West Germany and Israel - Foreign Relations, Domestic Politics, and the Cold War, 1965-1974

A new history of the West German-Israeli relationship as these two countries faced terrorism, war, and economic upheaval in a global Cold War environment.

List of contents

List of figures and maps; Preface; Acknowledgments; A note on usage; List of abbreviations; 1. Prologue: distant states - West Germany and Israel, 1952-65; 2. The shock of recognition: 1965-66; 3. Upheaval; 4. 1968; 5. Changes in leadership: 1969; 6. Ostpolitik; 7. 1971: a dense political web; 8. The year of Munich; 9. Annus Terribilis; 10. Finale: Exeunt Meir and Brandt; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Carole Fink is Humanities Distinguished Professor of History Emerita at the Ohio State University. She is the author of many books, including Cold War: An International History (2017), and Writing 20th Century International History: Explorations and Examples (2017). She was twice awarded the George Louis Beer Prize of the American Historical Association for Defending the Rights of Others: The Great Powers, the Jews, and International Minority Protection, 1878–1938 (Cambridge, 2004), and The Genoa Conference: European Diplomacy 1921–1922 (1984).

Summary

By the late 1960s, West Germany and Israel were two countries moving in almost opposite diplomatic directions. Using newly-available sources, Carole Fink re-examines the establishment of formal diplomatic ties between West Germany and Israel and the political and historical backdrop that shaped these two countries' fraught relationship.

Product details

• Authors: Carole Fink, Carole (Ohio State University) Fink, Fink Carole
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781107075450
• ISBN: 978-1-107-07545-0
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Israel, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, Germany, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, International Relations, c 1960 to c 1970, Middle Eastern history, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1960 to c 1969, c 1970 to c 1980, The Cold War, Cold wars and proxy conflicts