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Using the European Defence Community (EDC) as a case-study, this
book examines the competing and often conflicting view of the
British and American governments towards European integration in
the early 1950s. The British, fearing an 'agonizing reappraisal' of
the American defence commitment to Europe if the supranational EDC
failed, went to great lengths to ensure the success of the scheme.
When, despite these efforts, the EDC finally collapsed in August
1954, NATO was plunged into arguably the most severe crisis in its
history. The crisis also possessed an Anglo-American dimension,
with London and Washington badly divided on how it should be
resolved. In the end, the British were instrumental in the creation
of the Western European Union as a successor to the EDC. Their
crisis management, however, had been rooted in fear of the
'agonizing reappraisal', a danger dismissed by many historians as
exaggerated but which the British, in 1954, were perhaps right to
take seriously.
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