Origins and evolution of the European Union / edited by Desmond Dinan.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [337]-355) and index.

Integration and disintegration before 1945 / Peter Stirk -- Dividing Europe : the Cold War and European integration / David A. Messenger -- The German problem and European integration / John R. Gillingham -- Liberalization, convertibility, and the Common Market / Wendy Asbeek Brusse -- The triumph of community Europe / Craig Parsons -- Building on coal and steel : European integration in the 1950s and the 1960s / Stephen Martin -- Charles de Gaulle's uncertain idea of Europe / Jeffrey Vanke -- A dismal decade? European integration in the 1970s / Richard T. Griffiths -- European integration in the image and the shadow of agriculture / Ann-Christina Lauring Knudsen -- From deadlock to dynamism : the European community in the 1980s / N. Piers Ludlow -- From the single market to the single currency / Dorothee Heisenberg -- The European Union, the Soviet Union, and the end of the Cold War / Jeffrey J. Anderson -- The enlarging European Union / Anna Michalski -- The historiography of European integration / Desmond Dinan -- Appendix: Chronology of European integration, 1945-2005.