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Introduction
The United States supported supranational integration on the European continent in order to contain both the Soviet Union and future independent German power. Another aim was to end Franco-German rivalry as a ...
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Conclusion: Integration and Non-Proliferation
There were two main goals in American European policy in the period studied here: integration and non-proliferation. They were derived from the most general foreign policy goals such as containing the Soviet U...
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The European Policy of the Eisenhower Administration
The security policy of the Truman Administration has sometimes been called ‘double containment’. Two primary threats were identified, the expansion of Soviet power or the spread of Communist ideology, and the ...
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The Nuclear Dimension of the Western European Union
The defeat of the EDC in the French National Assembly — ‘the crime of 30 August’ as it was called by the losing side — was the starting-point for a process toward negotiating a new treaty. ‘Little NATO’ with s...
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Euratom and the Linkage to the Common Market: Second Phase
Dulles met first Adenauer, then Pineau, after the results of the Venice Conference had been digested in Washington. Dulles’ message — essentially elaborations of the positions in the US memorandum — constitute...
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The Nuclear Dimension of the European Defence Community
The elaboration of the EDC Treaty (the Paris Agreements) was tied to the working out of new contractual arrangements (the Bonn Agreements) giving the Federal Republic sovereignty, within limits, in return for ...
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Euratom and the Linkage to the Common Market: First Phase
In the period when the Paris Accords were negotiated and ratified ideas about military and civil uses of atomic energy were in the air in Europe. The US New Look strategy and Atoms for Peace policy were determ...
