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The political and economic transformation Europe has gone through since the end of the Second World War is remarkable and even unique in more than one respect. The strong state nationalism that has been at the origin of repeated violent confrontations was finally abandoned. For more than 40 years, however, the continent was split along the East-West divide, not only militarily and ideologically, but also economically and mentally. The collapse of this post-war system in the 1989–91 period gave a momentous boost to a new understanding of political integration on the European continent. Eastern and Western Europe had to be reunited in a common endeavour to create an area of peace, democracy and prosperity.
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Delmartino, F. (2014). A Shared European Citizenship in a Multinational and Multicultural Environment. In: Kim, NK. (eds) Multicultural Challenges and Sustainable Democracy in Europe and East Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137403452_13
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