European Integration and the Cold War Ostpolitik-westpolitik, 1965-1973

Post-war Europe was deeply affected by both the Cold War and European integration. This edited volume brings together contributions from prominent historians in both of these fields. What emerges is the way in which some governments deliberately tried to avoid any interplay between their approach to the Cold War and their European policy, whereas others found themselves unable to separate the two.The American foreign policy of Nixon and Kissinger are the background against which each of the European players was compelled to operate. The book explains how Washington saw European integration as an over-arching part of the Cold War. Overall, the book attempts to assess the extent to which the two separate historiographies of the Cold War in Europe and European integration need to be revised to take account of the real connections between the two.This book will appeal to students of Cold War history, European politics and International Relations in general. N. Piers Ludlow is a senior lecturer in the Department of International History at the LSE. He is author of Dealing With Britain: the Six and the First UK Application to the EEC (1997) and The European Community and the Crises of the 1960s (2006).Ludlow, N. Piers is the author of 'European Integration and the Cold War Ostpolitik-westpolitik, 1965-1973', published 2007 under ISBN 9780415421096 and ISBN 0415421098.