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Index

Premise 11
Introduction 45
Chapter I – Cultural Integration and the European Identity: Historical Perspectives 53
I 1. Introduction 55
I 2. Greek Culture 63
I 3. Romans and Christianity 66
I 4. Charlemagne 70
I 5. Waves of New Populations and Islam 73
I 6. Russia 75
I 7. Western Europe 78
I 8. The Renaissance, the Discovery of America and Religious Wars 81
I 9. Modern Science and the Industrial Revolution 100
I 10. The French Revolution and the Birth of the Nation 105
I 11. After the Vienna Congress 111
I 12. The Weight of the Colonies 119
I 13. The Birth of Ideologies 126
I 14. The 20th Century: Two World Wars and a Great Project for Peace 128
I 15. The European Union and The Cosmopolitan Democracy 140
Chapter II – The Peace as Target 147
II 1. Premise 149
II 2. Why people live in society 150
II 2.1. Thomas Hobbes 150
II 2.2. John Locke 158
II 3. Is Peace Possible? 169
II 3.1. Immanuel Kant 169
Chapter III – Searching for Peace in the First Half of the 20th Century 177
III 1. Premise 179
III 2. Wilsonian Ideas and the League of Nations 181