European Integration As War Prevention

European integration as war prevention is the source’s claim that shared institutions, supply chains, and industrial cooperation can reduce incentives for war among European states. In 139.从《昨日的世界》到如今的欧洲：美好年代Belle époque，它还能回来吗？, Airbus becomes the main example: production roles are distributed across countries so that economic value is jointly made rather than nationally enclosed.

The episode keeps the claim bounded. Internal integration may make war among deeply embedded partners less likely, but economic dependence alone did not stop the Russia-Ukraine war, and Europe’s later energy break with Russia shows that ties can be severed under geopolitical pressure. The concept is therefore strongest when applied to political communities with shared institutions, not to trade as a universal peace guarantee.

Key Claims

• Industrial interdependence can be a peace architecture when it sits inside shared institutions.
• The same logic is weaker when the parties do not share a political community or security assumptions.
• Supply-chain integration can reduce internal conflict while still leaving Europe vulnerable to external war, energy shocks, and alliance dependence.

Connections

• European Union and Airbus - institutional and company case.
• Russia, Ukraine, NATO, and European Defense Autonomy - source’s limiting cases.
• NATO Alliance Credibility - security layer integration cannot replace by itself.
• Eurozone Internal Imbalance - economic integration’s internal friction side.