EPRS online Book Talk: 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’ (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. 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.

Monday 11 May 2020, 13:30 - 14:30 hours, online

Programme:

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

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