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1 online resource (xii, 351 pages) : maps |
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New Cold War history |
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New Cold War history.
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| Contents |
Containing East Germany in the early 1950s. Constructing the diplomatic blockade -- East German "sovereignty" and the western response -- Staving off collapse. A shifting landscape : Geneva and Moscow -- The blockade slips -- The Bonn Ambassadors' Conference -- "Managed relationships" and the isolation campaign -- Yugoslavia crosses the line. Grasping for openings -- Damascus, but not Warsaw -- A failure of deterrence -- The Hallstein Doctrine -- Scrambling for Africa. Otto Grotewohl's journey -- Doubts and hesitations : the Berlin crisis -- Bonn's counteroffensive -- Guinea : the exception that proved the rule -- Development aid and the Hallstein Doctrine : a trajectory of disillusionment. Bonn's billion-dollar aid program -- The shock of the Belgrade Conference -- Experiments in economic leverage -- The perils of detente. De Gaulle, detente, and the "policy of movement" -- Planning the breakthrough -- "New measures" in Ceylon and Zanzibar -- The apex of West German vigilance -- The peculiar longevity of a discredited doctrine. The debacle : West Germany's expulsion from the Arab world -- The contest goes on -- Unification hysteria and Erhard's political demise -- Of two minds : the grand coalition and the problem of recognition -- The Ulbricht doctrine -- The coalition "cambodes" -- A qualified breakthrough -- The halting progress of a German Sisyphus -- A war within a war -- The Hallstein Doctrine and German unity |
| Summary |
Using newly available material from both sides of the Iron Curtain, William Glenn Gray explores West Germany's efforts to prevent international acceptance of East Germany as a legitimate state following World War II. Unwilling to accept the division of their country, West German leaders regarded the German Democratic Republic (GDR) as an illegitimate upstart--a puppet of the occupying Soviet forces. Together with France, Britain, and the United States, West Germany applied political and financial pressure around the globe to ensure that the GDR remain unrecognized by all countries outside the communist camp. Proclamations of ideological solidarity and narrowly targeted bursts of aid gave the GDR momentary leverage in such diverse countries as Egypt, Iraq, Ghana, and Indonesia yet West Germany's intimidation tactics, coupled with its vastly superior economic resources, blocked any decisive East German breakthrough. Gray argues that Bonn's isolation campaign was dropped not for want of success, but as a result of changes in West German priorities as the struggle against East Germany came to hamper efforts at reconciliation with Israel, Poland, and Yugoslavia--all countries of special relevance to Germany's recent past. Interest in a morally grounded diplomacy, together with the growing conviction that the GDR could no longer be ignored, led to the abandonment of Bonn's effective but outdated efforts to hinder worldwide recognition of the East German regime |
| Analysis |
Samfundsvidenskab Politologi |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-341) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Hallstein, Walter, 1901-1982.
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Hallstein, Walter, 1901-1982 fast |
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Recognition (International law)
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World politics -- 1945-1989.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
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Diplomatic relations
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Economic policy
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Recognition (International law)
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World politics
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Diplomatieke betrekkingen.
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Hallsteindoctrine.
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Germany (West) -- Foreign relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89005679
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Germany (West) -- Economic policy.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054672
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Germany (West) -- Foreign relations -- Germany (East)
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Germany (East) -- Foreign relations -- Germany (West)
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Germany (East)
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Germany (West)
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DDR.
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Duitsland.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2002006444 |
| ISBN |
0807862487 |
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9780807862483 |
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9780807827581 |
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0807827584 |
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