Overstretched and Overstrung: Eden, the Foreign Office and the Making of Policy

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction of the Editor 1
4. Power in Europe? Introductory Remarks 7
5. I. The Decision Makers in Foreign Affairs
6. Overstretched and Overstrung: Eden, the Foreign Office and the Making of Policy 19
7. Aspects of the Suez Crisis 43
8. Decision Makers, Decisions and French Power 66
9. The Alternative Prospect: The Plan for a Neutralized United Germany 84
10. Italy and the Problems of “Power Politics” – From the EDC Failure to the Suez Crisis 101
11. Introductory Remarks for the Debate 130
12. II. The Economic Area
13. Economic Aspects of British Perceptions of Power 139
14. The French Alternative: Economic Power through the Empire or through Europe? 160
15. Germany’s Economic Revival in the 1950s. The Foreign Policy Perspective 174
16. The Italian “Economic Miracle” Revisited: New Markets and American Technology 197
17. Introductory Remarks for the Debate 227
18. III. The Military Problems
19. British Perceptions of Military Problems in the Fifties 235
20. Military Power in France 1954–1958 238
21. Problems of West German Security Policy 1956–1959 254
22. Italy between Atlantic Alliance and EDC, 1948–1955 260
23. Introductory Remarks to the Debate 300
24. IV. The Political Parties
25. British Parties and the European Situation 1950–57 309
26. The Perception of French Power by the Political Forces 333
27. Views of the Foreign Policy Situation Among the CDU Leadership, 1945–57 351
28. Western European and Atlantic Integration 1954–1958 as seen by the German Communists 372
29. The Italian Political Parties and Foreign Policy in the 1950s: DC, PSI, PCI, MSI 384
30. In Search of Lost Power. The International Policies of the Italian Christian Democrat and Communist Parties in the Fifties 407
31. Introductory Remarks to the Debate 435
32. V. Public Opinion and the Cultural Sector
33. Power, Propaganda and Public Opinion: The British Information Services and the Cold War, 1945–57 445
34. Public Opinion and Perception of Power in France at the End of the Fourth Republic, (1954–1958) 462
35. Power and Awareness of Power in the Federal Republic of Germany 1953–1956/7: Perception of the Power Problem in Public Opinion 477
36. Italian Public Opinion and European Politics (1950–1956) 491
37. VI. Europe and the Origins of the EEC (from the Crisis of EDC to the Treaties of Rome through the Suez Crisis)
38. Britain and Europe, 1950–1957 499
39. Europe as a Cure for French Impotence? The Guy Mollet Government and the Negotiation of the Treaties of Rome 505
40. “Firm with the West!” Elements of the International Orientation of West Germany in the Mid-1950s 517
41. “Power Politics”: The Italian Pattern (1951–1957) 530
42. Introductory Remarks to the Debate 546
43. General Conclusion
44. On the Power of Old and New Europe 553
45. Abbreviations 563
46. The Authors 567
47. Other Publications 575
48. Index of Names 587
49. 599-600 599