The
West European Alternative:
Social Market Economies, Integration, and Post-Nationalism
Key Terms
1)
Social Market Economy/Mixed Economy
2)
Safety-Nets
3)
Post-Nationalism
4)
ÒEuropeÓ and ÒEuropeanÓ
I. Welfare States and Social
Market/Mixed Economies
á
Rebuilding Economies: A New Role for Government
á
The Welfare State, ÒSafety NetsÓ, and SocietyÕs Collective
Responsibility
o
Pensions
o
Unemployment Insurance
o
Health Care
o
Education
o
Child Care
ÒManagingÓ Capitalism
á
Goals: Raising Living Standards, Building a Middle Class,
Sustaining Growth, Sustaining Democracy
á
A Remarkable Record of Success
II.
European Integration: Unique Conditions, Pragmatic Responses
á
Origins ÒWesternÓ European Identity
á
The Legacy of World War II
o
Discredited ÒismsÓ:
Nationalism, Militarism, and Colonialism
o
Solving the German Question
o
Remembering and Forgetting: Toward a New Historical Consciousness
á
Western Europe, the United States, and the Cold War
o
The Marshall Plan, NATO, and US Protection
á
The Creation of a new, post-national ÒEuropeÓ and ÒEuropeanÓ
Key
Milestones on the Road of European Integration and Union
1948 Organization
of European Economic Cooperation (OEEC)
(Coordination
of Marshall Plan Aid)
1951-52 Paris
Treaty: European Coal & Steel
Community (ECSC)
1952 The
European Defense Community (EDC)
1957 Rome
Treaties: European Economic Community
(EEC)
European Atomic
Energy Community (EURATOM)
(CharlemagneÕs
Catholic Europe)
1965/67 Merger
Treaty: Three Communities to One
(European Community)
1968 Common
Tariff Policies and the Emergence of European Market
1973 First
Expansion: Denmark, Ireland,
United Kingdom
1981/1985 Greece and Spain/Portugal
Join
1991 Maastricht
Treaty (European Union Treaty):
Three ÒPillarsÓ
1)
Economic and Social Policy
2)
Foreign and Security Policy
3)
Law and Justice Policy
1993 Single
European Market Formed
1995 Austria,
Sweden, and Finland Join
1997 Treaty
of Amsterdam: Citizenship,
Democracy, Security, Foreign Policy
1999/2002 Common Currency (The Euro)
Introduced: Symbol of European
Identity
2002
Treaty
of Nice (or: Enlargement
Treaty)
2004
Treaty
for a European Constitution (Rejected)
V. The Limits of ÒEuropeÓ and
ÒEuropeanness,Ó 1990-2005
á
The End of the Miracle: Economic Stagnation, Unemployment the Crisis of the Welfare
State
á
The Persistence of the Nation-State, the New Nationalists,
and Disenchantment
á
The Illusion of a Common European Foreign Policy: Yugoslavia, NATO, and Iraq
á
The Illusion of a Common Economic Policy: Responses to the
2008 Financial Crisis
á
Immigration, Multiculturalism, and the Failures of
Integration