European Parties and the European Integration Process, 1945-1992

Contents: Giovanni Bernardini/Gabriele D'Ottavio: SPD and European Integration. From scepticism to pragmatism, from pragmatism to leadership, 1949-1979 - Christine Vodovar: The Impossible Third Force. Italian and French socialism and Europe, 1943-1963 - Kristian Steinnes: A Socialist Europe? Democratic Socialist Party Ideas and the Process of European Integration 1960-1973 - Sara Lamberti: The Dutch Labour Party in the 1970s. Calling for European Integration with a Human Face - Maria Elena Cavallaro: The Europeanism of the PSOE from the Anti-Francoist Choice to the Social Democratic Transformation of the Party (1977-1992) - Laura Grazi: In Search of Supranational Cooperation. The Socialist Group in the European Parliament and the EEC's Southern Enlargement - Alessandro Brogi: "Westpolitik". Eurocommunism, and the Evolution of the Western European Communists' Positions toward European Integration - Valentine Lomellini: The PCI and the European Integration from Eurocommunism to Berlinguer's Death - Roberto Colozza: Political History of a Cultural Heritage. The Ex-"Azionisti" and the Idea of Europe in Italian Political Parties - Giulia Bentivoglio: "Our sole commitment is to negotiate; no more, no less". The Conservative Party and Britain's Entry into the EEC - Lucia Bonfreschi: The Gaullist Party and Europe. Political Divisions and Strategies for the Reacquisition of Power, 1976-1992 - Michele Marchi: The French centrists and the European elections of 1979-1989. Playing the "European card" to avoid bipartisanship? - Beata Kosowska-Gastol: "From Mistrust to Cooperation". Relations between the Christian Democratic and Conservative Parties at the European Level in the 1970s-1990s - Giovanni Orsina: Internationalism and Europeanism in the Ideology of European Liberalism, 1945-1989 - Guido Thiemeyer: Transnational Cooperation of Liberal Parties in Europe, 1945-1976 - Simone Paoli: Euroright. The Extreme Right in the European Integration Process, 1979-1989 - Robin de Bruin:

Lucia Bonfreschi, PhD, is assistant professor in political history at IMT-Lucca and adjunct professor at Luiss-Guido Carli University, Rome.
Giovanni Orsina, PhD, is professor of contemporary history, director of the Master in European Studies and deputy director of the School of Government at Luiss-Guido Carli University, Rome.
Antonio Varsori is full professor of history of international relations at the Department of Politics, Law and International Studies of the University of Padua. He is the chairman of the liaison committee of historians of Contemporay Europe at the European Commission and the editor of the journal Ventunesimo Secolo.