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  • 3 - Re-conceptualising Capitalism and Democracy

  • from Part 1 - Beyond Americanisation (1937–1947)
  • Mathieu Segers, Maastricht University
  • Book:
    The Origins of European Integration
    Published online:
    13 December 2023
    Print publication:
    30 November 2023, pp 77-101

  • Summary

    Chapter 3 reconstruct how the (collective) emotions, the political and economic practices, and the geopolitical and societal circumstances of the war times guided Western Europe to a path of deeper international and regional cooperation focused on free trade and valuta convertibility. During exile and occupation, European governments fleshed out plans and schemes for post-war cooperation, primordially in the domains of socio-economic and the financial-economic planning, in greater (practical) detail. These exercises were emotionally charged and driven by the lessons of the war against the Nazis and the post-war period after the First World War—a learning from history in which the churches played a leading role and co-prepared the political ground for the popularity of a new and hugely influential conservative political family in Western Europe: Christian Democracy.