The Foreign Policies of West Germany, France, and Britain
Author: Wolfram F. Hanrieder
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 348
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Author: Wolfram F. Hanrieder
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 348
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: R. Gerald Hughes
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007-06-11
Total Pages: 518
ISBN-13: 1134127227
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis well-researched book details the ambiguity in British policy towards Europe in the Cold War as it sought to pursue détente with the Soviet Union whilst upholding its commitments to its NATO allies. From the early 1950s, Britain pursued a dual policy of strengthening the West whilst seeking détente with the Soviet Union. British statesmen realized that only through compromise with Moscow over the German question could the elusive East-West be achieved. Against this, the West German hard line towards the East (endorsed by the United States) was seen by the British as perpetuating tension between the two blocs. This cast British policy onto an insoluble dilemma, as it was caught between its alliance obligations to the West German state and its search for compromise with the Soviet bloc. Charting Britain's attempts to reconcile this contradiction, this book argues that Britain successfully adapted to the new realities and made hitherto unknown contributions towards détente in the early 1960s, whilst drawing towards Western Europe and applying for membership of the EEC in 1961. Drawing on unpublished US and UK archives, Britain, Germany and the Cold War casts new light on the Cold War, the history of détente and the evolution of European integration. This book will appeal to students of Cold War history, British foreign policy, German politics, and international history.
Author: Martin Albers
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-12-01
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 1137565675
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book focuses on helping readers to fill the gap of the little known history between Western Europe and its most important trading partner: the People’s Republic of China. Inspired by the economic and political signifance of Sino-European relations, this book shows how the China policies of the three biggest states of Western Europe – Britain, France, and the Federal Republic of Germany – helped China reintegrate into the international community in the 1970s. Against the background of the Cold War, the end of Maoism, and the emergence of globalization, the governments in Bonn, Paris and London had to find ways of dealing with Europe’s declining influence and promote their own national interests in Asia. Based on newly declassified government files, readers will find such sources invaluable in understanding the argument that, despite pursuing very different policies, the three governments supported a rapid expansion of peaceful exchange between the People’s Republic and Europe and substantially contributed to the success of Beijing's reform policy.
Author: Donald Cameron Watt
Publisher: London : O. Wolff
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 172
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 302
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Anne Deighton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1993-02-11
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780198278986
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new interpretation of the British government's policy towards Germany in the years immediately after 1945, and a reassessment of the part this policy played in the development of the Cold War.
Author: Gary L. Olson
Publisher: Brunswick, Ohio : King's Court Communications
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 356
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Saki Dockrill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0521381118
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sabine Lee
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-07-15
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1317886216
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith the debate about Europe constantly in the headlines, this examination of the important and tricky post-war relationship between German and Britain compares their different roles, outlook and development. In the wake of a devastated continent, this relationship has been one of the central axes of the development of post-war Europe and crucial in terms of recent British history. Sabine Lee considers broad issues such as the comparative senses of national identity, destiny and direction, and the respective roles of Germany and Britain in Europe and in the world community at large. With Germany now reunited and at the head of the new Europe, and Britain in the process of devolution and struggling to retain the special relationship with the United States, this is an important and topical book.
Author: Christian F. Ostermann
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2021-04-27
Total Pages: 566
ISBN-13: 1503607631
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the aftermath of World War II, American policymakers turned to the task of rebuilding Europe while keeping communism at bay. In Germany, formally divided since 1949,the United States prioritized the political, economic, and, eventually, military integration of the fledgling Federal Republic with the West. The extraordinary success story of forging this alliance has dominated our historical under-standing of the American-German relationship. Largely left out of the grand narrative of U.S.–German relations were most East Germans who found themselves caught under Soviet and then communist control by the post-1945 geo-political fallout of the war that Nazi Germany had launched. They were the ones who most dearly paid the price for the country's division. This book writes the East Germans—both leadership and general populace—back into that history as objects of American policy and as historical agents in their own right Based on recently declassified documents from American, Russian, and German archives, this book demonstrates that U.S. efforts from 1945 to 1953 went beyond building a prosperous democracy in western Germany and "containing" Soviet-Communist power to the east. Under the Truman and then the Eisenhower administrations, American policy also included efforts to undermine and "roll back" Soviet and German communist control in the eastern part of the country. This story sheds light on a dark-er side to the American Cold War in Germany: propaganda, covert operations, economic pressure, and psychological warfare. Christian F. Ostermann takes an international history approach, capturing Soviet and East German responses and actions, and drawing a rich and complex picture of the early East–West confrontation in the heart of Europe.