Table of Contents

PrefaceAbbreviationsPt. IThe Division of EuropeCh. 1A Spheres of Influence Peace?3Ch. 2Toward the Rubicon34Ch. 3The Test of Strength66Pt. IIThe Nato SystemCh. 4The Making of the NATO System95Ch. 5Eisenhower and Nuclear Sharing146Ch. 6An Alliance in Disarray201Pt. IIIThe Cold War PeaceCh. 7The Politics of the Berlin Crisis, 1958-1960251Ch. 8Kennedy, NATO, and Berlin283Ch. 9A Settlement Takes Shape352Sources and Bibliography403Index419

Promotional Information

A powerful, original, and engaging work. Marc Trachtenberg has woven together an enormous array of evidence and information, much of it only recently available to researchers, into a compelling interpretation of an extremely important historical period. Trachtenberg's book is broad as well as deep, and its implications for our understanding of the dynamics of the Cold War extend well beyond the period it examines. -- Aaron L. Friedberg, Princeton University Marc Trachtenberg's grasp of the finer points of Western internal debates on nuclear weapons and strategy is impressive. His book is an extraordinary piece of research and analysis that may very well set the standard in the field of Cold War studies for years to come. -- William Stueck, University of Georgia

About the Author

Marc Trachtenberg is Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of History and Strategy (Princeton) and Reparation in World Politics: France and European Economic Diplomacy, 1916-1923.

Reviews

Winner of the 2000 Paul Birdsall Prize, American Historical Association Winner of the 2000 George Louis Beer Prize, American Historical Association "An authoritative history of the German Question during the first half of the Cold War... [T]he work's originality, and the way its recaptures how issues were linked in the minds of policymakers, makes it the leading general history of the early Cold War in Europe."--Foreign Affairs "An exhaustive, well-written study of statecraft at the highest levels."--Library Journal