1st Edition
Informal Alliance The Bilderberg Group and Transatlantic Relations during the Cold War, 1952-1968
By Thomas Gijswijt
Copyright 2019
322 Pages
by
Routledge
322 Pages
by
Routledge
322 Pages
by
Routledge
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Informal Alliance is the first archive-based history of the secretive Bilderberg Group, the high-level transatlantic elite network founded at the height of the Cold War. Making extensive use of the recently opened Bilderberg Group archives as well as a wide range of private and official collections, it shows the significance of informal diplomacy in a fast-changing world of Cold War,... Read more
Contents;Acknowledgements;Introduction;1. Joseph Retinger – Informal Diplomat;2. Anti-Americanism and the Road to Bilderberg;3. The First Bilderberg Conference;4. Organization, Membership, and the Informal Alliance;5. Integrating Europe;6. Decolonization and the Global Cold War;7. NATO, Nuclear Strategy, and the Cold War;8. The Return of Nationalism: From de Gaulle to Kennedy;9. Alliance in Crisis;Conclusion;List of abbreviations;Appendix;Unpublished Sources and Interviews;Bibliography;Index
Biography
Thomas W. Gijswijt is Associate Professor in American Studies at the University of Tübingen, Germany.
