Did European Construction Contribute to Peace?

René Schwok

ISBN 10: 2807605605 / ISBN 13: 9782807605602

Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang Jul 2018, 2018

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Neuware -Supporters of European integration have always argued that it has brought peace. Yet no scientific study has ever developed a critical approach to such a claim. To remedy this surprising deficiency, the author builds a typology that will help to distinguish the two main opposing approaches to this question: that of the Europeanists and that of the Eurosceptics. The dialectical confrontation between these two approaches is the red thread of the book. Taken up in each of the chapters, it provides a synthetic point of view aimed at overcoming this opposition. The author shows that the contribution of the European construction to peace lies in the nuances, thus distinguishing itself from the irenical slogans of the Europeanists while dismantling the arguments of the Eurosceptics. He concludes that the EU will never be able to prevent extremist and belligerent tendencies among the European states and/or peoples. It can, however, limit the damage those tendencies could cause through the rules and institutions which the Member States have committed to respecting.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 174 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Did European Construction Contribute to Peace?
• Publisher: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Jul 2018
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 2807605605
• ISBN 13: 9782807605602
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 210W x 148H x 10D millimeters 210 millimeters width by 148 millimeters height by 10 millimeters depth
• Weight: 234 grams

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Synopsis

Supporters of European integration have always argued that it has brought peace. Yet no scientific study has ever developed a critical approach to such a claim. To remedy this surprising deficiency, the author builds a typology that will help to distinguish the two main opposing approaches to this question: that of the Europeanists and that of the Eurosceptics. The dialectical confrontation between these two approaches is the red thread of the book. Taken up in each of the chapters, it provides a synthetic point of view aimed at overcoming this opposition. The author shows that the contribution of the European construction to peace lies in the nuances, thus distinguishing itself from the irenical slogans of the Europeanists while dismantling the arguments of the Eurosceptics. He concludes that the EU will never be able to prevent extremist and belligerent tendencies among the European states and/or peoples. It can, however, limit the damage those tendencies could cause through the rules and institutions which the Member States have committed to respecting.

About the Author

René Schwok is Director of the Global Studies Institute and Professor at the Department of Political Science of the University of Geneva. He holds a Monnet Chair in political science. He studied at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva as well as at the Institut für europäische Studien de Mainz and at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University.