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

Writing the Rules for Europe argues that the future of Europe depends on finding a new arrangement between democracy and technocracy. Drawing on fresh archival evidence and using engaging case studies of steel and railways, this book tells the stories of experts, cartels and international organisations that have written the rules of Europe since around 1850. The book explores the ‘hidden integration’ of Europe - forms of integration that were not always visible but affected the citizens of Europe in their everyday lives. Richly illustrated and engagingly written, the book de-centres the present-day European Union in a new long-term understanding of European integration.

Wolfram Kaiser is Professor of European Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK, and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Belgium. He has published widely on European integration, Christian democracy and the history of globalisation. His books include Shaping European Union (2018), (ed. with J.-H. Meyer) International Organizations and Environmental Protection (2017), (with S. Krankenhagen and K. Poehls) Exhibiting Europe in Museums: Transnational Networks, Collections, Narratives and Representations (2014), (ed. with J.-H. Meyer) Societal Actors in European Integration: Polity-building and Policy-making 1958-92, Christian Democracy and the Origins of European Union (2007).

Johan Schot is Professor of Comparative Global History at the Utrecht Centre for Global Challenges, University Utrecht. He is Director of the Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium (TIPC) and the Deep Transitions research project. He was previously Director of the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of Sussex Business School. In 2009, Schot was elected to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). He is the author of many influential publications including Transitions Towards Sustainable Development: New Directions in The Study of Long Term Transformative Change (Grin, Rotmans & Schot) and Technology and the Making of the Netherlands: The Age of Contested Modernization (Lintsen, Rip & Schot). More information...