Richard M. Nixon and European Integration: A ReappraisalThis book re-examines the Nixon administration’s attitude and approach to the European integration project. The formulation of US policy towards European integration in the Nixon presidential years (1969-1974) was conditioned by the perceived relative decline of the United States, Western European emergence and competition, the feared Communist expansionism, and US national interests. Against that backdrop, the Nixon administration saw the need to re-evaluate its policy on Western Europe and the integration process on this continent. Underpinning this study is the extensive use of newly-released archival materials from the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, the Library of Congress, and the State Department. Furthermore, the work is based on the public papers in the American Presidency Project and the materials on the topic of European integration and unification in the Archive of European Integration. Finally, the study has extensively used newspaper archives as well as the declassified online documents, memoirs and diaries of former US officials. Mining these sources made it possible to shed new light on the complexity and dynamism of the Nixon administration’s policy towards European integration. |
Contents
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Foreign Policy Making and US Vision of European Integration in the Nixon Era | 51 |
The Nixon Administration the New Age and European Integration | 101 |
The Nixon Administrations Initiatives in Europe and the European Integration Process | 140 |
The USEC Relations 19691974 Cooperation and Confrontation | 187 |
US Policy Towards European Integration 19691974 Continuing Patterns | 237 |
Appendix 1 | 277 |
Appendix 4 | 280 |
Appendix 5 | 281 |
Appendix 6 | 282 |
Appendix 7 | 283 |
Appendix 8 | 284 |
Appendix 9 | 285 |
Bibliography | 286 |
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Richard M. Nixon and European Integration: A Reappraisal Joseph M. Siracusa,Hang Thi Thuy Nguyen No preview available - 2018 |