"Providing new insights on a range of understudied actors, structures and for a of cooperation, this book contributes indeed to a broader understanding of the manifold strands that together constitute the larger context of European integration. ... the book constitutes through its case studies, conceptualisation approaches, and suggestions for further studies a nonetheless important and valuable addition to the literature in the wider and increasingly diverse field of European integration historiography." (Mechthild Roos, H-Soz-Kult, hsozkult.de, April 14, 2022) "The book does a much better job than most edited volumes in drawing out links and connections between the various contributions. ... Overall, this book is an excellent contribution to the literature: it summarizes the discussion, challenges established notions, provides a string of contributions with fresh findings, and prepares the ground for further debate." (Kiran Klaus Patel, Connections, April 8, 2022)
1 Recasting the History and Politics of European Integration ‘Beyond Brussels’ - Matthew Broad and Suvi Kansikas
Part I: Pan-European Ideas, Structures and Interactions
2 ‘Integration, Nobody Knows What It Means’: European Cooperation and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), 1946–56 - Daniel Stinsky
3 Inventing a ‘European Space of Discussion’: The UEFA-EBU Relationship, c.1950s–1970s - Philippe Vonnard
4 Mediating in the Cold War: How the Socialist Group of MEPs became a Driver of Brussels-Moscow Rapprochement - Alexandra Athanasopoulou Köpping
5 Environmental Security for the Promotion of Pan-European Integration: The OSCE as a Europeanising Actor in the Balkans - Emma Hakala
Part II: Imagining, Negotiating and Building Regional Integration
6 Not Giving Up Sovereignty: The British Labour Party’s Alternative Vision of European Cooperation, 1933–1951 - Ettore Costa
7 Less Than Membership but More Than Association: Establishing the European Economic Area (EEA), 1989–1993- Juhana Aunesluoma
8 Regional Integration in the Eastern Bloc: Energy Cooperation between CMEA Countries, c.1950s–80s - Falk Flade
9 Industrial Policy and Technological Cooperation in the EAEU: The Case of Eurasian Technology Platforms - Anna Lowry
Part III: European Integration At and Around the Subregional Level
10 Uniting Europe From Afar: Exile Plans for a Central European Federation in the Early Cold War - Pauli Heikkilä
11 Remain or Leave? Britain and the European Launcher Development Organisation (ELDO) in the Context of Brexit - John Krige
12 Subregional Integration in East Central Europe: Strategies in the In-Between Sphere - Katalin Miklóssy
13 Subregional Groupings in Post-Communist Europe: More Than Just ‘Cooperation’? - Martin Dangerfield
Part IV: Conclusions
14 European Integration: Past and Future, East and West, Brussels and Beyond - Anne Deighton
Matthew Broad is a Lecturer in International Relations at the Institute for History, Leiden University, The Netherlands.
Suvi Kansikas is Docent and Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Helsinki, Finland.