Re-Examining European Integration Historically : From a Multi-Angle Analysis of Primary Materials to a Systemic Synthesis

该项目旨在通过调查欧盟的起源和历史变迁来重新思考欧盟的本质。我们认为这是一个重要的话题，因为欧盟扩大了其成员资格（在世界政治中重新获得了分量），获得了宪法地位，并在伊拉克战争前夕采取了与美国不同的观点和立场。我们从历史的角度——也就是现实的角度——考虑了欧盟的重要性和范围，而不是主流观点，即欧盟正在取代传统的民族国家，欧盟的发展只能通过制度建设的步骤来追溯。通过这个项目，我们分析了原始的历史材料，将这个实体提升为一个严肃的史学主题。我们做的第一件事是调查最近活跃的欧洲一体化历史研究，从中我们试图理解整个战后政治结构作为复杂的“欧盟-北约-欧洲委员会”政权。然后，我们收集了具有历史重要性的项目，并附有注释解释，强调了复杂政权的诞生和转变。通过这种方式，我们试图完全重写欧洲一体化的历史，将其作为更大的国际安全、经济和规范历史的一部分。

This project is designed to reconsider the nature of the European Union by investigating its origins and transformations historically. This we consider an important topic, in that the EU extends its membership (with renewed weight in world politics), obtains a constitutional status, and takes a different perspective and stance from the one of the US in the run up to the Iraq war.We tackled the task of historically -thus realistically -considering the weight and scope of the EU, against the dominant view that the EU is replacing the traditional nation-states, and that its development can be traced only through the steps of institutional building.With this project we analyses the primary historical materials, elevating the entity to a serious subject of historiography. The first thing we did was to survey the recently active historical studies of European integration, from which we tried to understand the entire post-war political structure as the complex 'EU-NATO-CE (Council of Europe) Regime'. Then we assembled the items of historical importance, with annotated explanations stressing the birth and transformation of the complex Regime. In this way we attempt to completely rewrite the history of European integration as part of the larger international histories of security, economy and norms.