Yaman Kouli is a researcher at the Heinrich-Heine-University in Düsseldorf. He has held numerous other positions, including as research assistant at the Chemnitz University of Technology and an A.SK-fellow at the Berlin Social Science Centre. From 2018 to 2020, he was Feodor-Lynen fellow and received a scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation. His fields of expertise are Poland’s economic history during the 20th century, the knowledge-based economy and European integration. Léonard Laborie has been a research fellow at the CNRS, UMR Sirice in Paris since 2010. He received his PhD in contemporary history from Sorbonne University. His research deals with the interactions between science, technology and diplomacy in the making of Europe since the 1850s. He was chairman of the Tensions of Europe Research Network on History, Technology and Europe from 2019 to 2022.

“The Politics and Policies of European Economic Integration, 1850–1914 combines an older existing strand of the literature—the role of technology in European integration pioneered by the Tensions of Europe network— with a relatively newer one … . the book offers new understandings of how international organization—in the broadest sense of the term—took shape  in the European realm since the nineteenth century.” (Vincent Lagendijk, Technology and Culture, Vol. 65 (1), January, 2024)

• Chapter 1: Introduction. European economic integration and international coordination in the first globalisation era, 1850–1914.- Chapter 2: European economic integration before 1914 – a closer look.- Chapter 3: The European making of national public services – Posts and Telegraphs.- Chapter 4: Inventing Foreign Patents in Globalising Europe.- Chapter 5: Keeping international order in good health: plant protection.- Chapter 6: Social policy – from a prisoner’s dilemma to a European cartel.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.

Yaman Kouli is a researcher at the Heinrich-Heine-University in Düsseldorf. He has held numerous other positions, including as research assistant at the Chemnitz University of Technology and an A.SK-fellow at the Berlin Social Science Centre. From 2018 to 2020, he was Feodor-Lynen fellow and received a scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation. His fields of expertise are Poland’s economic history during the 20th century, the knowledge-based economy and European integration. Léonard Laborie has been a research fellow at the CNRS, UMR Sirice in Paris since 2010. He received his PhD in contemporary history from Sorbonne University. His research deals with the interactions between science, technology and diplomacy in the making of Europe since the 1850s. He was chairman of the Tensions of Europe Research Network on History, Technology and Europe from 2019 to 2022.

“The Politics and Policies of European Economic Integration, 1850–1914 combines an older existing strand of the literature—the role of technology in European integration pioneered by the Tensions of Europe network— with a relatively newer one … . the book offers new understandings of how international organization—in the broadest sense of the term—took shape  in the European realm since the nineteenth century.” (Vincent Lagendijk, Technology and Culture, Vol. 65 (1), January, 2024)

• Chapter 1: Introduction. European economic integration and international coordination in the first globalisation era, 1850–1914.- Chapter 2: European economic integration before 1914 – a closer look.- Chapter 3: The European making of national public services – Posts and Telegraphs.- Chapter 4: Inventing Foreign Patents in Globalising Europe.- Chapter 5: Keeping international order in good health: plant protection.- Chapter 6: Social policy – from a prisoner’s dilemma to a European cartel.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.

Yaman Kouli is a researcher at the Heinrich-Heine-University in Düsseldorf. He has held numerous other positions, including as research assistant at the Chemnitz University of Technology and an A.SK-fellow at the Berlin Social Science Centre. From 2018 to 2020, he was Feodor-Lynen fellow and received a scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation. His fields of expertise are Poland’s economic history during the 20th century, the knowledge-based economy and European integration. Léonard Laborie has been a research fellow at the CNRS, UMR Sirice in Paris since 2010. He received his PhD in contemporary history from Sorbonne University. His research deals with the interactions between science, technology and diplomacy in the making of Europe since the 1850s. He was chairman of the Tensions of Europe Research Network on History, Technology and Europe from 2019 to 2022.

“The Politics and Policies of European Economic Integration, 1850–1914 combines an older existing strand of the literature—the role of technology in European integration pioneered by the Tensions of Europe network— with a relatively newer one … . the book offers new understandings of how international organization—in the broadest sense of the term—took shape  in the European realm since the nineteenth century.” (Vincent Lagendijk, Technology and Culture, Vol. 65 (1), January, 2024)

• Chapter 1: Introduction. European economic integration and international coordination in the first globalisation era, 1850–1914.- Chapter 2: European economic integration before 1914 – a closer look.- Chapter 3: The European making of national public services – Posts and Telegraphs.- Chapter 4: Inventing Foreign Patents in Globalising Europe.- Chapter 5: Keeping international order in good health: plant protection.- Chapter 6: Social policy – from a prisoner’s dilemma to a European cartel.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.