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Fabrissin, Maylis (2021)

At the Crossroads of European Integration and Decolonization: The OEEC and the Management of European Overseas Territories

Master thesis | International Relations (MA)

This thesis explores the role of the OEEC in the management of Western European overseas colonies. Through a qualitative historical research drawing mainly on the archival collection of the OEEC, it argues that beyond its primary objectives of administering Marshall Aid, the OEEC became a platform in which Western European powers organized their relations with their overseas territories. Beyond economic concerns, these territories were considered as a political question, and the OEEC developed into a venue in which the interests of Europe were safeguarded, at the crossroads between integration and decolonization.

OEEC

European integration

decolonization

Author

Fabrissin, Maylis

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

European Union Studies

Supervisors

Dr. Matthew Broad

ECTS Credits

15

Language

en