Writing the Rules for Europe: Experts, Cartels, and International Organizations

by Wolfram Kaiser, Johan W. Schot

Drawing on fresh archival evidence, this book tells the story of how experts, cartels and international organizations have written the rules for Europe since around 1850. It shows that the present-day European Union was a latecomer in European integration, which is embedded in a long-term technocratic internationalist tradition.

416 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2014

About the author

Wolfram Kaiser, Professor of European Studies at University of Portsmouth, he has taught at the universities of Edinburgh, Vienna, Paris-IV, Cambridge and Saarbrücken and at the Cultural Studies Institute in Essen.

His academic interests include the history of the European Union and transnational dimensions of European and global history since the mid-nineteenth century.