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The European reaction to the Nixon administration’s so-called Year of Europe initiative in early 1973, compounded later by the effects of the October Middle East war, constituted a significant watershed in the evolution of US—European relations and of US policy with respect to West European unity. The effect of both developments was to force to the surface the hitherto mostly latent tensions between American notions of Atlantic partnership and the emerging West European identity.
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Wilfrid L. Kohl, ‘The Nixon-Kissinger Foreign Policy System and US-European Relations: Patterns of Policy Making’, World Politics, vol. XXVIII (October 1975) no. 1, p. 16.
Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr, ‘The Middle East Crisis: Implications for the European-American Relationship’, a paper prepared for the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, 20 August-2 September 1974, p. 6.
Quoted by Leslie Gelb in the New York Times, 9 April 1974.
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Cromwell, W.C. (1992). A Moment of Truth: The ‘Year of Europe’ and the Atlantic Crisis of 1973/74. In: The United States and the European Pillar. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21773-1_6
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