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00_Editorial_01.book Seite 1 Dienstag, 22. Mai 2001 9:16 09 JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION HISTORY REVUE D’HISTOIRE DE L’INTÉGRATION EUROPÉENNE ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR GESCHICHTE DER EUROPÄISCHEN INTEGRATION edited by the Groupe de liaison des professeurs d’histoire contemporaine auprès de la Commission européenne 2001, Volume 7, Number 1 00_Editorial_01.book Seite 2 Dienstag, 22. Mai 2001 9:16 09 The Liaison Committee of Historians came into being in 1982 as a result of an important international symposium that the Commission had organized in Luxembourg to launch historical research on Euro- pean integration. The committee is composed of historians of the European Union member countries who work on contemporary history. The Liaison Committee: – gathers and conveys information about work on European history after the Second World War; – advises the European Union on research projects concerning contemporary European history. Thus, the Liaison Committee was commissioned to make publicly available the archives of the Community institutions; – enables researchers to make better use of the archival sources; – promotes research meetings to get an update of work in progress and to stimulate new research: seven research conferences have been organized and their proceedings published. The Journal of European Integration History – Revue d’histoire de l’intégration européenne – Zeitschrift für Geschichte der europäischen Integration is in line with the preoccupations of the Liaison Committee. Being the first history journal to deal exclusively with the history of European Integration, the Journal offers the increasing number of young historians devoting their research to contemporary Europe, a permanent forum. The Liaison Committee is supported by the European Commission, but works completely independ- ently and according to historians’ critical method. ❋ Le Groupe de liaison des professeurs d’histoire contemporaine auprès de la Commission des Communautés européennes s’est constitué en 1982 à la suite d’un grand colloque que la Commis- sion avait organisé à Luxembourg pour lancer la recherche historique sur la construction euro- péenne. Il regroupe des professeurs d’université des pays membres de l’Union européenne, spécialistes d’histoire contemporaine. Le Groupe de liaison a pour mission: – de diffuser l’information sur les travaux portant sur l’histoire de l’Europe après la Seconde Guerre mondiale; – de conseiller l’Union européenne sur les actions scientifiques à entreprendre avec son appui; ainsi le Groupe de liaison a assuré une mission concernant la mise à la disposition du public des archi- ves des institutions communautaires; – d’aider à une meilleure utilisation par les chercheurs des moyens de recherche mis à leur disposi- tion (archives, sources orales...); – d’encourager des rencontres scientifiques afin de faire le point sur les connaissances acquises et de susciter de nouvelles recherches: sept grands colloques ont été organisés et leurs actes publiés. L’édition du Journal of European Integration History – Revue d’histoire de l’intégration européenne – Zeitschrift für Geschichte der europäischen Integration se situe dans le droit fil des préoccupati- ons du Groupe de liaison. Première revue d’histoire à se consacrer exclusivement à l’histoire de la construction européenne, le Journal se propose de fournir un forum permanent au nombre crois- sant de jeunes historiens vouant leurs recherches à l’Europe contemporaine. Le Groupe de liaison bénéficie du soutien de la Commission européenne. Ses colloques et publica- tions se font en toute indépendance et conformément à la méthode critique qui est celle des historiens. 00_Editorial_01.book Seite 3 Dienstag, 22. Mai 2001 9:16 09 JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION HISTORY REVUE D’HISTOIRE DE L’INTÉGRATION EUROPÉENNE ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR GESCHICHTE DER EUROPÄISCHEN INTEGRATION 2001, Volume 7, Number 1 Peripheral countries and the Integration of Europe Fernando GUIRAO, coordinator Fernando GUIRAO Introduction ............................................................................................... 5 Maurice FITZGERALD Ireland's Relations With the EEC: From the Treaties of Rome to Membership ......................................... 11 Nicolau ANDRESEN-LEITÃO Portugal's European Integration Policy, 1947-72 ............................... 25 Birgit ASCHMANN The Reliable Ally: Germany Supports Spain's European Integration Efforts, 1957-67 ................................................................... 37 Tapani PAAVONEN From Isolation to the Core: Finland's Position towards European Integration, 1960-95 ............................................................. 53 Hans-Otto FRØLAND Choosing the Periphery: The Political Economy of Norway's European Integration Policy, 1948-73................................. 77 Ziya ÖNIS An Awkward Partnership: Turkey's Relations with the European Union in Comparative-Historical Perspective ...........105 Book reviews – Comptes rendus – Buchbesprechungen..................121 Abstracts – Résumés – Zusammenfassungen ...................................137 Contributors - Auteurs - Autoren ........................................................ 143 Books received – Livres reçus – Eingegangene Bücher ..................145 00_Editorial_01.book Seite 4 Dienstag, 22. Mai 2001 9:16 09 Beilagenhinweis: Dieser Ausgabe liegt ein Prospekt der Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft bei. Wir bitten freundlichst um Beachtung. Editorial notice Articles for inclusion in this journal may be submitted at any time. The editorial board will then arrange for the article to be refereed. Articles should not be longer than 6000 words, footnotes included. They may be in English, French or German. Articles submitted to the Journal should be original contributions and not be submitted to any other publication at the same time as to the Journal of European Integration History. Authors should retain a copy of their article. The publisher and editors cannot accept responsibility for loss of or damage to authors’ typescripts or disks. The accuracy of, and views expressed in articles and reviews are the sole responsibility of the authors. Authors should ensure that typescripts conform with the journal style. Prospective contributors should obtain further guidelines from the Editorial Secretariat. Articles, reviews, communications relating to articles and books for review should be sent to the Editorial Secretariat. Citation The Journal of European Integration History may be cited as follows: JEIH, (Year)/(Number), (Page). ISSN 0947-9511 © 2001 NOMOS Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden and the Groupe de liaison des professeurs d’histoire contemporaine auprès de la Commission européenne. Printed in Germany. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission of the publishers. 00_Editorial_01.book Seite 5 Dienstag, 22. Mai 2001 9:16 09 5 INTRODUCTION Fernando Guirao The historiography of European integration has traditionally focused on five central questions – the emergence of the various European Communities, the process of institution-building and policy consolidation of each community, the relations among the Six, their relations with the United Kingdom, and the role played by the United States. In recent years, the European countries left outside of the original Six, and the problems they consequently faced, have received increasing attention. The present volume of the Journal of European Integration History (JEIH) is an attempt to cast further light on countries rarely examined in standard historical accounts of European integration. The Editorial Board of the JEIH approved a spe- cial volume under the general theme of “Peripheral countries and the Integration of Europe” because it was interested in analysing how the less resourceful countries among those excluded from the Treaty of Rome perceived, and reacted, to the con- sequences of exclusion. The concept of periphery adopted here is quite simple: it concerns those countries that have received scant attention in historiographical terms (or in some cases, have been totally ignored). The case studies contained in this volume refer to Finland, Ireland, Norway, Portugal, Spain and Turkey. While a wider range of countries would have been de- sirable, the JEIH Editorial Board was restrained by the papers presented and the outcome of the peer-review process. The time span covered varies from country to country. For Ireland and Finland the period between the signature of the Treaty of Rome and European Community (EC)/European Union (EU) membership is treat- ed as fully as the availability of archival sources permits. In the case of Norway, the author covers the period 1948-73 with the intention of explaining the disparity between the Norwegian government, which successfully negotiated Community membership by 1972, and the people’s decision to reject the accession terms in a referendum. Regarding Portugal, the author deals with the country’s European inte- gration policies during and immediately after Salazar’s autocratic reign. The fact that access to archives ends with the 1974 Revolution determined the author’s deci- sion. The Spanish experience between 1957 and 1967, when official Spain-Europe- an Economie Community (EEC) negotiations began, is analysed from the German viewpoint. Finally, in the contribution on Turkey, there is much historical back- ground that helps in understanding this