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Whenever asked to name his most significant accomplishment as West Germany's first Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer would invariably reply: "The alliance with the free West." Scholars have echoed his assessment, citing the Federal Republic of Germany's successful integration into the American-led West (Westbindung) as the key to its postwar economic and political recovery. Behind this simple success story, however,lies a much more complicated history: Adenauer and the CDU/CSU remained ambivalent about the ultimate relationship between Europe, Germany, and the United States within the West, torn between visions of Continental European integration based on Franco-German reconciliation and of an Atlantic community linking Europe and the "Anglo-Saxons." These differences eventually erupted into a damaging public conflict between "Atlanticists" and "Gaullists," which colored Adenauer's last years and, after his retirement in 1963, led directly to the failure of his successor, Ludwig Erhard. The opening of various personal and party archives over the past few years has now made the entire Adenauer Era accessible for historians. As one of the first efforts to use that material to re-examine existing conventional wisdom about the period, this book traces the roles of Adenauer and the CDU/CSU in shaping Westbindung. Adenauer emerges as a skilled and resourceful (if also mistrustful and devious) politician, and as a distinctly German statesman, maneuvering between allies and adversaries to shape both the Western community and the German role in it, leaving a legacy that still influences contemporary German-American and European-American relations.

Adenauer, Konrad --- anno 1940-1949 --- anno 1950-1959 --- anno 1960-1969 --- HISTORY / Europe / Germany. --- Adenauer, Konrad, --- Christlich-Demokratische Union Deutschlands (Germany : West) --- Christlich-Soziale Union. --- Germany (West) --- United States --- Foreign relations --- アデナウアー --- CSU --- C.S.U. --- Christian Social Union (Germany : West) --- Kommunalpolitische Vereinigung der CDU/CSU Deutschlands --- CDU --- Christlich-Demokratische Union (Germany : West) --- Christlich-Demokratische Union (Germany (Federal Republic)) --- C.D.U. --- Christian Democratic Union of Germany (Germany : West) --- Christian Democratic Union (Germany : West) --- Union chrétienne-démocrate (Germany : West) --- Christlich-Demokratische Union (German territory under Allied occupation : British Zone) --- Christlich-Demokratische Union Deutschlands

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Der von Ronald Reagan und Michail Gorbatschow am 8. Dezember 1987 unterzeichnete »Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty«, kurz INF-Vertrag, stellte einen Meilenstein der nuklearen Abrüstungsverhandlungen zwischen den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika und der Sowjetunion dar. Im Jahr 2019 wurde er von Russland und den USA gekündigt. Der englischsprachige Band untersucht die Vorgeschichte des Abkommens, dessen Implementierung und Folgen sowohl in den beiden Supermächten als auch in den mit ihnen verbündeten Staaten. Er ist damit die erste umfassende Darstellung eines der wichtigsten Abrüstungsabkommen der jüngsten Zeit.

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