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Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the united states of Europe / Pascaline Winand.

By: Winand, Pascaline.
Contributor(s): Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute series on diplomatic and economic history: Publisher: London : MacMillan, 1993 (1997)Description: xvi, 432 p. ; 21 cm.ISBN: 0333687167.Subject(s): Eisenhower, Dwight D.(Dwight David), 1890-1969 | Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 | European Economic Community | European federation | United States -- Foreign relations -- Europe | Europe -- Foreign relations -- United StatesDDC classification: 327.7304
Contents:
Setting the stage: American policy towards European integration from Roosevelt to Truman -- The European defense community, the European political community and the ECSC loan -- After the EDC: New hopes and new tactics -- Euratom and the U.S. Euratom agreement -- Europe at sixies and sevens and the OECD -- The Kennedy team and European integration -- Kennedy's inheritance -- The MLF in context -- Conflicting world views: De Gaulle and the Americans -- Implementing the Atlantic partnership -- Roadblocks and boundless optimism: on the road to Nassau -- After the veto: The grand design on trial -- Epilogue: Johnson and the Atlantic partnership.
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During the Eisenhower and Kennedy years, key American policymakers considered European unity as a potential element of stability and prosperity for the West, and as a factor of strength for the Atlantic Alliance. These policymakers were part of a unique network of friends and colleagues, in which both Americans and Europeans 'co-conspired' to further the cause of European integration.

Bibliography: (pages 411-425) and index.

Setting the stage: American policy towards European integration from Roosevelt to Truman -- The European defense community, the European political community and the ECSC loan -- After the EDC: New hopes and new tactics -- Euratom and the U.S. Euratom agreement -- Europe at sixies and sevens and the OECD -- The Kennedy team and European integration -- Kennedy's inheritance -- The MLF in context -- Conflicting world views: De Gaulle and the Americans -- Implementing the Atlantic partnership -- Roadblocks and boundless optimism: on the road to Nassau -- After the veto: The grand design on trial -- Epilogue: Johnson and the Atlantic partnership.

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Arguing that personalities matter as much as policies, Winand (Free Univ., Brussels) analyzes the cross-fertilization process among the views held by members of a group she dubs "the Euro-American intelligentsia for the uniting of Europe." These proponents of European integration, which include George Ball, Robert Bowie, McGeorge Bundy, John Foster Dulles, and John McCloy, helped shape the European policies of the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations and provided critical support to visionary Europeanists like Jean Monnet. A European political community would reduce the attraction of destructive nationalism while simultaneously fostering stability and prosperity. A united Western Europe would also be a powerful Cold War ally of the US. This grand vision met determined resistance from Charles DeGaulle, who believed in the primacy of France in Europe. DeGaulle also astutely noted that the American Europeanists wanted Europe to continue to submit to US leadership in trade and defense matters. Recommended for all college and university libraries. Advanced undergraduates and above. S. G. Rabe; University of Texas at Dallas

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