He played a key role in re-launching Europeanmonetary integration, winning the right to attend the new global summits, and smoothingGreece's path to EC membership. Indeed the rowover Britain's contribution to the EC budget, meant that Britain's position inEurope was as difficult when he left Brussels as it had been when he arrived.
He played a key role in re-launching Europeanmonetary integration, winning the right to attend the new global summits, and smoothingGreece's path to E...
Foreignersplayed a significant role in shaping Libya's institutions and policies, and thisbook explores longer term trends in the relations between Libya and the West, placing current developments in their historical context. As a result, Libyarepeatedly falls prey to foreign powers wanting to flex their muscles.
Foreignersplayed a significant role in shaping Libya's institutions and policies, and thisbook explores longer term trends in the relations between Li...
Positioned on the fault line between two competing Cold War ideological and military alliances, and entangled in ethnic, cultural and religious diversity, the Balkan region offers a particularly interesting case for the study of the global Cold War system. This book explores the origins, unfolding and impact of the Cold War on the Balkans on the one hand, and the importance of regional realities and pressures on the other. Fifteen contributors from history, international relations, and political science address a series of complex issues rarely covered in one volume, namely the Balkans and...
Positioned on the fault line between two competing Cold War ideological and military alliances, and entangled in ethnic, cultural and religious divers...
This 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...
This book focuses on helping readers to fill the gap of the little known history between Western Europe and its most important trading partner: the...
This book analyses US and UK efforts to shut down Pakistan's nuclear programme in the 1970s, between the catalytic Indian nuclear test of May 1974 and the decline of sustained non-proliferation activity from mid-1979 onwards. It is a tale of cooperation between Washington and London, but also a story of divisions and disputes. The brutal economic realities of the decade, globalisation, and wider geopolitical challenges all complicated this relationship. Policy and action were also affected by changes elsewhere in the world. Iran's 1979 revolution brought a new form of political Islamic...
This book analyses US and UK efforts to shut down Pakistan's nuclear programme in the 1970s, between the catalytic Indian nuclear test of May 1974 ...
This book is a detailed and original look at the radical reorganisation of French heavy industry in the turbulent period between the establishment of the Vichy regime in 1940 and the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), the forerunner to the European Union, in 1952.
This book is a detailed and original look at the radical reorganisation of French heavy industry in the turbulent period between the establishment of ...
This book is the first comprehensive study of the setting up and early development of the NATO Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society (CCMS), or the alliance's environmental programme.
This book is the first comprehensive study of the setting up and early development of the NATO Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society (CCMS), o...
This edited collection offers a new approach to the study of Italy's foreign policy from the 1960s to the end of the Cold War, highlighting its complex and sometimes ambiguous goals, due to the intricacies of its internal system and delicate position in the fault line of the East-West and North-South divides.
This edited collection offers a new approach to the study of Italy's foreign policy from the 1960s to the end of the Cold War, highlighting its comple...
