European Foreign Policy During the Cold War

Daniel Mockli is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies, Zurich. He specialises in European foreign and security policy post-1945. He has studied History, International Relations and English Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury and the University of Zurich.

• AcknowledgmentsAcronyms and AbbreviationsIntroductionPART ITOWARDS A EUROPEAN FOREIGN POLICY, 1969-721 New leaders and the relaunch of Europe2 Political Cooperation: Operative beginnings and normative debatesPART IIEXTERNAL CHALLENGES AND THE RISE OF EUROPE, 19733 Facing the Soviet Union: The Nine at the CSCE4 Facing the US: Kissinger’s “Year of Europe” and the reorganisation of the West5 Into the Middle East: The October War, the oil crisis, and Europe’s political identityPART IIIUS DISCONTENT, ECONOMIC WEAKNESS AND EUROPE’S DECLINE INTO CRISIS, 19746 The Washington Energy Conference: The European front crumbles7 The transatlantic prerogativeConclusionNotesBibliography

"'stimulating...an important addition to our knowledge of the period' Dr. Anne Deighton, Reader in European Politics, University of Oxford 'An outstanding and timely study which covers much new ground' Prof. Dr. Andreas Wenger, Director, Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) 'A must-read for anybody interested in the history of European foreign policy' Prof. Dr. Helga Haftendorn (Emeritus), Free University of Berlin"