Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis - Volume 130, Issue 1, 2017

Abstract Et tu, EU historian? The history of European integration and today’s crises In political science European integration studies has become a thriving specialism since the 1980s. Conversely, historians of European integration have remained a rather isolated community in between national history and international relations. Making sense of past and present realities of multilayered governance, however, is not the only chall Read More

Abstract Europe before the European Coal and Steel Community. Dutch civil society organisations in the interwar period Before Robert Schuman proposed the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community in 1950, European cooperation had been long discussed, in particular by civil society actors. If we follow the New Political History approach and understand European integration as a process rather than as a set of Read More

Abstract ‘Faithful artisans doing respectable work.’ The Dutch identification with the process of European integration in the 1950s This article takes issue with the dominant ‘realist’ and ‘neo-realist’ views in Dutch historiography, in which a major role is attributed to national interests in the process of integration and which devalues the role of ideas and ideals. The enthusiasm in the Netherlands for the European cause in the Read More

Abstract Breaking into ‘fairy tale country’. European law and the political battle on commercial television in the Netherlands As a typical case study that brings to the fore new actors and themes in European integration, this article analyses the battle fought over the introduction of commercial television in the 1980s Netherlands. While technological developments such as satellite broadcasting quickly transformed television broa Read More

Abstract The Europeanization of Greenpeace International (1987-93) This article will analyze the ways in which an important societal actor, Greenpeace International, adapted to the Europeanization of environmental policy-making. Greenpeace was a relative latecomer to the European scene. Only towards the end of the 1980s did it acknowledge the opportunities that the developing EC might offer in the field of environ Read More