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In the debate over the kind of international environment in which Britain should seek a suitable role for herself there has for long been a division between adherents to vague concepts of ‘Atlantic interdependence’, and those who attached prime importance to similarly vague concepts of ‘European unity’.
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See Jacob Javits, ‘The Second Battle of Britain’, Congressional Record. US Congress, Washington, DC, vol. 111, no. 148, 12 August 1965, pp. 19421–5.
Also see Edward English ‘Atlantic Trade Policy: the Need for a New Initiative’, Moorgate & Wall Street, London, Autumn, 1965.
For an early analysis along these lines see Lionel Gelber, ‘A Marriage of Inconvenience’, Foreign Affairs, Council on Foreign Relations, New York, Jan. 1963; reprinted in Survival (London Institute for Strategic Studies, Mar. 1963).
Geoffrey Lee Williams, Natural Alliance for the West (London: Atlantic Policy Research Centre, 1969) p. 21.
See a penetrating study of maritime strategy in L. W. Martin, ‘The Sea in Modern Strategy’ (London: Institute for Strategic Studies, Chatto & Windus, 1967).
Geoffrey Williams, The Permanent Alliance: the European-American Partnership, 1945–1984 (Leyden: Sijthoff, 1977) p. 216.
Gavin Kennedy, Defence Economics (London: Duckworth, 1983) p. 71.
Geoffrey Lee Williams and Alan Lee Williams Crisis in European Defence. (London: Charles Knight, 1978) p. 219.
Guido Vigeveno, The Bomb and European Security (London: C. Hurst & Co., 1983) pp. 7–23.
See a detailed discussion in Neville Brown, Arms without Empire (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967).
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Williams, G.L., Williams, A.L. (1986). Britain and the Third Force Syndrome. In: The European Defence Initiative. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07825-7_2
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