European foreign policy during the Cold War : Heath, Brandt, Pompidou and the dream of political unity / Daniel Möckli.

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Towards a European foreign policy, 1969-72 -- New leaders and the relaunch of Europe -- Political cooperation : operative beginnings and normative debates -- External challenges and the rise of Europe, 1973 -- Facing the Soviet Union : the nine at the CSCE -- Facing the US : Kissinger´s ´year of Europe´ and the reorganisation of the West -- Into the Middle East : the October War, the oil crisis, and Europe´s political identity -- US discontent, economic weakness, and Europe´s decline into crisis, 1974 -- The Washington energy conference : the European front crumbles -- The transatlantic prerogative.

Europe´s first attempts at a united foreign policy after 1969 were remarkably successful but by 1974 this brief moment of concord had vanished. This book examines why the EC countries were able to speak with one voice in the early 1970s and what caused European Political Cooperation to plunge into crisis.