TY  - BOOK
AU  - Middelaar,Luuk van
AU  - Waters,Liz
TI  - The passage to Europe: how a continent became a union 
SN  - 9780300205336 (pbk.) :
AV  - JN30 .M53513 2014
PY  - 2014///, [2013]
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - European Union
KW  - History
KW  - fast
KW  - Political science
KW  - UE/CE Union européenne
KW  - eclas
KW  - UE/CE Histoire
KW  - UE/CE Intégration
KW  - UE/CE Politique
KW  - Philosophie politique
KW  - Europe
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Europäische Union
KW  - gnd
N1  - Translation of: De passage naar Europa; Includes bibliographical references and index; The step across --; The leap --; The bridge --; Coming together as six (1950-57) --; Community waiting (1958-89) --; Acting as a union (1989-today) --; The German strategy : creating companions in destiny --; The Roman strategy : securing clients --; The Greek strategy : seducing the chorus
N2  - What forces underpin the European Union, hold it together and drive it forward? Middelaar provides a gripping account of the realities of power politics among European states and between their leaders, capturing the dynamics and tensions shaping the European Union from its origins until today
ER  -