A Not-So-Special Relationship: The Us, the UK and German Unification, 1945-1990

ISBN-13: 9780748645657 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 404 str.

Luca Ratti

Opis

Luca Ratti gives you new insights into the role of the Anglo-American 'special relationship' in German reunification, and examines the impact that Germany's reunification had on Anglo-American and transatlantic relations.

Germany's unification in October 1990 was one of the most momentous events in modern European history and world politics since the end of World War II. German unity ended the Cold War in Europe, accelerated the collapse of communist regimes across Eastern Europe, and the disintegration of the USSR in 1991. It also triggered NATO's transformation at the London and Rome summits of the Alliance and deepened Europe's political and economic integration with the signing of the treaty of Maastricht in 1992.

Spis treści

Part One: The ‘Special Relationship’and the German question during the Cold War; 1. The U.S., the UK, and the German question from the first Cold War to détente (1945-1961); 2. The U.S., the UK and the German question from détente to the second Cold War (1961-1985); 3. The US, the UK and the German question at the Cold War’s end (1985-1989); Part Two: Anglo-American relations and the diplomacy of German unification (1989-1990); 4. The US, the UK, and German unification; 5. The US, the UK, and German unification within NATO; Conclusions: Still a ‘Special Relationship’ after Unification?.