Ludlow, N Piers


Dr N Piers Ludlow  

Department

Position held

Department of International History

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Experience keywords:

history and development of the EU; cold war history; Europe; Western Europe; European integration; transatlantic relations; Britain

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Piers Ludlow’s research focuses primarily on the development since 1957 of the EC/EU and upon the Community/Union’s growing international role. He also has interests in the Cold War in Europe – and links between this and the integration process – as well as in the changing patterns of Transatlantic relations during the 1947-1990 period.

Countries and regions to which research relates:

France; Belgium; Germany; Britain; the Netherlands; Italy; Luxembourg

Languages:

French [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]; German [Spoken: Basic, Written: Intermediate]; Italian [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Intermediate]

Media experience:

RadioTV

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 7099

Publications

The following references are sourced from LSE Research Online|. References that are linked lead to the full text.

2013

Ludlow, N. Piers (2013) The unnoticed apogee of Atlanticism?: US-Western European relations during the early Reagan era. In: Patel, Kiran Klaus and Weisbrode, Kenneth, (eds.) European integration and the Atlantic community in the 1980s: old barriers, new openings . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9781107031562

Ludlow, N. Piers (2013) European integration in the 1980s: on the way to Maastricht. Journal of European integration history, ISSN 0947-9511

2012

Ludlow, N. Piers (2012) Problematic partners: de Gaulle, Thatcher, and their impact. In: Jones, Erik and Menon, Anand and Weatherill, Stephen, (eds.) Oxford Handbook of the European Union. Oxford University Press , Oxford, UK, pp. 206-218. ISBN 9780199546282

Ludlow, N. Piers (2012) The real years of Europe?: US-West European relations during the Ford administration. Journal of Cold War studies, ISSN 1531-3298

2011

Ludlow, N. Piers (2011) The end of symbiosis: the Nixon era and the collapse of comfortable co-existence between European and Atlantic integration. In: Scott-Smith, G. and Aubourg, V., (eds.) Atlantic, Euratlantic, or Europe-America?: the Atlantic community and the European idea from Kennedy to Nixon. Soleb. ISBN 9782918157007

2010

Ludlow, N. Piers (2010) Governing Europe: charting the development of a supranational political system. In: Kaiser, Wolfram and Varsori, Antonio, (eds.) European Union history: themes and debates. Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., Basingstoke, UK, pp. 109-127. ISBN 9780230232693

Ludlow, N. Piers (2010) From words to actions: reinterpreting de Gaulle's European policy, 1958-69. In: Neunlist, C and Locher, A and Martin, G, (eds.) Globalizing de Gaulle: international perspectives on de Gaulle's foreign policy. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, USA. ISBN 9780739142486

Ludlow, N. Piers (2010) European integration: a Cold War phenomenon. In: Westad, Odd Arne and Leffler, Melvyn P., (eds.) The Cambridge history of the Cold War. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9780521837200

Ludlow, N. Piers (2010) Transatlantic relations in the Johnson and Nixon eras: the crisis that didn't happen - and what it suggests about the one that did. Journal of transatlantic studies, 8 (1). pp. 44-55. ISSN 1479-4012

2009

Ludlow, N. Piers (2009) History aplenty: but still too isolated. In: Egan, Michelle and Nugent, Neill and Paterson, William E., (eds.) Research agendas in EU studies: stalking the elephant. Palgrave Macmillan, Hampshire, UK. ISBN 9780230555242

Ludlow, Piers (2009) Book review: la mésentente apprivoisée: de Gaulle et les Allemands, 1963-1969. Cold War history, 9 (3). pp. 449-451. ISSN 1468-2745

Ludlow, N. Piers (2009) The green heart of Europe: the rise and fall of the CAP as the community’s central policy, 1958-1985. In: Patel, Kiran Klaus, (ed.) Fertile ground for Europe?: the history of European integration and the Common Agricultural Policy since 1945. Nomos, Baden-Baden, Germany. ISBN 9783832944940

Ludlow, N. Piers (2009) Widening, deepening and opening out: towards a fourth decade of European integration history. In: Loth, Wilfried, (ed.) Experiencing Europe: 50 years of European construction 1957-2007. Nomos, Baden-Baden, Germany. ISBN 9783832941246

Ludlow, N. Piers (2009) In Search of Balance: Italy, Britain and the 'dream' of another European axis. In: Craveri, Pierro and Varsori, Antonio, (eds.) L'Italia nella costruzione europea. Un bilancio storico (1957-2007). FrancoAngeli, Milian, Italy. ISBN 9788856813555

Ludlow, N. Piers (2009) Value, flexibility and openness: the treaty of Rome’s success in historical perspective. In: Baquero Cruz, Julio and Closa Montero, Carlos, (eds.) European integration from Rome to Berlin: 1957-2007: history, law and politics. Peter Lang Publishing Group, Oxford, UK, pp. 17-32. ISBN 9789052014647

2008

Ludlow, N. Piers (2008) The European Commission and the rise of Coreper: a controlled experiment. In: Kaiser, Wolfram and Leucht, Brigitte and Rasmussen, Morten, (eds.) The history of the European Union: origins of a trans- and supranational polity 1950-72. Routledge, Oxford, UK, pp. 189-205. ISBN 9780415463935

Ludlow, N. Piers (2008) A naturally supportive environment?: the European institutions and German unification 1989-1990. In: Ludlow, N. Piers and Bozo, Frederic and Rey, Marie-Pierre and Nuti, Leopoldo, (eds.) Europe and the end of the Cold War: a reappraisal. Routledge, Abingdon, UK. ISBN 9780415449038

Bozo, Frederic and Rey, Marie-Pierre and Ludlow, N. Piers and Nuti, Leopoldo, (eds.) (2008) Europe and the end of the Cold War: a reappraisal. Routledge, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780415449038

2007

Ludlow, N. Piers (2007) The end of symbiosis: the Nixon era and the end of comfortable co-existence between European and Atlantic integration. In:Atlantic, Euroatlantic or Europe-America? The Atlantic idea from Kennedy to Nixon (20-21 September 2007 : Roosevelt Studies Center, Middleburg, the Netherlands).

Ludlow, N. Piers (2007) Making the new Europe: European integration since 1950. In: Martel, Gordon, (ed.) A companion to international history 1900 - 2001. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK, pp. 327-339. ISBN 9781405125741

Ludlow, N. Piers, (ed.) (2007) European integration and the Cold War: Ostpolitik-Westpolitik, 1965-1973. Routledge, Abingdon, UK. ISBN 9780415421096

Ludlow, Piers (2007) The emergence of a commercial heavy-weight: the Kennedy Round negotiations and the European Community of the 1960s. Diplomacy and statecraft, 18 (2). pp. 351-368. ISSN 0959-2296

2006

Ludlow, N. Piers (2006) From deadlock to dynamism: the European community in the 1980s. In: Dinan, Desmond, (ed.) The origins and evolution of the EU. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780199267927

Ludlow, N. Piers (2006) A supranational Icarus: Hallstein, the early commission and the search for an independent role. In: Varsori, Antonio, (ed.) Inside the European Community : actors and policies in the European integration 1957-1972. NOMOS, Baden-Baden, Germany. ISBN 383291191X

Ludlow, N. Piers (2006) De-commissioning the empty chair crisis: The community institutions and the crisis of 1965-6. In: Wallace, Helen and Winand, Pascaline and Palayret, Jean-Marie, (eds.) Visions, votes and vetoes :The empty chair crisis and the Luxembourg compromise forty years on. Peter Lang, Brussels, Belgium, pp. 79-96. ISBN 9789052010311

Ludlow, N. Piers (2006) The European Community and the crises of the 1960s: negotiating the Gaulist challenge. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 0415375940

2005

Ludlow, N. Piers (2005) The making of CAP: towards a historical analysis of the EU's first major common policy. Contemporary European history, 14 (3). pp. 347-371. ISSN 1469-2171

Ludlow, N. Piers (2005) Plus que six ambassadeurs : l’émergence du Coreper durant les premières années de la CEE. In: Badel, L. and Jeannesson, S. and Ludlow, N. Piers, (eds.) L’adaptation des administrations nationales à la construction européenne : une approche historique (1920-1975). Peter Lang Publishing, London, UK.

Ludlow, N. Piers (2005) Decision-making in the 1960s EC : three case studies. In: Loth, Wilfried, (ed.) La gouvernance supranationale dans la construction Européenne. Emile Bruylant, Brussels, pp. 115-136. ISBN 2802720244

Ludlow, N. Piers (2005) A welcome change : the European Commission and the challenge of enlargement, 1958-1973. Journal of European integration history, 11 (1). ISSN 0947-9511

Ludlow, N. Piers (2005) The making of the CAP : towards a historical analysis of the EU’s first major common policy. Contemporary European history, 14 (3). pp. 347-371. ISSN 1469-2171

Badel, Laurence and Jeannesson, Stanislas and Ludlow, N. Piers, (eds.) (2005) Les administrations nationales et la construction européenne - une approche historique (1919-1975). Peter Lang, Brussels, Belgium. ISBN 9789052012643

2004

Ludlow, N. Piers (2004) A few thoughts on the future of Europe's past. In:First conference of the History of European Integration Research Society (6-7 November 2004 : Cambridge, UK).

2003

Ludlow, N. Piers (2003) A waning force: the Treasury and British European Policy, 1955-1963. Contemporary British history, 17 (4). pp. 87-104. ISSN 1361-9462

Ludlow, N. Piers (2003) A warning force: the treasury and British European policy, 1955-1963. Contemporary British history, 17 (4). pp. 87-104. ISSN 1361-9462

Ludlow, N. Piers (2003) An opportunity or a threat? The European Commission and the Hague Council of December 1969. Journal of European integration history, 9 (2). pp. 11-26. ISSN 0947-9511

Ludlow, N. Piers (2003) Paying the price of victory? Postwar Britain and ideas of national independence. In: Geppert, Dominik, (ed.) The postwar challenge: cultural, social and political change in western Europe, 1945-1958. Oxford University Press, London, UK, pp. 259-272. ISBN 0199266654

2002

Ludlow, N. Piers (2002) Constancy and flirtation: Germany, Britain and the EEC, 1957-1972. In: Noakes, Jeremy and Wende, Peter and Wright, Jonathan, (eds.) Britain and Germany in Europe 1949-1990. Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K., pp. 95-112. ISBN 9780199248414

Ludlow, N. Piers (2002) Une Influence Décroissante: Le Treasury et la construction européenne, 1956-63. In: Le role des ministères des Finances et de l'Economie dans la construction européenne (1957-1978): 2 volumes, Actes du colloque tenu à Bercy les 26, 27 et 28 mai 1999. La Documentation Française, Paris, France. ISBN 9782110909480

Ludlow, N. Piers (2002) Chronicle of an enlargement foretold: the six and the emergence of agreement over widening 1967-9. In:Third "Breakthrough Project" Meeting (22-23 November 2002 : Barcelona, Spain).

Ludlow, N. Piers (2002) Us or them? The meanings of ‘Europe’ in British political discourse. In: Malmborg, Mikael af and Strath, Bo, (eds.) The meaning of Europe: variety and contention within and among nations. Berg Publishing, London, UK. ISBN 1859735819

Ludlow, N. Piers (2002) A short-term defeat: the Community institutions and the second British application to the EEC, 1966-7. In: Daddow, Oliver, (ed.) Harold Wilson and European integration: Britain's second application to join the EEC. Cass Publishing, London, UK, pp. 135-150. ISBN 0714682071

2001

Ludlow, N. Piers (2001) Too far away, too rich and too stable: the EEC and trade with Australia during the 1960s. Australian economic history review, 41 (3). pp. 267-286. ISSN 0004-8992

Ludlow, N. Piers (2001) No longer a closed shop: post-1945 research in the French archives. Cold War history, 2 (1). pp. 158-163. ISSN 1468-2745

Ludlow, N. Piers (2001) Too close a friend? The Netherlands and the first British application to the EEC, 1961-1963. In: Ashton, Nigel J and Hellema, Duco, (eds.) Unspoken allies: Anglo-Dutch relations since 1780. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 223-239. ISBN 9789053564714

1999

Ludlow, N. Piers (1999) Challenging French leadership in in Europe: Germany, Italy and the Netherlands and the outbreak of the Empty Chair Crisis of 1965-6. Contemporary European history, 8 (2). pp. 231-248. ISSN 1469-2171

Ludlow, N. Piers (1999) "Ne pleurez pas, Milord": Macmillan and France from Algiers to Rambouillet. In: Aldous, Richard and Lee, Sabine, (eds.) Harold Macmillan: aspects of a political life. St. Martin's Press, New York, U.S., pp. 95-112. ISBN 9780312219062

1997

Ludlow, N. Piers (1997) A problem of trust: British agriculture and the Brussels negotiations. In: Wilkes, G, (ed.) Britain's first failure to enter the European community, 1961-63: Crises in European, Atlantic and Commonwealth relations. Frank Cass & Co. Ltd, London, UK. ISBN 9780714646879

Ludlow, N. Piers (1997) Dealing with Britain: the Six and the first UK application to the EEC. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9780521592420

1996

Ludlow, N. Piers (1996) Influence and vulnerability: the role of the European Commission in the 1961-63 enlargement negotiations. In: Griffiths, Richard and Ward, Stuart, (eds.) Courting the common market: the first attempt to enlarge the EEC. Lothian Foundation Press. ISBN 9781872210230

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