Journal of European Integration History - Centre d'études et de ...

Publications of the European
Union Liaison Committee of
Historians
Experiencing Europe
50 Years of European Construction
1957-2007
Edited by Prof. Dr. Wilfried Loth
2009, 362 pp., pb., € 59.00,
ISBN 978-3-8329-4124-6
(Publications of the European Union
Liaison Committee of Historians, vol. 12)
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In order to evaluate the perspectives of deepening
and widening of the EU it is necessary
to review what happened in the several fields
of European integration so far. How did the
EC/EU change from its beginnings, and in
which respect is the present situation different
from the past? Which trends of evolution
can be observed, and which factors may
influence the future evolution?
In this volume, 19 historians from seven countries,
all of them well known experts of the
field, are balancing the different aspects of
the European experience. Based on broad
archival research, the volume offers a comprehensive
look on the history of European
integration and a discussion of the present
situation and possible developments in
the light of this balance. All chapters were
discussed in international teams and written
by co-authors from different member states.
Thus, they will represent not only the current
state of knowledge, but for the first time also
a coherent European perspective on the
history of European integration. Experiencing
Europe is seen as a response to the challenges
Europeans have to meet in the 20 th and 21 st
centuries.