Beyond Containment and Division : : Western Cooperation from a Post-Totalitarian Perspective / / Frans A. M. Alting von Geusau.

• VerfasserIn: Alting von Geusau, Frans Alphons Maria, 1933-
• Place / Publishing House: Dordrecht, The Netherlands : : Kluwer Academic Publishers,, [1992]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 1992
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (283 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- PREFACE -- SUMMARY TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Table of Contents -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I DESIGNS FOR EUROPE -- Chapter 1 WAR IN EUROPE, 1914-1945, AND RIVAL PROPHETS FOR A NEW WORLD ORDER -- The Consequences -- The United States and Soviet Russia -- Wilson's Fourteen Points, Lenin's Twenty-one Theses -- Lenin's World Revolution -- Wilson's New World Order -- Abortive Reconciliation in Europe -- The Second World War -- The Tragedy of the Second World War -- The Aftermath -- The European War and America -- Chapter 2 SOVIET DESIGNS FOR EUROPE: IN RETROSPECT -- Yalta: Myth and Reality -- Soviet Political Designs for Eastern Europe -- The Territorial Design -- The Totalitarian Design -- Political control -- The Totalitarian "Constitution" -- Instruments of Social and Cultural Control -- Totalitarian Design in the Post-Stalinist Era -- "Really Existing Socialism" -- Civil Resistance -- Gorbachev and the "New Thinking" -- The Dynamics of Totalitarianism...in Reverse -- The Collapse of the Totalitarian System -- The "Common European House" -- Chapter 3 AMERICAN AND WEST EUROPEAN RESPONSES -- The Atlantic Charter -- Western Europe -- Nature of the Western Responses -- The Defensive Effort -- Strategic Thinking -- America's Contagious Model -- Tensions in American- West European Relations -- Changes in East and Central Europe -- West European Unification -- Federal Unity -- Integration as a Process -- The Fifth French Republic and the European Communities -- Enlargement of the Communities and Political Cooperation -- Europe 1992 -- On the Eve of 1989 -- PART II POLICIES OF CONTAINMENT -- Chapter 4 CONTAINMENT, COOPERATION AND CONCERN: THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE 1945-1989 -- The Foundations of Postwar American-European Relations -- The United States and Western Europe -- The United States and the Soviet Union.

The United States and Eastern/Central Europe -- Shaping Postwar United States Policies towards Europe -- The Strategy of Containment -- Making the Atlantic Alliance -- The Evolution of American-West European Cooperation -- Factors shaping the relationship -- From Alliance to Partnership (1950-1963) -- The Crises of the Sixties (1963-1969) -- Conflicts and Realignments (1969-1979) -- Cooperative Diversity (1980-1989) -- Chapter 5 CONTAINMENT WITHIN CONTAINMENT: FRANCE AND THE (WEST) GERMAN FEDERAL REPUBLIC 1945-1989 -- Circumstance and Vision after the War -- The Evolution of French-German Relations -- From Schuman Plan to West German Rearmament (1950-1958) -- The Policies of Charles de Gaulle (1958-1969) -- The 1963 Cooperation Treaty -- Post-Gaullism and German Ostpolitik (1969-1981) -- Reversal of Positions (1981-1989) -- French-West German Defence Cooperation -- West European Defence Cooperation -- Differing Visions on One Relationship -- French Political Formulae -- West German Ostpolitik -- Limits to French-German Cooperation -- At the End of an Era -- PART III BEYOND CONTAINMENT AND DIVISION -- Chapter 6 SECURITY BEYOND CONTAINMENT: THE UNITED STATES, NATO AND THE NEW EUROPE -- The Collapse of a "Stable and Durable" Order -- Success Has Many Fathers -- Startling Re-unification -- Germany, Europe and the Western Democraties -- The End of the Soviet Union -- Has the American-West European Alliance Been Overtaken by History? -- A New Security Environment -- The Old Security Order and the New Security Environment -- NATO's Responses to the New Security Environment -- A New Relationship with Central and Eastern Europe -- Security in Europe -- External Security -- Future Tasks of the Alliance -- The Alliance's New Strategic Concept -- Arms Control -- A Broad Approach to Security.

Chapter 7 COOPERATION BEYOND DIVISION: THE EUROPEAN UNION, THE NEW EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES -- The New European Union Treaty -- Purposes', Principles and the European Community -- Cooperation in the Spheres of Justice and Home Affairs -- Provisions on a Common Foreign and Security Policy -- The Search for a European Identity -- External Relations in a New European Environment -- The Association of the New Democracies -- The European Economic Area (EEA) -- The European Union or Community and the United States -- Scope of the Declaration -- Substance of the Declaration -- The Commitments in the Declaration -- A New Partnership? -- The Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe -- The Final Act of Helsinki and the Charter of Paris -- From Follow-up Meetings to New Institutions -- The Challenge of the 1990s -- A New Architecture...of Interlocking Institutions -- From Incremental Adaptation to Constitutional Formulation -- A Constitutional Approach -- A Unique Opportunity -- ANNEXES -- 1. President Wilson: The Fourteen Points, 8 January 1918 -- 2. Declaration of Principles Known as the Atlantic Charter, 14 August 1941 -- 3. Declaration On Liberated Europe, 11 February 1945, (Report of the Yalta Conference) -- 4. Principal Agreements and Declarations: July 1990-December 1991 -- 4.1 Settlement with Respect to Germany -- 4.2. CSCE. The Charter of Paris -- 4.3 Transforming NATO -- 4.4 European Union and Europe Agreements -- 4.5 US.-EC Relations -- INDEX.