@article{2016:vik:early_euro,
title = {Early European Summitry and the Making of the Council of Europe},
year = {2016},
note = {After considerable time, the paper revisits the issue of inception of
the Council of Europe. The existing studies prevailingly focused on
internal-external linkages of foreign policy-making in specific
national cases. This article, in contrast, stresses the importance and
special agency which the early European summitry, i.e. the high-level
inter-ministerial meetings at first within the Brussels pact (June
1948-January 1949) and later within the enlarged ten-power framework
(May 1949), have had for the creation of the Council. The article also
points out the limited, but yet highly-visible role the Joint
International Committee of the Movements for European Unity played in
the story. In its conclusions, the article calls for a more balanced
extrapolation of the events surrounding the Council’s establishment
and suggests that the French and British positions on further
development of integration processes were, at the time, less opposed
that it is traditionally supposed.},
journal = {JEIH Journal of European Integration History},
pages = {107--124},
author = {ŠVIK, Peter},
volume = {22},
number = {1}
}