Bulletin n. 2/2011
October 2011
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Mueller Wolfgang
    The Soviet Union and Early West European Integration, 1947-1957: From the Brussels Treaty to the ECSC and the EEC
    in Journal of European Integration History , vol. 15, n. 2 ,  2009 ,  67-86
    The Soviet reaction to the first steps of West European integration after World War II was influenced by Cold-War thinking and ideological preconceptions. The main tools of the Soviet struggle against the ECSC, EDC and EEC projects were denunciations of the new institutions, threats, attempts at stirring up discord between their members, and propagandistic offers of “all-European cooperation”. Recently declassified papers of the Soviet foreign minister Viacheslav Molotov and the Foreign Ministry grant us new insights into the Kremlin’s opinions about early European integration and into the background of Moscow’s reaction. The evidence enables us to reassess the preparation of Soviet countermeasures, in particular, the link between, on one hand, Soviet protests against French participation in the EDC and, on the other hand, the Stalin Notes on Germany. Further evidence contributes to a more accurate assessment of the Soviet initiatives for “all-European economic cooperation”, particularly in the UNECE, and against the creation of the EEC.
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