The strategic triangle : France, Germany, and the United States in the shaping of the new Europe / edited by Helga Haftendorn ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haftendorn, Helga.

Freie Universität Berlin. Arbeitsstelle Transatlantische Aussen- und Sicherheitspolitik.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations.

Europe--Politics and government--1945---Congresses.

Europe.

Politics and government.

France--Foreign relations--1945---Congresses.

France.

Germany--Foreign relations--1945---Congresses.

Germany.

United States--Foreign relations--20th century--Congresses.

United States.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xii, 411 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2006]

Summary:

France is Germany's most important partner in the process of European integration. America was long Germany's protector, but it is now the power balancing Germany's in Europe. And the Franco-American relationship, though less prominent than the other two, has a great impact on both of them.

Taking the perspective of each country by turns, this book reviews a series of economic and diplomatic episodes and asks how they affected these countries' relations with each other, with countries outside this triangle, and with international institutions such as the EU and NATO. It concentrates on the period 1965-95, examining the NATO crisis of 1966-67, the collapse of the Bretton Woods system, Ostpolitik, detente, and the end of the Cold War. The book also discusses the origins of the triangle after the Second World War and devotes an epilogue to the triangle after 9/11. The Strategic Triangle is based on a conference held in Potsdam, Germany, and a workshop at the Wilson Center.

Contents:

Introduction: Relations in a Strategic Triangle-Bonn/Berlin, Paris, and Washington 1

Part I The European Community at the Crossroads

1 Building Europe: The European Community and the Bonn-Paris-Washington Relationship, 1958-1963 / Desmond Dinan 29

2 Germany and the Discord of Its Allies: The Case of the European Political Union / Martin Koopmann 55

Part II The NATO Crisis of the 1960s and the Maturation of the Strategic Triangle

3 The NATO Crisis of 1966-1967: Confronting Germany with a Conflict of Priorities / Helga Haftendorn 77

4 The NATO Crisis of 1966-1967: A French Point of View / Frederic Bozo 103

5 The De Gaulle Challenge: The Johnson Administration and the NATO Crisis of 1966-1967 / Thomas A. Schwartz 127

Part III Dealing with the Collapse of Bretton Woods

6 The Search for a New Monetary System: Germany's Balancing Act / Michael Kreile 149

7 France, European Monetary Cooperation, and the International Monetary System Crisis, 1968-1973 / Eric Bussiere 171

8 The United States and the Search for a New Economic and Monetary System in the 1970s / William H. Becker 189

Part IV Ostpolitik and Detente

9 German Ostpolitik in a Multilateral Setting / Helga Haftendorn 209

10 President Pompidou, Ostpolitik, and the Strategy of Detente / Georges-Henri Soutou 229

Part V Testing Detente and Relaunching Europe

11 The United States Tests Detente / Gale A. Mattox 261

12 From Euromissiles to Maastricht: The Policies of Reagan-Bush and Mitterrand / Samuel F. Wells Jr. 287

13 Germany and Relaunching Europe / Markus Jachtenfuchs 309

Part VI NATO and Post-Cold War Challenges

14 Enlarging NATO: The German-American Design for a New Alliance / Stephen F. Szabo 327

15 NATO and the Balkan Challenge: An American Perspective / Kori Schake 351

Epilogue: A New Geometry? 371.

Notes:

Papers from a conference organized by the Center for Transatlantic Foreign Policy and Security Studies at the Free University of Berlin and held May 31-June 4, 2000, in Potsdam.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780801885631

0801885639

9780801885648

0801885647

OCLC:

71800643

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