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Book SynopsisA balance-of-power perspective on the formation, development, and future of the EC/EU.
Trade ReviewIn this important work, Rosato attempts to explain European integration since 1945 in realist (balance of power) terms. His thorough examination of the diplomatic and archival record shows that, facing an adversary with an overwhelming military superiority (the USSR), Western European leaders saw the need to form a centralized balancing coalition able to deter the USSR event without US help (although NATO provided useful protection while the coalition was assembled).... With respect to alternative explanations... ideational transformation away from the folly of nationalism and war, as argued by Robert Kagan, Jeremy Rifkin, and others is, Rosato says, flatly contradicted by the facts.... Summing up: Essential.
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Table of Contents1. Introduction
2. Explaining International Cooperation
3. Origins: Heavy-Industry Integration, 1945–1950
4. Setback: Military Integration, 1950–1954
5. Triumph: Economic Integration, 1955–1957
6. Beyond Postwar Eu rope
Index
