The Authors

Chapters in this book

1. I-VIII I
2. Section 1. The Negotiations leading to the Pact
3. The Forming of the Atlantic Pact: Some Problems of Interpretation 3
4. The First Stage of Negotiations: December 1947 to June 1948 19
5. The Final Stage of Negotiations: December 1948 to April 1949 41
6. Section 2. The Attitudes of the Countries Involved
7. The Atlantic Pact as a Problem of U.S. Diplomacy 61
8. Great Britain and the Atlantic Pact 72
9. France and the Origins of the Atlantic Pact 79
10. The Other “German Question”. The Foundation of the Atlantic Pact and the Problem of Security against Germany 111
11. Nordic Union or Western Alliance? Scandinavia at the Crossroads 1948–1949 127
12. The Origins of Western Defense. Belgian and Dutch Perspectives 1940–1949 143
13. The Eastern European Countries and the Birth of the Atlantic Alliance 163
14. Defense or Liberation of Europe. The Strategies of the West against a Soviet Attack (1947–1950) 176
15. Section 3. Italy and the Atlantic Pact
16. De Gasperi, the Christian Democrats and the Atlantic Treaty 209
17. The Italian Left and the Atlantic Pact: The Nation vs. Proletarian Internationalism 220
18. The Italian Military and the Atlantic Pact 247
19. The Authors 261
20. Index of Names 263
21. 269-272 269