Europe between Imperial Decline and Quest for Integration

The book assesses the role of three pro-European pressure groups (the European Union of Federalists, the Socialist Movement for the United States of Europe and the European League for Economic Cooperation) and their impact in fostering new relations between Europe and the colonies between 1947 and 1957.

Autorentext

Laura Kottos is a scientific collaborator to the Research Unit Modern and Contemporary Worlds at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB, Belgium). She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Reading (United Kingdom) where she was part of the Research Programme `The Liberal Way of War: strategy, ideology, representations .

Inhalt

European integration - European empires - European colonisation and decolonisation - Comparative history France, Belgium, the United Kingdom - Pro-European groups - Transnational history - Eurafrica - European Movement - 1940s-1950s - The external relations of the EU.