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The history of the European Community/European Union's (EC/EU) development is a narrative of crises generated and resolved. To date, the resolution of crises in community affairs has furthered European integration. The characteristic pattern of integration is dialectical-two steps forward and one step back-with crises both accounting for the steps backward and forward. This book examines why the crises were constructively resolved, rather than the often explored how of the resolutions. This work contends that European myths, which emerged from Europe's cataclysmic experiences in World War I and II, cement the member states within the EC/EU, and lead to greater social, economic, and political integration with the EC/EU. During the periodic crises, the European myths have eliminated every choice except the choice to move European integration forward. Professor Sam-Sang Jo's analysis argues that once the European myths weaken, the tensions among EU member states are likely to escalate.

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The late twentieth century transformation of intra-European international relations, conventionally called 'European integration, ' constitutes a laboratory for the study of cooperation among states and peoples. In European Myths, Sam-Sang Jo enters into this intellectual workplace equipped with conceptual tools heretofore under utilized by scholars, with historical insights fostered by a revisionist perspective, and with an extraordinarily learned familiarity with the political leaders who moved Europe toward ever greater unity. Ultimately, in carefully examining European integration Professor Jo is able to say a number of interesting things about international cooperation as a more general phenomenon.--Donald J. Puchala

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Sam-Sang Jo is currently visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Monmouth College. His teaching and research interests cover the causes of crisis and efforts for crisis resolution; the rise and fall of world orders; the formation of regional collective identity; and nationalism on the period of globalization. His publications have appeared in such scholarly journals as Journal of Contemporary European Studies and Korean Observer.

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