European Integration and the Atlantic Community in the 1980s

1. Introduction: old barriers, new openings Kiran Klaus Patel and Kenneth Weisbrode; 2. The unnoticed apogee of Atlanticism? US-Western European relations during the early Reagan era N. Piers Ludlow; 3. More cohesive, still divergent: western Europe, the United States, and the Madrid CSCE follow-up meeting Angela Romano; 4. The deal of the century: the Reagan administration and the Soviet pipeline Ksenia Demidova; 5. Poland's solidarity as a contested symbol of the cold war: transatlantic debates after the Polish crisis Robert Brier; 6. The European community and the paradoxes of American economic diplomacy: the revealing case of the IT and telecommunications sectors Arthe van Laer; 7. The European community and international Reaganomics, 1981–5 Duccio Basosi; 8. Did transatlantic drift help European integration? The Euromissiles crisis, the strategic defense initiative, and the quest for political cooperation Philipp Gassert; 9. A transatlantic security crisis? Transnational relations between the West German and the US peace movements, 1977–85 Holger Nehring; 10. Reviving the transatlantic community? The successor generation concept in US foreign affairs Giles Scott-Smith; 11. The re-launching of Europe in the mid-1980s Antonio Varsori; 12. A shift in mood: the 1992 initiative and changing American perceptions of the European community, 1988–9 Mark Gilbert; 13. France, the United States, and NATO: between Europeanization and re-Atlanticization, 1990–1 Frederic Bozo; 14. Afterword Kiran Klaus Patel and Kenneth Weisbrode.