Britain's Policy for West German Rearmament 1950-1955

Professor Saki R. Dockrill holds the chair of Contemporary History and International Security at the Department of War Studies, King's College London. Having previously held a John M. Olin Fellow at Yale University and a senior Research Fellowship at the Norwegian Nobel Institute, Oslo, Norway, she is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, an Associate Fellow of the Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London, and general editor of the Cold War History book series, and of Global Conflict and Security since 1945 series with Palgrave Macmillan, and is on the Board of the Journal of Cold War History, and the Journal of Transatlantic Studies. Professor Dockrill published several books, including Britain's Policy for West German Rearmament (Cambridge, 1991), Eisenhower's New Look National Security Policy (Macmillan, 1996), Britain's Retreat from East of Suez (Macmillan, 2002) and most recently The End of the Cold War Era: The Transformation of the Global Security Order (London/New York: Arnold/Oxford University Press, 2005) and co-edited Palgrave Advances in Cold War History (2006).

• Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Initial plans to rearm West Germany; 2. The American initiative in New York, September 1950; 3. The search for allied agreement; 4. The decision to support the Pleven plan; 5. The signature of the EDC treaty in May 1952; 6. The fate of the EDC project; 7. Eden's successful alternative; Conclusion; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.