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This book outlines the possibilities and perspectives of an intertwining of European integration historiography with the history and concept of capitalism.
Although debates on capitalism have been making a comeback since the 2008 crisis, to date the concept of capitalism remains almost completely avoided by historians of European integration. This book thus conceptualizes 'capitalism' as a useful analytical tool that should be used by historians of European integration and proposes three major approaches for them to do so: first, by bringing the question of social conflict, integral to the concept of capitalism, into European integration history; second, by better conceptualizing the link between European governance, Europeanization and the globalization of capitalism; and thirdly by investigating the economic, political and ideological models or doctrines that underlie European cooperation, integration, policies and institutions. This analytical encounter between European integration history and capitalism allows for a better understanding of how today's "Europe" resulted from a complex social, economic and political conflict that took place in part at the European level.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal, the European Review of History.
Contents
Introduction - Rethinking European integration history in light of capitalism: the case of the long 1970s 1. Stabilization through integration: the European rescue of Italian capitalism 2. European integration and the paradoxical answers of national trade unions to the crises of capitalism 3. Crises and transformations of European integration: European business circles during the long 1970s 4. Crisis, capitalism and common policies: Greek and Norwegian responses to common shipping policy efforts in the 1960s and 1970s 5. A globalization laboratory: European banking regulation and global capitalism in the 1970s and early 1980s 6. Crisis and continuity: Robert Marjolin, transnational policy-making and neoliberalism, 1930s-70s 7. The European Commission facing crisis: social, neo-mercantilist and market-oriented approaches (1967-85) 8. Was there an alternative? European socialists facing capitalism in the long 1970s
