Toward European Integration. Jean Monnet between Infrastructures and Logistic Governance

Abstract

The goal of the article is to investigate some aspects of the logistic European integration at its origins by looking at the contribution of Jean Monnet. Focusing on the fifty years before the Schuman declaration, the text traces the formation of the “logistics rationality” of the Frenchman, centering on two crucial aspects of his action: the commitment to build transnational infrastructures and the creation of “logistic communities” of States. Following this route, the birth of the ECSC will emerge as the final step of a long path, to which Monnet contributed by theorizing the construction of the “European logistic space”.