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Europe & the EU
How a coal-and-steel pact became a 27-nation union: the treaties, the institutions and who does what, the single market and euro, Schengen, Brexit, and Europe's current tests: energy, defense, growth and enlargement.
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Prereqs: Reading maps; World War II. Next: Central Asia & the Caucasus; The Changing World Order. Sources: European Union official site (european-union.europa.eu); Treaties of Rome (1957) and Maastricht (1992); Luuk van Middelaar, *The Passage to Europe*.Next: 1. From 6 to 27