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The Nuclear Dimension of the European Defence Community
2004The elaboration of the EDC Treaty (the Paris Agreements) was tied to the working out of new contractual arrangements (the Bonn Agreements) giving the Federal Republic sovereignty, within limits, in return for its defence contributions. The contractual arrangements, conditional upon ratification of the EDC, defined areas in which the three Western ...
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The Vision of the European Defence Community and a Common Defence for the European Union
2007AbstractThis 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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The European Defence Community — Precursor to the CFSP?
2000Ideas 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
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The Quai d'Orsay and the European Defence Community Crisis of 1954
History, 2006In August 1954 the French National Assembly plunged the western alliance into crisis when it rejected the Treaty of Paris, which would have instituted a European Defence Community and a West German contribution to defence. While West German rearmament and the rise and fall of the EDC have been the subject of considerable historical debate, little ...
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Discourse, Ideas, and Epistemic Communities in European Security and Defence Policy
West European Politics, 2004(2004). Discourse, Ideas, and Epistemic Communities in European Security and Defence Policy. West European Politics: Vol. 27, Policy Change and Discourse in Europe, pp. 211-234.
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The action of the European Community for civil defence
2007Cooperation among European countries in the field of civil defence is a comparatively recent development: it was only in 1985 that the first guidelines were traced out in an informal meeting of the European civil defence ministers; in 1987 and 1988 the first two European Council meetings were held which gave the go-ahead for European cooperation in ...
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From the European Defence Community to Permanent Structured Cooperation
2019The steps taken last year to establish the Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) may remind us of the efforts made by several countries after the Second World War to build a European Defence Community (EDC). Here I assess the measures taken by London, Paris, Brussels, Bonn and Washington, and recall the wars of Indochina and Korea.
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The European Defence Community: Lessons for the Future?
The Journal of Military History, 2001Piers Ludlow, Michel Dumoulin
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