... committees such as the Spaak committee suggested further integration of the European economy. In 1959, the Treaty of Rome established the European Economic Community. As security interests evolved and the Cold War collapse brought on global instability, in 1991 in the Maastricht Treaty, European nations agreed to design the European Union, composed of three organizations: the European Community (economics and monetary), the ... , the organizations may change and develop in accordance with the world situation to achieve these end-results. Although during the Cold War, the United Nations w...

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... and united Europe - This was the preface to a declaration made by Robert Schuman, French Foreign Minister (1948-55), as Europe lay in ruins in the aftermath of the Second World War. Rebuilding Europe required a new philosophy of international relations, one based on real equality between States and the will to take concrete action together, a radically new way of building friendship, ... of incorporating a "rich tapestry" of diverse religious beliefs, cultural disparities, and the barrier of language. A generation of mobility in the labour market and the long-term effects of World War I...

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... in the provision of an array of data delineating the differential power capabilities of great powers over a period of time . Using the historical periods of the "Pax Britannica" and the Cold War as examples, it has been demonstrated that the current distribution of capabilities differ from the multi-polar and bi-polar systems evident in the two respective time frames. The United ... ...

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