A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal

How the European Community Entered the United Nations, 1969-1976, and What It Meant for European Political Integration




AuthorsLorenzo Ferrari

PublisherTAYLOR & FRANCIS INC

Publication year2018

Journal:Diplomacy and Statecraft

Journal name in sourceDIPLOMACY & STATECRAFT

Journal acronymDIPL STATECRAFT

Volume29

Issue2

First page 237

Last page254

Number of pages18

ISSN0959-2296

eISSN1557-301X

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1080/09592296.2018.1452430


Abstract
During the first half of the 1970s, the European Community became a recognisable actor at the United Nations [UN]: The Community itself became a permanent observer, and it was customary for Community member-states to express common positions on most of the issues discussed within the organisation. It was a remarkable development for the Western European states-yet one not satisfactorily accounted for by the existing literature. The perspective adopted in this analysis highlights the connexions between the growing activity of the Community at the UN and the increasing co-ordination of its member-states even on matters falling outside the Community's purview, as well as the connexions between the affirmation of the European Community at the UN and other major contemporary developments in European political integration. In this way, this analysis sheds light on some fundamental motives, features, and limits of Western European coordination on the international stage.



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