The division of Europe after World War II
Subtitle: 1946
By: by W. W. Rostow.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Ideas and action series -- no. 2
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Peace; Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- Europe; Europe -- Politics and government -- 1945-; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1953
Description: "Should the negotiation of the post-World War II peace treaties in Europe be pursued separately or should they be approached within the framework of a general European settlement? The debate on this fundamental foreign policy issue, which has left only faint tracks in the documentary record, is fully explored here for the first time. The book's larger theme is the process by which the Cold War came about. Rostow's interpretation differs from either conventional or revisionist views, emphasizing as it does the process of incremental deterioration that occurred in 1946 and the role of uncertainty and weakness in American policy."--Adapted from book jacket.