Shows that networks in European integration governance were not a phenomenon that developed in the 1980s out of a 'hollowing out' of the nation-states in the 1970s. Based throughout on newly accessible sources, the authors discuss various networks and show how they contributed to constitutional choices and policy decisions after World War II.

VALÉRIE AUBOURG is Lecturer in Contemporary History at the University of Cergy-Pontoise, France ANNCHRISTINA L. KNUDSEN is Assistant Professor of European Studies at the University of Aarhus, Denmark JANHENRIK MEYER is a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Portsmouth, UK SIGFRIDO M. RAMÍREZ PÉREZ is Postdoctoral Fellow of the Spanish Science and Technology Foundation (FECYT) in the Institute of Economic History at the University Bocconi in Milan, Italy OLIVER RATHKOLB is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna, Austria ANTOINE VAUCHEZ is Senior Researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France