Development & Growth, Economics, Business Development, International Business 

Studies in Geopolitics 

This volume has as its focus the role of the Marshall Plan as both a force in the transformation of European Economic practices and a stimulus to political integration in Europe. This organizing theme is framed in terms of two other issues that are central to contemporary debates in international political economy and geopolitical studies: the origins and development of the Cold War, and the growing globalisation of the world economy.
In relating the Marshall Plan to these issues, this book goes beyond the typical diplomatic history approach to place the Plan in the context of both the political economy of late twentieth-century Europe, and the impact of American models of business and government that came with the Plan. The book brings together two groups of authors whose works has rarely been collected within one framework-those who focus on the short-and long term economic impacts of the plan and those who analyse its far reaching geopolitical consequences. In these respect the book stands apart from previous volumes. Also distinctive is the authors’ range of disciplinary and national backgrounds, which give breaths and scope to this volume.
The Marshall Plan today is both a challenge and a corrective to previous works. Its engages with contemporary debates over the feasibility of using the Marshall Plan as a model in other parts of the world and in relation to pressing international issues, such as global warming. Finally, this book argues that familiar yet provocative questions, such as the legacy of the Marshall plan, benefits from contemporarily geopolitical –reframing; and its shows how the symbolic power of the plan has not diminished, even as the Atlantic alliance that the plan created and nourished appears to be weakening.
 

This volume has as its focus the role of the Marshall Plan as both a force in the transformation of European Economic practices and a stimulus to political integration in Europe. This organizing theme is framed in terms of two other issues that are central to contemporary debates in international political economy and geopolitical studies: the origins and development of the Cold War, and the growing globalisation of the world economy.
In relating the Marshall Plan to these issues, this book goes beyond the typical diplomatic history approach to place the Plan in the context of both the political economy of late twentieth-century Europe, and the impact of American models of business and government that came with the Plan.  

CONTENTS

Introduction: the Marshal Plan as Model and Metaphor by John Agnew and J.
Nicholas Entrikin …………………………………………................................................ P. 1

Part 1: European Recovery

1. Post-world War II Western European Exceptionalism:
The Economic Dimension by J. Brudford De Long …………………………………...........P. 25

2. Europe and the Marshaall Plan: 50 Years on Allan S. Milwward ….............. P. 58

3. The Economic Effects of the Marshall Plan Revisited
by Dafine C. Reymen … ............................................................................P. 82

4. The Marshall Plan and European Integration:
Limits of an Ambition by Gerard Bossuat ...................................................p. 127

part II: Markets and National Policy

5. As the Twig is Bent: The Marshall Plan in Europe’s Industrial Structure by Raymond Vernon ……………………………………………............................................ P. 155

6. Confronting the Marshall Plan: US Business and European Recovery by Jacueline McGlade ……………………………………………........................................................ P. 171

7. The Marshall Plan: Searching for Creative Peace then and
now by Paul Bernd Spalon ………………………………………………………....................... P. 191

Part III: International Cooperation and Globalization

8. The Marshall Plan and European Unification: Impulses and
Restraints by Wilfred Loth …………………………………………………..........................P. 217

9. The Marshal Plan: a Model for What? by Thomas C. Schelling …............... P. 234

10. From Marshall Plan to Washington Consensus? Globalization,
Democratization and National Economic Planning by Stuart Corbridge ……......P. 270