Beyond Containment and Division: Western Cooperation from a Post-Totalitarian PerspectiveThe collapse of the totalitarian system and the disintegration of the Soviet Union took the West by complete surprise. For many years Western cooperation and West European integration proceeded on the assumption that the division of Europe and Germany would be there to stay. As a consequence, the Western states are now having great difficulties in adapting their cooperative arrangements to the challenges of a new European environment, and in coping with the political problems that had been swept under the carpet for the sake of preserving bipolar stability'. In his new book, Alting von Geusau offers a fresh and timely analysis of Western cooperation from a post-totalitarian perspective. He reminds the reader of America's involvement and the tragic consequences of the two world wars. He explains why the order of Yalta' was a myth and how the Soviet designs for Europe were ultimately defeated by civil resistance. Post-war American leadership created the free space for the remarkable growth of Western organisations and the dynamics of European integration. American and French policies of containment are reexamined for the same post-totalitarian perspective... and found in need to adapt to the new realities. In two final chapters, the author carefully reviews the agreements reached in the principal Western and European organizations between November 1989 and January 1992 with a view to adapting their tasks to the new Europe. He also underlines the emerging importance of a new partnership between the United States and united Germany. Combining historical, legal and political analysis, this new title is an important source of reference and a highly useful textbook for advanced students inEuropean organization and Western cooperation. In addition it will be especially useful to training programmes for scholars, students and diplomats from East and Central Europe and the republics of the former Soviet Union. |
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Índice
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Chapter | 7 |
Chapter 2 | 23 |
The Dynamics of Totalitarianism in Reverse | 38 |
Chapter 3 | 42 |
Chapter 4 | 59 |
Chapter 5 | 82 |
Circumstance and Vision after the War | 88 |
A New Security Environment | 116 |
Chapter 7 | 120 |
NATOs Responses to the New Security Environment | 122 |
the New Europe and the United States | 135 |
External Relations in a New European Environment | 144 |
The Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe | 154 |
ANNEXES | 167 |
Declaration On Liberated Europe 11 February 1945 | 174 |
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| Título | Beyond Containment and Division: Western Cooperation from a Post-Totalitarian Perspective |
| Autor | Frans Alphons Maria Alting Von Geusau |
| Edição | ilustrada |
| Editora | Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1992 |
| ISBN | 079232014X, 9780792320142 |
| Número de páginas | 267 páginas |
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