Ivan T. Berend has been Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA since 1990. He was born in Budapest, Hungary, and studied at the Budapest University of Economics and Lorand Eötvös University. He worked as an assistant professor at the University of Economics (1953), as an associate and full professor (1963) and as Distinguished Professor of History at University of California History Department (1960-1985) before taking up his current post.

1. The New Postwar Economic and Political World Order: The Ground Paved for European Integration; 2. Federalist Dreamers and Pragmatic Integrationists: The Conceptualization and First Steps towards a United States of Europe; 3. The Main Institutional Structure and Policy Agendas of the European Community; 4. The New Challenges of Globalization and Global Political Disorder - Europe's answer: regionalization (the 1980s-1990s); 5. Four Decades of Permanent Enlargement of the Union and its Dangers; 6. The triple crises and escaping ahead: 2008-2020; 7. Disappointment and Anger: The Rise of Anti-EU Populist Nationalism; 8. An Increasingly hostile international environment; 9. Conclusion: The Socioeconomic Achievements