Crisis in the West : American Leadership and the Global Balance

Preface mischiefs which have ruined cities, depopulated countries, and disordered the peace of the world, has been, not whether there be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it. This 'great question' may be decided against free societies unless they are ever alert. A turning-point is nowadays a period of time between one turning-point and another. In the West a great debate persists and if this book contributes its mite it will have served its purpose. Front Matter....Pages i-x Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The End of the European Balance....Pages 3-14 The Wartime Origins of Some Major Postwar Issues....Pages 15-31 Front Matter....Pages 33-33 Risk and Paradox....Pages 35-40 The New American Realism....Pages 41-46 The Problem of German Reunification Before Ostpolitik....Pages 47-53 Peaceful Coexistence or a Durable Peace?....Pages 54-66 Front Matter....Pages 67-67 Anti-Nazism and a German Patriot....Pages 69-79 The Suez Breach of 1956 and Americans with a Past....Pages 80-85 The Politics of Nostalgia....Pages 86-93 Front Matter....Pages 95-95 Coalition Diplomacy-Early Allied Critiques of American Postwar Leadership....Pages 97-107 Western Europe versus the United States?....Pages 108-122 The American Role and World....Pages 123-135 Front Matter....Pages 137-137 The United States, Britain and the Open Seas....Pages 139-151 The Enlargement of the European Community and its Global Effects....Pages 152-177 EEC as a Third Force: Tryouts over the Middle East....Pages 178-193 Front Matter....Pages 195-195 Topsy-Turvy as a Principle of Statecraft....Pages 197-227 Back Matter....Pages 228-230 Among the urgent problems of our time, that of averting a nuclear holocaust still comes first, and with it there is the need in many fields for co-operation between free societies. It is this crucial topic with which the author mostly deals and he joins fresh comment to a selection from the analyses he has been making since the 1930's when the West had the Nazi challenge to meet