ENG ELC 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Altiero Spinelli, Ventotene Manifesto, David Mitrany
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Realism can be used to explain what happened during the cold war. European integration were two: neofunctionalism and intergovernmentalism: before there were functionalism and federalism which were later merged in the functional- federalism of jean monnet intellectual inspiration for the following neofunctionalism, functionalism of david mitrany: No world federation: did not agree with the idea of federation to tie states together. It would pose a threat to individual freedom. No regional federation: also against regional federations reproduction of national rivalries on a larger scale. Federalists wanted a transfer of political authority and the replacement of nationalism. European union of federalists euf created in 1946 from the war-time resistance movements; very strong in italy, guided by altiero spinelli. Spinelli and rossi wrote the ventotene manifesto calling for a european. Federation in 1941 while being held as political prisoners of the fascists. Wanted to bring together national resistance movements across europe to push for the creation of a federal european state.
