Kiran Klaus Patel is Professor of European History at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen. His previous publications include The New Deal: A Global History (2016) which was co-winner of the 2017 World History Association Jerry Bentley Book Prize.

'Confused about the EU? How it has morphed through seventy years of committees, changing names and structures, accessions of new members, successive treaties, evolving capacities, and its current existential tensions? Kiran Klaus Patel's Project Europe is the essential institutional history and user's manual for making it as clear as it can ever be.' Charles S. Maier, author of Once within Borders: Territories of Power, Wealth, and Belonging

• Prologue; 1. Europe and European integration; 2. Peace and security; 3. Growth and prosperity; 4. Participation and technocracy; 5. Values and norms; 6. Superstate or tool of nations?; 7. Disintegration and dysfunctionality; 8. The community and its world; Epilogue; Acknowledgements; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Kiran Klaus Patel is Professor of European History at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen. His previous publications include The New Deal: A Global History (2016) which was co-winner of the 2017 World History Association Jerry Bentley Book Prize.

'Confused about the EU? How it has morphed through seventy years of committees, changing names and structures, accessions of new members, successive treaties, evolving capacities, and its current existential tensions? Kiran Klaus Patel's Project Europe is the essential institutional history and user's manual for making it as clear as it can ever be.' Charles S. Maier, author of Once within Borders: Territories of Power, Wealth, and Belonging

• Prologue; 1. Europe and European integration; 2. Peace and security; 3. Growth and prosperity; 4. Participation and technocracy; 5. Values and norms; 6. Superstate or tool of nations?; 7. Disintegration and dysfunctionality; 8. The community and its world; Epilogue; Acknowledgements; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Kiran Klaus Patel is Professor of European History at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen. His previous publications include The New Deal: A Global History (2016) which was co-winner of the 2017 World History Association Jerry Bentley Book Prize.

'Confused about the EU? How it has morphed through seventy years of committees, changing names and structures, accessions of new members, successive treaties, evolving capacities, and its current existential tensions? Kiran Klaus Patel's Project Europe is the essential institutional history and user's manual for making it as clear as it can ever be.' Charles S. Maier, author of Once within Borders: Territories of Power, Wealth, and Belonging

• Prologue; 1. Europe and European integration; 2. Peace and security; 3. Growth and prosperity; 4. Participation and technocracy; 5. Values and norms; 6. Superstate or tool of nations?; 7. Disintegration and dysfunctionality; 8. The community and its world; Epilogue; Acknowledgements; Notes; Bibliography; Index.