Before the Common Market: Building Europe through technology

Professors Wolfram Kaiser and Johan Schot will talk about their book, ‘Writing the Rules for Europe: Experts, Cartels and International Organizations’ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). This explores how a process of ‘hidden’ economic integration, driven by engineers and technocrats, operated in Europe before the creation of the European Community in the 1950s. Their efforts to achieve common standards and convergent regulation helped build ‘peace through technology’ and laid the foundations of the single market of later years.

Programme

13:30 Opening remarks by Franck DEBIÉ, Director for the Library and Knowledge Services, EPRS

13:35 Presentation of ‘Writing the Rules for Europe. Experts, Cartels, International Organizations’ (2014) by the authors:

• Johan SCHOT, Professor of Global Comparative History, Centre for Global Challenges, Utrecht University, The Netherlands; Academic Director, Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium 

• Wolfram KAISER, Professor of European Studies, University of Portsmouth, UK; Visiting Professor, College of Europe; Non-residential Visiting Fellow, EPRS 

Moderator: Gaby UMBACH, Professor, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute (EUI), Florence; Non-resident Visiting Fellow, EPRS

14:00 Questions and contributions from the audience

14:30 End of the online event

Participation is restricted. A recording of the book talk will be made available on this website shortly after the event.