Week 1: January 7 & 9

Origins of European Integration (1945-1952)

Topics: Lecture Notes

• World War II Aftermath

• The Founders

• European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC)

• Website and Sources: Course Website Tour, Introduction to "Europa"

Assigned Readings:

Dinan, Ever Closer Union, Introduction and ch. 1

The ABC of Community Law, pp. 5-10

Assignments:

• Study course website

Resources:

Histories and Origins

• Gillingham, John. Coal, Steel and the Rebirth of Europe, 1945-1955 (1991)

• Haas, Ernst B. The Uniting of Europe: Political, Social and Economic Forces, 1950-1957

• Lewis, David W. P. The Road to Europe: History, Institutions and Prospects of European Integration 1945-1993 (1993, Peter Lang)

• Lewis, Flora. Europe: Road to Unity (1987)

• Lipgens, Walter. A History of European Integration Vol. I: 1945-1947

• McAllister, R. From the EC to EU - An Historical and Political Survey (1997)

• Milward, Alan S. The European Rescue of the Nation-State (1992)

• Urwin, Derek. The Community of Europe: A History of European Integration since 1945

• Willis, F. Roy. France, Germany, and the New Europe 1945-1963

Personalities and Memoirs

• Bond, Martyn, Julie Smith and William Wallace ed. Eminent Europeans: Personalities Who Shaped Contemporary Europe (1996)

• Duchêne, François. Jean Monnet: The First Statesman of Interdependence (1994, Norton)

• Monnet, Jean. Memoirs (Doubleday, 1978)

• Rochefort, Robert. Robert Schuman

• Roussel, Eric. Jean Monnet (in French)

• Schuman, Robert. Pour l'Europe

• Wells, Sherrill Brown. Jean Monnet: Unconventional Statesman (2011, Lynne Rienner)