Defensive Reconstruction in the Cold War Era: Economic Cooperation
and Integration in Western Europe 1945-2000
Ricardo K. S. Mak
Hong Kong Baptist University
Timeline:
http://www.epp-ed.eu/Activities/docs/chronologie-historique-en.pdf
Outline of Presentation
1. Two Sides of Integration: Structural (economic and institutional)and Spatial
(geographical and social)
2. The Ideas of European Integration
3. Major Actors in European Cooperation and Integration: Europe, the USA and the
USSR
4. The Great Division before Integration: 1945-50
5. The interests of the USA and the USSA in Europe
6. A Major Obstacle to Structural and Spatial Integration: the East –West
Confrontation since 1949
7. Western European Integration under American Protection
8. Another Major Obstacle to Structural Integration: Differences between France
and West Germany
9. Britain and the Further Division of Western Europe 1961-1973
10. Western Europe moving Eastward: West Germany’s Ostpolitik (New Eastern Policy)
1970-73
11. The Ups and Downs of Cold War Cooled down 1973-1984
12. The USSR moved toward Reconciliation and the Growing Integration of Europe
13. Since 1989
Major Documents:
1. The Marshall Address at Harvard University, 5 June, 1947
http://www.oecd.org/general/themarshallplanspeechatharvarduniversity5june1947.htm
2. “The Source of Soviet Conduct” by George Kennan, Foreign Affairs, 1947
http://www.historyguide.org/europe/kennan.html
3. NATO Strategy Documents, ed. Gregory W. Pedlow
http://www.nato.int/archives/strategy.htm
4. Paris Agreement, 23 December, 1954
http://www.fransamaltingvongeusau.com/documents/dl2/h2/2.2.5.pdf
5. Two States, One Nation, by the German Chancellor Willy Brandt, 28 October, 1969
http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=168
6. Henry Kissinger’s “Year of Europe” Speech, 23 April 1973
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/polisci/faculty/trachtenberg/ffus/YearEur(text).pdf
7. Ronald Reagan’s “Evil Empire Speech,” 8 March 1983
http://www.nationalcenter.org/ReaganEvilEmpire1983.html
8. Gorbachev’s Speech to the UN, 7 December 1988
http://isc.temple.edu/hist249/course/Documents/gorbachev_speech_to_UN.htm
References
1. Gilbert, Mark. European Integration. A Concise History. Lanham, Md. : Rowman &
Littlefield Publishers, 2012
2. Ellwood, David W. Rebuilding Europe: Western Europe, America and Postwar
Reconstruction. London: Longman, 1992.
3. Urwin, W. Derek. The Community of Europe. A History of European Integration since 1945.
2nd Edition. London: Longman, 1995.
4. Winks, Robin W. and John E. Talbott. Europe: 1945 to the Present. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2005.