Description: This unique collection of essays lays the groundwork for the study of the intersection of European integration and transatlantic relations in the 1980s. With archives for this period only recently being opened, scholars are beginning to analyze and understand what some have called a peak moment in the European project and others have called the Second Cold War. How do these moments intersect and relate to one another? These essays, by prominent scholars from Europe and the United States, examine these and related questions while challenging the "1980s" itself as a useful demarcation for historical analysis.
Brief description: Kiran Klaus Patel is Professor of European and Global History at Maastricht University, The Netherlands. He is the author of Soldiers of Labor: Labor Service in Nazi Germany and New Deal America (Cambridge University Press, 2005), co-editor of The United States and Germany during the 20th Century: Competition and Convergence (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and co-editor of Europeanization in the Twentieth Century: Historical Approaches (2010).
Review Quotes: "This is a most important book not only for the new answers it offers but even more for the new questions it poses. By searching for connections and by bridging the gaps, between different fields of historical research, it challenges consolidated interpretive paradigms and the very way we unfortunately tend to compartmentalize our study and understanding of international history." -- Leopoldo Nuti, Professor of International Relations History, Roma Tre University