Law And The Institutions Of The European Communities

In this book which was entitled, Law and the Institutions of the European Communities, written by D. Lasok and J. W. Bridge, examined the background and development of law, principles, and inter-relations within the European Communities. World War I and II having caused drastic economic devastation in Europe, these communities concluded that it would be more expedient, efficient, and productive to come up with a system of working with and not against each other. This books primary purpose is to explain the many different laws and programs created to better the European Communities ability to work together in a post-war era. It argues that not only were these institutions beneficial, but necessary to prevent the demise of every European†¦show more content†¦Factoring in Nationalism, each nation also wanted to claim lands that were highly populated with individuals who had ancestral ties to these nations. While unification has always been a dream of the European empires, many of the procedures carried out by political and military leaders were to force specific ideals and practices that were not necessarily accepted by each individual nation. Two key political movements in the pre-war time period were â€Å". . . (The) ideologies, Communism and Nazism. . . † (Lasok and Bridge 3). That being said conquest and the effects of conquest led to many confrontations between these individual nations. One of the key players of this time period was Adolf Hitler ultimately unleashed World War II (3). Eventually with many battles, World War I and II caused drastic economic devastation in Europe. Lasok and Bridge put it best when they say â€Å"Europe was reduced to smoldering heaps of rubble, physically and politically. These communities concluded that it would be more expedient, efficient, and productive to come up with a system of working with and not against each other. Now that Europe has finally concluded that War was not an effective way to deal with one another they had to come to up with better alternatives to deal with inter-state conflict. In fact most of this book examines the many laws and procedures carried out to prevent another World War. What this reader assumed most interesting about this book was the fact that even