Anti-liberal Europe: A Neglected Story of Europeanization

211 Pages·2015·1.8 MB·English

by  Dieter Gosewinkel (ed.)

Anti-liberal Europe
New German Historical Perspectives
Series Editor: Paul Betts (Executive Editor), St. Antony’s College,
University of Oxford
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on a range of topics concerning the history of modern Germany and Europe.
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German Historical Experience in Anti-liberal Europe: A Neglected Story
Comparative Perspective of Europeanization
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Anti-liberal Europe
A Neglected Story of Europeanization
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Anti-liberal Europe: a neglected story of Europeanization / edited by Dieter
Gosewinkel.
pages cm. -- (New German historical perspectives; volume 5)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-78238-425-0 (hardback: alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-78238-426-7
(ebook)
1. Liberalism--Europe--History--20th century. 2. Political culture--Europe-
-History--20th century. 3. Nationalism--Europe--History--20th century.
4. European federation. 5. National characteristics, European. 6. Europe--
Civilization--20th century.
I. Gosewinkel, Dieter, 1956- editor of compilation.
JC574.2.E85A67 2014
320.5094--dc23
2014019627
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Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgements x
Part I. Concepts
Introduction 3
Anti-liberal Europe – A Neglected Source of Europeanism
Dieter Gosewinkel
1. T he Elusiveness of European (Anti-)liberalism 33
Michael Freeden
Part II. Anti-liberalism: A Feature of Colonial and Conservative
Concepts of Europe
2. E urope as a Colonial Project: A Critique of its Anti-liberalism 47
Fabian Klose
3. F acing the Future Backwards: ‘Abendland’ as an Anti-liberal 72
Idea of Europe in Germany between the First World War
and the 1960s
Vanessa Conze
4. T he Call for a New European Order: Origins and Variants 90
of the Anti-liberal Concept of the ‘Europe of the Regions’
Undine Ruge
viii Contents
Part III. A nti-liberal Europe in Dictatorships and their Aftermath
5. T he ‘New European Order’ of National Socialism: Some 105
Remarks on its Sources, Genesis and Nature
Jürgen Elvert
6. T hree Kinds of Collaboration: Concepts of Europe and 128
the ‘Franco-German Understanding’ – The Career of
SS-Brigadeführer Gustav Krukenberg
Peter Schöttler
7. C ommunist Europeanism: A Case Study of the GDR 157
Jana Wuestenhagen
Afterword
The Limits of an Anti-liberal Europe 179
Martin Conway
Notes on Contributors 191
Index 195
Illustrations
6.1 Krukenberg in Paris, late 1920s. 134
6.2 Krukenberg, far right, at Wildflecken, 1945; in the centre: 138
Léon Degrelle.
8.1 ‘Races of Europe’ map, taken from Sumner Welles, Postwar 182
Planning and the Quest for a New World Order 1937–1943
by Christopher D. O’Sullivan.