Martin Holmes is a Senior Common Room member at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, UK, where he was formerly Lecturer in Politics specialising in European and British history. Previously he was a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at Mansfield College, Oxford. Since 1989 he has been Program Director of the University of Nebraska annual summer school at Oxford on which he is Lecturer in Post War British Economic History. He is the author of six books including The Labour Government 1974-79: Political Aims and Economic Reality (1985), Thatcherism: Scope and Limits (1989) and European Integration: Scope and Limits (2001).

"From Versailles to Maastricht is an excellent overview of key historical moments in the context of European political developments in the 20th Century. It should be widely read by students, practitioners and the intelligent reader interested in the subject."Neil Winn University of Leeds, UK

• 1. The legacy of the Versailles Treaty 2. Mussolini’s ‘Roman Empire’ 3. German foreign policy from Stresemann to Hitler 4. International implications of the Spanish Civil War 5. Soviet foreign policy 1918 – 1941 6. Chamberlain, Churchill and the appeasement debate 7. Diplomatic and political objectives of the Axis powers 8. Diplomatic and military objectives of the Allied powers 9. Origins of the Cold War in Europe 10. Suez 1956: Anglo French humiliation as Cold War America asserts it power 11. Origins of European integration after 1945 12. Why Britain did not join the EEC in the 1950’s 13. How Britain joined the EEC in 1973 14. 1973 enlargement: Denmark and Ireland join but not Norway 15. De Gaulle, Brandt and relations with USA and USSR 16. From customs union to Werner Report, 1957 – 1970 17. 1970’s crisis and the abandonment of the Werner Plan 18. Jacques Delors, the Single Market, Eastern Europe and German unification 19. Margaret Thatcher: Resisting Delors and opposing the Maastricht Treaty

Martin Holmes is a Senior Common Room member at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, UK, where he was formerly Lecturer in Politics specialising in European and British history. Previously he was a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at Mansfield College, Oxford. Since 1989 he has been Program Director of the University of Nebraska annual summer school at Oxford on which he is Lecturer in Post War British Economic History. He is the author of six books including The Labour Government 1974-79: Political Aims and Economic Reality (1985), Thatcherism: Scope and Limits (1989) and European Integration: Scope and Limits (2001).

"From Versailles to Maastricht is an excellent overview of key historical moments in the context of European political developments in the 20th Century. It should be widely read by students, practitioners and the intelligent reader interested in the subject."Neil Winn University of Leeds, UK

• 1. The legacy of the Versailles Treaty 2. Mussolini’s ‘Roman Empire’ 3. German foreign policy from Stresemann to Hitler 4. International implications of the Spanish Civil War 5. Soviet foreign policy 1918 – 1941 6. Chamberlain, Churchill and the appeasement debate 7. Diplomatic and political objectives of the Axis powers 8. Diplomatic and military objectives of the Allied powers 9. Origins of the Cold War in Europe 10. Suez 1956: Anglo French humiliation as Cold War America asserts it power 11. Origins of European integration after 1945 12. Why Britain did not join the EEC in the 1950’s 13. How Britain joined the EEC in 1973 14. 1973 enlargement: Denmark and Ireland join but not Norway 15. De Gaulle, Brandt and relations with USA and USSR 16. From customs union to Werner Report, 1957 – 1970 17. 1970’s crisis and the abandonment of the Werner Plan 18. Jacques Delors, the Single Market, Eastern Europe and German unification 19. Margaret Thatcher: Resisting Delors and opposing the Maastricht Treaty

Martin Holmes is a Senior Common Room member at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, UK, where he was formerly Lecturer in Politics specialising in European and British history. Previously he was a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at Mansfield College, Oxford. Since 1989 he has been Program Director of the University of Nebraska annual summer school at Oxford on which he is Lecturer in Post War British Economic History. He is the author of six books including The Labour Government 1974-79: Political Aims and Economic Reality (1985), Thatcherism: Scope and Limits (1989) and European Integration: Scope and Limits (2001).

"From Versailles to Maastricht is an excellent overview of key historical moments in the context of European political developments in the 20th Century. It should be widely read by students, practitioners and the intelligent reader interested in the subject."Neil Winn University of Leeds, UK

• 1. The legacy of the Versailles Treaty 2. Mussolini’s ‘Roman Empire’ 3. German foreign policy from Stresemann to Hitler 4. International implications of the Spanish Civil War 5. Soviet foreign policy 1918 – 1941 6. Chamberlain, Churchill and the appeasement debate 7. Diplomatic and political objectives of the Axis powers 8. Diplomatic and military objectives of the Allied powers 9. Origins of the Cold War in Europe 10. Suez 1956: Anglo French humiliation as Cold War America asserts it power 11. Origins of European integration after 1945 12. Why Britain did not join the EEC in the 1950’s 13. How Britain joined the EEC in 1973 14. 1973 enlargement: Denmark and Ireland join but not Norway 15. De Gaulle, Brandt and relations with USA and USSR 16. From customs union to Werner Report, 1957 – 1970 17. 1970’s crisis and the abandonment of the Werner Plan 18. Jacques Delors, the Single Market, Eastern Europe and German unification 19. Margaret Thatcher: Resisting Delors and opposing the Maastricht Treaty