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Prologue: Churchill's Congress: Four Driving Forces ; The Struggle for the Congress ; Negotiations and Decisions ; A Milestone -- 1. Foundation Years, 1948-1957:- The Struggle over the Council of Europe ; The Emergence of the Coal and Steel Community ; The Drama of the EDC ; The Difficult "Relance" ; The Negotiations on Euratom and the European Economic Community -- 2. Formative Years, 1958-1963: The European Commission ; The Struggle over the Free-Trade Area ; The Construction of the Common Market ; Fouchet Plans and British Membership Application ; Accession Negotiations and Franco-German Treaty ; The Success of the Economic Community -- 3. Crises of the Community of the Six, 1963-1969: Erhard's Relaunch ; Hallstein's Offensive ; The Crisis of the "Empty Chair" ; The Time of the Arrangements ; The Return of the British Question ; France on the Way to Turning -- 4. Expansion and New Perspectives, 1969-1975: Turning Point: The Summit in The Hague ; The Completion of the Common Market ; The First Enlargement ; The Project of Monetary Union ; Political Cooperation ; Crisis and New Beginning -- 5. Consolidation, 1976-1984: The Path to Direct Elections ; The European Monetary System ; Expansion to the South ; The Defense of Detente ; Thatcher, Genscher, and Colombo -- 6. The Era of Development, 1984-1992: The Single European Act ; The Internal-Market Project ; The Project for an Economic and Monetary Union ; European Security and German Unity ; The Path to Maastricht -- 7. From Maastricht to Nice, 1992-2001: Implementing the Monetary Union ; The Northern Expansion ; The Way to Amsterdam ; Security and Eastern Policy ; The Nice Complex -- 8. Constitutional Struggle and Euro Crisis, 2001-2012: The Eastward Enlargement ; The Constitutional Treaty ; From Prodi to Barroso ; The Constitutional Crisis ; The Euro Crisis -- Conclusion: The Future of the Union..

In this pioneering analysis of diffuse underclass anger that simmers in many societies, Joan Neuberger takes us to the streets of St. Petersburg in 1900-1914 to show us how the phenomenon labeled hooliganism came to symbolize all that was wrong with the modern city: increasing hostility between classes, society's failure to "civilize" the poor, the desperation of the destitute, and the proliferation of violence in public spaces

"Dramatic events in the contemporary world--wars, revolutions, political upheavals, terrorist attacks, catastrophic natural disasters, economic crises, and the endless stream of daily news--often obscure the long-developing historical processes that have created the societies in which we live and the current problems with which we have to cope. The mass media pay little attention to the broader historical patterns and contexts that shape the deeper meaning of swiftly moving public events and private lives. This new edition of A History of Europe in the Modern World therefore brings new information, documents, and interpretations to the ongoing search for historical perspectives on the complex, often bewildering, events of our own era. Although this book (as in past editions) focuses specifically on the history of Europe, it also emphasizes that modern European history has always evolved through interactions and exchanges with the wider world"--

Relying on internal sources, Wilfried Loth analyses the birth and subsequent development of the European Union, from the launch of the Council of Europe and the Schuman Declaration until the Euro crisis and the contested European presidential election of Jean-Claude Juncker. This book shines a light on the crises of the European integration, such as the failure of the European Defence Community, De Gaulle's empty chair policy, or the rejection of the European Constitution in France and the Netherlands, but also highlights the indubitable successes that are the Franco-German reconciliation, the establishment of the European common market, and the establishment of an expanding common currency. What this study accomplishes, for the first time, is to illuminate the driving forces behind the European integration process and how it changed European politics and society.

Europe and America: A Return to History by Miles Kahler and Werner Link. Europe and America: A Return to History, a book by Miles Kahler and Werner Link, is reviewed.

European fertility early in the 21st century was at its lowest level since the Second World War. This study explores contemporary childbearing trends and policies in Europe, and gives detailed attention to the past two or three decades. We felt motivated to undertake this project because in many European countries, as well as for the European Union as a whole, the overall fertility level and its consequences are of grave concern and draw attention on the political stage. Our account focuses somewhat more on the previously state socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe, where available knowledge about the impact on childbearing of the momentous political and economic transition that started in 1989 remains relatively scarce. As family formation and childbearing behaviour are inherent components of societal life, they were influenced and modified by the various political, economic, and social changes that took place in Europe during the past 60 years. There were also profound changes in norms, values, beliefs, and attitudes regarding family and childbearing, and these exerted additional effects on fertility and family trends. To identify such effects, this study pays much attention to the influence of social and family policies on fertility, to the influence of political and economic changes on fertility and family trends, and to the diverse ways changes in values, norms, and attitudes relate to the transformation in family-related behaviour in Europe. In the present chapter, we outline main issues discussed in the subsequent overview chapters, and summarise the main findings of the entire study.