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Senior Scholars Spring 2017 Week 1 January 31 2/5/17 The European Union: History, Structure, Future Senior Scholars Spring 2017 Prof. Kenneth F. Ledford [email protected] 368-4144 DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY Frank-Walter Steinmeier “But among most U.S. allies, Trump’s attitudes ‘caused astonishment and excitement, not just in Brussels,’ German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier told reporters Monday in Brussels. Coming directly from a meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Steinmeier said NATO had listened to Trump’s comments ‘with concern.’” DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY The European Union Sigmar Gabriel “’Those were highly nationalistic • “Talking Shop” sounds,’ he said to ZDF about the – Quasselbude inaugural address. ‘The only things missing were concepts such as calling • “System Parties” the parliament a ‘talking shop,’ or – Systemparteien talking about the ‘system parties.’ • “Lying Press” Then you would reach the political rhetoric of the Conservatives and – Lügenpresse Reactionaries of the twenties in the • Goebbels and Hitler in the 1920s twentieth century. He really means it • Rhetoric every German knows; now used by neo-Nazis in the seriously, and I think that we need to get ready for a rough ride.’” NPD and in the United States DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY 1 2/5/17 The European Union The European Union • New York Times, Sunday, • New York Times, Sunday, January 27, 2017, page A6 January 29, page A6 – Will “Brexit” cause instability? – Will Turkey turn away from Europe? – Can Greece find relief? – Can Italy’s banks stay afloat? – Will Catalonia leave Spain? – Will the United States stand with Europe? – Will nationalists triumph elsewhere? DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY The European Union The European Union • First five weeks, January 31-February 28 • Reference works: – Survey of current EU, its evolution, chronology to present – John Pinder and Simon Usherwood, The European Union: A Very Short rd • Two weeks off Introduction, 3 ed. (Oxford, 2013) – March 7, Ledford in Washington for “Humanities on the Hill” – March 14, CWRU Spring Break • Second six weeks, March 21-April 25 – Key elements of EU and the challenges it faces DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY The European Union The European Union • Reference works: • Reference works: – John Gillingham, EU: An Obituary (Verso, 2016) – John McCormick, Understanding the European Union: A Concise Introduction, 6th ed. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY 2 2/5/17 The European Union The European Union • Reference works: • Reference works: – Ivan T. Berend, The History of European Integration: a New – http://europa.eu/european-union/index_en Perspective (Routledge, 2016) DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY The European Union • Who am I? – Social historian of Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries – Research focus on legal professions and legal system of Germany – Law and its practitioners central to project of liberalism – Also a lawyer, teach in School of Law – European Union Law, public law of the European Union DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY The European Union The European Union • Roots of project of European Union, and its currency the • Holy Roman Empire Euro, lie deep in European history – Voltaire – Contemporary crisis must be viewed through deep historical lens – “neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire” – Historical perspective leads to conclusions divergent from those reached by scholars in ahistorical disciplines DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY 3 2/5/17 The European Union • Samuel Pufendorf – Severinus de Monzambano – “an irregular body, some misshapen monster if it be measured by the common rules of politics and civil prudence” DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY HISTORY DEPARTMENT The European Union The European Union • Before end of World War II, European leaders of resistance • Harsh reality of postwar devastation and in exile believed that postwar survival depended upon – Physical destruction political and economic integration – Population dislocation – Political – Exhaustion of monetary reserves • To avoid repetition of murderous and suicidal warfare • To account for domination of Europe by super-powers at either end – Economic • To avoid political frictions that stemmed from trade rivalries and tariff barriers • Free trade as best guaranty of peace among peoples • Emerging neo-liberal consensus in favor of free markets and free trade, accompanied by generous social democratic welfare state DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY The European Union • But notion of overcoming division of Europe by political and economic integration competed at all times with radically different notions of division and domination – French World War I aim if dividing Germany as before 1871 DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY 4 2/5/17 The European Union The European Union • But notion of overcoming division of Europe by political and • Morgenthau Plan, 1943 economic integration competed at all times with radically – Divide and deindustrialize Germany different notions of division and domination – French World War I aim if dividing Germany as before 1871 – Plans for post-World-War-II Germany developed after Stalingrad • Soviets: push borders westward • French: control German coal and steel, Saar and Ruhr • Britain: uninterested, look to Empire and Commonwealth • United States: vacillated DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY Henry Morgenthau, Jr. DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY 5 2/5/17 DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY The European Union • Other plans for division • Ultimate outcome at Yalta was zones of occupation in Germany, cessation of political life, Allies to administer economy as a single unit – Never materialized. – Hardened by 1949 into two German states and anomalous Berlin DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY 6 2/5/17 The European Union The European Union • Wartime planning for postwar integration • Political Integration – Political – Private movements • Origin of war viewed as division of Europe into competing nation states • France, Édouard Herriot, The United States of Europe (1930), French Council for • Unprecedented situation of Europe dominated by super-powers at either end, Soviet Europe Union and the United States – Motives various • Continued sovereignty depended upon integration • Germany: most obvious road to re-acceptance – Economic • Italy: Christian Democrats supported it as check to instability and appeal of • Traced political frictions that led to war to trade rivalries and tariff barriers Communist Party • Free trade seen as best guaranty of peace among Europeans • French, Belgians, Dutch: wanted integration to ensure British partnership as defense • Neo-liberal consensus in favor of free markets and free trade against Germany and against Soviets DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY The European Union The European Union • Western European Union, Treaty of Brussels, March 1948 • Economic Integration – Mutual defense alliance, Britain, France, Belgium, Netherlands, – Benelux Luxembourg • 1944; 1947; 1948 – West Germany and Italy joined 1954 • Belgium; Netherlands; Luxemburg – Treaty terminated in 2010 – Marshall Plan – OEEC – OECD • Statute of the Council of Europe, London, May 1949 – Britain, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxemburg, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Ireland – “economic, social, cultural, scientific, legal, and administrative matters and maintenance and further realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms” DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY The European Union • Economic Integration – Benelux • 1944; 1947; 1948 • Belgium; Netherlands; Luxemburg – Marshall Plan – OEEC – OECD DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY 7 2/5/17 The European Union • Robert Schuman – Luxembourg – Father: Lorraine – 1871, Lorraine to German Empire – 1919, Lorraine to France DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY HISTORY DEPARTMENT The European Union The European Union European Coal and Steel European Coal and Steel Community Community High Authority Schuman Declaration, May 9, Special Council of Ministers 1950 Commons Assembly Treaty of Paris, April 18, 1951 Effective July 23, 1952 Court of Justice Expired July 23, 2002 DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY The European Union European Coal and Steel Community Emergent three-branch government Executive High Authority Legislative Special Council of Ministers (upper house) Commons Assembly (lower house) Judicial Court of Justice DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY 8.
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