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_b.G73 2023
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_aGray, William Glenn
_dca. 20./21. Jh.
_4aut
245 1 0 _aTrading power
_bWest Germany's rise to global influence, 1963-1975
_cWilliam Glenn Gray, Purdue University, Indiana
300 _axiii, 498 pages
_billustrations
_c24 cm
336 _aText
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337 _aohne Hilfsmittel zu benutzen
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338 _aBand
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500 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 470-488) and index
505 8 _aThe unraveling of Adenauer's grand strategy (1962-1963) -- America's junior partner (1963-1964) -- Twenty years after (1964-1965) -- The stability imperative (1965-1966) -- Gaullist temptations (1966-1968) -- The magnetism of prosperity (1967-1968) -- A decisive election (1969) -- The zenith of Ostpolitik (1970) -- The European pendulum (1970-1972) -- Hazards from the Global South (1970-1972) -- The embattled chancellor (1971-1972) -- The center of Europe (1973) -- The crisis management team (1973-1974) -- New structures for the West (1974-75).
520 _aZusammenfassung: "This book traces the successes and failures of a generation of German political leaders as the Bonn Republic emerged as a substantial force in European, Atlantic, and world affairs. Over the course of the 1960s and 1970s, West Germans relinquished many trappings of hard power, most notably nuclear weapons, and learned to leverage their economic power instead. Obsessed with stability and growth, Bonn governments battled inflation in ways that enhanced the international position of the Deutsche Mark while upending the international monetary system. Germany's remarkable export achievements exerted a strong hold on the Soviet bloc, forming the basis for a new Ostpolitik under Willy Brandt. Through much trial and error, the Federal Republic learned how to find a balance among key Western allies, and in the mid-1970s Helmut Schmidt ensured Germany's centrality to institutions such as the European Council and the G-7 - the newly emergent leadership structures of the West"--(Provided by publisher.)
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