Title
A Question of Balance : How France and the United States Created Cold War Europe / Michael Creswell.
ISBN
9780674271661
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2006]
Copyright
©2006
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (256 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.4159/9780674271661 doi
Call Number
E183.8.F8 C74 2006eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
327.7304409/045
Summary
Challenging standard interpretations of American dominance and French weakness in postwar Western Europe, Michael Creswell argues that France played a key role in shaping the cold war order. In the decade after the war, the U.S. government's primary objective was to rearm the Federal Republic of Germany within the framework of a European defense force--the European Defense Community. American and French officials differed, however, over the composition of the EDC and the rules governing its organization and use. Although U.S. pressure played a part, more decisive factors--in both internal French politics and international French concerns--ultimately led France to sanction the plan to rearm West Germany. Creswell sketches the successful French challenge to the United States, tracing the genuine, sometimes heated, debate between the two nations that ultimately resulted in security arrangements preferred by the French but acceptable to the Americans. Impressively researched and vigorously argued, A Question of Balance advances significantly our understanding of power politics and the rise of the cold war system in Western Europe.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
System Details Note
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022)
Series
Harvard Historical Studies ; 153
Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: Who Created the Cold War Order in Europe?
Chapter one From Hot War to Cold War
Chapter two A Year of Living Dangerously
Chapter three Washington Pulls, London Follows, Paris Accepts, Bonn Hesitates
Chapter four Progress, Promises, and Problems
Chapter five New Faces, Similar Policies
Chapter six The Death of Stalin
Chapter seven The End of the Affair
Conclusion: Passions and Interests
Notes
Sources
Index
