European Integration and the Cold War Ostpolitik-Westpolitik, 1965-1973 [Paperback]

This edited volume uses newly released archival material to show linkages between the development of the European Union and the Cold War.

Containing essays by well-known Cold War scholars such as Jussi Hanhimaki, Wilfried Loth and Piers Ludlow, the book looks at:

• France, where neither de Gaulle nor Pompidou felt committed to the status quo in East-West or West-West relations
• Germany, where Brandts Ostpolitik was acknowledged to be linked to the success of Bonns Westpolitik
• and Britain, where the move towards Community membership was tightly bound up with a variety of calculations about the organization of the West and its approach to the Cold War.

Nixon and Kissingers policies are set out as the background of US policy against which each of the European players was compelled to operate, explaining how Washington saw European integration as part of the over-arching Cold War.

European Integration and the Cold Warwill appeal to students of Cold War history, European politics, and international history.

Introduction Piers Ludlow  France  1. The Linkage Between European Integration And Detente: De Gaulle's and Pompidous Contrasting Approaches (1965-1974) Georges Henri Soutou  2.Grandeur et D?pendances: The Dilemmas of Gaullist Foreign Policy, September 1967-April 1968 Garret Martin  Germany  3. D?tente and European Integration in the policies of Willy Brandt and Georges Pompidou Wilfried Loth  4. New Ospolitik and European Integration:Concept and Policies in the Brandt Era Andreas Wilkens  Britain  5. Anglo-American Relations, the Atlantic Alliance and European unity, 1965-1968 James Ellison&l##