The German Question and the International Order, 1943-48 (Global Conflict and Security Since 1945)

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Abbreviations and Acronyms......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
The debate on the origins of the Cold War......Page 15
The debate on the German Question......Page 19
The English School and the German Question......Page 21
The nature of the practical association framework......Page 27
The spectrum of military cooperation......Page 31
Financial cooperation......Page 39
Legal and diplomatic cooperation......Page 41
The dismemberment of Germany......Page 42
The issue of reparations......Page 50
The post-war occupation of Germany......Page 55
Conclusion......Page 57
The structural elements of conflict......Page 60
American interests in Western Europe and the rehabilitation of Germany......Page 62
The Marshall Plan and the formation of the Western bloc......Page 69
‘Containment’ and the enforcement of American structural interests......Page 76
Soviet post-war designs......Page 81
Soviet security interests in Eastern Germany and Europe......Page 85
Conclusion......Page 91
The social construction of conflict......Page 95
The Sovietisation of the Eastern zone and the formation of Bizonia......Page 96
The issue of economic principles and the breakdown of four-power control in Germany......Page 100
The Moscow and London CFMs......Page 104
Conclusion......Page 112
The concept of ‘revolutionism’ in the treatment of the German Question......Page 117
The denazification of Germany......Page 121
The work of the Allied Control Council......Page 124
The work on denazification at zonal level......Page 126
The work of the International Military Tribunals (IMT)......Page 137
Conclusion......Page 143
The English School’s concept of ‘primary institutions’ and the German Question......Page 146
Intervention as a primary institution of the post-war international order......Page 148
Coexistence as a primary institution of the post-war international order......Page 160
Conclusion......Page 163
The English School’s concept of ‘international society’ and the German Question......Page 166
The political emasculation of Germany......Page 167
The German Question and the ideological divide of the post-war international society......Page 169
The institutionalisation of the post-war international society......Page 174
The German Question and the expansion of international society......Page 177
Conclusion......Page 179
The three traditions model......Page 182
The pluralism–solidarism debate......Page 192
Notes......Page 196
Select Bibliography......Page 237
Index......Page 257