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The European Defence Community — Precursor to the CFSP?

2000
Ideas of a federal Europe enjoy a long history of intellectual endeavour. The notion of a unified and prosperous Europe is one that came to the fore in the mid-nineteenth century. Federal ideals though remained hostage to the balance of power politics of the day, being first tarnished by the Crimean War and then seemingly smashed by the Franco-Prussian
DUKE Simon, Simon DUKE
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The Vision of the European Defence Community and a Common Defence for the European Union

2007
AbstractThis chapter investigates the relevance of the dawn of European integration for the present and the future. In the early 1950s the six founding Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) envisaged a supranational European Defense Community (EDC) in charge of a European defence policy which would even have included a European ...
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Jean Monnet and the European Defence Community, 1950-54

Cold War History, 2001
This article reassesses Monnet's role in the European Defence Community project of 1950-54. Using primarily US and French sources, it argues that Jean Monnet played a far greater part in the development of the EDC initiative than has been recognized. His interest in the defence community was based increasingly on its potential for accelerated political
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