This text argues that the process of West European integration has been encouraged and facilitated by the Cold War, in which the threat posed by the Soviet Union temporarily inhibited internal conflicts, and in which American hegemony provided the relatively stable and secure economic, political and military framework in which the major West European countries were able to co-operate and set major steps towards the ultimate ideal of a European Union.
- ISBN10 1855673363
- ISBN13 9781855673366
- Publish Date 1 April 1995
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 31 March 2007
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint Frances Pinter Publishers Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 256
- Language English