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The Construction of Europe and the Concept of the Nation-State

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2000

Bernard Bruneteau
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Abstract

The construction of Europe is often teleologically addressed as a result of an unstoppable trend towards federalism. Another angle on this history gives access to another logic: that of a European kind of nation-state which considers European integration not as an element in its decline, but as a tool to reorganise its power. This new youth for the old nation-state was linked as much to the historical context of the 1950s–1970s as to the specific rules of policy-making and to the economic regulation focus of the European Community.

Type
Research Article
Information
Contemporary European History , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , July 2000 , pp. 245 - 260
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© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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