Strategy, United States, World, European, National & International Security, Military, Political Science 

This title examines the role of the Europeans in the Cold War during the 'Khrushchev Era'. It was a period marked by the struggle for a regulated co-existence in a world of blocs, an initial arrangement to find a temporary arrangement failed due to German desires to quickly overcome the status quo. It was only when the danger of an unintended nuclear war was demonstrated through the crises over Berlin and Cuba that a tacit arrangement became possible, which was based on a system dominated by a nuclear arms race.The book provides useful information on the role of Konrad Adenauer and the beginnings of the German 'new Eastern policy', as well as examining the Western European power policy in the era of Harold Macmillan and Charles de Gaulle. - from Amzon 

CONTENT
Introduction .............................................................................. P. 1
PART 1: EUROPE IN THE FIRST DETENTE' 1953 - 58
1. Britain as a Bridge between East and West by Antonic Vasori ........ P. 7
2. Adexnauer's Final Western Choice, 1955 - 58 by Wilfried Loth ....... P. 23
PART 1: EUROPEAN REACTIONS TO THE BERLIN AND CUBAN CRISES, 1958 - 62
3. Adenauer and Nuclear Deterrence by Klaus Schwabe .......................... P. 37
4. France, NATO and the Algerian War Iriwin M. Wall .............................. P. 56
5. De Gualle's Handling of the Berlin and Cuban Crises by Maurce Vaisse .. P. 67. Cold War Crises and Public Opinion: West European Public Opinion and the Berrlin Wall, 1961 by Eckart Conze ................................................................. P. 80
7. The Italian Communist Party between East and West, 1960 - 64 by Silvio Pons
PART III: EUROPE IN SEARCH OF DETENTE, 1962 - 65
8. British, East Germany and Detente:British Policy toward the GDR and West Germany's Policy of Movement' 1955 - 65 by Klaus Larres ..................... P. 111
9. Sole Master of the Western Nuclear Strength'? The United States, Western Europe and the Elusiveness of a European Defence Identity, 1959 - 64 by Ralph Dietl ............................................................................................... P. 132
10. De Gualle's France and the Soviet Union from Conflict to Detente by Georges - Henri Soutou ..................................................................................... P. 173
11. Khursgchev: Contemporary Perspectives in the Western Press by Elena Dundovick .......................................................................................... P. 190
12. The Western European Communist Parties in the Cold War, 1957 - 68 by Marie-Pierre Rey .......................................................................................... P. 202
13. Detente the Superpowers and their Allies 1962 - 64 by Vojtech Mastny . P. 215
PART IV: DIRECT NEGOTIATION BETWEEN EASTERN AND WESTERN EUROPE
14 Soviet Union, Finland and the 'Northern Balance', 1957 - 63 by Seppo Hentila
............................................................................................................P. 239
15. Western Europe and Negotiations on Army Control: The Anglo-
Americans and the Evolving Concept of European Security, 1963 - 68 by Marilena Gala .................................................................................................. P. 258
16. Gerhard Schroder and the First 'Ostpolitik by Torsten Oppelland ...........P. 274
17. The East - West Problem as seen from Berlin: Willy Brand's Early ospolitik by Gottfried Niedhart .................................................................................P. 297
- Index