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Petricioli Marta, Cherubini Donatella (eds.)
Pour la paix en Europe. Institutions et société civile dans l'entre-deux-guerres. For Peace in Europe. Institutions and Civil Society between the World Wars
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Peter Lang
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Bruxelles, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien
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2007
Page 656 ISBN 978-90-5201-364-0
| Despite the decisive steps forward made since the Second World War, the process of European unification has come to a standstill at a political and institutional level. Issues and problems which were already the subject of debate among the pioneers of Europeanism between the two wars have still to be addressed. Although at the time their proposal as a whole went unheeded, with destructive consequences for peace and for Europe, this valuable legacy of ideals has nevertheless guaranteed a continuity and a subsequent blossoming.
The purpose of this book is to examine a series of ideas, initiatives and programmes which, between the two World Wars, aimed to promote the maintenance of a pacified international order, starting from the crucial European context. What emerges is a significant and transversal humus, that countered the inexorably prevailing tendencies in politics and institutions, and even in society. Its exponents operated in international organisations, in parties, and in movements and associations not necessarily of a political stamp, as well as in historiography, literature, theatre, cinema and sport, laying the foundations for a rebirth of peaceful co-existence at European and international level. |
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