Europe's troubled peace
| Titel: | Europe's troubled peace : 1945 to the present / Tom Buchanan |
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| Verfasser: | |
| Ausgabe: | 2. rev. ed. |
| Veröffentlicht: | Chicester : Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd), 2012 |
| Umfang: | X,318 S. : Ill., maps ; 25x17x2 cm |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 9780470655788 ; 047065578X |
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Ausführliche Beschreibung Autorenbiografie Cover Inhaltsverzeichnis |
X
- List of Maps
- p. xi
- List of Illustrations
- p. xii
- Acknowledgments for the Second edition
- p. xiii
- Acknowledgments for the First edition
- p. xiv
- Introduction: Europe's Troubles
- p. 1
- 1
- The War and its Legacy
- p. 8
- Conquest and Occupation
- p. 8
- Collaboration
- p. 12
- Resistance
- p. 14
- Liberation, 1943-1945
- p. 17
- Neutral Europe
- p. 21
- The Human and Physical Cost
- p. 22
- Judgment
- p. 26
- Conclusion
- p. 29
- 2
- Europe between the Powers, 1945-1953
- p. 30
- From Grand Alliance to Cold War, 1941-1947
- p. 30
- The German Question
- p. 35
- Marshall Aid and Economic Security
- p. 40
- NATO and the Defense of the West
- p. 44
- Culture and the Cold War
- p. 47
- Conclusion
- p. 50
- 3
- Restoration, Reconstruction, and Revolution: Europe, 1945-1950
- p. 51
- A New Europe?
- p. 51
- Politics in Western Europe
- p. 53
- Western Europe: Reconstruction and Welfare
- p. 60
- Scandinavia: Paths to Security
- p. 62
- Southern Europe: Dictatorship and Civil War
- p. 64
- The Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe
- p. 67
- Between East and West: Finland, Austria, and Yugoslavia
- p. 72
- Conclusion
- p. 74
- 4
- Consolidating Western Europe, 1950-1963
- p. 75
- Fears and Aspirations
- p. 75
- Towards Affluence: The Economy and Social Change
- p. 78
- From Korea to Berlin: The International Context
- p. 82
- "No Experiments": West Germany, Britain, and Italy
- p. 87
- France and Algeria
- p. 91
- Social Democratic Alternatives
- p. 94
- Conclusion
- p. 96
- 5
- Western Europe in the 1960s
- p. 98
- The Cultural Divide
- p. 98
- The New Society: Economic and Social Change
- p. 103
- The Limits to Reform: Italy, West Germany, and Britain
- p. 106
- The Enigmatic Republic: France, 1958-1968
- p. 109
- Revolt: Students and Workers, 1967-1969
- p. 111
- The Persistence of Dictatorship: Spain, Portugal, and Greece
- p. 116
- Conclusion
- p. 118
- 6
- The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, from 1953 to the 1970s
- p. 120
- New Societies, Recurrent Crises
- p. 120
- Khrushchev and de-Stalinization
- p. 126
- The Crisis of 1956: Poland and Hungary
- p. 128
- The Start of the Brezhnev Era
- p. 131
- East European Alternatives: Romania, Yugoslavia, Albania
- p. 133
- From Prague Spring to Brezhnev Doctrine
- p. 136
- Conclusion
- p. 139
- 7
- Western Europe in the 1970s: Downturn and Détente
- p. 140
- The Era of Détente
- p. 140
- Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik, 1969-1974
- p. 142
- The New Economic Insecurity
- p. 145
- West European Politics
- p. 148
- The Rise of Terrorism, c. 1970-1981
- p. 152
- Intellectual and Cultural Developments
- p. 154
- Transitions: Spain, Portugal, and Greece
- p. 156
- Conclusion
- p. 161
- 8
- Western Europe in the 1980s: The Era of Thatcher, Mitterrand, and Kohl
- p. 162
- Towards the Post-Industrial Society
- p. 162
- Postmodern Cultures?
- p. 165
- The New Cold War
- p. 167
- Thatcher's Britain
- p. 168
- Mitterrand's France
- p. 171
- Helmut Kohl and West Germany
- p. 175
- Breaking the Mold? New Political Movements
- p. 179
- Southern Europe
- p. 181
- Conclusion
- p. 185
- 9
- European Integration: From Rome to Maastricht, 1957-1992
- p. 186
- Perspectives on Integration
- p. 186
- The Foundation of the EEC
- p. 192
- De Gaulle and the EEC, 1958-1969
- p. 194
- Stagnation, 1970-1984
- p. 197
- The Single European Act and "1992"
- p. 199
- Maastricht and After
- p. 202
- Conclusion
- p. 204
- 10
- The Fall of the Communist Regimes: The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1980-1991
- p. 205
- öAll that is solid melts into air"
- p. 205
- Poland and Solidarity, 1980-1981
- p. 208
- Gorbachev and Soviet Reform, 1985-1990
- p. 211
- 1989: The Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe
- p. 215
- German Reunification, 1989-1990
- p. 219
- The End of the Soviet Union, 1990-1991
- p. 223
- Conclusion
- p. 224
- 11
- Europe after the Cold War
- p. 226
- Building Europe?
- p. 226
- West European Politics
- p. 230
- Troubled Waters: Italy and Germany
- p. 233
- Western Europe: The Economy and EMU
- p. 235
- Post-Communism: Eastern Europe and the Former USSR
- p. 237
- The Balkan Wars
- p. 242
- Conclusion
- p. 246
- 12
- Europe in the New Millennium
- p. 248
- Diversity and Union
- p. 248
- Memory and the "European Identity"
- p. 252
- The "War on Terror" and the Security of Europe
- p. 256
- West European Politics
- p. 259
- The Politics of Intolerance
- p. 264
- On Europe's Borders
- p. 266
- From Financial Crisis to European Crisis
- p. 269
- Conclusion
- p. 273
- Notes
- p. 275
- Guide to Further Reading
- p. 292
- Index
- p. 301
