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"Empire" by Integration
The United States and European Integration, 1945-1997
Geir Lundestad
210 pages
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216x138mm
978-0-19-878211-7
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Paperback
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18 December 1997
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- Only comprehensive treatment of United States policy toward European integration
- Perceptive and succinct account of the period
- Geir Lundestad is a highly distinguished Cold War historian
- 'There has been, until now, no comprehensive history of United States policy toward European integration. Geir Lundestad's is a perceptive, well-informed, and yet succinct account, certain to become the standard treatment of the subject for years to come.' John Lewis Gaddis, Robert Lovett Professor of History, Yale University
- 'This book is not simply a first-rate survey of a very important topic of post-World War Two international history. It is also an evocative and provocative analysis of US motives and tactics regarding European integration...Lundestad has made another first-rate contribution to the literature on American foreign relations.' Melvyn P. Leffler, Professor of History, University of Virginia
"Empire" by Integration is the first comprehensive survey of the American policy towards European integration from 1945 to the present day. Geir Lundestad argues that, unlike other Great Powers, the United States strongly supported the integration of the most important area under its influence: Western Europe. This integration was,
however, to take place within an American-dominated Atlantic framework. In the provocative words of the author this was a policy of "empire" by integration.
Professor Lundestad takes a clear, chronological approach to the subject, from the beginnings of European integration after the Second World War, the challenge to American policy on European integration by President Charles de Gaulle, and the modified support for European integration in the Nixon-Kissinger years through to the present revived support for European integration under the Clinton administration.
"Empire" by Integration provides a succinct, provocative, and highly readable account of this crucial aspect of American-Western European relations. It will be an ideal textbook
for use on courses including International Relations, US Modern History, and European Integration.Readership: Undergraduates studying US modern history, european integration, and international relations as part of a political science or history degree. Also journalists, political analysts and the general reader with an interest in post-war history and American foreign policy.
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Geir Lundestad, Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute and Professor of International History, University of Oslo
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"There has been, until now, no comprehensive history of United States policy toward European integration. Geir Lundestad's is a perceptive, well-informed, and yet succinct account, certain to become the standard treatment of the subject for years to come." - John Lewis Gaddis, Robert Lovett Professor of History, Yale University "This book is not simply a first-rate survey of a very important topic of post-World War Two international history. It is also an evocative and provocative analysis of US motives and tactics regarding European integration...Lundestad has made another first-rate contribution to the literature on American foreign relations." - Melvyn P. Leffler, Professor of History, University of
Virginia "There is a great deal usefully summarized in this book; it should become a standard text for university courses, and an invaluable crib for the many who lack the time to read through the accumulation of historical evidence book by book." - William Wallace, London School of Economics and Political Science
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1: Introduction and Basic Arguments
2: The Public American Position, 1945-1997
3: The Motives for America's Support of European Integration
4: The United States and the Beginnings of European Integration, 1945-1950
5: The Atlantic Framework for European Integration, 1950-1960
6: De Gaulle's Challenge to the Atlantic Framework, 1960-1969
7: The European Economic Challenge to the Atlantic Framework, 1945-1972
8: Nixon-Kissinger Reappraisal, 1969-1976
9: The US and European Integration from Carter to Clinton, 1977-1997
10: What Difference did US Support Make to European Integration?
11: Why Was There Not More Atlantic Integration?
12: America's "Empire": The Comparative Dimension
13: The Past, the Present, and the Future
Bibliography; Index
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