Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 America, Europe, and German Rearmament, August-September 1950: A Critique of a Myth Chapter 3 "A General Named Eisenhower": Atlantic Crisis and the Origins of the European Economic Community Chapter 4 Trigger-happy Protestant Materialists? The European Christian Democrats and the United States Chapter 5 The United States and the Opening to the Left, 1953-1963 Chapter 6 Hegemony or Vulnerability? Giscard, Ball, and the 1962 Gold Standstill Proposal Chapter 7 Western Europe and the American Challenge: Conflict and Cooperation in Technology and Monetary Policy, 1965-1973 Chapter 8 Georges Pompidou and U.S.-European Relations

About the Author

Marc Trachtenberg is professor of Political Science at University of California, Los Angeles and is the author of A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement, 1945-1963.

Reviews

This snappy little volume is well worth the read.
*Journal of Cold War Studies*