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6 - British Preoccupations and Ecumenical Politics

from Part 2 - The Making of European Integration (1947–1951)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 December 2023

Mathieu Segers
Mathieu Segers
Affiliation:
Maastricht University
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This chapter is the second building bloc of a wider reconstruction of the main economic, (geo)political, and ideational forces that enabled European integration to take off as of the spring of 1950. It describes the practical unfolding of European integration after the Second World War. This part of the book tries to uncover deeper layers (of psychology and belief) in this history through three crucial sub-histories. This chapter deals with the second of these sub-histories. It traces how the coming about and the workings of the Marshall Plan gradually illuminated an institutional, economic, and political pathway for integration in Western Europe. This second sub-history shows how the gradual (self-)outmanoeuvring of the United Kingdom in matters of European cooperation happened to that country and the West, and how this worked as a catalyst for regional European integration and ‘the emergence of a continental West’.

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British Foreign PolicyBevin PlanWestern UnionGerman ProblemFederalismTransnational NetworksChurchesEcumenical Movement
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The Origins of European Integration
The Pre-History of Today's European Union, 1937–1951
 , pp. 150 - 167
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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