The seventh member state : Algeria, France, and the European community / Megan Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Megan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European Economic Community.

Treaty Establishing the European Economic Community (1957 March 25).

Treaty Establishing the European Economic Community.

Postcolonialism--Algeria--History.

Postcolonialism.

Algeria--History--1830-1962.

Algeria.

Algeria--History--1962-1990.

France--Foreign relations--Algeria.

France.

Algeria--Foreign relations--France.

Europe--Foreign relations--Algeria.

Europe.

Algeria--Foreign relations--Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 346 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2022.

Summary:

The surprising story of how Algeria joined and then left the postwar European Economic Community and what its past inclusion means for extracontinental membership in today’s European Union. On their face, the mid-1950s negotiations over European integration were aimed at securing unity in order to prevent violent conflict and boost economies emerging from the disaster of World War II. But French diplomats had other motives, too. From Africa to Southeast Asia, France’s empire was unraveling. France insisted that Algeria—the crown jewel of the empire and home to a nationalist movement then pleading its case to the United Nations—be included in the Treaty of Rome, which established the European Economic Community. The French hoped that Algeria’s involvement in the EEC would quell colonial unrest and confirm international agreement that Algeria was indeed French. French authorities harnessed Algeria’s legal status as an official département within the empire to claim that European trade regulations and labor rights should traverse the Mediterranean. Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and West Germany conceded in order to move forward with the treaty, and Algeria entered a rights regime that allowed free movement of labor and guaranteed security for the families of migrant workers. Even after independence in 1962, Algeria remained part of the community, although its ongoing inclusion was a matter of debate. Still, Algeria’s membership continued until 1976, when a formal treaty removed it from the European community. The Seventh Member State combats understandings of Europe’s “natural” borders by emphasizing the extracontinental contours of the early union. The unification vision was never spatially limited, suggesting that contemporary arguments for geographic boundaries excluding Turkey and areas of Eastern Europe from the European Union must be seen as ahistorical.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Abbreviations

Timeline

Maps

Introduction: A Kaleidoscopic Approach to European Integration

1 Eurafrican Dreams, Imperial Realities

2 Reforming Empire, Forming Europe

3 The Ultimatum for the Treaty of Rome

4 Algérie Européenne

5 French Supremacy in Europe after Algerian Independence

6 Algeria, France, and the Europe of Nation-States

Conclusion: “We’re from Europe—Let Us In!”

Notes

Archival and Primary Sources

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Brown, Megan The Seventh Member State

ISBN:

9780674276246

OCLC:

1306064533