The Rise and Fall of the European Defence Community: Anglo-American Relations and the Crisis of European Defence, 1950-55

by Kevin Ruane

Using the European Defence Community (EDC) as a case-study, this book examines the competing and often conflicting view of the British and American governments towards European integration in the early 1950s. The British, fearing an 'agonizing reappraisal' of the American defence commitment to Europe if the supranational EDC failed, went to great lengths to ensure the success of the scheme. When, despite these efforts, the EDC finally collapsed in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333913191
• ISBN13: 9780333913192
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"