The Strategic Triangle - France, Germany and the United States in the Shaping of Europe

Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Relations in a Strategic Triangle Bonn/Berlin, Paris, and Washington 1 Part I The European Community at the Crossroads 1 Building Europe: The European Community and the Bonn-Paris-Washington Relationship, 1958-1963 29 Desmond Dinan 2 Germany and the Discord of Its Allies: The Case of the European Political Union 55 Martin Koopmann Part II The NATO Crisis of the 1960's and the Maturation of the Strategic Triangle 3 The NATO Crisis of 1966-1967: Confronting Germany with a Conflict of Priorities 77 Helga Haftendorn 4 The NATO Crisis of 1966-1967: A French Point of View 103 Fr ric Bozo 5 The De Gaulle Challenge: The Johnson Administration and the NATO Crisis of 1966-1967 127 Thomas A. Schwartz Part III Dealing with the Collapse of Bretton Woods 6 The Search for a New Monetary System: Germany's Balancing Act 149 Michael Kreile 7 France, European Monetary Cooperation, and the International Monetary System Crisis, 1968-1973 171 Eric Bussi 8 The United States and the Search for a New Economic and Monetary System in the 1970's 189 William H. Becker Part IV Ostpolitik and Detente 9 German Ostpolitik in a Multilateral Setting 209 Helga Haftendorn 10 President Pompidou, Ostpolitik, and the Strategy of D nte 229 Georges-Henri Soutou Part V Testing Detente and Relaunching Europe 11 The United States Tests D nte 261 Gale A. Mattox 12 From Euromissiles to Maastricht: The Policies of Reagan-Bush and Mitterrand 287 Samuel F. Wells Jr. 13 Germany and Relaunching Europe 309 Markus Jachtenfuchs Part VI NATO and Post Cold War Challenges 14 Enlarging NATO: The German-American Design for a New Alliance 327 Stephen F. Szabo 15 NATO and the Balkan Challenge: An American Perspective 351 Kori Schake Epilogue: A New Geometry? 371 Contributors 389 Index 393