Rethinking European integration history in light of capitalism: the case of the long 1970s

Andry, Aurélie; Mourlon‐Druol, Emmanuel; Ikonomou, Haakon A.; Jouan, Quentin

doi:10.1080/13507486.2019.1610361

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“…In doing so, this article heeds recent calls by economic historians to move our focus away from political and diplomatic history, and instead address the intrinsic links between European integration and capitalism. 26 This in turn will provide more empirical evidence for the internationalization of capital flows and the rise of neoliberalism during the 'long 1970s', for which cities were an important testing ground. 27 In relation to this last point, this contribution argues that cities need a firmer embedding in studies of international economic activity.…”

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Going Dutch: British private developers and the discovery of European property markets 1970-1975

Verlaan¹

2021

European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire

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This contribution investigates the arrival of British developers on Dutch soil during the 1970s from a transnational perspective. Doing so will not only reveal how British expertise and financial strength led to a maturation of the Dutch property market, but will also shed a new light on the economic, cultural and political ties between two European trading partners. There is much academic and public debate today about the invasion of global cities by foreign property investors, yet empirical investigations of historical predecessors to the current situation are virtually non-existent. This contribution puts Britain's business relationship and interactions with Europe and the Netherlands central. This will reveal why British developers became interested in European property in the first place, how they viewed the market and its players based on national characteristics and stereotypes, and why British involvement eventually became heavily contested on the local level. This will lead to a more comprehensive and multifaceted narrative of British involvement in overseas property affairs during a period of growing rapprochement between Britain and the EEC, and adds to our understanding of both Anglo-European relations and local sentiments towards international influences in a more general sense. The focus of the article lies on attitudes and mindsets, as these ultimately facilitated the transnational flows of capital and knowledge exchange.

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Going Dutch: British private developers and the discovery of European property markets 1970-1975

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2021

European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire

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“…For a recent discussion of the use of capitalism as an analytical tool to explain the European project in historical perspective, seeAndry et al (2019).4 For general discussions of the VoC, seeHancké et al (2007), andHancké (2009). A few significant exceptions to this trend within VoC, such as Fioretos's (2011) Creative reconstructions, focus on the impact of international organizationsrather than other types of capitalismon national affairs.…”

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Growth Models and Core–Periphery Interactions in European Integration: The German–Greek Special Relationship in Historical Perspective

Tsakas

2020

J of Common Market Studies

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This article investigates the history of the German-Greek relationship in the context of European integration and demonstrates that West Germany and German-Greek business networks played a crucial role in the shaping of Greece's post-war growth model. The article challenges the assumption that the relationship between the two countries is overshadowed by the past. In contrast, it shows that post-war German-Greek relations were forged around European integration with an eye to the future and that it was the two countries' early rapprochement and the mutual accommodation of their respective aims that laid the foundations of their asymmetrical interdependence. In doing so, the article argues that it was the success of Greece's European strategy, rather than its failure, that lies at the heart of its recurring balance-of-payments problems: a lingering trade deficit with Germany, the country's major trading partner, proved to be, as I will show, the price for growth and modernization.

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Futures of Europe: The City of London’s Commodity Exchanges, the European Economic Community, and the Global Regulation of Futures Trading (1960s–1980s)

Bertilorenzi¹

2022

Enterp. Soc.

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Since the mid-1970s, the U.S. commodity futures exchanges have increasingly been the focus of tight government regulation, which resulted in strong control by a specific agency: the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. In Europe, the regulation of futures diverged from the U.S. model. No regulation at the communitarian level was implemented; at the national level, the United Kingdom emerged as a model of self-regulation of commodity markets. This article explores the historical causes behind this lack of regulation in Europe, placing it in the context of global commodity trading and arguing that the European regulation of futures trading was reshaped by a dialogue established between the European Commission and big players of commodity futures trading in the City of London. Since the mid-1960s, the City of London has become a pivotal global market venue for commodity futures, which has increasingly attracted players from abroad, thanks to its financial integrity and self-regulatory model. Both established London merchants and emerging players in the global trade of financial products cooperated to stave off any attempt at regulating the London futures exchanges. The inference here is that those attempts were instrumental in setting the conditions leading to the regulatory fragmentation that still characterizes futures trading in the global market.

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Rethinking European integration history in light of capitalism: the case of the long 1970s

Cited by 8 publications

References 56 publications

Going Dutch: British private developers and the discovery of European property markets 1970-1975

Going Dutch: British private developers and the discovery of European property markets 1970-1975

Growth Models and Core–Periphery Interactions in European Integration: The German–Greek Special Relationship in Historical Perspective

Futures of Europe: The City of London’s Commodity Exchanges, the European Economic Community, and the Global Regulation of Futures Trading (1960s–1980s)

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