The ‘other’ Europe: the formation and development of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), 1958–92

Información del proyecto

EFTA DEVELOPMENT

Identificador del acuerdo de subvención: 658375

DOI

10.3030/658375

Proyecto cerrado

Fecha de la firma de la CE 10 Marzo 2015

Fecha de inicio 1 Enero 2016

Fecha de finalización 31 Diciembre 2017

Financiado con arreglo a

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Coste total

€ 179 325,60

Aportación de la UE

€ 179 325,60

Coordinado por

TURUN YLIOPISTO
Finland

Objetivo

Debates over the type and degree of integration pursued by European states currently dominate the European Union (EU). As the gulf between proponents and critics of the ‘Community method’ grows more acute, as the EU environment increasingly revolves around interstate relations, and as scenarios of EU ‘disintegration’ are entertained at various levels, attention has focused on historical precedents of intergovernmental models of cooperation in the hope of foreseeing the EU’s future development. Such debates have aroused notable interest in the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), the principal ‘other’ in postwar European politics. Yet very little is known about how and why EFTA developed in the way it did, its institutional and policy-making structure or the implications of these aspects for the present-day EU. The current state-of-the-art suffers two particular limitations: (i) it concentrates on very short time periods and (ii) it presents a highly state-centric realist account of EFTA’s history. This project fills this gap by undertaking a detailed historical study of EFTA’s development. It aims to (i) examine EFTA’s growth over a sustained period (1958–92) and (ii) account for this evolution as a product of interplay between actors at the national, transnational and institutional levels. Methodologically, the project deploys an innovative interdisciplinary approach that embeds historical research in the multi-level governance concept borrowed from political science. Empirically, the project draws on EFTA’s hitherto underexplored archives in Geneva and the national collections of its various member states. Historiographically, it promises new insights into EFTA history and reconnects the organisation’s and its members’ historical narrative to studies of European integration that generally focus more on the denser pre-history of the EU. In so doing, the project adds significantly to both research in the European Research Area and the priorities of Horizon 2020.

Ámbito científico (EuroSciVoc)

• ciencias sociales › ciencias políticas › sistemas de gobierno › democracia
• ciencias sociales › economía y empresa › gestión y empresas › comercio

Programa(s)

• H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions PROGRAMA PRINCIPAL
  
• H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
  

Tema(s)

• MSCA-IF-2014-EF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF)
  

Régimen de financiación

MSCA-IF-EF-ST - Standard EF

Convocatoria de propuestas

H2020-MSCA-IF-2014

Coordinador

TURUN YLIOPISTO

• Aportación neta de la UEn: € 179 325,60
• Dirección: YLIOPISTONMAKI ; 20014 Turku ; Finlandia
• Tipo de actividad: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Coste total: € 179 325,60