Product Description: France is Germany's most important partner in the process of Europe integration. The United States was long Germany's protector but now is the power balancing Germany's in Europe. And the Franco-American relationship, though less prominent than the other two, has a great impact on both of them...read more

Product Description: In this authoritative book, the only work to cover the full sweep of German foreign policy since the end of World War II, noted scholar Helga Haftendorn explores Germany's remarkable recovery from wartime defeat and destruction. Offspring of the Cold War, the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic entered the international arena in 1949 under three crippling constraints: they were held accountable for the crimes of the Third Reich, they were fully dependent on the occupation powers, and their international room for maneuver was limited by an East-West conflict that placed Bonn and East Berlin on opposite sides of the Iron Curtain...read more

Product Description: This book discusses a wide variety of security institutions, including NATO, the Western European Union, United Nations peacekeeping, the ASEAB Regional Forum, and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. It describes changes in security institutions, documents the effects of such institutions on national policies, and explores the conditions that affect the patterns of co-operation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book deals with the crucially imprtant NATO crises of 1966-67--a period when a number of issues which had been developing for some time within NATO came to a head. It concentrates on the intensive reorientation of NATO strategy from the departure of France from the integrated military command to the adoption of Flexible Response and the Hermel report on the Future Tasks of the Alliance...read more

Product Description: What will the new world order look like? Will Europe and the United States continue in their tradition of interdependence and admiration or emerge as economic rivals, political strangers, and cultural antipodes as the rest of the world - notably Japan - moves forward? These are just some of the questions explored within this volume...read more

Product Description: This volume offers a wide-ranging analysis of West German foreign policy since 1955, the year in which the occupation ended. The author analyzes the latent conflict of priorities between Western orientation and policies directed to the East by evaluating West Germany's stability and reliability as a member of the Atlantic alliance, its relations with the Soviet Union, and the question of reunification with East Germany...read more