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
Authors: Lorenzo Ferrari
Publisher: TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
Publication year: 2018
Journal:: Diplomacy and Statecraft
Journal name in source: DIPLOMACY & STATECRAFT
Journal acronym: DIPL STATECRAFT
Volume: 29
Issue: 2
First page : 237
Last page: 254
Number of pages: 18
ISSN: 0959-2296
eISSN: 1557-301X
DOI: https://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.
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.