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London ; New York : Routledge, 2016

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ISBN 9781317224396 (e-book: Mobi)

ISBN 9781317224402 (e-book: ePub)

ISBN 9781138654907 (vázáno)

ISBN 9781138654914 (brožováno)

Obsahuje bibliografické odkazy na stranách [244]-266) a rejstřík

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List of illustrations x // Acknowledgments xi // Introduction 1 // 1 Made in the US? The origins of European integration // from the 1940s 7 // The German Question: postwar ideas about security and peace 8 The Cold War and new American policy towards Germany 12 Cold War hysteria and the containment policy 21 // The Marshall Plan and the first steps towards European integration 28 // Dangerous conflicts from 1948 34 // The question oj British leadership of integration 35 // US efforts to gain French leadership for integration 43 // American initiative to establish a joint West European army 46 // France complies “at gun point” 48 // 2 Beginning of the European integration and enlargement 63 // Who helped the American project? 63 // Foundation of a new international institutional system 65 // Beginning of the realization of the American integration plan: the European Coal and Steel Community 61 // Germany, Italy, and the Benelux countries are joining 71 // Further step to realize the American initiative: the European Economic Community 75 // American policy towards enlargement of the European Community 82 // 3 Change of guard in the 1970s: European corporations step into America’s role // Changing relations between America and Europe 95 // Recognition of interdependence—instead of Pax Americana 99 Radical change in American policy towards Europe in the 1970s 100 // Rising conflicts between the US and the European Community 103 // Major gaps in European integration—US’s multinationals invading Europe 106 // Big European corporations mobilized 111 //

4 Made by corporate Europe? The “second coming” of the European integration, 1980s-2000s // Slowing down of integration between 1965 and 1985 118 // New international economic environment: end of prosperity and oil crises 123 // Collapse of colonialism and uncertain Third World markets 125 // The new technological revolution and structural crisis 130 // Globalization and globalized neoliberalism: the US and Japan ahead, Europe lagging behind 134 // Globalization without global governance and the national dead-end roads 138 // New players enter the stage: big corporations 145 // The coordinated work of Commission, corporations, and nation-states 149 // 5 Creating a Europeanized economy with corporate assistance: the Single Market and common currency // Introduction of the Single Market 158 Corporate assistance to create a single market 160 // From national towards "European Companies” 163 // Under the banner of neoliberalism 165 Europeanization of research and development 166 // Assisting injrnstructnral renewal 167 // Schengen Agreement: eliminating borders 169 Introduction of the common currency 170 // Serving corporate Europe by endless enlargement 173 // 6 Towards a Europeanized economic structure of Europe // Europeanizing the banking system 201 Europeanizing corporate manufacturing empires 209 Europeanization of services 224 // Epilogue: Quo vadis European Union? // Bibliography // Index

(OCoLC)950459680