Trading Power: West Germany's Rise to Global Influence, 1963–1975 - Couverture rigide

Gray, William Glenn

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1108424643 ISBN 13 : 9781108424646

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2022

Synopsis

Trading Power 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.

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À propos de l?auteur

William Glenn Gray is Associate Professor of History at Purdue University. He is the author of Germany's Cold War: The Global Campaign to Isolate East Germany, 1949–1969 (2003). In 2015, he was awarded the DAAD Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in German and European Studies.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1108424643
• ISBN 13: 9781108424646
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 475
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