Crisis in the West: American Leadership and the Global Balance

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The End of the European Balance....Pages 3-14
The Wartime Origins of Some Major Postwar Issues....Pages 15-31
Front Matter....Pages 33-33
Risk and Paradox....Pages 35-40
The New American Realism....Pages 41-46
The Problem of German Reunification Before Ostpolitik....Pages 47-53
Peaceful Coexistence or a Durable Peace?....Pages 54-66
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
Anti-Nazism and a German Patriot....Pages 69-79
The Suez Breach of 1956 and Americans with a Past....Pages 80-85
The Politics of Nostalgia....Pages 86-93
Front Matter....Pages 95-95
Coalition Diplomacy-Early Allied Critiques of American Postwar Leadership....Pages 97-107
Western Europe versus the United States?....Pages 108-122
The American Role and World....Pages 123-135
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
The United States, Britain and the Open Seas....Pages 139-151
The Enlargement of the European Community and its Global Effects....Pages 152-177
EEC as a Third Force: Tryouts over the Middle East....Pages 178-193
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
Topsy-Turvy as a Principle of Statecraft....Pages 197-227
Back Matter....Pages 228-230