History/Lisbon Treaty
The history of European integration is a good starting point to learn to comprehend EU foreign policy. This section provides references and links to guide you through the process of European integration in the domain of foreign policy. The section is structured chronologically, starting with the Marshall Plan and the Schuman Declaration up to the changes in the Lisbon Treaty.
Links
You can search for documents of EU institutions, through archives of political personalities or important officials, of movements or international organisations which played an integral role in the process which led to the construction of Europe. The HAEU has also formed a substantial collection of oral sources on the history of integration and acquired microfilmed copies of documents held in other archival institutions which illustrate the various Community treaties or enlargement negotiations.
This database made by the University of Leiden contains historical documents on EU history from 1945 to present day.
ENA is a multilingual, multisource and multimedia knowledge base that contains more than 15,000 documents on the historical and institutional development of a united Europe from 1945 to the present day.
Homepage of the journal of European integration history.
Literature
Nuttall, S. (1992) European Political Co-operation. Oxford: Claridon Press.
Regelsberger, E., de Schoutheete de Tervarent, P., & Wessels, W. (Eds.) (1997) Foreign Policy of the European Union. From EPC to CFSP and Beyond. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers.
Duke, S. (1999) The Elusive Quest for European Security: from EDC to CFSP. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Hill, C., & Smith, K. E. (2000) European Foreign Policy. Key Documents. London: Routledge.
Smith, M. E. (2004) Europe's Foreign and Security Policy - The Institutionalization of Cooperation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Dedman, M. (2009) The origins & development of the European Union 1945-2008. A history of European integration. Oxon: Routledge.
Crum, Ben. (2011) Learning from the Eu Constitutional Treaty. Oxon: Routledge.
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