The Ambivalent Alliance
Subtitle: Konrad Adenauer, the CDU/CSU, and the West, 1949-1966
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: February 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781571812728
Subjects: European history: postwar, from c 1945 -; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; c 1945 to c 1960; c 1960 to c 1970; Germany (West); Christlich-Demokratische Union Deutschlands (Germany : West); History; Modern - 20th Century; History: World; Germany; Adenauer, Konrad,; Adenauer, Konrad; Christlich-Demokratische Union; Europe - Germany; International Relations - General; 1876-1967; Christlich-Soziale Union
Description: "The opening of various personal and party archives over the past few years has now made the entire Adenauer Era accessible for historians. As one of the first efforts to use that material to re-examine existing conventional wisdom about the period, this book traces the roles of Adenauer and the CDU/CSU in shaping the Westbindung.

Adenauer emerges as a skilled and resourceful (if also mistrustful and devious) politician, and as a distinctly German statesman, maneuvering between allies and adversaries to shape both the Western community and the German role in it, leaving a legacy that still influences contemporary German-American and European-American relations."--BOOK JACKET.