No End to Alliance: The United States and Western Europe: Past, Present and Future

ISBN-13: 9780333740804 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 268 str.

Lundestad, Geir

Opis

Distinguished historians and political scientists on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as former German foreign minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, are the contributors to No End to Alliance . The book focuses on some crucial issues in transatlantic relations in the past, present, and future, with emphasis on America's relations with West Germany, Britain, France, and Scandinavia. While the contributors hold somewhat different views, the emphasis is on the remarkable strength and duration of the Atlantic alliance.

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Contributors Abbreviations and Acronyms PART I: INTRODUCTION Introduction; Geir Lundestad The Transatlantic Partnership: An Alliance for Peace and Progress; Hans-Dietrich Genscher PART II: THE PAST Culture, Emotion and the Creation of the Atlantic Identity, 1948-52; Frank Costigliola Atlantic Partnership and European Integration: American European Policies and the Germany Problem, 1947-66; Klaus Schwabe Security and Identity: The Nordic Countries and the United States Since 1945; Jussi M. Hanhim� The Troubled Friendship: France and the United States, 1945-89; Pierre Melandri The USA, Britain, and the Question of Hegemony; Alan P. Dobson PART III: THE PRESENT The United States and Western Europe: Dimensions of Cooperation and Competition; Werner Link Western Transformation After the Cold War; David P. Calleo On Friendship: Anglo-American Relations at the Fin de Si�e; Alex Danchev PART IV: THE FUTURE The Future of America's Continental Commitment; John H. Mearsheimer PART V: CONCLUSION American-European Cooperation and Conflict: Past, Present, and Future; Geir Lundestad Index

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DAVID CALLEO Dean Acheson Professor and Director of European Studies, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC FRANK COSTIGLIOLA Professor of History, University of Rhode Island ALEX DANCHEV Professor of International Relations and Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Keele University ALAN DOBSON Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Wales, Swansea HANS-DIETRICH GENSCHER Former German Foreign Minister (1974-92) JUSSI HANHIMÄKI Lecturer in International History, London School of Economics and Political Science WERNER LINK Professor, Forschungsinstitut für Politische Wissenschaft und Europäische Fragen, University of Cologne JOHN J. MEARSCHEIMER R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago