Early post-war european integration and youth policies : exploration of the European youth campaign and youth initiatives in the common assembly of the coal and steel community

english

2024

volume 17, issue 1

European integration   European Youth Campaign   policy   post war Europe   youth

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Paper focuses on two relevant post-war frameworks for early European integration processes in the field of youth: the European Youth Campaign initiated by the European Movement in the 1950s and the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community and its youth-related discourses and initiatives. Using a policy analysis approach based on Foucault's concept of the dispositif, the paper aims to critically interpret and compare the intricacies and dynamics of these specific settings at the European level, thereby providing insights into the early stages of youth policies in post-war Europe. By analysing the early configurations in a particular historical context in which certain problematisations of youth emerged, and in an interplay and dynamics of power between different actors, including the emerging European movements and institutionalised forms of intergovernmental cooperation at the European level, we critically interrogate the formations of strategic and conceptual frameworks through which young people in Europe were addressed.

20.12.2023