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Coming in from the Cold War: Changes in U.S.-European Interactions Since 1980
Author(s): Christine Ingebritsen (Editor), Sabrina P. Ramet
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (UK)
- Publication Date: 1 Dec. 2001
- Language: English
- Print length: 256 pages
- ISBN-10: 0742500179
- ISBN-13: 9780742500174
Book Description
The early 1980s brought dramatic changes in East-West relations. The decade began with the death of Yugoslavias Tito, the birth of Polands Solidarity trade union, and the U.S. election of Ronald Reagan as president. These key developments, together with the growing financial insolvency of the Soviet bloc and shifts in power in the Kremlin—culminating in the election of Mikhail Gorbachev as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1985—signalled the end of an era. Since then, U.S. relations with Europe have charted a new course, influenced especially by the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, the expansion of NATO, and the growing strength of the European Union. This volume analyzes U.S. relations with Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Russia, Poland, and Ukraine, and examines the new role for NATO in the post-Cold War world and the evolving dynamics in the U.S.-EU partnership. Through their assessment of mutual perceptions, evolving interests, and clashing agendas, the contributors offer a fresh and thoughtful exploration of the relationship between the United States and the major European states.
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Review
This fresh and thoughtful assessment of the developing relationship between the United States and the principal European nations provides readers with riveting insights as to America”s future on the European continent.
About the Author
Sabrina P. Ramet is professor of political science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. Christine Ingebritsen is associate professor of Scandinavian studies at the University of Washington.
