Kiran Klaus Patel is Chair of European and Global History and Jean Monnet Professor at Maastricht University, The Netherlands. Wolfram Kaiser is Professor of European Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK, and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium.

• Introduction – Multiple connections in European co-operation: international organizations, policy ideas, practices and transfers 1967–92 1. Facing the Greek junta: the European Community, the Council of Europe and the rise of human-rights politics in Europe 2. Who should pay for pollution? The OECD, the European Communities and the emergence of environmental policy in the early 1970s 3. The true ‘EURESCO’? The Council of Europe, transnational networking and the emergence of European Community cultural policies, 1970–90 4. Between cooperation and competitive bargaining: the Council of Europe, local and regional networking, and the shaping of the European Community’s regional policies, 1970s–90s 5. Re-designing military security in Europe: cooperation and competition between the European community and NATO during the early 1980s 6. De-centring the European union: policy diffusion among European regional organizations – a comment

Kiran Klaus Patel is Chair of European and Global History and Jean Monnet Professor at Maastricht University, The Netherlands. Wolfram Kaiser is Professor of European Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK, and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium.

• Introduction – Multiple connections in European co-operation: international organizations, policy ideas, practices and transfers 1967–92 1. Facing the Greek junta: the European Community, the Council of Europe and the rise of human-rights politics in Europe 2. Who should pay for pollution? The OECD, the European Communities and the emergence of environmental policy in the early 1970s 3. The true ‘EURESCO’? The Council of Europe, transnational networking and the emergence of European Community cultural policies, 1970–90 4. Between cooperation and competitive bargaining: the Council of Europe, local and regional networking, and the shaping of the European Community’s regional policies, 1970s–90s 5. Re-designing military security in Europe: cooperation and competition between the European community and NATO during the early 1980s 6. De-centring the European union: policy diffusion among European regional organizations – a comment

Kiran Klaus Patel is Chair of European and Global History and Jean Monnet Professor at Maastricht University, The Netherlands. Wolfram Kaiser is Professor of European Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK, and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium.

• Introduction – Multiple connections in European co-operation: international organizations, policy ideas, practices and transfers 1967–92 1. Facing the Greek junta: the European Community, the Council of Europe and the rise of human-rights politics in Europe 2. Who should pay for pollution? The OECD, the European Communities and the emergence of environmental policy in the early 1970s 3. The true ‘EURESCO’? The Council of Europe, transnational networking and the emergence of European Community cultural policies, 1970–90 4. Between cooperation and competitive bargaining: the Council of Europe, local and regional networking, and the shaping of the European Community’s regional policies, 1970s–90s 5. Re-designing military security in Europe: cooperation and competition between the European community and NATO during the early 1980s 6. De-centring the European union: policy diffusion among European regional organizations – a comment