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Europe and America at the Crossroads
出版Cambridge University Press, 2010-02-15
主題History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / GeneralHistory / Modern / 20th Century / GeneralHistory / Modern / 20th Century / Cold WarPolitical Science / International Relations / GeneralPolitical Science / International Relations / Diplomacy
ISBN05218567799780521856775
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ejiB9LXmObAC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋This revisionist study of Allied diplomacy from 1941 to 1946 challenges Americocentric views of the period and highlights Europe's neglected role. Fraser J. Harbutt, drawing on international sources, shows that in planning for the future Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and others self-consciously operated into 1945, not on "East/West" lines but within a "Europe/America" political framework characterized by the plausible prospect of Anglo-Russian collaboration and persisting American detachment. Harbutt then explains the destabilizing transformation around the time of the pivotal Yalta conference of February 1945, when a sudden series of provocative initiatives, manipulations, and miscues interacted with events to produce the breakdown of European solidarity and the Anglo-Soviet nexus, an evolving Anglo-American alignment, and new tensions that led finally to the Cold War. This fresh perspective, stressing structural, geopolitical, and traditional impulses and constraints, raises important new questions about the enduringly controversial transition from World War II to a cold war that no statesman wanted.