Das richtige Europa schaffen

Konkurrenz um Europa zwischen Sozial- und Christdemokraten in Deutschland und Italien von 1945 bis 1963

The book describes the competition of social democratic, Christ democratic und socialist parties in West-Germany and Italy after World War II in European policy. In the context of the framework of the Cold War and the consolidation of the national political systems the author examines how political parties take position in confront of the first steps of the European integration, which strategies they followed and which ideas of Europe the politicians dealt with. The analysis incorporates related policy fields and semantic fields of Europe incorporating the international and national situation and also the situations within the parties. The study shows, how and why the competition of the parties was at the beginning controversial and why competition diminished. The thesis ends with the end of the era of Adenauer in West-Germany and the first centro-sinistra government under Aldo Moro in Italy.

Autorentext
Dr. Patrick Bredebach hat an den Universitäten Marburg und Mailand Geschichte, Politikwissenschaft und Mathematik studiert und wurde 2012 an den Universitäten Frankfurt am Main und Trient promoviert. Aktuell ist er an der Universität Siegen in der Universitätsverwaltung tätig.