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As an alternative to the familiar view of the post-1945 years in the West, dominated by the confrontation with the Soviets and the efforts of the Atlantic nations to face up to it, the following pages suggest something of the attempt made by the Americans and the west Europeans to reconcile aims in their foreign and domestic policies identified well before that conflict broke out, with the demands of the new situation. They highlight the parallels as well as the contrasts between the various sets of national priorities, and in the world-views which lay behind them. They demonstrate how ‘an uneasy but highly successful trans-Atlantic compromise’1 finally emerged over the grand strategic questions of interdependence among the Western allies.
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Ellwood, D. (2002). America as a European Power: Four Dimensions of the Transatlantic Relationship: 1945 to the Late 1990s. In: Levy, C., Roseman, M. (eds) Three Postwar Eras in Comparison. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230294134_3
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