Brexit in history : sovereignty or a European Union?

Are Europeans hard-wired for conflict? Given the enmities that wracked the Greek city-states, or the Valois, Bourbons and Habsburgs, it seems undeniable. The Holy Roman Empire promised peace, but collapsed before it could deliver it, while rival rulers counter-balanced its power by stressing their o...

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1. Verfasser: Heuser, Beatrice 1961- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London : Hurst & Company, 2019
Schlagworte:Internationales politisches System Politischer Wandel Institutionalisierung Internationale Politik Integration Souveränität Hoheitsrecht Rechtsübertragung Geschichte Europa mehr... Großbritannien Europagedanke Europäische Integration Brexit
Umfang:xii, 301 Seiten
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction: the dialectic of empire, sovereignty, and co-operative syntheses
  • Inter-'national' relations? Problems of terminology and basic assumptions
  • Ideas inherited from antiquity
  • The middle ages: the christian universe
  • Early modern history: the break-down of the universal republic of christendom
  • The quest for a peace system or a European Union, 1305-1796
  • From great-power oligarchy to nationalist competition, 1813-1918
  • Recreating a universal order I: the League of Nations
  • Recreating a universal order II: the United Nations in the Cold War
  • European integration: between confederation and federation
  • From the renewed UN concert to the new cold war
  • Conclusions