The Strained Alliance

Author : Matthias Schulz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521899994
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Strained Alliance written by Matthias Schulz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-11-16 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a wide array of recently declassified archival materials in the United States and Western Europe, this collection offers new insights into the changing dynamics of transatlantic relations during the era of détente (1969-1980). Whereas prior studies of this decade have focused on the end of the Vietnam War or U.S.-Soviet relations, this volume reveals why bitter conflicts developed between the U.S. and its European allies, and how, contrary to conventional wisdom, European integration evolved less as a consequence of Washington's support than as a result of America's relative decline and growing U.S.-European discord. Taking into account the developments in various bilateral and multilateral settings, such as the European Community, the Helsinki process, and the G-7 summits, the contributions show that a common alliance strategy has always been a difficult undertaking, often the result of bitter confrontation and painful compromises. With clear overtones to more recent disputes, this collection demonstrates there was never a "golden age" of transatlantic harmony.

Author : William C. Cronwell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349217735
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The United States and the European Pillar written by William C. Cronwell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major study of Atlantic political relations since World War 2 that uses a comparative perspective to analyze U.S. foreign policy and U.S.-European relations in the context of a Western Europe attempting to speak with one voice. The book examines U.S. policy toward European unity and the evolution of a West European pillar in foreign policy and defence, contrasts U.S. and European approaches toward specific global issues, and considers Atlantic relations in light of the dramatic European upheavals in 1989-90.

Author : Robert R. Simmons
Publisher : New York : Free Press ; London : Collier Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Strained Alliance written by Robert R. Simmons and published by New York : Free Press ; London : Collier Macmillan. This book was released on 1975 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William C. Cromwell
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312068318
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The United States and the European Pillar written by William C. Cromwell and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Jabara Carley
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee
ISBN 13 : 146169938X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1939 written by Michael Jabara Carley and published by Ivan R. Dee. This book was released on 2009-02-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a crucial point in the twentieth century, as Nazi Germany prepared for war, negotiations between Britain, France, and the Soviet Union became the last chance to halt Hitler’s aggression. Incredibly, the French and British governments dallied, talks failed, and in August 1939 the Soviet Union signed a nonaggression pact with Germany. Michael Carley’s gripping account of these negotiations is not a pretty story. It is about the failures of appeasement and collective security in Europe. It is about moral depravity and blindness, about villains and cowards, and about heroes who stood against the intellectual and popular tides of their time. Some died for their beliefs, others labored in obscurity and have been nearly forgotten. In 1939 they sought to make the Grand Alliance that never was between France, Britain, and the Soviet Union. This story of their efforts is background to the wartime alliance created in 1941 without France but with the United States in order to defeat a demonic enemy. 1939 is based upon Mr. Carley’s longtime research on the period, including work in French, British, and newly opened Soviet archives. He challenges prevailing interpretations of the origins of World War II by situating 1939 at the end of the early cold war between the Soviet Union, France, and Britain, and by showing how anti-communism was the major cause of the failure to form an alliance against Hitler. 1939 was published on September 1, the sixtieth anniversary of the Nazi invasion of Poland and the start of the war.

Author : David M. K. Sheinin
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820337296
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Argentina and the United States written by David M. K. Sheinin and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-06-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first English-language survey of Argentine-U.S. relations to appear in more than a decade, David M. K. Sheinin challenges the accepted view that confrontation has been the characteristic state of affairs between the two countries. Sheinin draws on both Spanish- and English-language sources in the United States, Argentina, Canada, and Great Britain to provide a broad perspective on the two centuries of shared U.S.-Argentine history with fresh focus in particular on cultural ties, nuclear politics in the cold war era, the politics of human rights, and Argentina's exit in 1991 from the nonaligned movement. From the perspectives of both countries, Sheinin discusses such topics as Pan-Americanism, petroleum, communism and fascism, and foreign debt. Although the general trajectory of the two countries' relationship has been one of cooperative interaction based on generally strong and improving commercial and financial ties, shared strategic interests, and vital cultural contacts, Sheinin also emphasizes episodes of strained ties. These include the Cuban Revolution, the Dirty War of the late 1970s and early 1980s, and the Falklands/Malvinas War. In his epilogue, Sheinin examines Argentina's monetary crash of December 2001, when the United States-in a major policy shift-refused to come to Argentina's rescue.

Author : John W. Garver
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131745457X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sino-American Alliance written by John W. Garver and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-03 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides an analysis of the role the United States alliance with Nationalist China played in US strategy to contain first the Sino-Soviet alliance and then China during the 1950s and 1960s.

Author : Robert R. Simmons
Publisher : New York : Free Press ; London : Collier Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Strained Alliance written by Robert R. Simmons and published by New York : Free Press ; London : Collier Macmillan. This book was released on 1975 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Timothy Andrews Sayle
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501735527
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enduring Alliance written by Timothy Andrews Sayle and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born from necessity, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has always seemed on the verge of collapse. Even now, some seventy years after its inception, some consider its foundation uncertain and its structure weak. At this moment of incipient strategic crisis, Timothy A. Sayle offers a sweeping history of the most critical alliance in the post-World War II era. In Enduring Alliance, Sayle recounts how the western European powers, along with the United States and Canada, developed a treaty to prevent encroachments by the Soviet Union and to serve as a first defense in any future military conflict. As the growing and unruly hodgepodge of countries, councils, commands, and committees inflated NATO during the Cold War, Sayle shows that the work of executive leaders, high-level diplomats, and institutional functionaries within NATO kept the alliance alive and strong in the face of changing administrations, various crises, and the flux of geopolitical maneuverings. Resilience and flexibility have been the true hallmarks of NATO. As Enduring Alliance deftly shows, the history of NATO is organized around the balance of power, preponderant military forces, and plans for nuclear war. But it is also the history riven by generational change, the introduction of new approaches to conceiving international affairs, and the difficulty of diplomacy for democracies. As NATO celebrates its seventieth anniversary, the alliance once again faces challenges to its very existence even as it maintains its place firmly at the center of western hemisphere and global affairs.

Author : Robert J. McMahon
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198859546
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cold War: a Very Short Introduction written by Robert J. McMahon and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vividly written and based on up-to-date scholarship, this title provides an interpretive overview of the international history of the Cold War.