While concentrating on the activities of a small European nation, provides a long-term review for nearly eighty years on the history of European unification. The fresh perspective illustrates the dilemmas and struggles of the common European history in the 20th century.

Pauli Heikkilä is Research Fellow at the University of Tartu, Estonia. He defended his doctoral thesis at the University of Turku, Finland, in 2011 and has published extensively on the contemporary history of both Estonia and Finland.

Contents: Paneuropean Union in Estonia – Diplomatic Means – Economic Consequences – Cultural Premises – The Disintegrating 1930s – Common Estonian Features in the Discussion – Totalitarian Europe – Aleksander Warma Consolidating Europe – Estonia in the New Europe – The Estonian National Committee of the European Movement – Creating Contacts and Joining – Inside the European Movement – The Outsider’s View – Uniting the Divided Continent – Estonians for European Union?