Eine geopolitische Notwendigkeit: Europäische Integration & die Nachkriegswelt (1945-1970)

The article is basically a semi-rejection of the common explanation of European integration and the formation of the European Union. It essentially says that while integration in the form of economic necessity and peace after WWII was significant, the factor of trying to create a foreign policy of strategic autonomy was similarly if not more important in EU integration. It argues how, led by France, integration between Western Europe was founded as a reaction of decaying individual hegemony among the traditional European great powers. Nice read!