Transnational Networks in Regional Integration: Governing Europe 1945-83

Contributors to this volume use newly available sources to challenge the widely held assumption that European integration developed in the 1980s. They demonstrate how various networks influenced constitutional choices and policy decisions after World War II.

WOLFRAM KAISER is Professor of European Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK, and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Belgium. He has published widely on European integration, Christian democracy and the history of globalization.

BRIGITTE LEUCHT is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, UK. She has published widely on European integration and transatlantic relations.

MICHAEL GEHLER is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Hildesheim, Germany and Senior Fellow at the Centre for European Integration Studies at the University of Bonn, Germany. He has published widely on the history of European integration, Austria and Germany.