Western Europe since 1945 : a political history
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Western Europe since 1945 : a political history
Longman, 1989
4th ed
- : pbk.
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Bibliography: p. 392-399
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780582039391
Description
This is the first edition since 1981 of this standard textbook for upper school and undergraduate students of European politics and modern European history. The book has been fully revised and updated to include the changes that have occurred in Europe since 1981. The text has been rewritten, redesigned and reset. It tackles the subject under three main themes; a review of political and economic developments during the period; the movement towards greater unity and co-operation in Europe; and Europe's global role.
Table of Contents
- Parameters and perspectives
- the Resistance in the postwar world - the first postwar elections, the Resistance party, the purges, the federal union of Europe
- problems of reconstruction
- the revival of political competition
- Cold War and Atlantic Alliance - American foreign policy, the role of the United Nations, the Truman doctrine, Berlin, NATO
- the rebirth of Germany
- integration - the postwar beginning - the Council of Europe, OEEC, the Schuman Plan
- from Cold War to thaw - the Korean War, West German rearmament, military solutions - DEC, WEU and NATO
- the road to Rome - the Economic Community
- the death of colonialism
- the golden economic summer
- political stability and consensus - Conservative stability, Social Democrat stability
- coalition stability
- a seesaw of detente and tension - American and Soviet policies and problems, from Berlin Wall to "Ostpolitik"
- what kind of Europe?
- alienation and protest - 1968 and student protest, terrorism, the anti-nuclear theme, feminism, radicalism and the extreme right, peripheral nationalism, direct action and alternative expression
- economic dilemmas and problems - the floating away of Bretton Woods, 1973 - recession, from Keynesianism to monetarism, crisis of the welfare state
- from detente to new Cold War?
- the extension of democracy in Southern Europe - revolution and democracy in Portugal, the restoration of democracy in Greece, Spain - the end of isolation
- the political mosaic - a politics of uncertainty? - patterns of party politics, dilemmas of social democracy, Eurocommunism, party government
- the dangerous decade - the reassertion of the United States, Soviet problems, Western European dilemmas
- the enlarged community - enlargement - issues and policies, the changed institutional matrix, Britain - a European maverick?, political union
- a retrospective overview.
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: pbk. ISBN 9780582495111
Description
Taking a thematic approach, this keenly awaited new edition addresses the major political and economic developments in Western Europe since World War II, right up to the present day. The book covers issues and developments in national politics, the movement towards greater unity in Western Europe, and the role of Europe in global politics and in the international economy. The test has been revised throughout and updated to take account of the political consequences of the ending of the Cold War and the troubled progress of European integration since Maastricht.
Table of Contents
- Parameters and perspectives
- the Resistance in the postwar world - the first postwar elections, the Resistance party, the purges, the federal union of Europe
- problems of reconstruction
- the revival of political competition
- Cold War and Atlantic Alliance - American foreign policy, the role of the United Nations, the Truman doctrine, Berlin, NATO
- the rebirth of Germany
- integration - the postwar beginning - the Council of Europe, OEEC, the Schuman Plan
- from Cold War to thaw - the Korean War, West German rearmament, military solutions - DEC, WEU and NATO
- the road to Rome - the Economic Community
- the death of colonialism
- the golden economic summer
- political stability and consensus - Conservative stability, Social Democrat stability
- coalition stability
- a seesaw of detente and tension - American and Soviet policies and problems, from Berlin Wall to "Ostpolitik"
- what kind of Europe?
- alienation and protest - 1968 and student protest, terrorism, the anti-nuclear theme, feminism, radicalism and the extreme right, peripheral nationalism, direct action and alternative expression
- economic dilemmas and problems - the floating away of Bretton Woods, 1973 - recession, from Keynesianism to monetarism, crisis of the welfare state
- from detente to new Cold War?
- the extension of democracy in Southern Europe - revolution and democracy in Portugal, the restoration of democracy in Greece, Spain - the end of isolation
- the political mosaic - a politics of uncertainty? - patterns of party politics, dilemmas of social democracy, Eurocommunism, party government
- the dangerous decade - the reassertion of the United States, Soviet problems, Western European dilemmas
- the enlarged community - enlargement - issues and policies, the changed institutional matrix, Britain - a European maverick?, political union
- a retrospective overview.
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