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Presents a study of the European Community's development between 1963 and 1969, with a special focus on the struggle between France and its EC partners over the purpose, structure and membership of the emerging European Community.

This analysis of US policy towards Indonesian nationalism concludes that Truman's support for independence was based on his Cold War priorities and not principled backing for self-determination.

In Kennedy, de Gaulle and Western Europe , Mahan revises prevailing interpretations of Franco-American relations during the early 1960s that either chastise de Gaulle for anti-Americanism or Kennedy for imposing U.S. policies on Europe.

This book, based on recently declassified documents in Britain and the USA, is the first detailed account of Britain's East of Suez decision, which was taken by the Harold Wilson Government in 1967-68.

the Italian elections of April 1948 and Italy's institutional role in western security arrangements and on European integrative bodies. It reveals that British policy towards Italy was underpinned not only by power politics but also by moral and ideological considerations.

This book examines how technology has affected national security, focusing on issues such as definitions of peace and war, the conduct of and military organization for war, and the growing role of the private sector in providing security. This is a

This book examines the international dimensions of the Greek military dictatorship of 1967-74 and uses it as a case study to evaluate the major shifts occurring in the international system during a period of rapid change.

Covering the period from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s, this volume is the first detailed study of the emergence of regular and frequent heads of government meetings (international summits).

Containing essays by leading Cold War scholars, such as Wilfried Loth, Geir Lundestad and Seppo Hentilä, this volume offers a broad-ranging examination of the history of détente in the Cold War.

This book brings together recent research on the end of the Cold War in the Third World and engages with ongoing debates about regional conflicts, the role of great powers in the developing world, and the role of international actors in conflict resolution.

The essays in this edited volume make a significant contribution to the historiography on the causes and consequences of the end of the Cold War, and focus on the question of whether these events were truly 'unexpected'.

This book offers a major new interpretation of the Cold War and how its aftermath shaped the course of history. The book offers new information taken from Eastern and Western archives, and for the first time draws a precise and detailed overall picture of how the Cold War was overcome.

Using recently declassified sources, this book provides the first detailed analysis of British and American propaganda targeting the countries of the Middle East during the years of increasing international tension and regional instability immediately following the end of the Second World War.

This volume brings together a collection of leading international experts to revisit and review our understanding of the Cuban Missile Crisis, via a critical reappraisal of some of the key texts. The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Critical Reappraisal brings together world leading scholars from America, Britain, France, Canada, and Russia to present critical scrutiny of authoritative accounts and to recast assumptions and interpretations. The book aims to provide an essential guide for students of the missile crisis, the diplomacy of the Cold War, and the dynamics of historical interpretation and reinterpretation. Offering original ideas and agendas, the contributors seek to provide a new understanding of the secrets and mysteries of the moment when the world went to the brink of Armageddon. This book will be of great interest to students of the Cuban missile crisis, Cold War Studies, nuclear proliferation, international history and International Relations in general.

Nato Enlargement During the Cold War analyzes the historical experience surrounding Nato enlargement. Most important, however, is the conclusion that NATO expansion was never drawn solely by Cold War factors, giving insight into why NATO survived the end of the Cold War.

The question of the Italian colonies played an important part in the breakdown of Allied cooperation after the Second World War. Based on extensive research in British and American archives, this book will analyze British and US policy on this question within its Cold War context.

This book draws together some of the most established and best emergent scholars in a timely, critical celebration of Churchill's contribution to establishing the Anglo-American special relationship.

This volumeappraises German unification as international history, drawing on the wealth of evidence that has become available, while providing a synoptic overview of the historiography on the end of the Cold War.

Britain and the Cold War, 1945-1964 offers new perspectives on ways in which Britain fought the Cold War, and illuminates key areas of the policy formulation process.

Making use of newly-researched archival material, this collection of original essays on wartime and postwar US foreign policy re-evaluates well-known crises and documents many less familiar aspects of the nation's mid-twentieth century conflicts.

This book is an historical investigation into the role of the European Community in the overcoming of the East-West divide during the Cold War.

Kennedy, Macmillan and Nuclear Weapons makes exhaustive use of newly-opened archive sources in a successful bid to offer an authoritative and compelling account of Anglo-American defence relations during the presidency of John F.

Covering the period from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s, this volume is the first detailed study of the emergence of regular and frequent heads of government meetings (international summits).

This book examines the NATO reports on the Soviet bloc's political system and economy, from 1951 to the aftermath of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and the beginning of detente.

This book gives an overview of the establishment, dispersion and effects of human rights in Europe during the Cold War.

This volume offers a wide-ranging examination of the Iran¿Iraq War (1980¿88), featuring fresh regional and international perspectives derived from recently available new archival material.

This book asks the reader to reassess the Cold War not just as superpower conflict and high diplomacy, but as social and cultural history.