onal cooperation simply and primarily because it will benefit member nations both individually and as a group. At the same time, because of nationalistic and historical differences, it is less likely that political union will accompany economic union. In his analysis of the history of early efforts at economic and/or political unity following World War II, Mayne makes clear that there were grave obstacles to that unity. He shows, however, that the needs of and benefits for the nations involved outweighed those obstacles, and so increasingly the tendency toward cooperation grew and led to the establishment of the doomed European Defense Community and the aforementioned coal and steel association, and finally to the Common Market. Mayne's hopeful but realistic conclusion about the success and nature of the Common Market is appropriate: "The European Community is a continuing creation" (164).
Mayne, Richard. The Community of Europe. New York: W.W. Norton, 1963.
David Fromkin, in A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the
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