Table of Contents
Frontmatter — Contents — Introduction of the Editor — Power in Europe? Introductory Remarks — I. The Decision Makers in Foreign Affairs — Overstretched and Overstrung: Eden, the Foreign Office and the Making of Policy — Aspects of the Suez Crisis — Decision Makers, Decisions and French Power — The Alternative Prospect: The Plan for a Neutralized United Germany — Italy and the Problems of “Power Politics” – From the EDC Failure to the Suez Crisis — Introductory Remarks for the Debate — II. The Economic Area — Economic Aspects of British Perceptions of Power — The French Alternative: Economic Power through the Empire or through Europe? — Germany’s Economic Revival in the 1950s. The Foreign Policy Perspective — The Italian “Economic Miracle” Revisited: New Markets and American Technology — Introductory Remarks for the Debate — III. The Military Problems — British Perceptions of Military Problems in the Fifties — Military Power in France 1954–1958 — Problems of West German Security Policy 1956–1959 — Italy between Atlantic Alliance and EDC, 1948–1955 — Introductory Remarks to the Debate — IV. The Political Parties — British Parties and the European Situation 1950–57 — The Perception of French Power by the Political Forces — Views of the Foreign Policy Situation Among the CDU Leadership, 1945–57 — Western European and Atlantic Integration 1954–1958 as seen by the German Communists — The Italian Political Parties and Foreign Policy in the 1950s: DC, PSI, PCI, MSI — In Search of Lost Power. The International Policies of the Italian Christian Democrat and Communist Parties in the Fifties — Introductory Remarks to the Debate — V. Public Opinion and the Cultural Sector — Power, Propaganda and Public Opinion: The British Information Services and the Cold War, 1945–57 — Public Opinion and Perception of Power in France at the End of the Fourth Republic, (1954–1958) — Power and Awareness of Power in the Federal Republic of Germany 1953–1956/7: Perception of the Power Problem in Public Opinion — Italian Public Opinion and European Politics (1950–1956) — VI. Europe and the Origins of the EEC (from the Crisis of EDC to the Treaties of Rome through the Suez Crisis) — Britain and Europe, 1950–1957 — Europe as a Cure for French Impotence? The Guy Mollet Government and the Negotiation of the Treaties of Rome — “Firm with the West!” Elements of the International Orientation of West Germany in the Mid-1950s — “Power Politics”: The Italian Pattern (1951–1957) — Introductory Remarks to the Debate — General Conclusion — On the Power of Old and New Europe — Abbreviations — The Authors — Other Publications — Index of Names — 599-600
