Power in Europe? II : Great Britain, France, Germany, and Italy, and the origins of the EEC, 1952-1957

This book makes an important contribution to the expanding body of work in generative phonology which aims to reduce the number of traditionally recognized melodic categories in order to achieve a greater degree of restrictiveness. By analyzing data from a large number of different languages, Nasukawa establishes a clear affinity between nasality and voicing, and demonstrates the advantages of treating these two properties as different phonetic manifestations of a single nasal-voice category. The choice of whether to interpret this category as voicing or nasality is determined by the active or inactive status of a complement tier; when active, this complement tier enhances the acoustic image of its head category and is interpreted as voicing. This study deepens our understanding of the typological relation between nasality and voicing, and sheds new light on a number of related agreement phenomena such as nasal harmony, postnasal voicing assimilation, voiced-obstruent voicing assimilation and spontaneous prenasalisation. Introduction of the Editor Power in Europe? Introductory Remarks I. The Decision Makers in Foreign Affairs Overstretched and Overstrung: Eden, the Foreign Office and the Making of Policy Aspects of the Suez Crisis Decision Makers, Decisions and French Power The Alternative Prospect: The Plan of a Neutralized United Germany Italy and the Problems of “Power Politics” – From the EDC Failure to the Suez Crisis Introductory Remarks for the Debate II. The Economic Area Economic Aspects of British Perceptions of Power The French Alternative: Economic Power through the Empire or through Europe? Germany’s Economic Revival in the 1950s. The Foreign Policy Perspective The Italian “Economic Miracle” Revisited: New Markets and American Technology Introductory Remarks for the Debate III. The Military Problems British Perceptions of Military Problems in the Fifties Military Power in France 1954–1958 Problems of West Germany Security Policy 1956–1959 Italy between Atlantic Alliance and EDC, 1948–1955 Introductory Remarks to the Debate IV. The Political Parties British Parties and the European Situation 1950–1957 The Perception of French Power by the Political Forces Views of the Foreign Policy Situation Among the CDU Leadership, 1945–1957 Western European and Atlantic Integration 1954–1958 as seen by the German Communists The Italian Political Parties and Foreign Policy in the 1950s: DC, PSI, PCI, MSI The International Policies of the Italian Christian Democratic and Communist Parties in the Fifties Introductory Remarks to the Debate V. Public Opinion and the Cultural Sector Power, Propaganda and Public Opinion: The British Information Services and the Cold War, 1945–1957 Public Opinion and Perception of Power in France at the End of the Fourth Republic (1954–1958) Power and Awareness of Power in the Federal Republic of Germany 1953–1956/57: Perception of the Power Problem in Public Opinion Italian Public Opinion and European Politics (1950–1956) VI. Europe and the Origins of the EEC (from the Crisis of EDC to the Treaties of Rome through the Suez Crisis) Britain and Europe, 1950–1957 Europe as a Cure of French Impotence? The Guy Mollet Government and the Negotiation of the Treaties of Rome “Firm with the West!” Elements of the International Orientation of West Germany in the Mid-1950s “Power Politics”: The Italian Pattern (1951–1957) Introductory Remarks to the Debate General Conclusion On the Power of Old and New Europe Abbreviations The Authors Other Publications Index of Names This volume assembles1, in a revised and completed form, the 26 principal contributions to an international Colloquium held in Florence on 23-27 September 1987.