Overview
Makes a significant contribution to the literature on American policy towards European integration and the historiography of the Nixon Presidency
Demonstrates that the forces pressing for continuity in American policy towards Europe were stronger than Nixon’s ability to challenge that policy
Makes the case that a strong Europe was/is too important to the united States
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book re-examines the Nixon administration’s attitude and approach to the European integration project. The formulation of US policy towards European integration in the Nixon presidential years (1969-1974) was conditioned by the perceived relative decline of the United States, Western European emergence and competition, the feared Communist expansionism, and US national interests. Against that backdrop, the Nixon administration saw the need to re-evaluate its policy on Western Europe and the integration process on this continent. Underpinning this study is the extensive use of newly-released archival materials from the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, the Library of Congress, and the State Department. Furthermore, the work is based on the public papers in the American Presidency Project and the materials on the topic of European integration and unification in the Archive of European Integration. Finally, the study has extensively used newspaper archives as well as the declassified online documents, memoirs and diaries of former US officials. Mining these sources made it possible to shed new light on the complexity and dynamism of the Nixon administration’s policy towards European integration.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Joseph M. Siracusa is Professor of Human Security and International Diplomacy at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Australia.
Hang Nguyen Thuy is Visiting Scholar at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia, and Senior Lecturer at the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam, Vietnam.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Richard M. Nixon and European Integration
Book Subtitle: A Reappraisal
Authors: Joseph M. Siracusa, Hang Thi Thuy Nguyen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75662-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-75661-5Published: 23 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09291-7Published: 12 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-75662-2Published: 13 April 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 331
Number of Illustrations: 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: US Politics, Political History, Diplomacy