Trading power : West Germany's rise to global influence, 1963-1975
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Trading power : West Germany's rise to global influence, 1963-1975
Cambridge University Press, 2023
- : hardback
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  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
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  Gifu
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  Aichi
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  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
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  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
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  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 470-488) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Trading Power traces the successes and failures of a generation of German political leaders as the Bonn Republic emerged as a substantial force in European, Atlantic, and world affairs. Over the course of the 1960s and 1970s, West Germans relinquished many trappings of hard power, most notably nuclear weapons, and learned to leverage their economic power instead. Obsessed with stability and growth, Bonn governments battled inflation in ways that enhanced the international position of the Deutsche Mark while upending the international monetary system. Germany's remarkable export achievements exerted a strong hold on the Soviet bloc, forming the basis for a new Ostpolitik under Willy Brandt. Through much trial and error, the Federal Republic learned how to find a balance among key Western allies, and in the mid-1970s Helmut Schmidt ensured Germany's centrality to institutions such as the European Council and the G-7 - the newly emergent leadership structures of the West.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The unraveling of Adenauer's grand strategy (1962-1963)
- 2. America's junior partner (1963-1964)
- 3. Twenty years after (1964-1965)
- 4. The stability imperative (1965-1966)
- 5. Gaullist temptations (1966-1968)
- 6. The magnetism of prosperity (1967-1968)
- 7. A decisive election (1969)
- 8. The zenith of Ostpolitik (1970)
- 9. The European pendulum (1970-1972)
- 10. Hazards from the Global South (1970-1972)
- 11. The embattled chancellor (1971-1972)
- 12. The center of Europe (1973)
- 13. The crisis management team (1973-1974)
- 14. New structures for the West (1974-75)
- Conclusion
- Select bibliography
- Index.
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