Fertile Ground for Europe? The History of European Integration and the Common Agricultural Policy Since 1945

 

by Kiran Klaus Patel

Baden-Baden, Nomos, 2009

 

Why could the EEC's Common Agricultural Policy emerge? Why was it able to attain a central place in European integration? What is its relationship to the agricultural policies of Western European states, and what where its precise political, economic, and social effects? How do these trends relate to broader tendencies of Europe’s twentieth century? And, finally, how did the CAP impinge on Europe’s relationship to the wider world? This book supplies answers to these and many other questions. It provides the first archival-based assessment of the history of agricultural integration between the 1920s and the 1980s. While situating the history of the CAP in the context of European integration, it also broadens the scope of research thematically, chronologically, as well as geographically. It thus contributes to re-establishing some of the links between EU history and wider trends and topics of European and contemporary history.

 

 

Table of Contents

Kiran Klaus Patel, The history of European Integration and the Common Agricultural Policy: an introduction

Part I

Trajectories of Integration

Fritz Georg v. Graevenitz, Front kaleidoscope to architecture: interdependence and Integration in  wheat policies, 1927-1957

Guido Thiemeyer, Thefailure ofthe Green Pool and the success ofthe CAP: long term structures in European agricultural Integration in the 1950s and 1960s

Ann-Christina L. Knudsen, Ideas, welfare, and values: The framing ofthe Common Agricultural Policy in the 1960s

N. Piers Ludlow, The green heart ofEurope? The rise and fall ofthe CAP as the Community's central policy, 1958-1985

Part II

The perspective of member states and of European institutions

Laurent Warlouzet, The deadlock: the choice ofthe CAP by de Gaulle and its impact on French EEC policy, 1958-1969

Venus Bivar, Land reform, European Integration, and the industrialization of agriculture in postwar France

Kiran Klaus Patel, Europeanisation ä contre-coeur: West Germany and agricultural Integration, 1945 to 1975

Katja Seidel, Making Europe through the CAP: DG VI and its high officials

Johan van Merrienboer, Commissioner Sicco Mansholt and the creation ofthe CAP

Part III

Global connections and economic effects

Lucia Coppolaro, The Six, agriculture, and GATT: an international history of the CAP negotiations, 1958-1967

Martin Rempe, Airy promises: the Senegal and the EEC's Common Agricultural Policy in the 1960s

Christian Gerlach, Fortress Europe: the EEC in the World Food Crisis, 1972-1975

Giovanni Federico, Was the CAP the worst agricultural policy ofthe 20th Century?

Vicente Pinilla/Raül Serrano, Agricultural andfood trade in the European Union, 1961-2000

List of Contributors