The United States and the European Pillar : The Strained Alliance

The first major study of Atlantic political relations since World War 2 that uses a comparative perspective to analyze U.S. foreign policy and U.S.-European relations in the context of a Western Europe attempting to speak with one voice. The book examines U.S. policy toward European unity and the evolution of a West European pillar in foreign policy and defence, contrasts U.S. and European approaches toward specific global issues, and considers Atlantic relations in light of the dramatic European upheavals in 1989-90. Front Matter....Pages i-xvii The Formative Period of Atlantic Relations and the European Pillar, 1948–55....Pages 1-15 What Kind of European Pillar?....Pages 16-41 The European Impulse Revived: European Defence Cooperation and the United States, 1968–73....Pages 42-56 The European Impulse Revived: The Birth of European Political Cooperation, 1969–73....Pages 57-69 The Nixon Administration and Europe, 1969–73....Pages 70-78 A Moment of Truth: The ‘Year of Europe’ and the Atlantic Crisis of 1973/74....Pages 79-100 The United States and the European Pillar in the late 1970s and the 1980s....Pages 101-130 Other Regional Issues....Pages 131-154 European Pillars in the 1980s....Pages 155-179 The United States and the European Pillar in the 1970s and 1980s: Concluding Assessment....Pages 180-198 The United States and the New Europe in the 1990s....Pages 199-248 Back Matter....Pages 249-275 William C. Cromwell. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 264-266.