Shows that networks in European integration governance were not a phenomenon that developed in the 1980s out of a 'hollowing out' of the nation-states in the 1970s. Based throughout on newly accessible sources, the authors discuss various networks and show how they contributed to constitutional choices and policy decisions after World War II.

Autorentext
VALÉRIE AUBOURG is Lecturer in Contemporary History at the University of Cergy-Pontoise, France ANN-CHRISTINA L. KNUDSEN is Assistant Professor of European Studies at the University of Aarhus, Denmark JAN-HENRIK MEYER is a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Portsmouth, UK SIGFRIDO M. RAMÍREZ PÉREZ is Postdoctoral Fellow of the Spanish Science and Technology Foundation (FECYT) in the Institute of Economic History at the University Bocconi in Milan, Italy OLIVER RATHKOLB is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna, Austria ANTOINE VAUCHEZ is Senior Researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

Inhalt
Transnational Networks in European Integration Governance: Historical Perspectives on an Elusive Phenomenon; W.Kaiser, B.Leucht & M.Gehler Expertise and the Creation of a Constitutional Order for Core Europe: Transatlantic Policy Networks in the Schuman Plan Negotiations; B.Leucht The Bilderberg Group: Promoting European Governance Inside an Atlantic Community of Values; V.Aubourg The European Committee for Economic and Social Progress: Business Networks between Atlantic and European Communities; S.M.Ramirez Informal Politics and the Creation of the European Community: Christian Democratic Networks in the Economic Integration of Europe; W.Kaiser The Making of the European Union's Constitutional Foundations: The Brokering Role of Legal Entrepreneurs and Networks; A.Vauchez Shaping the Common Agricultural Policy: Networks and Political Entrepreneurship in the European Commission; A-C.L.Knudsen Brandt, Kreisky and Palme as Policy Entrepreneurs: Social Democratic Networks in Europe's Policy towards the Middle East; O.Rathkolb Saving Migrants: A transnational Network Supporting Supranational Bird Protection Policy; J.H.Meyer On the Long and Winding Road to European Union Membership: Austrian Party Elites in Transnational Political Networks; M.Gehler Plus ça Change? Diachronic Change in Networks in European Integration Governance; W.Kaiser