Winning the Peace - The United States, Western Germany, and the Ambiguities of “Dual Containment” 1945-1950

Dijk, Ruud van

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“…Indeed, U.S. policy makers pursued a strategy of 'dual containment', worried not just about the communist threat from the USSR, but also a resurgent or even neutral Germany. 22 U.S. policy makers also insisted that the Basic Law of the Federal Republic contain certain institutional and policy safeguards that would preclude a repetition of the past, namely strong federalism and a decentralized fiscal system. 23 The renunciation of chemical and nuclear weapons and severe constraints on the deployment of the Bundeswehr (after 1955) were also strongly supported by U.S. policy makers.…”

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The End of Memory? German-American Relations under Donald Trump

Langenbacher¹,

Wittlinger²

2018

German Politics

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The End of Memory? German-American Relations under Donald Trump

Langenbacher¹,

Wittlinger²

2018

German Politics

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“…76 The views in this article were also publicly voiced by President Harry Truman, with the so-called Truman Doctrine therefore coming to represent the centrality of containment to US foreign policy in this period. 77 Nonetheless, many in Britain, including the foreign secretary, Ernest Bevin, felt that the declaration of the Truman Doctrine was long overdue in pledging US support for the resistance of Soviet communism to which Britain was already committed. 78 The practical implementation of British denial policy was initially very basic and a little crude.…”

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‘A Completely Open Race’: Anglo–Soviet Competition over German Military Science and Technology, 1944–1949

Hall

2019

War in History

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In the period immediately following the Second World War, during which Germany was occupied by the four victorious Allies, fierce competition erupted between them over the spoils of German military science and technology. Among this four-power squabbling, the British and Soviet authorities engaged in a particularly desperate struggle, especially over recruitment of expert German personnel, which they felt might give them the edge in any future conflict. This article explores the policies which arose from this struggle and shows that the first act of the Cold War arms race played out most vividly amongst the ruins of the Third Reich.

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A Political Economy of Power

Fèvre¹

2021

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Today, ordoliberalism is at the center of the ongoing debate about the foundations, the present governance, and future prospects of the European Union—and yet we do not dispose of a comprehensive definition of it. Whenever we talk of the dominance of the German model, the discussion should involve a detailed picture of ordoliberal principles. This book retraces the intellectual history of ordoliberalism, focusing in particular on the works of its main representatives Walter Eucken and Wilhelm Röpke, together with references to the contributions of Franz Böhm, Alexander Rüstow, Leonhard Miksch, and Friedrich Lutz. The book highlights the crucial, albeit overlooked, role of economic and political power in the making of ordoliberal thought. More precisely, the book shows that ordoliberalism, in its ideological, epistemological, theoretical, and political components, can be defined as a political economy of power; that is, as a form of economic knowledge whose primary objective is to analyze the sources, action, and impact of power within society. By doing so, the book will offer a new perspective on ordoliberals’ key concepts built in the interwar period while contextualizing them within a broader intellectual project.

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Winning the Peace - The United States, Western Germany, and the Ambiguities of “Dual Containment” 1945-1950

Cited by 12 publications

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The End of Memory? German-American Relations under Donald Trump

The End of Memory? German-American Relations under Donald Trump

‘A Completely Open Race’: Anglo–Soviet Competition over German Military Science and Technology, 1944–1949

A Political Economy of Power

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