Intro; Acknowledgments; Contents; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Introduction: The EC as a Theater State; Part I: Europe on the Diplomatic Stage; Chapter 2: Statesmen Made in Washington: Official EC Visits to the United States; Preface: Aggrandizement by Ambiguity; International Organizations: Caught in the Diplomatic Limbo; International Relations "Analogous to Those of a State"; Diplomacy of Visits; "Representatives of Sovereign Institutions"; A Coup de Theatre for the Press; A "European Triumvirate" in Washington; A European "Propaganda Campaign."

A Paper Tiger Come to LifeChapter 3: At the Eurocrats' Court: Foreign Representatives, Diplomatic Ceremonies, and the Empty Chair Crisis; A Gentlemen's Disagreement; The Technocrats' "Misbehavior"; "Everything Finally Returned to Order"; Chapter 4: Ambassadors from Europe: The EC's Diplomatic Missions in Britain and the United States; "An Independent Sovereign Entity": The British Case; The Technocrats' Gamble: The US Case; Giving the Commissions a Dressing-Down; Epilogue: Beyond Equivocation?; Part II: A Parliament for Europe

Chapter 5: The Self-Styled Constituante: From the Council of Europe to the Common AssemblyA European Assembly; From Consultative Assembly to Sovereign Parliament; The Mandate for Europe; Resilience in Crisis; Opposition Impossible; Chapter 6: Constitutional Theater: From the Common Assembly to the European Parliament; Monnet's Speech from the Throne; The Ministers' Empty Chairs; The Six Take Over Europe; A Parliament That Dares Speak Its Name; Taking on the Ministers; In the Parliament's Shadow: The Council of Europe; A Bone of Contention: The European Flag

What's in a Name?Part III: The Race for the Capital of Europe; Chapter 7: The Provincial Heart of Postwar Europe: The Seats of the Council of Europe and the ECSC in Strasbourg and Luxembourg; A European District of Columbia; Strasbourg, or the Invention of the European Vocation; The Face of Little Europe: Small Cities in Small Countries; A Break with Internationalism?; Chapter 8: A Europe Ruled from Paris? Paris, Brussels, and the Battle for the Seat of the EC; Paris: The Capital Supreme; Supremacy or Balance?

Charlemagne, Eurafrique, and Europe's Place in the WorldAn Outright War; The Discovery of a Scapegoat; The Great European Traveling Circus; Europe's Ugly Capital: Half Kafka, Half Chaplin; The EC's Seat, Europe's Mirror; Chapter 9: Conclusion: The Power of Europe; Chapter 10: Epilogue: Symbolic Surplus and Democratic Deficit; References; Parliamentary and Governmental Documents; Published Sources; Archival Sources; Fondation Jean Monnet pour l'Europe (FJME); Photographic Archives; Film Archives; Historical Archives of the European Union (HAEU)