Ludlow, N. Piers

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  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2025). Britain’s nadir? 1970s Britain and the shock of weakness in the face of the global. Mondo Contemporaneo,
  • Ellison, James, Cox, Michael, Hanhimäki, Jussi M., Harrison, Hope M., Ludlow, N. Piers, Romano, Angela, Spohr, Kristina, Zubok, Vladislav (2023). The war in Ukraine. Cold War History, 23(1), 121 - 206. https://doi.org/10.1080/14682745.2023.2162329
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2020). Solidarity, sanctions and misunderstanding: the European dimension of the Falklands crisis. International History Review, https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2020.1791226 picture_as_pdf
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2019). Did we ever really understand how the EU works? The Brexit negotiations and what they say about Britain’s misunderstanding of the EU. Diplomatica, 1(1), 94-103. https://doi.org/10.1163/25891774-00101011 description
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2019). The historical roots of the ‘awkward partner’ narrative. Contemporary European History, 28(1), 35-38. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777318000759 picture_as_pdf
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2017). More than just a Single Market: European integration, peace and security in the 1980s. British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 19(1), 48-62. https://doi.org/10.1177/1369148116685295
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2014). Safeguarding British identity or betraying it? The role of British 'tradition' in the parliamentary great debate on EC membership, October 1971. Journal of Common Market Studies, 53(1), 18-34. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.12202
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2013). Hard-won but vital: EU enlargement in historical perspective. Crisis of EU Enlargement, 12-18.
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2013). The real years of Europe?: U.S.-West European relations during the Ford administration. Journal of Cold War Studies, 15(3), 136-161. https://doi.org/10.1162/JCWS_a_00373
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2013). European integration in the 1980s: on the way to Maastricht. Journal of European Integration History, 19(1), 11-22.
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2012). The discomforts of life on the edge: Britain and Europe, 1963-1975. International Affairs, 88(6), 1331-1340. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2346.2012.01135.x
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2010). Transatlantic relations in the Johnson and Nixon eras: the crisis that didn't happen - and what it suggests about the one that did. Journal of Transatlantic Studies, 8(1), 44-55. https://doi.org/10.1080/14794010903533933
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2009). Book review: la mésentente apprivoisée: de Gaulle et les Allemands, 1963-1969. Cold War History, 9(3), 449-451. https://doi.org/10.1080/14682740903135488
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2007). The emergence of a commercial heavy-weight: the Kennedy Round negotiations and the European Community of the 1960s. Diplomacy and Statecraft, 18(2), 351-368. https://doi.org/10.1080/09592290701322507
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2005). The making of the CAP : towards a historical analysis of the EU’s first major common policy. Contemporary European History, 14(3), 347-371. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777305002493
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2005). A welcome change : the European Commission and the challenge of enlargement, 1958-1973. Journal of European Integration History, 11(1).
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2003). A waning force: the Treasury and British European Policy, 1955-1963. Contemporary British History, 17(4), 87-104. https://doi.org/10.1080/13619460308565459
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2003). An opportunity or a threat? The European Commission and the Hague Council of December 1969. Journal of European Integration History, 9(2), 11-26.
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2001). Too far away, too rich and too stable: the EEC and trade with Australia during the 1960s. Australian Economic History Review, 41(3), 267-286. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8446.00087
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2001). No longer a closed shop: post-1945 research in the French archives. Cold War History, 2(1), 158-163. https://doi.org/10.1080/713999937
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (1999). Challenging French leadership in in Europe: Germany, Italy and the Netherlands and the outbreak of the Empty Chair Crisis of 1965-6. Contemporary European History, 8(2), 231-248. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777399002039
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  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2016). Roy Jenkins and the European Commission presidency, 1976 –1980: at the heart of Europe. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51530-8
  • Bozo, Frederic, Rey, Marie-Pierre, Ludlow, N. Piers, Nuti, Leopoldo (Eds.) (2008). Europe and the end of the Cold War: a reappraisal. Routledge.
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (Ed.) (2007). European integration and the Cold War: Ostpolitik-Westpolitik, 1965-1973. Routledge.
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2005). The European Community and the crises of the 1960s: negotiating the Gaulist challenge. Routledge.
  • Badel, Laurence, Jeannesson, Stanislas, Ludlow, N. Piers (Eds.) (2005). Les administrations nationales et la construction européenne - une approche historique (1919-1975). Verlag Peter Lang.
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (1997). Dealing with Britain: the Six and the first UK application to the EEC. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.2277/0521592429
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  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2026). Rivalling the French? The impact and effectiveness of British European policymaking, 1973-1990. In Sibre, O. (Ed.), Franco-British Relations and Europe, from EEC membership to Brexit . Verlag Peter Lang. [In Press] picture_as_pdf
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2025). The Copenhagen European Summit of 1973: messy but ultimately productive? In Cuccia, D., Gehler, M. & Kotzur, M. (Eds.), 50 Years of The Copenhagen Declaration 1973-2023: Questions on European Identity Policies (pp. 209 - 220). Böhlau-Verlag. picture_as_pdf
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2025). Roy Jenkins: the frustrations of pro-European constancy. In Broad, M. & King, W. (Eds.), The Labour Party and European Integration: A Biographical Approach (pp. 174 - 191). Bristol University Press. https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529243925.ch011 picture_as_pdf
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2025). A fully fledged political spokesperson for federalism: Delors as seen through Margaret Thatcher's eyes. In Mangenot, M. & Larat, F. (Eds.), Jacques Delors: Les paradoxes d'un homme d'État européen (pp. 267 - 284). La Documentation Française.
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2024). Restoring Britain to the heart of Europe – and acquiring a key ally too: John Major’s March 11, 1991 Bonn speech. In Gehler, M., Guasconi, M. E. & Pierini, F. (Eds.), Narrating Europe: Speeches and Speakers on European Integration II from 1947 – 2022 . Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. picture_as_pdf
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2024). Moving beyond British exceptionalism. In Segers, M. & Van Hecke, S. (Eds.), The Cambridge History of the European Union: Volume 2, European Integration Inside-Out (pp. 182 - 206). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108781480.007 picture_as_pdf
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2024). Making a rod for its own back: explaining commission support for increasing European Parliament Power, 1950-2000. In Lorenzini, S. & Tulli, U. (Eds.), A More Democratic Community: The Place of Democracy in the History of European Integration (pp. 58 - 79). Berghahn Books.
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2023). Budgeting for success: how a series of budgetary breakthroughs underpinned the EC/EU's 1980s boom. In Weber, R. (Ed.), The Financial Constitution of European Integration: Follow the Money? (pp. 191 - 204). Hart. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509969944.ch-009 picture_as_pdf
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2022). The high point of British europeanism? John Major, Britain and the Maastricht Negotiations. In Di Donato, M. & Pons, S. (Eds.), European Integration and the Global Financial Crisis: Looking Back on the Maastricht Years, 1980s–1990s (pp. 235 - 253). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06797-6_11 description
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2020). A double-edged victory: Fontainebleau and the resolution of the British budget problem, 1983-84. In Gehler, M. & Loth, W. (Eds.), Reshaping Europe: towards a political, economic, and monetary union, 1984–1989 (pp. 45-72). Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft.
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2019). All change with qualified majority voting: relations with the Council. In Dujardin, V., Bussiere, E., Ludlow, P., Romero, F., Schlenker, D., Varsori, A. & Kaisin, S. (Eds.), The European Commision 1986-2000: history and memories of an institution (pp. 193-197). Office for Official Publications of the European Communities. picture_as_pdf
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2019). The Commission and institutional reforms. In Dujardin, V., Bussiere, E., Ludlow, P., Romero, F., Schlenker, D., Varsori, A. & Kaisin, S. (Eds.), The European Commision 1986-2000: history and memories of an institution (pp. 155-164). Office for Official Publications of the European Communities. picture_as_pdf
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2019). From love affair to stand-off: relations with the European Parliament. In Dujardin, V., Bussiere, E., Ludlow, P., Romero, F., Schlenker, D., Varsori, A. & Kaisin, S. (Eds.), The European Commision 1986-2000: history and memories of an institution (pp. 198-210). Office for Official Publications of the European Communities. picture_as_pdf
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2019). Jacques Delors. In Dujardin, V., Bussiere, E., Ludlow, P., Romero, F., Schlenker, D., Varsori, A. & Kaisin, S. (Eds.), The European Commision 1986-2000: history and memories of an institution (pp. 389-394). Office for Official Publications of the European Communities. picture_as_pdf
  • Ludlow, N. Piers, Romero, Federico (2019). Part four: introduction. In Dujardin, V., Bussiere, E., Ludlow, P., Romero, F., Schlenker, D., Varsori, A. & Kaisin, S. (Eds.), The European Commision 1986-2000: history and memories of an institution (pp. 499-502). Office for Official Publications of the European Communities. picture_as_pdf
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2019). The Peace programme for Northern Ireland. In Dujardin, V., Bussiere, E., Ludlow, P., Romero, F., Schlenker, D., Varsori, A. & Kaisin, S. (Eds.), The European Commision 1986-2000: history and memories of an institution (pp. 426-429). Office for Official Publications of the European Communities. picture_as_pdf
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2019). The budgetary revolution: from near bankruptcy to stability. In Dujardin, V., Bussiere, E., Ludlow, P., Romero, F., Schlenker, D., Varsori, A. & Kaisin, S. (Eds.), The European Commision 1986-2000: history and memories of an institution (pp. 211-217). Office for Official Publications of the European Communities. picture_as_pdf
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2019). Of treaties, conventions and habits: how informal integration interacts with formal integration. In van Heumen, L. & Roos, M. (Eds.), The Informal Construction of Europe (pp. 40-54). Routledge. picture_as_pdf
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2018). Commercial preferences: economics and Britain’s European choices, 1945-2016. In Thackeray, D., Thompson, A. & Toye, R. (Eds.), Imagining Britain’s economic future, c.1800–1975: trade, consumerism, and global markets (pp. 279-299). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71297-0 description
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2017). Conclusions. In Ikonomou, H. A., Andry, A. & Byberg, R. (Eds.), European Enlargement across Rounds and Beyond Borders . Routledge.
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2016). Roy Jenkins and the importance of top-level politics. In Dyson, K. & Maes, I. (Eds.), Architects of the Euro: Intellectuals in the Making of European Monetary Union (pp. 117-137). Oxford University Press.
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2016). Not a wholly New Europe: how the integration framework shaped the end of the Cold War in Europe. In Bozo, F., Rödder, A. & Sarotte, M. E. (Eds.), German Reunification: A Multinational History (pp. 133-152). Routledge.
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2016). Necessary but not automatic: how Europe learned to integrate. In Levine, D. H. & Dawn, N. (Eds.), Region-Building in Africa (pp. 267-282). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137586117_16
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2015). Jacques Delors (1985-1995). In van der Harst, J. & Voerman, G. (Eds.), An Impossible Job? The Presidents of the European Commission, 1958-2014 . John Harper Publishing. picture_as_pdf
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2014). Avoiding marginalization: fear as a factor in Britain’s ‘Choice for Europe’, 1960-1973. In Marès, A. & Rey, M. (Eds.), Mémoires et émotions: Au cœur des relations internationales . Publications de la Sorbonne. picture_as_pdf
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2014). Creating the expectation of a collective response: the impact of summitry on transatlantic relations. In Mourlon-Druol, E. & Romero, F. (Eds.), International Summitry and Global Governance: The rise of the G7 and the European Council, 1974-1991 (pp. 138-152). Routledge. picture_as_pdf
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2014). The British are coming: the arrival and impact of the first cohorts of British fonctionnaires in the European Commission. In Bachem-Rehm, M., Hiepel, C. & Türk, H. (Eds.), Teilungen überwinden Europäische und Internationale Geschichte im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Festschrift für Wilfried Loth (pp. 517-530). Walter de Gruyter & Co.. https://doi.org/10.1524/9783486855067.517 picture_as_pdf
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2014). The new Cold War and the expansion of the European Community: a Nexus? In Laursen, J. (Ed.), The Institutions and Dynamics of the European Community, 1973-83 (pp. 131-149). Bloomsbury (Firm). https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845236063_131
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2013). The unnoticed apogee of Atlanticism?: US-Western European relations during the early Reagan era. In Patel, K. K. & Weisbrode, K. (Eds.), European Integration and the Atlantic Community in the 1980s (pp. 17-38). Cambridge University Press.
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2012). Problematic partners: de Gaulle, Thatcher, and their impact. In Jones, E., Menon, A. & Weatherill, S. (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of the European Union (pp. 206-218). Oxford University Press.
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2011). The end of symbiosis: the Nixon era and the collapse of comfortable co-existence between European and Atlantic integration. In Scott-Smith, G. & Aubourg, V. (Eds.), Atlantic, Euratlantic, or Europe-America?: the Atlantic Community and the European Idea From Kennedy to Nixon . Soleb.
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2010). Governing Europe: charting the development of a supranational political system. In Kaiser, W. & Varsori, A. (Eds.), European Union History: Themes and Debates (pp. 109-127). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2010). From words to actions: reinterpreting de Gaulle's European policy, 1958-69. In Neunlist, C., Locher, A. & Martin, G. (Eds.), Globalizing De Gaulle: International Perspectives on De Gaulle's Foreign Policy . Rowman and Littlefield.
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2010). European integration: a Cold War phenomenon. In Westad, O. A. & Leffler, M. P. (Eds.), The Cambridge History of the Cold War . Cambridge University Press.
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2009). History aplenty: but still too isolated. In Egan, M., Nugent, N. & Paterson, W. E. (Eds.), Research Agendas in Eu Studies: Stalking the Elephant . Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2009). The green heart of Europe: the rise and fall of the CAP as the community’s central policy, 1958-1985. In Patel, K. K. (Ed.), Fertile Ground for Europe?: the History of European Integration and the Common Agricultural Policy Since 1945 . Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft.
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2009). Widening, deepening and opening out: towards a fourth decade of European integration history. In Loth, W. (Ed.), Experiencing Europe: 50 Years of European Construction 1957-2007 . Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft.
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2009). In Search of Balance: Italy, Britain and the 'dream' of another European axis. In Craveri, P. & Varsori, A. (Eds.), L'italia Nella Costruzione Europea. Un Bilancio Storico (1957-2007) . Franco Angeli editore.
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2009). Value, flexibility and openness: the treaty of Rome’s success in historical perspective. In Baquero Cruz, J. & Closa Montero, C. (Eds.), European Integration From Rome to Berlin: 1957-2007: History, Law and Politics (pp. 17-32). Verlag Peter Lang.
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2008). The European Commission and the rise of Coreper: a controlled experiment. In Kaiser, W., Leucht, B. & Rasmussen, M. (Eds.), The History of the European Union: Origins of a Trans- and Supranational Polity 1950-72 (pp. 189-205). Routledge.
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2008). A naturally supportive environment?: the European institutions and German unification 1989-1990. In Ludlow, N. P., Bozo, F., Rey, M. & Nuti, L. (Eds.), Europe and the End of the Cold War: a Reappraisal . Routledge.
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2007). Making the new Europe: European integration since 1950. In Martel, G. (Ed.), A Companion to International History 1900 - 2001 (pp. 327-339). Blackwell Publishing Ltd..
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2007). Introduction. In Ludlow, N. P. (Ed.), European integration and the Cold War: Ostpolitik-Westpolitik, 1965-1973 (pp. 1-10). Routledge.
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2006). De-commissioning the empty chair crisis: The community institutions and the crisis of 1965-6. In Wallace, H., Winand, P. & Palayret, J. (Eds.), Visions, Votes and Vetoes :the Empty Chair Crisis and the Luxembourg Compromise Forty Years On (pp. 79-96). Verlag Peter Lang.
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2006). From deadlock to dynamism: the European community in the 1980s. In Dinan, D. (Ed.), The Origins and Evolution of the Eu . Oxford University Press.
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2006). A supranational Icarus: Hallstein, the early commission and the search for an independent role. In Varsori, A. (Ed.), Inside the European Community : Actors and Policies in the European Integration 1957-1972 . Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft.
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2005). Introduction: writing a supranational history of the EEC. In The European Community and the crises of the 1960s: negotiating the Gaulist challenge (pp. 1-10). Routledge.
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2005). Decision-making in the 1960s EC : three case studies. In Loth, W. (Ed.), la Gouvernance Supranationale Dans la Construction Européenne (pp. 115-136). Bruylant.
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2005). Plus que six ambassadeurs : l’émergence du Coreper durant les premières années de la CEE. In Badel, L., Jeannesson, S. & Ludlow, N. P. (Eds.), L’adaptation des Administrations Nationales a la Construction Européenne : Une Approche Historique (1920-1975) . Verlag Peter Lang.
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2003). Paying the price of victory? Postwar Britain and ideas of national independence. In Geppert, D. (Ed.), The Postwar Challenge: Cultural, Social and Political Change in Western Europe, 1945-1958 (pp. 259-272). Oxford University Press.
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2002). Constancy and flirtation: Germany, Britain and the EEC, 1957-1972. In Noakes, J., Wende, P. & Wright, J. (Eds.), Britain and Germany in Europe 1949-1990 (pp. 95-112). Oxford University Press.
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2002). Une Influence Décroissante: Le Treasury et la construction européenne, 1956-63. In Le Role des Ministères des Finances et De L'economie Dans la Construction Européenne (1957-1978): 2 Volumes, Actes du Colloque T . La Documentation Française.
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2002). Us or them? The meanings of ‘Europe’ in British political discourse. In Malmborg, M. a. & Strath, B. (Eds.), The Meaning of Europe: Variety and Contention Within and Among Nations . Berg (Firm).
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2002). A short-term defeat: the Community institutions and the second British application to the EEC, 1966-7. In Daddow, O. (Ed.), Harold Wilson and European Integration: Britain's Second Application to Join the Eec (pp. 135-150). Frank Cass & Co..
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2001). Too close a friend? The Netherlands and the first British application to the EEC, 1961-1963. In Ashton, N. J. & Hellema, D. (Eds.), Unspoken Allies: Anglo-Dutch Relations Since 1780 (pp. 223-239). Amsterdam University Press.
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (1999). "Ne pleurez pas, Milord": Macmillan and France from Algiers to Rambouillet. In Aldous, R. & Lee, S. (Eds.), Harold Macmillan: Aspects of a Political Life (pp. 95-112). St Martin's Press.
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (1997). A problem of trust: British agriculture and the Brussels negotiations. In Wilkes, G. (Ed.), Britain's First Failure to Enter the European Community, 1961-63: Crises in European, Atlantic and Commonwealth Relations . Frank Cass & Co..
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (1996). Influence and vulnerability: the role of the European Commission in the 1961-63 enlargement negotiations. In Griffiths, R. & Ward, S. (Eds.), Courting the Common Market: the First Attempt to Enlarge the Eec . Lothian Foundation Press.
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  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2007-09-20 - 2007-09-21) The end of symbiosis: the Nixon era and the end of comfortable co-existence between European and Atlantic integration [Paper]. Atlantic, Euroatlantic or Europe-America? The Atlantic idea from Kennedy to Nixon, Middleburg, Netherlands, NLD.
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2004-11-06 - 2004-11-07) A few thoughts on the future of Europe's past [Other]. First conference of the History of European Integration Research Society, Cambridge, United Kingdom, GBR.
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2002-11-22 - 2002-11-23) Chronicle of an enlargement foretold: the six and the emergence of agreement over widening 1967-9 [Paper]. Third "Breakthrough Project" Meeting, Barcelona, Spain, ESP.
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  • Faull, Jonathan, Ludlow, N. Piers, Warlouzet, Laurent (2018). British influence in Brussels had been far greater than recognised. picture_as_pdf
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2017). 'Swallow the lot, and swallow it now': Britain is, and was, deluded about its negotiating power with the EU.
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2017). Hopes of a softer Brexit are probably in vain – though I’d love to be proved wrong.
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2016). Britain’s liberal elite can’t wash their hands of Brexit.
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2016). Don’t blame the worse-off for Brexit. Plenty of Britain’s ‘liberal elite’ backed it too.
  • Ludlow, N. Piers (2016). Michael Gove’s problem is that a single market is more than just a tariff-free zone.
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  • Ludlow, N. Piers (10 February 2020) Britain needs friends in the post-Brexit era. Alienating EU allies would be counter-productive. LSE Brexit. picture_as_pdf
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