Postwar European states shrank to metropolitan cores and turned toward supranational integration.

Evidence

In fact, the decades after 1945 marked the end of empire, whether continental or intercontinental, as the dominant type of global political organization. This process initiated a crucial period in the history of Western European nation-states, during which time these states, after centuries of territorial expansion, shrank to their metropolitan core regions and turned more fully toward European supranational integration. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 65

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Empire loss reoriented Germany and France toward supranational European integration — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 37

Broader Connections

• Empire loss reoriented Germany and France toward supranational European integration #expands (0.95) — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 37