European integration and the atlantic community in the 1980s

European Integration and the Atlantic Community in the 1980s This unique collection of essays lays the groundwork for the study of the intersection of European integration and transatlantic relations in the 1980s With archives for this period only recently opened, scholars are beginning to analyze and understand what some have called an apogee of the European project and others have called the second Cold War How these moments intersect and relate to one another? These essays, by prominent scholars from Europe and the United States, examine this and related questions while challenging conventional chronologies Kiran Klaus Patel is Professor of European and Global History at Maastricht University He is the author, among other works, of Soldiers of Labor: Labor Service in Nazi Germany and New Deal America (Cambridge 2005) and coeditor of The United States and Germany During the 20th Century: Competition and Convergence (Cambridge 2010) and of Europeanization in the Twentieth Century: Historical Approaches (2010) Kenneth Weisbrode is Assistant Professor of History at Bilkent University He is the author of On Ambivalence (2012) and The Atlantic Century (2009), and coeditor of The Paradox of a Global USA (2007) European Integration and the Atlantic Community in the 1980s Edited by KIRAN KLAUS PATEL Maastricht University KENNETH WEISBRODE Bilkent University 32 Avenue of the Americas, New York, ny 10013-2473, usa Cambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge It furthers the University’s mission by disseminating knowledge in the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9781107031562 © Cambridge University Press 2013 This publication is in copyright Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press First published 2013 Printed in the United States of America A catalog record for this publication is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data European integration and the Atlantic community in the 1980s / [edited by] Kiran Klaus Patel, Kenneth Weisbrode pages cm Includes bibliographical references isbn 978-1-107-03156-2 (hardback) Europe – Relations – United States United States – Relations – Europe European federation – History – 20th century European Economic Community countries – History – 20th century United States – Foreign relations – 1981–1989 United States – Economic policy – 1981–1993 Europe – Politics and government – 20th century Europe – Economic conditions – 20th century National security – United States – History – 20th century 10 National security – Europe – History – 20th century I Patel, Kiran Klaus II Weisbrode, Kenneth d1065.u5e974 2013 2013015871 327.091820 109048–dc23 isbn 978-1-107-03156-2 Hardback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of urls for external or third-party Internet Web sites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such Web sites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate Contents List of contributors page vii Editors’ Note ix Introduction: Old Barriers, New Openings Kiran Klaus Patel and Kenneth Weisbrode The Unnoticed Apogee of Atlanticism? U.S.–Western European Relations during the Early Reagan Era N Piers Ludlow More Cohesive, Still Divergent: Western Europe, the United States, and the Madrid CSCE Follow-Up Meeting Angela Romano The Deal of the Century: The Reagan Administration and the Soviet Pipeline Ksenia Demidova Poland’s Solidarity as a Contested Symbol of the Cold War: Transatlantic Debates after the Polish Crisis Robert Brier The European Community and the Paradoxes of U.S Economic Diplomacy: The Case of the IT and Telecommunications Sectors Arthe Van Laer The European Community and International Reaganomics, 1981–1985 Duccio Basosi v 17 39 59 83 105 133 vi Contents Did Transatlantic Drift Help European Integration? The Euromissiles Crisis, the Strategic Defense Initiative, and the Quest for Political Cooperation Philipp Gassert A Transatlantic Security Crisis? Transnational Relations between the West German and the U.S Peace Movements, 1977–1985 Holger Nehring 10 Reviving the Transatlantic Community? The Successor Generation Concept in U.S Foreign Affairs, 1960s–1980s Giles Scott-Smith 11 The Relaunching of Europe in the Mid-1980s Antonio Varsori 12 A Shift in Mood: The 1992 Initiative and Changing U.S Perceptions of the European Community, 1988–1989 Mark Gilbert 13 France, the United States, and NATO: Between Europeanization and Re-Atlanticization, 1990–1991 Frédéric Bozo 154 177 201 226 243 265 14 Afterword Kenneth Weisbrode and Kiran Klaus Patel 285 Index 291 Contributors Duccio Basosi is Assistant Professor of the History of International Relations and History of North America at Ca’ Foscari University Frédéric Bozo is Professor at the Sorbonne Nouvelle (University of Paris III), where he teaches contemporary history and international relations Robert Brier is a research fellow at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw Ksenia Demidova holds a Ph.D in contemporary history from the European University Institute in Florence and presently is a full-time MBA participant at Vlerick Business School Philipp Gassert is Professor of Transatlantic Cultural History at the University of Augsburg Mark Gilbert is Resident Professor of History and International Studies at the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies, Bologna N Piers Ludlow is a reader in international history at the London School of Economics Holger Nehring is a reader in contemporary European history at the University of Sheffield Kiran Klaus Patel is Professor of European and Global History at Maastricht University Angela Romano is affiliated with the International History Department at the London School of Economics, where she has been Marie Curie Fellow since 2011 vii viii List of contributors Giles Scott-Smith is Professor of Diplomatic History of Atlantic Cooperation at Leiden University Arthe Van Laer is a lecturer in the History Department of the University of Louvain-la-Neuve and in the Faculty of Economics, Social Sciences, and Business Administration of the University of Namur as well as a teacher at the college SC Charleroi Antonio Varsori is Professor of History of International Relations and head of the Department of Politics, Law, and International Studies at the University of Padua Kenneth Weisbrode is Assistant Professor of History at Bilkent University ... European Integration and the Atlantic Community in the 1980s This unique collection of essays lays the groundwork for the study of the intersection of European integration and transatlantic... took into account the EC per se, whereas Romano demonstrates the indirect effect such differences had 10 European Integration and the Atlantic Community in the 1980s on European cohesion within the. .. 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