Dieter Gosewinkel is Professor of Modern History at the Freie Universität Berlin, and researcher and co-director of the Rule of Law Center at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB). His recent books include Die Verfassungen in Europa 1789 - 1949: Eine wissenschaftliche Textedition (co-edited with Johannes Masing and Andreas Würschinger 2006) and Wissenschaft, Politik, Verfassungsgericht (with Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde 2011).

“[V]iewing Europeanism (as an idea and practice) through a liberal/anti-liberal prism offers a valuable and distinctive perspective on the intellectual and political history of European integration. This volume should join an emerging body of scholarship that shifts attention away from an exclusive focus on diplomatic and institutional histories of the EU and towards a critical intellectual, cultural and social history of European integration.”  ·  Christian Bailey, The Open University“This book tackles an extremely important topic. It seeks to question teleological assessments of European integration…the contributions have the potential to add significantly to the debate on Europeanisation and European integration.”  ·  Holger Nehring, University of Stirling

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsPart I: ConceptsChapter 1. Anti-liberal Europe: A Neglected Source of Europeanism. IntroductionDieter GosewinkelChapter 2. The Elusiveness of European (Anti-)liberalismMichael FreedenPart II: Antiliberalism: a feature of colonial and conservative concepts of EuropeChapter 3. Europe as a Colonial Project: A Critique of Its Anti-liberalismFabian KloseChapter 4. Facing the Future Backwards. ‘Abendland’ as an Anti-liberal Idea of Europe in Germany between the First World War and the 1960sVanessa ConzeChapter 5. The Call for a New European Order: Origins and Variants of the Anti-liberal Concept of the “Europe of the Regions”Undine RugePart III: Antiliberal Europe in dictatorships and their aftermathChapter 6. The ‘New European Order’ of National Socialism. Some Remarks on Its Sources, Genesis and ManifestationsJürgen ElvertChapter 7. Three Kinds of Collaboration: Concepts of Europe and the ’Franco-German Understanding’ – The Career of SS_Brigadeführer Gustav KrukenbergPeter SchöttlerChapter 8. Communist Europeanism: A Case Study of the GDRJana WuestenhagenAfterword: The Limits of an Anti-liberal EuropeMartin ConwayNotes on ContributorsIndex