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Offering a fresh take on a crucial phase of European history, this book explores the years between the 1980s and 1990s when the European Union took shape. Whilst contributing to existing literature on the Maastricht Treaty and European integration at the end of the twentieth century, the book also brings those debates into the twenty-first century and makes connections with longer-term issues. The transformation of the European political climate in the wake of the global financial crisis in 2008, and the watershed Brexit vote in 2016, has made it all the more urgent to reconsider the way scholars and opinion-makers have looked at European integration in the past. Drawing from recently released archival documents, the authors analyse European cooperation as part of the broader international history in which it unfolded, taking into account the changes in the Cold War order and the advance of a new phase of globalisation. Comparing and contrasting the debates, objectives and achievementsof the 1980s and 1990s with the current political landscape of the European Union, this book proposes a novel interpretation of the choices that were made during the Maastricht years, and of their longer-term consequences.

"This book reassesses the history of Italian communism in international perspective. Analyzing the rise and fall of the Italian Communist Party as a case study in the global history of communism, Silvio Pons considers a wide range of relational and temporal contexts, from the practices of internationalism to the training of militants and leaders, and to networks established not only in Europe but also in the colonial and postcolonial world. Pons focuses on the attempts of the Italian Communist Party to forge an intellectually defensible party program that combined the international demands of Moscow with the Italians' attempts to develop their own foreign and domestic policies according to their own political circumstances. Following three leaders of the Italian Communist Party (Antonio Gramsci, Palmiro Togliatti, and Enrico Berlinguer) from the First World War to the fall of the Soviet Union, Silvio Pons considers the broader relationship between communism and Cold War history, the history of decolonization, and the rise of "Europe" as a political category"--

This is a study of the responses of the Soviet Union to the European crises which led to World War II. It is based on a substantial body of political and diplomatic documents that has become accessible to scholars since the opening up of former

This book examines how technology has affected national security, focusing on issues such as definitions of peace and war, the conduct of and military organization for war, and the growing role of the private sector in providing security. This is a

The Cambridge History of Communism is an unprecedented global history of communism in the twentieth century. This three volume reference work examines communism in the context of wider political, social, cultural, and economic processes, while at the same time revealing how communism contributed to shaping them.

Volume One of The Cambridge History of Communism deals with the tumultuous events from the Russian Revolution of 1917 to the Second World War, analyzing the roots, impact, and development of communism, historical personalities such as Lenin, Stalin, and Trotsky, and the development of the movement on a global scale.

This book examines how technology has affected national security, focusing on issues such as definitions of peace and war, the conduct of and military organization for war, and the growing role of the private sector in providing security. This is a