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4 Editorial notice Introductory note – Introduction – Einführung Articles for inclusion in this journal may be submitted at any time. The editorial board will then arrange for the article to be refereed. Articles should not be longer than 6000 words, footnotes included. They may be in English, French or German. Articles submitted to the Journal should be original contributions and not be submitted to any other publication at the same time as to the Journal of European Integration History. Authors should retain a copy of their article. The publisher and editors cannot accept responsibility for loss of or damage to author’s typescripts or disks. The accuracy of, and views expressed in articles and reviews are the sole responsibility of the authors. Authors should ensure that typescripts conform with the journal style. Prospective contributors should obtain further guidelines from the Editorial Secretariat. Articles, reviews, communications relating to articles and books for review should be sent to the Editorial Secretariat. Citation The Journal of European Integration History may be cited as follows: JEIH, (Year)/(Number), (Page). ISSN 0947-9511 © 1996 NOMOS Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden and the Groupe de liaison des professeurs d’histoire contemporaine auprès de la Commission européenne. Printed in Germany. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission of the publishers.
Introductory note – Introduction – Einführung 5 Introductory Note Klaus Schwabe The third issue of this journal is devoted to the impact of the Cold War on the process of European integration, as seen from the perspective of the four major powers – the United States, the Soviet Union, Great Britain and France. All shared primary responsibility for the shaping of the destiny of Europe in general and of Germany’s future in particular. In the light of the recent radical shift in international power, the Cold War may appear to have lost most of its contemporary political significance – to have become mere history. But inspite of this appearance a more comprehensive understanding of the Cold War period retains a particular relevance at a time, when substantial decisions on the course of European integration are pending. Maastricht II will have to decide whether or not the expansion of the European Union, widely supported, as it is, will be accompanied by a tightening and deepening of its organizational structure – a process of tightening, in which the introduction of a common European currency will be but one important element. Whatever direction these developments may take, they will be initiated and implemented in an international setting that differs drastically from the scenario that prevailed for more than four decades from 1945 until the coming down of the Berlin wall. During the Cold War the communist threat provided a stimulus for European integration. As this threat is now a thing of the past, the crucial question as regards the future of our continent is whether European integration will retain its momentum, although one of its incentives, the Cold War and the way it was experienced until 1989, has ceased to be a factor in international relations. A more detailed and nuanced understanding of the history of European integration during the Cold War era, therefore, may offer some ‘guidance’ for present-day political leaders: One can argue that, if the Cold War, as an oversimplified popular view tends to believe, was indeed the sole motivating force behind the drive for integrating Europe, chances for advancing that process at present are slim. If, on the other hand, historiography can provide evidence for the impact of other forces, unrelated to the Cold War, that encouraged European integration – forces that have preserved their vitality beyond the collapse of the Soviet block –, then the outlook for progress in the construction of genuine European Union is much more solidly rooted, and the ultimate goal of a democratically based political union of Europe may be more than a chimera. It has become a truism to single out the Cold War as the most potent force that triggered the efforts to achieve a union of those European nations that had not been subjected to Soviet control after the surrender of Nazi Germany. Would there have been an American interest in the stabilization of free Europe, if the West had not clashed with the USSR over the control of the Eastern Mediterranean? Would there have been a Marshall Plan if the victorious powers had not proved unable to agree on the future of Germany at the Moscow Conference in March 1947 and, thereby, had left in the heart of Europe an economic and political vacuum which seemed to
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