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1 online resource (349 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION; The concept of interdependence; The Mutations of the 1970s; The micro-electronic information revolution; The terminal illness of Marxism-Leninism-Stalinism; The Vietnam War; The monetary, financial and social disorders following the Vietnam war; The Creation of the European Community; The Oil Crisis: a crisis but not a mutation; Re-introduction; Notes and references; CHAPTER ONE: KONRAD ADENAUER; I Personal circumstances and historical antecedents; His age; His anti-Nazi record; His solitary personal life |
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His mature intellectHis Christian education and philosophy; He was a Rhinelander; II Adenauer's politics of interdependence; Sovereignty, by any other name; The North Rhine Westphalia Land and the change in East-West relations; Staatliche Fortexistenz, the Marshall Plan and the Berlin Blockade; The Soziale Marktwirtschaft; The Schuman Plan; The Korean war, re-armament and the 'road to full sovereignty'; External fulfilment; Internal decline and fall; Conclusions; Notes and references; CHAPTER TWO: CHARLES DE GAULLE; I Personal circumstances and historical antecedents; Faith; Courage |
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A first aside on the relations between de Gaulle and MonnetPolitical ambitions; Grandeur; II De Gaulle's policies of interdependence; The impact of war-time relations with the Allies on De Gaulle's foreign policy; Relations with the USSR; Relations with the Americans; The dialectics of statesmanship; The strong state and the 'stalled' society; La France, the World and Europe; A second aside on the relations between de Gaulle and Monnet; Climbing down; Conclusions; Notes and references; CHAPTER THREE: MARGARET THATCHER; I Personal circumstances and historical antecedents |
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Her qualities and the defects of her qualitiesEnergy; Englishness; The bourgeois way of life; II Mrs Thatcher's policies of interdependence; Economics and sovereignty; Economic policy; Monetarism; Privatization; Mrs Thatcher à Ia recherche du temps perdu; Mrs Thatcher and the European Community; Conclusions; Notes and references; CHAPTER FOUR: RONALD REAGAN; I Personal circumstances and historical antecedents; The coming of media politics; Governor to President; II Reagan's policies of interdependence; Strategic interdependence; The SDI; The economic interdependence; Conclusions |
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Notes and referencesCHAPTER FIVE: MIKHAIL GORBACHEV; Chernobyl and other events; I Personal circumstances and historical antecedents; II Gorbachev's policies of interdependence; Transforming the Empire; The Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist state; Becoming a market state; The end of the Cold War: the beginning of peace?; In guise of conclusions; Notes and references; CHAPTER SIX: CONCLUSIONS; The end of the cold war; The categories of sovereignty; The politics of interdependence; Notes and references; Index |
| Summary |
This book is an inquiry into modern statesmanship or, as the title indicates, into statesmanship in the age of interdependence. In form, it consists of an examination of the statesmanship of five people, namely Konrad Adenauer, Charles de Gaulle, Mrs Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, with special reference to the way |
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed October 28, 2020) |
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Leadership.
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Statesmen -- History -- 20th century
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World politics -- 1945-1989.
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Leadership
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Leadership
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Statesmen
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World politics
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429699412 |
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0429699417 |
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