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The EC, Eastern Europe and European unity : discord, collaboration, and integration since 1947 /
"This text argues that the process of West European integration was encouraged and facilitated by the Cold War, in which the threat posed by the Soviet Union temporarily inhibited internal conflicts, and in which American hegemony provided the relatively stable and secure economic, political an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London, UK :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2016.
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| Colección: | Bloomsbury academic collections. History and politics in the 20th century : Europe.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 1.1 'Things could have been different'; 1.2 The approach of this book; 1.3 The structure of this book; 2. European Integration Without the East, 1945-1950; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The first preparatory years; 2.3 The Marshall Plan; 2.4 Two other plans: Schuman and Pleven; 2.5 European integration and the Cold War; 3. From Paris to Rome, 1951-1957; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA); 3.3 The Treaty of Paris (1951); 3.4 The ECSC and foreign policy
- 3.5 The ECSC and Eastern Europe3.6 European integration after Stalin; 4. Moscow's Response to West European Integration, 1947-1973; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Moscow's policy of malign neglect; 4.3 Moscow's apprehensions of 'German revanchism' and 'American Monopoly Capitalism'; 4.4 The Seventeen and Thirty-Two Theses; 4.5 Late rapprochement; 4.6 Keep Britain out!; 4.7 The EEC and East European integration; 5. The EC's Common Commercial Policy; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 A major step towards positive integration?; 5.3 Credit; 5.4 EC protectionism in East-West trade
- 5.5 Circumvention by the member states5.6 The EC's autonomous trade policy; 5.7 Trade policy is foreign policy; 6. The Lack of an EC Ostpolitik, 1957-1985; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Lack of consensus, lack of power; 6.3 France, West Germany and Great Britain: three distinct views; 6.4 The Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE); 6.5 Afghanistan, Poland and the Urengoi pipeline row; 6.6 Europe's changing role; 7. The EC and the CMEA: Deaf-Mutes Communicate; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 A period of mutual neglect; 7.3 Detente: let's get together; 7.4 Deadlock, but no break
- 7.5 Dilemmas of the EC's realpolitik7.6 The Cold War revisited, perestroika and Berlin; 8. 1989 and 1992, Two Revolutions?; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Two parallel revolutions?; 8.3 Perestroika, Central Europe and the West; 8.4 Brussels'initial response; 8.5 Gorbachev's'Common European Home'; 8.6 The new German Question; 9. Brussels' Lighthouse: Coordinating Western Economic Assistance to the East; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 The G-7 Paris meeting and PHARE; 9.3 No money for nothing; 9.4 The debate about aid; 9.5 Promises, reimbursement and efficacy; 9.6 The new Europe: primed for peace?
- 10. Wider or Deeper? The EC's Economic Security Dilemma10.1 Introduction; 10.2 The EC's security dilemma; 10.3 A wider Europe? National views and different scenarios; 10.4 Association agreements and the Iberian example; 10.5 Towards a new European divide?; 10.6 Lack of money or lack of political will?; 11. Epilogue: Discord and Collaboration in the 1990s; 11.1 "All's Well That Ends Well'; 11.2 Bipolarity, multipolarity and stability; 11.3 Neo-liberal institutionalism and the EC in the 1990s; 11.4 Discord and collaboration, or the significance of grins without cats; Notes; Bibliography; Index