France and the Construction of Europe, 1944-2007 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook France and the Construction of Europe, 1944-2007 write by Michael Sutton. This book was released on 2011-03. France and the Construction of Europe, 1944-2007 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This comprehensive history shows how France coupled the pursuit of power and the furtherance of European integration over a 60 year period, from the close of the Second World War to the hesitation caused by the French electorate's referendum rejection of the European Union's constitutional treaty in 2005.
The United States and the European Right, 1945-1955
The United States and the European Right, 1945-1955 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The United States and the European Right, 1945-1955 write by Deborah Kisatsky. This book was released on 2005. The United States and the European Right, 1945-1955 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Nazi Germany's defeat in May 1945 commenced a decade-long allied effort to democratize the former Reich. The United States simultaneously began sheltering scientists, industrialists, and military officers complicit in Nazi crimes. What explained this conflict between the spirit and practice of denazification? Did U.S. Cold War anticommunism simply replace antifascism in the postwar period? Did Americans favor rightists over leftists in a quest to restore "order" in Europe?" "In this groundbreaking study, Deborah Kisatsky shows that opportunity, not order, galvanized U.S. foreign policy, and that American dealings with the European Right were more complex than has been presumed. U.S. leaders cooperated with West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to achieve shared Atlanticist goals. And the United States co-opted nationalistic fighters into a secret stay-behind net of the Bund Deutscher Jugend-Technischer Dienst. But allied leaders jointly worked to contain such vocal neutralist-nationalists as the ex-Nazi Otto Strasser. Cooperation, co-optation, and containment of French and Italian, as of German, rightists advanced American hegemony in Europe. These strategies extended techniques of social control perfected within the United States and synthesized domestic and international systems of power in the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.
The United States and the Making of Postwar France, 1945-1954
The United States and the Making of Postwar France, 1945-1954 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The United States and the Making of Postwar France, 1945-1954 write by Irwin M. Wall. This book was released on 1991-05-31. The United States and the Making of Postwar France, 1945-1954 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A study of the American government's influence in France during the critical postwar period.
A Certain Idea of Europe
A Certain Idea of Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Certain Idea of Europe write by Craig Parsons. This book was released on 2018-07-05. A Certain Idea of Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The quasi-federal European Union stands out as the major exception in the thinly institutionalized world of international politics. Something has led Europeans—and only Europeans—beyond the nation-state to a fundamentally new political architecture. Craig Parsons argues in A Certain Idea of Europe that this "something" was a particular set of ideas generated in Western Europe after the Second World War. In Parsons's view, today's European Union reflects the ideological (and perhaps visionary) project of an elite minority. His book traces the progressive victory of this project in France, where the battle over European institutions erupted most divisively. Drawing on archival research and extensive interviews with French policymakers, the author carefully traces a fifty-year conflict between radically different European plans. Only through aggressive leadership did the advocates of a supranational "community" Europe succeed at building the EU and binding their opponents within it. Parsons puts the causal impact of ideas, and their binding effects through institutions, at the center of his book. In so doing he presents a strong logic of "social construction"—a sharp departure from other accounts of EU history that downplay the role of ideas and ideology.
The Best Laid Plans
The Best Laid Plans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Best Laid Plans write by Stewart Patrick. This book was released on 2008-12-12. The Best Laid Plans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The long-standing, but unresolved debate of the virtues and values of multilateralism vs. unilateralism in American foreign policy is critically important in today's complicated world. To understand the history of each approach is to understand their opportunities and challenges for the future. The Best Laid Plans answers two central questions. First, why did the United States embrace the principles and practices of liberal multilateralism during World War II? Second, why did it cling to this vision of world order despite the outbreak of the Cold War in the late 1940s, as the 'One World' that had been anticipated by U.S. postwar planners split into two rival global camps? The book contends that neither the U.S. turn to liberal multilateralism nor the persistence of this orientation during the Cold War can be attributed solely or even primarily to the global power structure or crude considerations of material self interest. Rather, Stewart Patrick argues that a combination of enduring identity commitments and new ideas, based on the lessons of recent, cataclysmic events, shaped the policy preferences of American central decision-makers in the Roosevelt and Truman administrations. Although the book is steeped in history, its conclusions have tremendous relevance for the contemporary era, when the United States once again finds itself at the apex of world power, and debates are rife about the role of multilateral cooperation in the realization of U.S. foreign policy objectives.
