Max Kohnstamm
A European´s Life and Work
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Beschreibung
Max Kohnstamm (*1914) is a pioneer of post-war European unification. As Jean Monnet�s right-hand man he was closely involved in the establishment and design of the European Union (EU) as we know it today. Up to the present day he devotes himself to a solid European and international community of law, aimed at effectively banning unilateral power aspirations and interstate violence. As a surviver of Hitler�s �Nacht und Nebel� the young Dutch diplomat and former secretary to Queen Wilhelmina found himself both impressed and greatly inspired by Monnet�s campaign for supranationally organising the states of Europe as an alternative for war. Kohnstamm acted as secretary-general of the �first European government�, the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community. In 1956 he left office to assist Monnet and the latter�s Action Committee for the United States of Europe. The two men constituted a team that exerted far-reaching influence behind the scenes of European and global diplomacy. In 1974 Kohnstamm became the first president of the European University Institute in Florence. In later years he played a remarkable role in Jacques Delors� policy drive for completing the EU�s Common Market.
Anjo G. Harryvan and Jan van der Harst lecture and publish on foreign affairs and European integration.
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Anjo G. Harryvan
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Geschichte Geschichte der Europäischen Integration Zeitgeschichte, Europa