Pour La Paix En Europe For Peace in Europe

Le processus d'union europ enne voit aujourd'hui un point d'arr t sur le plan politique et institutionnel, malgr les tapes d cisives r alis es apr s la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Il reste en effet affronter des th mes et des probl mes qui, pendant l'entre-deux-guerres, anim rent le d bat entre les pionniers de l'europ anisme. Si, l' poque, leurs propositions rest rent sans suite, ayant une issue destructrice pour la paix et l'Europe, cet h ritage id al si pr cieux a permis une continuit et de germer par la suite.
Ce livre a pour but de pr senter une s rie d'id es, d'initiatives, de programmes, qui entre les deux guerres entendirent promouvoir le maintien d'un ordre international pacifi , partant du n vralgique contexte europ en. Il en ressort ainsi un humus significatif et transversal, oppos aux tendances inexorablement pr dominantes dans la politique et les institutions, mais aussi dans la soci t civile. Ses animateurs oeuvr rent dans les organisations internationales, les partis, les mouvements, les associations de type non seulement politique, de m me que dans l'historiographie, la litt rature, le th tre, le cin ma, le sport, signalant les l ments en vue d'une renaissance de la cohabitation pacifique sur le plan europ en et international.
Despite the decisive steps forward made since the Second World War, the process of European unification has come to a standstill at a political and institutional level. Issues and problems which were already the subject of debate among the pioneers of Europeanism between the two wars have still to be addressed. Although at the time their proposal as a whole went unheeded, with destructive consequences for peace and for Europe, this valuable legacy of ideals has nevertheless guaranteed a continuity and a subsequent blossoming.
The purpose of this book is to examine a series of ideas, initiatives and programmes which, between the two World Wars, aimed to promote the maintenance of a pacified international order, starting from the crucial European context. What emerges is a significant and transversal humus, that countered the inexorably prevailing tendencies in politics and institutions, and even in society. Its exponents operated in international organisations, in parties, and in movements and associations not necessarily of a political stamp, as well as in historiography, literature, theatre, cinema and sport, laying the foundations for a rebirth of peaceful co-existence at European and international level.