Informal Alliance - The Bilderberg Group Transatlantic Relations During Cold War, 1952

This volume provides the first history of the secretive Bilderberg Group, the high-level transatlantic elite network founded at the height of the Cold War. It aims to show the importance of informal diplomacy and private transnational elite networks in a fast changing world of Cold War, decolonization, and globalization.

List of contents

Contents;Acknowledgements;Introduction;1. Joseph Retinger – Informal Diplomat;2. Anti-Americanism and the Road to Bilderberg;3. The First Bilderberg Conference;4. Organization, Membership, and the Informal Alliance;5. Integrating Europe;6. Decolonization and the Global Cold War;7. NATO, Nuclear Strategy, and the Cold War;8. The Return of Nationalism: From de Gaulle to Kennedy;9. Alliance in Crisis;Conclusion;List of abbreviations;Appendix;Unpublished Sources and Interviews;Bibliography;Index

About the author

Thomas W. Gijswijt is Associate Professor in American Studies at the University of Tübingen, Germany.

Summary

This volume provides the first history of the secretive Bilderberg Group, the high-level transatlantic elite network founded at the height of the Cold War. It aims to show the importance of informal diplomacy and private transnational elite networks in a fast changing world of Cold War, decolonization, and globalization.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Gijswijt, Thomas (University of Tubingen Gijswijt, Thomas W. Gijswijt, Thomas W. (University of Tubingen Gijswijt
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9780815396741
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-9674-1
• No. of pages: 310
• Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History; Routledge Studies in Modern History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, Europe, European History, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Europe / France, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Colonialism & imperialism, Political structures: democracy, Diplomacy, United States of America, USA, Far-left political ideologies and movements, c 1950 to c 1959, Colonialism and imperialism, History of the Americas, History and Archaeology, The Cold War, Marxism & Communism, C 1945 To C 1960, Cold wars and proxy conflicts, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General