Beyond Containment and Division : : Western Cooperation from a Post-Totalitarian Perspective /

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

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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.
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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.

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