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Zusatztext The author has a knack for telling the tale while at the same time offering a useful guide to the complex decision making of the evolving European institutions. The book is also remarkable for the sheer number of new primary evidence pieces uncovered...In addition to skillfully covering the detailed back and forth on trade negotiations, it also provides a truly novel interpretation of events. It is this dual contribution that makes this book particularly valuable and engaging. This volume is not only essential for students of Spain but also has critical insights for those interested in the interplay between seemingly weak countries and supra-national bodies...The book is a tour de force. Informationen zum Autor Fernando Guirao is Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration History at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona (with an ad personam chair since 2013), Deputy Director of the Barcelona Center for European Studies, and member of the European Union Liaison Committee of Historians and of the editorial board of the Journal of European Integration History. Guirao has been visiting scholar at the universities of Nantes (2016), Seoul National (2009), Oxford (1997), LSE (1995), and Yale (1992-94). Klappentext This book explores how the governments of the six founding members of the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community, acting collectively, assisted in the consolidation of the Franco regime from 1950-75. Zusammenfassung This book explores how the governments of the six founding members of the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community, acting collectively, assisted in the consolidation of the Franco regime from 1950-75. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part I: Sectoral integration in Western Europe, 1950-55 1: Schumania and Spain's heavy-industry supply 2: Franco Spain at the origins of the European Agricultural Community Part II: The EEC: Challenge and response, 1955-70 3: Opposing fascism or accommodating its last remnant? 4: The decision to grant the preference (1964-67) 5: Negotiating the preference (1967-70) 6: Marketing the 1970 Agreement Part III: Franco Spain in the European system of trade preference, 1970-75 7: The Spanish attempt to expand unilateral preferences 8: The European attempt to topple Spain's industrial protection The Finale ...
