Projectmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These phases have been defined by different security challenges that called for different policy approaches. At the outset, the focus was the ‘double containment’ of German revanchism and Soviet expansion, and was pursued through functional integration (Howorth, this issue; Patel, this issue). Thereafter, the focus became the consolidation of democracy on the EU’s borders through enlargement, first in Greece, then Iberia, and then in central and eastern Europe (Ludlow, this issue).…”

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European integration as a peace project

Birchfield

Krige

Young

2017

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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Using the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s justification for awarding the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union (EU) as a foil, this article examines the EU through the prism of being a peace project. It contends that European integration reflects a Wilsonian liberalism approach to building peace, which emphasizes free trade and democracy, but with a distinctly European twist; an additional emphasis on functional integration and institutionalization, as well as a regional focus. It also identifies three themes that run through the contributions to the special section. First, there has been a strong dialectic between the internal and external dimensions of security in the European integration project from the outset. In some ways, these have been reinforcing, but in others, they have been contradictory. Second, the European peace project has passed though successive, if often overlapping, chronological phases. These phases have been defined by different security challenges that called for different policy approaches. Russian aggression and jihadi terrorism characterize the most recent phase. The third theme is that, despite the changes in terms of threats and policies, there has been a remarkable consistency in two reinforcing respects: the persistent tension among the member states about closer integration with respect to the external security, and the tendency of the EU to emphasize institution building and to neglect strategy. The article concludes with a dialogic introduction to the individual contributions.

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Section: The Eu As a Peace Projectmentioning

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Section: Key Themes From the Contributionsmentioning

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European integration as a peace project

Birchfield

Krige

Young

2017

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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“…The consolidation of a ‘security community’ has not occurred in isolation but rather has been deeply entrenched in the geopolitical landscape of the Post–World War II period (Howorth, 2017; Patel, 2017). The relative stability of the bipolar world order provided fertile ground for the depoliticized and technocratic dynamics of functionalist integration.…”

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On the fringes of the European peace project: The neighbourhood policy’s functionalist hubris and political myopia

Lavenex

2016

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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The destabilization of Eastern Europe and of the Southern Mediterranean has exposed the limits of the European peace project. Obviously, the European Neighbourhood Policy has not succeeded in boosting peace and prosperity. This article attributes this failure to a combination of functionalist hubris and political myopia that emanates from the European Union's peculiar constitution as a regulatory power with weak political union. While the projection of the European Union's single market acquis has set over-ambitious targets, the needs of the partner countries and the wider geopolitical implications of the Neighbourhood Policy have received little political attention. In sum, the experience at the fringes of the European peace project not only unveils the limits of the European Union as a foreign policy actor, but it also raises more theoretical questions on the notion of 'liberal peace'.

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Who was saving whom? The European Community and the Cold War, 1960s–1970s

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European integration as a peace project

European integration as a peace project

On the fringes of the European peace project: The neighbourhood policy’s functionalist hubris and political myopia

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