Building Europe in New York

Auteur

Enrico Ciappi is a postdoc research fellow in history of International Relations and European Integration at LUISS Guido Carli University of Rome, Italy. He has published in Diplomacy & Statecraft, Journal of Contemporary History, History of European Ideas, Journal of European Integration History.

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This book reappraises the origins of the European Union through the lens of the private experts who advised Western governments on war and peace throughout the 1940s, particularly the partnership between the so-called "Father of Europe" Jean Monnet and the US think tank Council on Foreign Relations.

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Part 1: An Overview

1. Introduction: The Power of the Men with Vision

Part 2: World War Two

2. The Civil Service of the Wise Men (19381940)

3. Guns, Words and Plans (19401942)

4. Dreaming of a Postwar Order (19431945)

Part 3: Postwar

5. The Informal Planners of European Recovery (19451947)

6. Marshall Plan's Europe (19471948)

7. The Old Dream: The Origins of the European Coal and Steel Community (19491952)

8. Conclusion