European integration a concise history - Gilbert, Mark, 1961- (Lanham, Maryland Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012)
Introduction -- Enemies to partners: the politics of cooperation in Western Europe 1945-1950 -- Ever closer union: from the Schuman Plan to the Economic Community 1950-1958 -- In the shadow of the general: De Gaulle and the EEC 1958-1969 -- Weathering the storm: the EC during the 1970s -- The 1992 initiative and relaunch of the community -- The Maastricht compromise -- EUphoria -- Toward a twin-track Europe.
Revised and updated edition of: Surpassing realism : the politics of European integration since 1945, c2003.
Keywords: European Union -- History; European Union countries -- Politics and government; Europe -- Economic integration -- History