Helmut Schmidt and British-German Relations - A European Misunderstanding

The former West German chancellor Helmut Schmidt grew up as a devout Anglophile, yet he clashed heavily and repeatedly with his British counterparts Wilson, Callaghan, and Thatcher during his time in office. Helmut Schmidt and British-German Relations looks at Schmidt's personal experience to explore how and why Britain and Germany rarely saw eye to eye over European integration, uncovering the two countries' deeply competing visions and incompatible strategies for post-war Europe. But it also zooms out to reveal the remarkable extent of simultaneous British-German cooperation in fostering joint European interests on the wider international stage, not least within the transatlantic alliance against the background of a worsening superpower relationship. By connecting these two key areas of bilateral cooperation, Mathias Haeussler offers a major reinterpretation of the bilateral relationship under Schmidt, relevant to anybody interested in British-German relations, European integration, and the Cold War.

Sommario

Introduction; 1. The young Helmut Schmidt and British-German relations, 1945-74; 2. Harold Wilson, 1974-76; 3. James Callaghan, 1976-79; 4. Margaret Thatcher, 1979-82; Conclusions.

Info autore

Mathias Haeussleris Assistant Professor of Modern European History at Regensburg University, Germany, having previously been Lumley Research Fellow at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, UK. He has held fellowships at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress and the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C., USA.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Mathias Haeussler, Mathias (Universitat Regensburg Haeussler
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781108710800
• ISBN: 978-1-108-71080-0
• Pagine: 265
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Sistema politico; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni; Political Parties, European History, Germany, HISTORY / Europe / General, International Relations, Political leaders & leadership, United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1970 to c 1980, Political leaders and leadership, Political parties and party platforms