Strategic Logic and Political Rationality: Essays in Honor of Michael I. Handel Book

	Series Editor's Preface
	Notes on Contributors
	Abbreviations
	Introduction	1
Pt. I	Europe in the 'First Detente', 1953-58
1	Britain as a Bridge between East and West	7
2	Adenauer's Final Western Choice, 1955-58	23
Pt. II	European Reactions to the Berlin and Cuban Crises, 1958-62
3	Adenauer and Nuclear Deterrence	37
4	France, NATO and the Algerian War	56
5	De Gaulle's Handling of the Berlin and Cuban Crises	67
6	Cold War Crises and Public Opinion: West European Public Opinion and the Berlin Wall, 1961	80
7	The Italian Communist Party between East and West, 1960-64	98
Pt. III	Europe in Search of Detente, 1962-65
8	Britain, East Germany and Detente: British Policy toward the GDR and West Germany's 'Policy of Movement', 1955-65	111
9	'Sole Master of the Western Nuclear Strength'? The United States, Western Europe and the Elusiveness of a European Defence Identity, 1959-64	132
10	De Gaulle's France and the Soviet Union from Conflict to Detente	173
11	Khrushchev: Contemporary Perspectives in the Western Press	190
12	The Western European Communist Parties in the Cold War, 1957-58	202
13	Detente, the Superpowers and their Allies, 1962-64	215
Pt. IV	Direct Negotiations Between Eastern and Western Europe
14	Soviet Union, Finland and the 'Northern Balance', 1957-63	239
15	Western Europe and Negotiations on Arms Control: The Anglo-Americans and the Evolving Concept of European Security, 1963-68	258
16	Gerhard Schroder and the First 'Ostpolitik'	274
17	The East-West Problem as Seen from Berlin: Willy Brandt's Early Ostpolitik	285
	Index	297