The Ambivalent Alliance

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"The opening of various personal and party archives over the past few years has now made the entire Adenauer Era accessible for historians. As one of the first efforts to use that material to re-examine existing conventional wisdom about the period, this book traces the roles of Adenauer and the CDU/CSU in shaping the Westbindung. Adenauer emerges as a skilled and resourceful (if also mistrustful and devious) politician, and as a distinctly German statesman, maneuvering between allies and adversaries to shape both the Western community and the German role in it, leaving a legacy that still influences contemporary German-American and European-American relations."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Foreign relations,  Christlich-Demokratische Union Deutschlands (Germany : West),  Christlich-Soziale Union,  Adenauer, konrad, 1876-1967,  Germany (west), foreign relations,  Germany, foreign relations, 1945-,  United states, foreign relations, 1945-1989,  United states, foreign relations, germany,  Christlich-Demokratische Union Deutschlands