European Socialists Across Borders: Transnational Cooperation and Alternative Visions of Europe After 1945

Table of Contents:
Introduction Mélanie Torrent and Andrew J. Williams Part I. European socialism in war and peace * 1 The Labour party and the SFIO in London in the 1940s Andrew J. Williams * 2 Transwar continuities: The Mouvement Socialiste pour les Etats-Unis d’Europe (MSEUE) and Socialist Networks in the Early Cold War Benjamin Heckscher and Tommaso Milani Part II. Paths not taken? European socialists and the politics of worldmaking at the end of empire 3 Europe re-imagined? Claude Bourdet, France-Observateur and British critics of the Algerian war Mélanie Torrent 4 Social Activism in the Age of Decolonisation: Basil Davidson and the Liberation Struggles in Lusophone Africa, c. 1954–1975 Pedro Aires Oliveira 5 Olof Palme, Sweden, and the Vietnam war: An outspoken socialist among European socialists Lubna Z. Qureshi Part III. Redefining Europe and reassessing Europeanisation: socialist readings of internationalism and liberalism * 6 European socialists and international solidarity with Palestine: towards a socialist European network of solidarity in the 1970s and 1980s? Thomas Maineult * 7 Black British Labour Leaders and the Europeanisation of antiracism, 1986–1993 Pamela Ohene-Nyako * 8 From Dark to Light: The Fate of Two European Socialist Employment Initiatives in an Age of Austerity Mathieu Fulla

About the Author :
Mélanie Torrent is Professor of British and Commonwealth History at the Université de Picardie Jules Verne in Amiens. She has published on the connected ends of the British and French empires, and British foreign policy in Africa. She has been a senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies since 2011, and a member of the editorial board of the Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, since 2010. Andrew J. Williams is Professor (Emeritus) at the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews, which he joined in 2006. He has been the editor of several journals, including the International History Review (2010–2016), and been a regular invited professor at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Lille and at Sciences Po Paris. He has published extensively on international relations, international thought and history, and on the complex relations of the United States, the United Kingdom and France during the twentieth and twenty-first century.

Review :
The book shows the core role of individual European socialists and their wider social and professional networks in shaping debates on early European integration and decolonisation, nuancing such key concepts as bi-polarity and shifting the focus of our thinking to alternative European (international) policies and roads not taken.