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The Crisis of the European Idea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

Raymond Aron
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WHAT DOES THE EUROPEAN IDEA, THE IDEA OF EUROPEAN UNITY MEAN today? In the Christian era, a kind of unity was born of a common faith. It found expression in the Church and in the universities. It excluded neither ethnological diversity nor multiple and autonomous centres of power. From time to time, it enforced the truce of God, but it imposed neither lasting peace nor obedience to the same laws.

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Government and Opposition , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , 01 January 1976 , pp. 5 - 19
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Copyright © Government and Opposition Ltd 1976

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