Mathias Haeussler

Helmut Schmidt and British-German Relations (eBook, PDF)

A European Misunderstanding

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Produktbeschreibung

The former West German chancellor Helmut Schmidt grew up as a devout Anglophile, yet he clashed heavily and repeatedly with his British counterparts Wilson, Callaghan, and Thatcher during his time in office. Helmut Schmidt and British-German Relations looks at Schmidt's personal experience to explore how and why Britain and Germany rarely saw eye to eye over European integration, uncovering the two countries' deeply competing visions and incompatible strategies for post-war Europe. But it also zooms out to reveal the remarkable extent of simultaneous British-German cooperation in fostering joint European interests on the wider international stage, not least within the transatlantic alliance against the background of a worsening superpower relationship. By connecting these two key areas of bilateral cooperation, Mathias Haeussler offers a major reinterpretation of the bilateral relationship under Schmidt, relevant to anybody interested in British-German relations, European integration, and the Cold War.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108587174
• Artikelnr.: 57076999

Autorenporträt

Mathias Haeussler is Assistant Professor (Akademischer Rat a.Z.) at Universität Regensburg, Germany, having previously been Lumley Research Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge. He has held fellowships at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and the Library of Congress.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The young Helmut Schmidt and British-German relations, 1945-74
2. Harold Wilson, 1974-76
3. James Callaghan, 1976-79
4. Margaret Thatcher, 1979-82
Conclusions.