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

这个项目旨在通过历史地考察欧盟的起源和变革来重新思考欧盟的性质。我们考虑了一个重要的话题，因为欧盟扩大了其成员资格(在世界政治中的权重重新增加)，获得了宪法地位，并采取了与伊拉克战争前美国不同的观点和立场。我们解决了历史上-因此现实地-考虑到欧盟的重量和范围的任务，而不是主流观点，即欧盟正在取代传统的民族国家，其发展只能通过制度建设的步骤来追踪。通过这个项目，我们分析了原始的历史材料，将这个实体提升到一个严肃的历史学主题。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，从这些研究中，我们试图理解整个战后政治结构，即复杂的欧盟-北约-CE(欧洲理事会)制度。然后，我们收集了具有重要历史意义的项目，并附有注释说明，强调这个复杂政权的诞生和转型。通过这种方式，我们试图完全改写欧洲一体化的历史，将其作为更广泛的国际安全、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.