Eurafrica, the untold history of European integration and colonialism, by Peo Hansen and Stefan Jonsson

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Notes

1. Archives nationales d’outre-mer (Aix-en-Provence, France).

2. Historical Archives of European Union (Florence, Italy).

3. Max Liniger-Goumaz, Eurafrique: Utopie ou réalité? (Yaoundé: Éditions CLE, 1972); Kim Seung-Ryeol, “France’s Agony between ‘Vocation européenne et mondiale’: the Union française as an Obstacle in the French Policy of Supranational European Integration (1952–1954)”, Journal of European Integration History 8 (2002): 61–84; John Chipman, French Power in Africa (Oxford: Blackwell, 1989); Adekeye Adebajo and Kaye Whiteman (eds.), The EU and Africa: From Eurafrique to Afro-Europa (London: Hurst and Co., 2012); Marie-Thérèse Bitsch and Gérard Bossuat (eds.), L'Europe Unie et l'Afrique: de l'Idée d'Eurafrique à la Convention de Lomé I. Actes de colloque international de Paris, 1er et 2 avril 2004 (Brussels: Bruylant, 2005); Guia Migani, La France et l'Afrique sub-saharienne, 1957–1963: Histoire d'une décolonisation entre idéaux eurafricains et politique de puissance (Brussels: Peter Lang, 2008); Yves Montarsolo, L'Eurafrique, contrepoint de l'idée d'Europe – Le cas français de la fin de la deuxième guerre mondiale aux négociations des Traités de Rome (Aix-en-Provence: Université de Provence, 2010); Papa Dramé and Samir Saul, “Le projet d'Eurafrique en France (1946–1960): Quête de puissance ou atavisme colonial?”, Guerres mondiales et conflits contemporains 216 (2004): 95–114.

4. Yet, the issue surrounding the inclusion or the association of the former colonies to the EEC have been addressed by most of the studies and researches on the Treaties of Rome negotiations considering the fact that it has been a contentious question among the government representatives of the six states forming the ECSC during the post-Messina negotiations.

5. See also Karis Müller, “‘Concentric Circles’ at the Periphery of the European Union”, Australian Journal of Politics & History 46, vol. 3 (2000): 322–35; Thomas Möser, Europäische Integration, Dekolonisation, Eurafrika: Eine historische Analyse über die Enstehungsbedingungen der Eurafrikanischen Gemainschaft von der Weltwirtschaftskrise bis zum Jaunde-Vertrag, 1929–1963 (Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2000); Martin Rempe, “Decolonization by Europeanization? The Early EEC and the Transformation of French-African Relations”, KFG Working Paper 27 (2011): 13–15.

6. Albert Sarraut, La mise en valeur des colonies françaises (Paris: Payot, 1923).