Beyond Containment and Division: Western Cooperation from a Post-Totalitarian Perspective

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Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 22/10/1992 - 267 páginas
The 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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INTRODUCTION
1
Chapter
7
The Second World
15
Chapter 1
23
The Totalitarian Constitution
29
Civil Resistance
35
The Dynamics of Totalitarianism in Reverse 38 8888888
38
Chapter 3
42
A New Security Environment
116
NATOs Responses to the New Security Environment
122
13
127
A Broad Approach to Security
132
17
133
THE EUROPEAN
135
External Relations in a New European Environment
144
The Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe
154

Chapter 4
59
5
62
Chapter 5
82
REPUBLIC 19451989 88 82228
88
9
95
Differing Visions on One Relationship
100
Chapter 6
107
ANNEXES
167
Declaration On Liberated Europe 11 February 1945
174
28
184
30
221
INDEX
259
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