Enlargement and Transformation of the EU-NATO-CE Regime: A macro-Historical Approach to the Contemporary European International Order

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This project is designed to reconsider the nature of the European construction within the wider contexts of security, economy and identity. We have over the past three years examined the origins, transformations, and possible termination of the complex system of the EU-NATO-CE regime, historically. Only in this way can we reach a tentative conclusion on where Europe stands, and whither.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. We have published a seminal work on history of European integration (Nagoya UP). Then we have assembled the items of historical importance, with annoted explanations stressing the birth and transformation of the complex Regime, which is due next month. To assess all these accomplishments, we organized an international symposium in early September, with which we now have clues on the directions of the future research.