Subject: Political Science Book Title: The United States and Western Europe Since 1945
The United States and Western Europe Since 1945
From "Empire" by Invitation to Transatlantic Drift
Lundestad, Geir
, Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, and Professor Adjunct, University of Oslo, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of History at the University of Oslo
Print publication date: 2003
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: April 2004
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-926668-5
doi:10.1093/0199266689.001.0001
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: April 2004
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-926668-5
doi:10.1093/0199266689.001.0001
Abstract:
Based on new and existing research by a world-class scholar, this is the first book in twenty years to examine the dynamics of the entire American–Western European relationship since 1945. The relationship between the US and Western Europe has always been crucial, and current events dictate that it is becoming ever more so. In this book, the author analyses the balance between the cooperation and conflict that has characterized this relationship in the post-war period. He examines talk of transatlantic drift, and the strain now apparent between the US and the nation states of Western Europe. The first nine chapters are, for the most part, arranged as a chronological account of the relationship. In the concluding Ch. 10 section, the author offers a topical view of the future of transatlantic interaction. Throughout the work, the author's much cited ‘“Empire” by invitation’ thesis is both put into practice and extended in time and scope. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in one of the most important and enduring international relationships of the last sixty years.
Keywords: American–Western European relations, conflict, cooperation, dynamics, empire by invitation, history, international relationships, relationship, transatlantic drift, US, Western Europe
Keywords: American–Western European relations, conflict, cooperation, dynamics, empire by invitation, history, international relationships, relationship, transatlantic drift, US, Western Europe
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. The Historical Setting: The United States and Western Europe before 1945
2. Cooperation Established: “Empire” by Invitation, 1945–1950
3. The Atlantic Community, Germany's Role, and Western Europe's Integration, 1950–1962
4. De Gaulle's Challenge to America's Hegemony, 1962–1969
5. The United States, Western Europe, and Out-of-Area Disputes, 1945–1975
6. Conflict and Cooperation: American–Western European Relations (not) Redefined, 1969–1977
7. From Bad to Worse: The United States and Western Europe, 1977–1984
8. The End of the Cold War and Cooperation in the End, 1984–1993
9. America's New Strong Role in Europe, 1993–2001
10. Transatlantic Drift: The Present and the Future
Bibliography
Index
doi:10.1093/0199266689.001.0001
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