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Defence cooperation and change: How defence industry integration fostered development of the European security community

Cooperation and Conflict, 2022
This article situates recent initiatives to deepen security and defence cooperation in the European Union in the historical perspective. It proposes a model of constitutive relationship between the process of change in a security community and the formation of a transnational defence industry community of practice which yields positive feedback ...
Ondrej Ditrych, Tomas Kucera
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European Defence Community

International Organization, 1954
The six signatories of the European Defense Community Treaty — France, the German Federal Republic, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg —met in Brussels from August 19 to 22 to consider changes in the treaty which the French Premier, Pierre Mendès-France, felt were essential if it were to be ratified by the French National Assembly.
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Negotiating the European Defence Community

European Political Science, 2012
This article argues that process tracing is a viable and suitable methodological alternative to probe the implications of formal models specifying how the dynamics of belief formation may systematically cause bargaining failures under uncertainty. I illustrate the argument with a brief case study of the failure of the European Defence Community in ...
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The European Defence Community

2020
In 1950, France, West Germany, Italy, and the Benelux countries started talks that would culminate in a treaty for a European Defence Community (EDC), a treaty that was signed but never ratified. The initiative for a common European army was the French response to the American demand for a rearmed Germany.
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Towards a West European Defence Community? —

Cooperation and Conflict, 1975
Through their NATO membership several West European states have been able to solve their military production problems with the aid of the USA. This solution, however, has come to be looked upon in certain quarters as more of a hindrance than a contribution to the development of Western Europe.
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The European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) and European Defence Community (EDC) Treaties

2012
The European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) marks a milestone in international cooperation as it represents the first supranational treaty organisation in history: The national governments of France, Germany, Italy and the Benelux countries decided to delegate domestic decisionmaking authority in the coal and steel sectors to a new supranational ...
Glockner, Iris, Rittberger, Berthold
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France and the European Defence Community

International Journal: Canada's Journal of Global Policy Analysis, 1954
Mr. Acheson proposed at the New York meeting of the North Atlantic Council, in September, 1950, that German divisions should be included in the Western Defence system, it came as a blow to most Frenchmen. Few had ever envisaged the possibility of rearming Germany.
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The European Defence Community

1997
The Korean War had sharpened the concern of the Western Allies about the danger of an attack on Western Europe, and the need to protect West Germany. For if, as was widely believed, Stalin had encouraged the North Koreans to attack the South, he might equally well launch the East Germans — who had a substantial force at their disposal — against West ...
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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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A Defence Role for the European Community

1992
A big package awaits discussion at the EC intergovernmental conference which began in December 1990: the Political Union of Europe. It will be a delicate process. The lack of Margaret Thatcher’s vibrant anti-Delors voice in the future will probably bring the more silent voices of opposition elements to the forefront.
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