Beyond Containment and Division: Western Cooperation from a Post-Totalitarian Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780792320142 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 284 str.

Frans Alphons Maria Alting Von Geusau; F. A. M. Alting Von Geusau;Alting Von Geusau

Opis

The collapse of the totalitarian system and the disintegration of the Soviet Union took the West by complete surprise. For many years Western cooperation and West European integration proceeded on the assumption that the division of Europe and Germany would be there to stay. As a consequence, the Western states are now having great difficulties in adapting their cooperative arrangements to the challenges of a new European environment, and in coping with the political problems that had been swept under the carpet for the sake of preserving bipolar stability'. In his new book, Alting von Geusau offers a fresh and timely analysis of Western cooperation from a post-totalitarian perspective. He reminds the reader of America's involvement and the tragic consequences of the two world wars. He explains why the order of Yalta' was a myth and how the Soviet designs for Europe were ultimately defeated by civil resistance. Post-war American leadership created the free space for the remarkable growth of Western organisations and the dynamics of European integration. American and French policies of containment are reexamined for the same post-totalitarian perspective... and found in need to adapt to the new realities. In two final chapters, the author carefully reviews the agreements reached in the principal Western and European organizations between November 1989 and January 1992 with a view to adapting their tasks to the new Europe. He also underlines the emerging importance of a new partnership between the United States and united Germany. Combining historical, legal and political analysis, this new title is an important source of reference and a highly useful textbook for advanced students in European organization and Western cooperation. In addition it will be especially useful to training programmes for scholars, students and diplomats from East and Central Europe and the republics of the former Soviet Union.

Spis treści

Part I: Designs for Europe
1. War in Europe, 1914-1945, and Rival Prophets for a New World Order.
2. Soviet Designs for Europe.
3. American and West European Responses.
Part II: Policies of Containment
4. Containment, Cooperation and Concern: the United Sates and Europe 1945-1989.
5. Containment, within Containment: France and the (West)German Federal Republic 1945-1989.
Part III: Beyond Containment and Division.
6. Security beyond Containment: The United States, NATO and the New Europe.
7. Cooperation beyond Division: The European Union, the New Europe and the United States.
Annexes.
Index.